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1871/1872

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 378

Chapter 103

An ACT to Incorporate the Mechanic’s Mutual Building Fund and Dollar Savings Bank of the City of Staunton.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 104

An ACT to Authorize the Trustees of Sycamore Congregation to Borrow Money and Execute a Mortgage to Secure the same.
Religious Institutions, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 105

JOINT RESOLUTION Asking the Congress of the United States to Make the Tax on Tobacco Uniform.
Taxation, Business, Agriculture

Chapter 106

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled an Act for the Relief of the late Sheriffs of the Commonwealth.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 107

An ACT to Provide for the Organization of County School Boards and Prescribing the Powers and Duties of said Boards, and to Amend and Re-Enact 40th Section of the Act entitled an Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 108

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 12th Clause of the 7th Section, the 11th Clause of the 11th Section, the 12th Clause of the 14th Section, the 10th Clause of the 24th Section, the 49th Section and the 52d Section of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Establish and Maintain a Uniform System of Public Free Schools,” approved July 11, 1870.
Education

Chapter 109

An ACT for the Relief of Frederick Griffith, of the County of Westmoreland.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 110

An ACT Allowing the Dinwiddie Street M. E. Church of Portsmouth to Borrow Money to Re-build their Church, and to Secure the Payment of the Same by Deeds of Trust on the Property of the Church.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 111

An ACT to Incorporate the Alexandria Passenger Railway Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 112

An ACT Concerning Change of Plan for Improvement of Rivanuna River.
Transportation

Chapter 113

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Act in Relation to Chain Gang
Amendments, Armed forces, Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 114

An ACT to Extend the Charter of the Fredericksburg, Orange and Charlottesville Railroad Company, and to Authorize said Company to Borrow Money and Create a Mortgage upon its Property and Franchises.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds, Debt

Chapter 115

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 8th Section of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act passed February 19, 1858, entitled An Act to Incorporate the Town of Ashland, in the County of Hanover,” and the Act amendatory thereof, in force March 29, 1871.
Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 116

An ACT Incorporating the Petersburg Law Association.
Incorporation, Libraries, Business

Chapter 117

An ACT to Tacorporate Franklin Bank, Rocky Mount, lin County.
Business, Bonds

Chapter 118

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the first and fifth Sections of an Act to Incorporate the Virginia International Wand, Loan and Trust Company, approved March 23d, 1870, and to Change the Name of said Company.
Business, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 119

An Act Authorizing the County Court of Spotsylvania to Re-arrange the Boundaries wherein the Fence Law shall be Operative.
Fence Laws, Boundaries, Public officers, Agriculture

Chapter 120

An ACT to Amend Section 5 of Chapter 161 of the Code of Virginia (edition of 1860) in Relation to Records at Large of Courts.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 121

An ACT to Amend the 11th Section of Chapter 128, Code of 1860, in Relation to the Release of an Insane Wife's Interest in Realty.
Amendments, Marriage, Property

Chapter 122

An ACT to Amcnd and Re-enact Chapter One Hundred end Thirty-five of the Acts of 1870-71, in Relation to the Relief of the Sureties of William Sample, late Sheriff of Russell County.
Amendments, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 123

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections § and 10 of Chapter 162 of the Code of 1860, as Amended by the Act of February 3rd, 1871, in Relation to Juries in Civil Causes.
Judicial

Chapter 124

An ACT to provide a special Court of Appeals.
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 125

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections one and eight of an Act passed sixth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Norfolk and Great Western Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 126

Joint Resolution Extending the Time for the Collection of Taxes, and County and Township Levies, in certain Counties, for the year 1871.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 127

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 27, 28, 31, 34, 36, of Chapter 139, Session Acts 1870-71, entitled ‘An Act Providing a Charter for the City of Norfolk.”
Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 128

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Newbern, and to Repeal Act of 27th of May, 1852, entitled 'An Act to Incorporate the Town of Newbern, in the County of Pulaski.'
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 129

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Newport, in the County of Giles.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 130

An ACT to Amend the Charter of the Tredegar Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business

Chapter 131

An ACT to Incorporate the West Point Ferry Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 132

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Mcunt Jackson, in the County of Shenandoah.
Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 133

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the Fourth Section of an Act passed March Twenty-sixth, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty, entitled an Act to Incorporate the Masonic Hall Association in the Town of Harrisonburg.
Amendments, Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 134

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act approved July Eleventh, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy, entitled ‘An Act to Incorporate the Potomac and Manassas Railroad Company.’
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 135

AN ACT Incorporating the Blue Ridge Springs Company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 136

An ACT to Amend the Act entitled An Act to Amend and Re-enact an Act entitled An Act to Charter the Richmond and Peninsula Railway Company.
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 137

An ACT to Incorporate the Suffolk Collegiate Institute.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 138

JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting Congress to Furnish Virginia her Quota of Arima.
Armed forces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 139

An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of the County of Rockingham into ‘Townships.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 140

AN ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Sixteen of Chapter One Hundred and One of the Code of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty, in regard to Fishing in the Rappahannock River.
Fishing

Chapter 141

An ACT Appropriating a Sum of Money for Heating the Building of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum by Steam
Healthcare, Jails, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation, Utilities, Education, Transportation, Employment and labor

Chapter 143

An ACT to Complete the Organization of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 144

An ACT to Incorporate the Chesapeake Warehouse Company of Norfolk, Virginia.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 145

An ACT for the Relief of Nathaniel Prince, of the County of Loudoun.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 146

An ACT to Authorize the Formation of the New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Industry, Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Bonds, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 147

An ACT to Incorporate the James River and Surry County Railroad Company
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 148

An ACT Declaring what shall be Received in Payment of Taxes or other Demands of the State.
Taxation

Chapter 149

An ACT to Incorporate the Southern Trust and Banking Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 150

An ACT to Incorporate St. Patrick's Beneficial Society of Lynchburg, Va.
Incorporation, Charity, Business

Chapter 151

An Act to Incorporate the Midway, Raphine and Brownsburg Turnpike Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 152

JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Present Session of the General Assembly
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 153

An ACT to Amend Section 33 of an Act cutitled “An Act to Provide a New Charter for the Town of Charlottesville,” approved March 2eth, 1871.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 154

An ACT to Declare Pigg River, in Pittsylvania County, a Lawful Fence.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 155

An ACT to Incorporate the Newmarket Bank of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 156

An ACT to Incorporate the Bank of Berryville.
Business, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 157

An ACT to Adjudicate the Claim of Washington and Lee University against the State.
Bonds, Business, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 158

An ACT to Authorize the Trustees of the Lutheran Church at Woodstock, Shenandoah County, to Sell the Parsonage belonging to said Church, and to Apply the Proceeds thereof to the Erection of another Building, to be used as a Parsonage for said Church.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 159

An ACT for the Assessment of Taxes on Persons, Property, Income, Licenses, &c.
Taxation, Employment and labor, Business, Civil Rights, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 160

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5, 9, 10, 15, 19, 24 and 36 of Chapter 441, Acts of 1869-70, in relation to Roads.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 161

An ACT to Incorporate the Mutual Benevolent Association of the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 162

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section one of an Act Enti- titled ‘‘ An Act to Prevent the Sacritice of Personal Property at Forced Sales
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 163

An ACT to Incorporate the Harrisonburg, Bridgewater and West Augusta Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 164

An ACT to Provide for Submission to the People of the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of Virginia in relation to the Clause in respect to and entitled ‘* Usury.'
Amendments, Voting, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 165

An ACT to Amend and Re.enact an Act entitled an Act to Prescribe the Times for the Holding of the Terms of the Circuit Courts of the State
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 166

An Act to Provide for the Payment of Interest on the Public Debt.
Debt, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 167

An ACT authorizing the Board of Public Works to Release the Mortgage or Pledge, executed by the Town of Petersburg, on 'Thirty-five Hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of the Petersburg Railroad Company, under an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled an Act authorizing the State’s Guarantee to certain Bonds of the Town of Petersburg, passed 26th January, 1850.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 168

An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Prince William to Vote on the Question of Removing the County Court-house to Manassas.
Voting, Public officers, Municipal charters, Judicial, Property

Chapter 169

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to Matthew F. Maury’ Plan for System of Crop Reports and Meteorological Observations.
Agriculture, Public officers

Chapter 170

An ACT Prescribing the Duties and Compensation of County fiicers.
Judicial

Chapter 171

JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting Sveretary of the Com-
Taxation

Chapter 172

An ACT to Incorporate the Inebriate’s Home.
Incorporation, Healthcare, Alcohol, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 173

An ACT to Repeal Sections One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Nine and Ten, of the Act entitled 'An Act to Amend and Re-enact and Repeal certain Sections of the Code of Virginia in relation to Pilots,
Amendments, Business, Judicial, Transportation

Chapter 174

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Secretary of th Commonwealth to Furnish to the Judges of the State copies of th Reports of Court of Appeals at Actual Cost of Publication.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 175

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section Eight of Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-six of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Judgment Liens.
Judicial, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 176

An ACT to Authorize the Corporate Authorities of Winchester to Borrow Money to Enlarge Water Works, &c.
Utilities, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 177

An ACT to Authorize the Snpervisors of Certain Counties to Imponse a Tax on Dogs
Taxation

Chapter 178

An ACT to Amend the 40th Section of Chapter 101 of the Code of 1860 to Prevent the Destruction of Wild Fowl in this State.
Wildlife

Chapter 179

An ACT to Authorize an Election of Certain Officers in the Town of Jeffersonville.
Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 180

An ACT to Incorporate Jefferson College
Education, Agriculture, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 181

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 5, 7, 9 and 12 of an Act Approved April 12th, 1870, Entitled an Act to Provide for the General Registration of Voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 182

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Passed February 28th, 1846, Entitled an Act Providing more Effectually for the Protection of Sheep in the County of Loudoun, and to Repeal Certain Acts Amenda- tory thereof.
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures, Recreation

Chapter 183

An ACT to Provide for the Collection of Taxes for the Year Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, in Towns not having a separate organization as contemplated by the Constitution for Towns of Five Thousand or more Inhabitants, and to have such Towns embraced within Township Limits
Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 184

An ACT to Incorporate the Stafford Free Bridge or Ferry Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 185

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

Chapter 186

An ACT for the Relief of the Sureties of John L. Boughton, lute Sheriff of Essex County, Virginia.
Public expenditures, Judicial, Debt, Property

Chapter 187

An ACT Authorizing the Appointment of Deputies of County and Township Officers in Term Time or Vacation, and Repealing Section 15, Chapter 49, and Section 8, Chapter 163, of Code of 1860.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 188

AN ACT to Authorize Election of Officers in the Town of Tappahannock.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 189

An ACT to Incorporate the Eastern Branch Turnpike and Toll Bridge Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 190

An ACT to Extend the Time for the Sheriff of New Kent County to give Bond and Qualify.
Law Enforcement, Property, Public officers

Chapter 191

An ACT to Protect the Oyster Beds in the Waters of the Commonwealth.
Agriculture, Fishing, Business, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 192

JOINT RESOLUTIONS in Relation to the Present Import Duty on Sumac
Industry, Agriculture, Taxation

Chapter 193

Joint Resolution Asking Congress to Amend the Bankrupt Act of the United States in such Manner as will Allow Persons Taking its Benefits in Virginia an Exemption equal in amount to that Allowed Under the Homestead Act of the State.
Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 194

An ACT to Provide for a Re-division of Certain Counties into Townships
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 195

An ACT to Apportion the Representation of the State of Virginia in the Congress of the United States.
Legislative Amendments, Voting

Chapter 196

An ACT to Extend the Charter of the Sweet Springs and White Sulphur Turnpike Company, in the County of Alleghany.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 197

An ACT for the Relief of the late Sheriffs of Pittsylvania County.
Taxation, Public officers, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 198

An ACT Appointing Trustees for the Town of York, in the County of York.
Municipal charters

Chapter 199

JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the Sense of the General Assembly of the Loss sustained by the State in the Resignation of Judge Wm. T. Joynes.
Judicial

Chapter 200

An ACT to Incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad Company.
Industry, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 201

An ACT to Incorporate the Norfolk and Lynnhaven River Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 202

An ACT to Anthorize the Sale of the State’s Interest in the Bridge across James River, at Lick Run, in the County of Botetourt.
Transportation

Chapter 203

An ACT to Incorporate the New York and Norfolk Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry
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