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1871/1872

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Time for the Collection of Taxes and County and Township Levies, in the Commonwealth, for the year 1871.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 2

An ACT anthorizing the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church and Congregation at Staunton to execute a deed of trust.
Religious Institutions, Property, Debt

Chapter 3

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section nine of Chapter eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, as amended by act of April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled ‘An Act to amend certain sections of chapter eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, and in relation to the Inspection of Tobacco’
Agriculture, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 4

An ACT to Authorizo an Increase of the Capital Stock of the Cross Road and Summit Point Turnpike Company.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 5

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, incorporating the Town of Powellton, in the County of Amherst.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 6

An ACT to Ratify and make valid the Right of the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike Company to charge tolls on a section of its road in the County of Augusta, and to Ratify the acts heretofore performed by the Board of Public Works by virtue of said right.
Transportation

Chapter 7

An ACT for the Relief of E. S. Gay, late Captain of the Public Guard.
Public officers, Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 8

JOINT RESOLUTION for a Recess of the General Assembly
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 9

An ACT to Provide for the Collection of the Revenue of the City of Norfolk, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 10

An ACT to Incorporate the Shenandoah County Bank.
Business, Bonds, Incorporation

Chapter 11

An ACT to Expedite the Execution of the Will of William Barrett, deceased.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 12

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in Relation to the Rule days for County and Corporation Courts; and Declaring when Office Judgments shall be final.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 13

An ACT to Provide for the Protection of Fish in the Waters of New River and its Tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 14

JOINT RESOLUTIONS Petitioning the Congress of the United States to Remove all Disabilities under the operation of the 14th Amendment.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Equality before the law

Chapter 15

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 16 of Chapter 151 of the Code of 1860, with reference to Sales under Attachments.
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Property, Debt

Chapter 16

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact 'the Act entitled an Act to to Amend and Re-enact Section 14 of Chapter 192 of the Code of 1860, as Amended and Re-enacted by Act passed February 20, 1866, concerning Larceny; and to Repeal the Act passed February 12, 1866, entitled an Act to Provide more effectually for the Punishment of Horse Stealing.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 17

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 8th Section of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act directing the Board of Public Works to sell the State's interest in the various Internal Improvement Companies of the Commonwealth,” approved March 28, 1871.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Budget, Business

Chapter 18

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 28th Chapter of the Aots of 1866-7, so as to Provide for the Payment of Interest upon the Dawson Fund.
Education

Chapter 19

An ACT to Render Valid the Charter of Incorporation of the Charlottesville Woollen Mills, and to Legalize all acts done in pursuance thereof.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 20

An ACT Continuing the Payment of Interest and Dividends to the Incorporated Colleges, or other Seminaries of Learning, in the State.
Education, Public expenditures, Incorporation

Chapter 21

JOINT RESOLUTION to Empower the Auditor and Attorney-General to settle a Claim of the Commonwealth against Andrew J. Byrne.
Debt, Public officers

Chapter 22

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 186 of the Acts of Assembly of 1871—an Act to make Clinch River a Lawful Fence
Fence Laws, Property, Transportation

Chapter 23

An ACT Allowing Incorporated Towns of this Commonwealth to use the County Jails.
Jails, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 24

An ACT to Allow Further Time to Jackson Godby, Clerk of Floyd County Court, to give Bond and qualify as said Clerk.
Judicial, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 25

JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Time for the Collection of Taxes and County Levies in the County of Buckingham, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy.
Taxation

Chapter 26

An ACT to Authorize the Seaboard and Roanoke Company to Acquire an Interest in Connecting Railroads.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 27

An ACT Requiring the Depositories of the Public Moneys of the Commonwealth to Execute Additional Bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 28

An ACT to Incorporate the Norwood Mining and Petroleum Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business

Chapter 29

An ACT to Amend the Act of the General Assembly, passed March 20th, 1867, entitled An Act Incorporating the Radford Iron Company, and for other Purposes.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 30

An ACT Providing for Furnishing to the Colleges of the State, in which Law Schools are Established, Surplus Law Publications.
Education, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 31

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Charter of the Town of Leesburg, in the County of Loudoun
Amendments, Taxation, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 32

JOINT RESOLUTIONS Agreeing to an Amendment to the Constitution of Virginia, in Relation to the Clause in respect to and entitled “Usury,” and Directing a Submission of said Proposed Amendment to the People, for their Approval and Ratification.
Amendments, Education, Religious Institutions

Chapter 34

An ACT to Authorize the Common Council of the Town of Harrisonburg to submit the Question of Levying a Special Tax for Water Purposes, to the voters of said Town.
Public expenditures, Utilities, Fire fighters

Chapter 35

An ACT Authorizing the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church and Congregation at Staunton to Execute Deeds of Trust.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property, Debt

Chapter 36

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the Official Terms of certain Officers of the Government, and the Time within which they may Qualify.
Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 37

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 5 of an Act approved July 9th, 1870, entitled an Act to Re-assess the Lands throughout the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 38

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Iron Mining, Chemical and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Property

Chapter 39

An ACT Authorizing a Sale of the Front Royal Turnpike.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 40

Joint Resolution Authorizing a Joint Sub-committee to visit the Eastern and Western Lunatic Asylums.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 41

An ACT Amending Section 14 of Chapter 161 of the Code of 1860 in Relation to the Meetings and Adjournment of Circuit, County or Corporation Courts.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 42

An Act to Extend the Time within which William W. Sage, late Sheriff of Lee County, may Collect the Taxes for the years 1869 and 1870, and for other purposes.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 43

An ACT to Amend the 27th Section of the 176th Chapter of the Code of 1860, so as to confer on Commissioners in Chancery the Power to Administer Oaths.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 44

An ACT to Extend the Time for L. R. Edwards to Qualify as Clerk of the Courts of Southampton County.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 45

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section ten of Chapter one hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of 1860, concerning Crimes and Punishments.
Amendments, Jails, Prisons

Chapter 46

An ACT to Amend the Second Section of the Act entitled An Act to Incorporate the Masonic Temple Association, passed March 13, 1858, as Amended by an Act approved March 31, 1871.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 47

An ACT to Authorize Deputy Clerks to take Acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women in certain cases.
Marriage, Judicial, Property

Chapter 48

An ACT to Amend the Act Incorporating the James River Bridge Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 49

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Two of an Act entitled "An Act to Amend tho Charter of the Town of Winchester, in the County of Froderick"
Amendments, Alcohol, Business, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 50

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 1 of an Act approved March 28, 1871, in Relation to the Protection of Religious Meetings and Preservation of Order at the same.
Alcohol, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 51

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 10, Chapter 208 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Jurors in Criminal Cases.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 52

An ACT for the Relief of Amanda Tutwiler, of Buckingham County.
Alcohol

Chapter 53

Joint Resolution Whether a Recess of the Legislature is computed in the five days allowed the Governor to Consider a Bill or Resolution submitted to him for Approval or Rejection.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 54

An ACT for the Re-assessment of Lands in the Commonwealth.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 55

Joint Resolution Requesting the Congress of the United States to Make an Appropriation for the Construction of a Free Bridge across the Potomac River, connecting the City of Washington with Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 56

An ACT for the Relief of Madison Allen.
Business, Debt, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 57

JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to the Payment of Balances Due School Teachers
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 58

An ACT Requiring Clerks of Courts to Furnish County Supervisors with Copies of Court Orders and Allowances that are Payable out of the County Treasury, and Requiring Supervisors to Levy a Tax to Pay the Same.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 59

An ACT concerning the Glebe Fund of Essex County
Charity, Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 60

An ACT to Amend the 21st Section of an Act Passed March the 38ist, 1860, entitled An Act to Amend an Act Incorporating the Town of Portsmouth as a City, passed March 1st, 1858.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 61

An ACT to Amend Sections one, three, four, five, nine and eleven of an Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact Chapter 206 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) as to Grand Juries.
Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 63

An ACT to Repeal the 8th Section of the Act approved March 28th, 1871, as Amended by the Act approved 17th January, 1872, directing the Board of Public Works to Sell the State’s Interest in the various Internal Improvement Companies of the Commonwealth.
Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 64

An ACT for the Relief of Thomas Davis, an Infant of Greene County.
Children -- Institutional care, Property, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 65

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 17, Chapter 157, Cod2 of 1860, in Reference to the Jurisdiction of County Courts.
Judicial

Chapter 66

AN ACT to Incorporate the Page County Bank.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 67

An ACT to Incorporate the Bridgewater and Mount Crawford Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 68

An ACT for the Relief of Simon Hirsh.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 69

An ACT to Authorize the Sale of the Land Scrip donated to Virginia by the Congress of the United States, and Providing for the Investment of the Proceeds thereof.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 70

An ACT to Incorporate the Bank of Warren
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 71

An ACT to Amend the Charter and Change the Corporate Name of the Citizens Savings Bank of Petersburg.
Business, Amendments

Chapter 72

An ACT to Render Valid and Amend the Charter of Incorporation of the Charlottesville Milling and Manufacturing Company, and to Legalize all acts done in pursuance of the Original Charter.
Incorporation, Business, Agriculture

Chapter 73

An ACT Respecting Special Meetings of the Board of Directors of the Valley Railroad Company, and to make Valid certain Acts of said Company.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 74

An ACT to Amend the Charter of the City Gas-light Company of Norfolk
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 75

An ACT to Secure the Preservation of Historical Papers in the Capitol Building.
Public officers, Libraries, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of Benjamin Robinson, late Sheriff of Greene County.
Debt, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 77

An ACT Authorizing Stephen Bond, late Sheriff of Carroll County, to Collect Taxes Advanced and Paid into the Treasury by him, which were Assessed for the year 1869.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 78

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 7 and 9 of Chapter 215 of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Amendments, Judicial, Prisons

Chapter 79

An ACT to Simplify Declarations in Actions against Insurance Companies
Judicial, Business

Chapter 80

An ACT to Extend the Time within which James Fields, late Sheriff of Washington County, may Collect the Taxes for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 81

An ACT for the Relief of Charles Burgess, Sr., of King William County.
Business

Chapter 82

An ACT in Relation to the Disposition of the Interest of the State in the James River and Kanawha Company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Utilities

Chapter 83

An ACT to Incorporate the Bridgewater and Rawley Springs Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 84

An ACT to Incorporate the Potomac Land and Improvement Company.
Incorporation, Property, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 85

An ACT to Amend an Act passed January 15th, 1867, entitled an Act to Amend an Act entitled an Act in Regard to Abandoned Turnpikes.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 86

An ACT to Change the Title and Amend the Act to Incorporate the Farmville, Charlottesville and Stanardsville Narrow gauge Railroad
Transportation, Business, Amendments, Incorporation, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 87

An ACT to Incorporate the Amherst Turnpike Company
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 88

JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting and Memorializing the Congress of the United States to Refund the Tax Collected on Raw Cotton in 1865, 1866, and 1867, to those who paid it.
Agriculture, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 89

An Act to Allow Further Time to J. Douglass Thornton, Clerk of the Courts of Sussex County, to give Bond and Qualify as said Clerk.
Judicial, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 90

An ACT to Repeal the 45th Section of ‘An Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools,”
Education, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 91

An ACT to Establish a State Board of Health.
Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 92

JOINT RESOLUTION to Suspend Sale of Property Claimed as Exempt under Homestead Provision of the Constitution until Question of Constitutionality is Decided by the Court of Appeals.
Debt, Property, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 93

An ACT to Allow Further Time to B. Ashton Lewis, County Treasurer of Branswick County to give Bond and Qualify as such Treasurer.
Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 94

An ACT to Consolidate the Indebtedness of the City of Alexandria in one Uniform Issue of Stock.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 95

An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Town of Culpeper.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 96

An ACT for the Relief of Caroline Lindsay
Employment and labor, Healthcare

Chapter 97

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Woodstock, in the County of Shenandoah.
Incorporation

Chapter 98

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Sixteen of an Act entitled an Act in Relation to the Public Printing and Public Printer
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 99

An ACT for the Relief of Isaac Jones and others
Debt, Education, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 100

An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act Entitled an Act for the Protection of Fish in the Shenandoah River and its Tributaries, and the Tributaries of the Potomac River West of the Shenandoah River, Approved November fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy, so as to exclude the Shenandoah River and its Tributaries from the Operation of said Act
Fishing

Chapter 101

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 6 of an Act approved November fifth, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act providing for the Re-assessment of the Lands throughout the Commonwealth, approved July ninth, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy.
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 102

An ACT to Incorporate the Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Property
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