Agriculture

1874/1875
An ACT for the Protection of Sheep in the County of Rockingham.
An ACT making an appropriation for increasing the number of State Cattle Pens in the City of Richmond.
An ACT to require Sheep Drovers to Brand or Mark with Paint, their Sheep.
An ACT to incorporate The Virginia Land and Colonization Company.
An ACT to incorporate The Border Grange Warehouse and Supply Company.
An ACT for the Protection of Sheep in the County of Fairfax.
An ACT for the Protection of Sheep in the County of Powhatan.
An ACT to require the County Judge of Princess Anne to Submit the Question of Continuing or Repealing the Fence Law wp the Voters of the County.
An ACT for the Protection of Sheep in the County of Albemarle.
An ACT for the Assessment of Taxes on Persons, Property, Income, Licenses, &c.; and Imposing Taxes thereon, for the Support of the Government and Free Schools, and to Pay the Interest on the Publie Debt.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, and to repeal section 7 of an Act approved April 16, 1874, entitled an Act to prescribe how Hypothecations of Products and Commodities shall be made. and to Prohibit the Hypothecation of Consignments, except on Conditions, so as to place Unmanufactured Tobacco on the same footing with all other Property Proposed to be Hypothecated.
An ACT to provide for more specific Reports of the Transportation of Produce on the Railroads and Canals of this State.
An ACT to Protect Sheep in the County of Botetourt.
An ACT requiring the County Judge of Sussex to submit the Question of Continuing or Repealing the Fence Law to the voter: of Wakefield Township in said County.

1875/1876
An ACT to incorporate The Southwest Virginia Land, Colonization, and Improvement Company.
An ACT for the protection of Sheep in the counties of Bedford, Fauquier, Wythe, and Botetourt.
An ACT prescribing the number of votes to which the stockholders of the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society are entitled in the meetings of the company.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the Removal of Weirs and Hedges in Rappahannock Creek
An ACT to repeal section fifty-six of chapter eighty-five of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relating to the Inspection of Tobacco.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the forty-eighth section of chapter eighty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to the Measurement of Commercial and other Manures.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section nineteen of chapter seventy-seven of the Code of Virginia (edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-three), concerning the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural aud Mechanical College, and the Board of Curators of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate The Virginia State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
An ACT to amend and re-enact the twenty-sixth section of chapter ninety-eight, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to the manner of making James River and the James River and Kanawha Canal in Amherst a Lawful Fence so as to include Nelson.
An ACT to Incorporate the Consolidated Abattoir Company of Alexandria, Washington and Georgetown.
An ACT for the Protection of Ginseng in the Counties of the State.

1876/1877
An ACT requiring the officers conducting elections ia Dinwiddie county to submit the question of continuing or repealing the fence laws to the voters of voting districts of Dinwiddie county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8, chapter 88, Code of 1873, in relation to Weights and Measures.
An ACT to establish a department of agriculture, mining, and manufacturing, for the stato.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed December 13th, 1858, entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia State Agricultural Society.
An ACT providing for the re-assessment of a tract of land
An ACT to provide for the custody of State and all other Bonds held by the Board of Education for the benefit of certain Colleges.
An ACT to amend the Ist section of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Bedford, Fauquier, Wythe, and Botetourt
An ACT in regard to the right of property in manure made in the ordinary course of husbandry by a tenant or leasce.
An ACT to amend an act approved March 20, 1875, entitled an act to protect sheep in the county of Augusta.
An ACT appropriating sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax, approved January fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
An ACT to revise the laws relating to the inspection of tobacco, and warehouse charges, and to insure the proper delivery of tobacco to the consignees, and to repeal all acts on the subject which were in force on the Ist January, 1877.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixth section of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockingham
An ACT to‘abate the rigors of the fence law on the line of two counties, one only of which has adopted its provisions.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT imposing a fine on any person, corporation, aid so forth, sending tobacco to any warehouse other than that to whicu it is marked by the owner or his agent.
An ACT authorizing the governor to commission, with the rank of colonel, James H. Lane, the commandant of the corps of cadets of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college.
An ACT requesting the governor to appoint two inspecturs of tobacco for the public warehouse in the city of Richmond.
An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of York county to allow S. G. Cooke the amount of taxes assessed against and paid by him for county purposes upon his farms in York county for the years 1865—’66-’67-’68-’69-’70, and ’71.
An ACT to raise revenue for the support of free schools and encourage wool-growing in the county of Lee.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 88 of the Code of 1873, as amended by an act approved February 13, 1877, in relation to weights and measures.
An ACT to provide for keeping in repair partition fences
An ACT to incorporate Churehland grange, No. 10, in Norfolk county.
An ACT for the Grctection of sheep in the county of Culpeper.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT concerning the appointment of Curators of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, and to amend and re-enact section thirty, chapter seventy-seven, Code of 1878.
An ACT to incorporate the Farmers’ Exchange Warehouse and Supply Company, of Lynchburg, Virginia.
An ACT to release certain citizens of Henrico county from the payment of fines and costs for violating section 1 of an act for the protection of fish in James river, approved March 20th, 1876.

1877/1878
Joint Resolution extending the time for the appointment by the governor of samplers of tobacco.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge, approved March 5, 1877, and to provide for the disposition of the taxes and levies collected or assessed under the same.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved 20th March, 1877, entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Fauquier.
An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax
An ACT to authorize a reassessment of the lands throughout the commonwealth that have been injured by the late freshet.
An ACT to amend and re-enact paragraph 4th of section 16, chapter 77, Code of 1873, in relation to the number of students to be apportioned to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical college.
An ACT to submit the question of repealing the fence law to the voters of Brentsville and Manassas districts in Prince William county.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-four, chapter forty-nine, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in reference to exemptions from distress.
An ACT to prevent the erection of slaughter-houses within half a mile of the city of Norfolk.
An ACT to amend and re-enact the 6th section of an act entitled an act to revise the laws relating to the inspection of tobacco, and warehouse charges, and to insure the proper delivery of tobacco to the consignees, and to repeal all acts on the subject which were in force on the lst January, 1877, approved April 4th, 1877.
An ACT relating to fences and for protection of crops in Madison district, county of Orange.
An ACT providing for the reassessment of a tract of land belonging to the Jordan Rockbridge Alum Springs of Rockbridge county, and for refunding taxes erroneously assessed thereon,
An ACT for the protection of crops in Rockbridge county.
An ACT to require the citizens of Rockingham county owning land along certain streams, to keep the same free from obstructions,
An ACT for the protection of crops in the county of Augusta.
An ACT to incorporate the Rochelle mutual co-operative association for the purpose of conducting a general mercantile business and of manufacturing leather, shoes, and other goods out of leather.
An ACT providing for the reassessment of a tract of land belonging to James A. Frazier, of Rockbridge county, and for refunding taxes erroneously assessed thereon.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 8 of an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick, and Charlotte, approved March 6th, 1874.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the McCormick telescope.
An ACT to incorporate the Planters’ Tobacco Warchouse of Bristol
An ACT to incorporate Vineyard grange, in King and Queen county.
An ACT to prevent the sale of cotton between certain hours.
An ACT to amend the act for the protection of sheep in the county of Powhatan.
An ACT defining the status of tobacco warehouses of the commonwealth.
An ACT for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockbridge.
An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to raise revenue for the support of free scoools and encourage wool-growing in the county of Lee, approved February 6th, 1877.
An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to incorporate the Clarke county co-operative mercantile company, as amended by an act approved March 17, 1876.
An ACT declaring the Meherrin river a lawful fence in certain portions of Lunenburg county.
An ACT to amend the first section of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Bedford, Fauquier, Wythe, and Botetourt, approved March 17th, 1876, as amended by an act approved April 2d, 1877.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the reduction of the present Federal tax on manufactured tobacco.

1881/1882
JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the senators and representatives in congress from Virginia to procure an impost duty levied on foreign sumac.
An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one-two, and eighteen hundred and eighty-two-three.
JOINT RESOLUTION in reference to abolishing the Federal internal revenue tax on manufactured tobacco.
An ACT to repeal an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Powhatan.
An ACT to provide for the compensation of Special House committee and their clerks appointed by resolution of the House cf Delegates of Virginia, adopted March Yth, 1880.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, four, and six of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Warren, approved February 27, 1880.
An ACT to amend and re-enact sections five, six, and seven of an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte, approved March 6, 1874, as to the county of Clarke.
An ACT to provide for the purchase of corn by the supervisors of Patrick and Franklin counties.
An ACT to protect Jand owners in making advances to tenants.
An ACT to empower the court of Norfolk county to grant to the owner or owners of marsh lands the right to drain the same.
An ACT declaring certain grounds under the water, known as Hampton Flats, open and eligible for the planting of oysters.
An ACT to incorporate the Lebanon and Buchanan turnpike company.
An ACT requiring the judges of Nottoway and Amelia counties to submit the question of fence law to the voters of said counties.
An ACT to repeal sections 1 and 2, chapter 57, Acts of Assembly, 1877-78, in relation to the sale of cotton in Sussex and Greenesville counties.
An ACT in reference to fences in Princess Anne county.
An ACT to authorize the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis railroad company to adopt a standard gauge.
An ACT for the relief of the citizens of Carroll county.