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1865/1866

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT for the Assessment of Persons, Property, Income and Salaries.
Amendments, Taxation, Property, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT amending the S8t chapter of the Code (edition of POM. in relation to the Assessment or Taxes on Licenses,
Amendments, Business, Taxation, Alcohol, Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Public officers, Judicial, Utilities, Transportation, Recreation

Chapter 3

An ACT imposing Taxes for the Support of Government.
Taxation, Budget, Business, Property, Salaries, Inheritance and succession, Agriculture, Healthcare, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 4

An ACT appropriating the Public Revenue for the fiscal year 1865-6
Budget, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Prisons, Employment and labor, Education, Civil Rights, Registration of births, etc., Utilities

Chapter 5

An ACT imposing a Tax on Oysters
Taxation, Fishing, Business

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 82 of chapter 88 of the Code of Virginia.
Alcohol, Taxation, Business

Chapter 7

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 8d and Sth sections of chapter 96, Code of 1860.
Alcohol, Business, Public officers

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 21st section of chapter 36 of the Code (edition of Ts60)
Taxation

Chapter 9

An ACT to provide for Funding the Interest upon the Public Debt.
Bonds, Debt, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 10

An ACT in regard to Commissioners of the Revenue
Public officers, Budget, Property

Chapter 11

An ACT to amend the 2d seetion of chapter 87 of the Code
Taxation, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 4th section of chapter 1a) of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in relation to Ofleneves against the Sovereignty of the State.
Civil Rights, Slavery, Judicial, Segregation

Chapter 13

An ACT to authorize a Special Police to Search for Stolen Property.
Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 14

Amendments, Civil Rights, Death and burial, Judicial, Marriage, Slavery

Chapter 15

An ACT to regulate Contracts for Labor between White and Colored Persons, and to impose a Fine on Persons enticing Laborers from the service of their Employers under such Contracts.
Labor, Civil Rights, Segregation, Employment and labor

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 3, 5, 7 and 15 of chapter 196 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in regard to Unlawful Marriages.
Marriage, Divorce, Custody of children, Judicial

Chapter 17

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 9th section of chapter 103 of the Code of Virginia for 1860. defining a Mulatto, providing for the punishment of Otfences by Colored Persons, and for the admission of their Evidence in Legal Investigations; and to repeal all Laws in relation to Slaves and Slavery, and for other purposes.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Slavery, Noncitizens

Chapter 18

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 108 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in regard to Registers of Marriage; and to legalize the Marriages of Colored Persons now cohabiting as Husband and Wife.
Marriage, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Noncitizens, Custody of children

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th section of chapter 126 of the Code of Virginia for 1860, in relation to Masters and Apprentices.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Education

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend the 24th and 29th sections of chapter 85, and the 17th section of chapter 208 of the Code of Virginia, in reference to the Confinement and Trial of Persons charged with Crime, who may be insane or who may be alleged to be insane.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Jails, Judicial

Chapter 21

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act relating to Witnesses,
Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 22

An ACT to provide more ctlectually for the punishment of Horse Stealing
Property, Judicial, Slavery

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of chanter 102 of the Code of 1800.
Judicial

Chapter 24

An ACT in relation to the Testimony of Colored Persons.
Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Judicial

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of chapter 192 of the Code.
Judicial

Chapter 26

An ACT amending and re-enacting the 12th section of chapter 191 of the Code of 1860.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 27

An ACT to re-enact the 2d section of chapter 43 of the Code (edition of 1860)
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 28

An ACT providing for the punishment of Vagrants.
Vagrancy, Labor, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 29

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Canal Company, and to transfer the Rights and Franchises of the James River and Kanawha Company thereto
Amendments, Business, Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact the provisions of the Code ot 1860, and the acts subsequent theretu, in regard to the Public Printer and the Public Printing.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Budget, Employment and labor, Utilities

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 18th and Lith sections of chapter 14 of the Code of Virginia (1860)
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 32

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of chapter 14 of the Code (edition of 1&6), as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the 18th and 14th seetions of chap- ter 14 of the Code of Virginia (1860), passed 15th December 1865
Amendments, Salaries, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 33

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 15th section of chapter 15 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860)
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of chapter 5 of the Code.
Amendments, Noncitizens

Chapter 35

An ACT to repeal certain sections of the Code, concerning the
Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 36

An ACE to amond the 4th section of Chapter 13 of the Code oY Tsu, as to the persons allowed to alinisier Oaths
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 10th section of chapter 14 of the Code
Legislative Amendments, Salaries, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 38

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapier 16 ef th Code,
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 39

An ACT to repeal the 12th section of chapter 20 of the Cod of Virginia (edition of 1800).
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 40

An ACT amending sections 21, 22, 23, 25, 27. 20, 32, 53 ane 47, chapter 101 of the Code (edition of 1861), concerning the taking ail planting, selling and buying of Oysters.
Agriculture, Business, Judicial, Property, Noncitizens, Public officers

Chapter 41

An ACT to repeal the Ist section of the act to repeal and re-enact the 2d and Uh sections of the d2d chapter of the Code of 1860, and to re-enact the said 2d section.
Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 51 of the Code of 1S60.
Charity, Public officers

Chapter 43

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 52 of the Code of 1860.
Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 44

An ACT repealing, amending and re-enacting the Ist and 2d sections of chapter 62 of the Code of 1860, in relation to Waste and Unappropriated Lands
Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 45

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th section of chapter 77 of the Code of 1860.
Property

Chapter 46

An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist paragraph of the 56th section of chapter &8 of the Code of 1860
Agriculture

Chapter 47

An ACT to amend and re-enact and repeal certain sections of the Code of Virginia, in relation to Pilots.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 48

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 25th and 27th sections of chapter 92 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Pilots.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4 and 5 of chapter 110 of the Code.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Marriage

Chapter 50

An ACT amending and re-enacting the 43d section of chapter 112 of the Code of 1860, with regard to Land Warrants.
Property, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 51

An ACT amending and re-enacting section 5, chapter 124 of the Code.
Property, Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Marriage

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of chapter 128 of the Code of 1860.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 150 of the Code of 1460.
Death and burial, Inheritance and succession, Property

Chapter 54

An ACT amending and re-enacting the act of July 25th, 1861, amending and re-enacting the 1st section of chapter 150 of the Code of 1860.
Amendments, Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of chapter 15
Amendments, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 6th section, chapter 15 of the Code, relating to Attachments,
Amendments, Judicial, Debt, Business

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th section of chapter 161 of the Code of Virginia, as to Attachment of Steamboats and other vessels found within the jurisdiction of this State.
Transportation

Chapter 58

An ACT amending sections 6 and 14 of chapter 158 of the Code of 1860, concerning the Terms of Courts
Judicial

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend the 24th section of the 158th chapter of the Code of 1860, changing the Times of holding the Courts in the 16th Cireuit,
Judicial

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend the Ist and 6th sections of chapter 160 of the Code of 1861), relating to the Court of Appeals, to repeal other sections of said chapter, and making Provisions concerning the Oreaniza-tion, Jurisdiction and Proceedings of said Court,
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 43d section of chapter 172 of the Code of 1860
Amendments, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 62

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 18 and 1-4 of chapter 176 of the Code of 1860.
Judicial, Amendments, Law Enforcement

Chapter 63

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 180 of the Code
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend the 13th, 5th, 16th and 42d sections of chapter 182 of the Code, and to repeal the T1th, 12th, 17th, Tsth, bth and 20th sections of said chapter, in relation to Appeals and Writs of Error and Supersedeas.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 65

An ACT amending section 55, chapter TS4 of the Code. concerning Officers’ Fees for taking care of Criminals,
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons

Chapter 66

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-nine of chapter one hundred and eighty-four of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty
Amendments

Chapter 67

An ACT to send and re-ennet section oo of cliaapter 2GU of the Code of L860.
Judicial

Chapter 68

An ACT staying the Collection of Debts for a Limited Period.
Debt

Chapter 69

An ACT to stay the Collection of Debts for a limited period
Debt, Slavery, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend the 2d section of the act passed December 19, 1865, staying the Collection of Debts for a limited period
Debt

Chapter 71

An ACT providing for the adjustment of Liabilities arising under Contracts and Wills made between the Ist day of January 1862, and the 10th day of April 1865
Amendments, Debt, Inheritance and succession, Judicial, Slavery

Chapter 72

An ACT to give effect to certain Acts, Contracts and Proceedings during the late War.
Civil Rights, Confederate, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Marriage, Property

Chapter 73

An ACT to prohibit Attachments in certain cases.
Business, Debt, Property

Chapter 74

An ACT to prevent the Abatement of Process in certain cases.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 75

An ACT to provide for ineluding the Value of Stamps in the Taxation of Costs.
Taxation

Chapter 76

An ACT to provide for recording the Losses of Property sustained by the Operations of War, during the late War.
Property, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 77

An ACT to preserve and extend the time for the exercise of certain Civil Rights and Remedies
Civil Rights

Chapter 78

An ACT to repeal certain parts of the act of May 11, 1862, and to prescribe Oaths to be taken in certain cases.
Amendments, Business, Judicial

Chapter 79

An ACT providing for the repeal of the act of May 15, 1862, prescribing an Qath in certin cases
Repeal of legislation, Judicial

Chapter 81

An ACT in relation to Circuit Courts for Corporations.
Judicial, Business

Chapter 82

An ACT to authorize the County Courts to borrow Money.
Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 83

An ACT concerning the Seals of the Commonwealth, defining their Use, and the cases in which the Tax upon them is to be collected.
Judicial, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 84

An ACT to repeal the 2d section of an act passed on the 13th day of May 1862, entitled an act giving the Consent of the Legislature of Virginia to the formation and erection of a new State within the Jurisdiction of this State; also, repealing the act passed on the 3lst day of January 1863, entitled an act giving the Consent of the State of Virginia to the County of Berkeley being admitted into and becoming part of the State of West Virginia; also, repealing the act passed on the 4th day of February 1863, entitled an act giving Consent to the admission of certain Counties into the new State of West Virginia upon certain conditions, and withdrawing Consent to the Transfer of Jurisdiction over the several Counties in each of said acts mentioned.
Boundaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 85

An ACT to provide for the assertion of the Rights of this Commonwealth to Jurisdiction over the Counties of Jefferson and Berkeley.
Amendments, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 86

An ACT to amend the third Article of the Constitution of Virginia
Amendments, Civil Rights, Equality before the law, Confederate, Voting

Chapter 87

An ACT for Processioning and Settling the Boundaries of vands in this Commonwealth.
Property, Boundaries, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 88

An ACT prohibiting further Entry of Waste and Unappropriated Lands, or any Grant of such.
Property, Legislative Amendments, Boundaries

Chapter 89

An ACT to increase the Price of Treasury Warrants for Land in Virginia, and to repeal an act passed 4th January 1866, entitled an act prohibiting the further Entry of Waste and Unappropriated Lands, or any Grant of such.
Property, Public expenditures, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 90

An ACT to authorize the Governor of the Commonwealth to purchase Arms, Accoutrements and Ammunition for the use of the Public Guard at the Penitentiary.
Armed forces, Public officers, Prisons

Chapter 91

An ACT authorizing the Collection of Public Aruns.
Armed forces, Law Enforcement

Chapter 92

An ACT to Reorganize the Militia.
Armed forces, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 93

An ACT to prevent and punish Unlawful Hunting.
Hunting, Fishing, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 94

An ACT relating to Fences, and for the Protection of Crops.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 95

An ACT requiring the Banks of this Commonwealth to go into Liquidation
Business, Debt, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 96

An ACT to require a Deposit of Securities to be made by Foreign Insurance Companies doing Business in this State.
Business, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 97

An ACT to provide for the Liabilities of the Lunatie Asylum
Healthcare, Charity

Chapter 98

An ACT to repeal section 8, and to amend and re-enact section G of chapter 85 of the Code of Virginia so far as the Western Lunatic Asylum is concerned, so as to give to the Directors power to dispense with the Office of Treasurer, and to direct the funds of said Asylum to be kept in one of the Banks at Staunton, or some other place of safe-keeping,
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 99

An ACT establishing the Name of the Western Lunatic Asylum.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 100

An ACT to provide for the Liabilities of the Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, incurred prior to the Ist day of July 1865.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 101

An ACT amending section 46. chapter > of the Code, concerning Expenses of Conveying Lunaties, &e,
Healthcare, Amendments, Public expenditures
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