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1874

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 352 of 352

Chapter 304

An ACT to Authorize the Counties of King and Queen and King William to Negotiate a Loan or Loans for the purpose of Purchasing a Steamboat.
Business, Debt, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 305

An ACT to incorporate the Town of Lawrenceville, in Brunswick County.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Prisons, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 306

An ACT to Incorporate The Richmond Hotel and Dramatic Company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 307

An ACT to incorporate the James River Coal Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 308

An ACT to increase the Fees of Sheriffs and other Officers, and to amend and re-enact the 13th section of chapter 180 of the Code of: 1873.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Prisons, Public expenditures

Chapter 309

An ACT to incorporate the New River and Piedmont Narrow Guage Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend the Charter of the Town of Culpeper.
Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Budget, Law Enforcement

Chapter 311

JOINT RESOLUTION in regard to a further adjustment of the Debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Debt, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 312

An ACT Prescribing the manner in which Records for the Supreme Court of Appeals shall be Printed, and Providing for Letting the Same to Contract.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 313

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts, at his discretion, to suspend Legal Proceedings on the Official Bond of J. M. Phillips, Treasurer of Surry County, so far as relates to the sum of $3,198 08, Destroyed by Fire in his Dwelling and Storehouse.
Budget, Public officers, Property

Chapter 314

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing and requiring the Governor and Treasurer to continue the investigation into the condition of the Basement Offices, and report thereon to the next general assembly.
Municipal charters

Chapter 315

JOINT RESOLUTION extending the Time for the Final Settlement of the Treasurer of the City of Richmond, with the Auditor of Public Accounts.
Budget, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 316

JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring the Substitution of the word “Supervisors” for the word ‘‘Justices’’ in the 7th Section of 50th Chapter of Code of 1878, and other Verbal Changes by the Compiler of the Code, to be the true meaning and intent of the Law.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 317

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 61 of Chapter 3, Acts of 1865-6, in Relation to the Release of Taxes prior to the year 1865.
Taxation, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 318

An ACT for the Protection of Sheep in the County ot Prince William, by a Tax on Dogs.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 319

JOINT RESOLUTION extending the Privilege of Taking Fish to the Land-owners of Lancaster and other Counties.
Fishing, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 320

An ACT authorizing the Auditor of Public Accounts to sell the three Steam Tug Boats used in Collecting the Oyster Revenue of the State.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 321

Joint Resolution Extending the Privilege of Taking Fish from the Waters of the Potomac River to the citizens of Westmoreland.
Fishing

Chapter 322

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 54 of Chapter 78 of the Code of 1878, in Relation to the Condemnation of Lands for Schoolhouses.
Education, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 323

An ACT for the relief of G. Guvernator, C. Wendlinger and E. Lohman, Securities of Fernando King, late Sheriff of Surry County.
Debt, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 324

An ACT authorizing the Governor to Annul Contracts in hiring out Convicts.
Prisons, Labor, Judicial

Chapter 325

An ACT to repeal Section 10, Chapter 100, Code of 1873, in relation to Fishing in Roanoke River, West of Blue Ridge.
Fishing

Chapter 326

An ACT to declare Clinch River a Navigable and Public Highway in the County of Russell.
Transportation

Chapter 327

An ACT to prevent the Destruction of Fish in the North Fork of Holston River.
Fishing

Chapter 328

An ACT to declare the north fork of Clinch River, in the County of Scott, Navigable for Rafts, Flat Bottom Boats, &c.
Transportation, Public spaces

Chapter 329

An ACT declaring Bull Run a lawful Fence, from its Junction with the Warrenton Pike to its Junction with Occoquan Run.
Fence Laws, Boundaries

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5 of an Act entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Luray.
Incorporation, Law Enforcement, Alcohol, Public officers

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend the Charter of the Town of Scottsville
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 332

An ACT for the relief of the Sureties of John R. Pharr, late Sheriff of Alleghany County.
Debt, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend an Act entitled 4n Act to Incorporate The Richmond Harmonic Association, and to Change the Name Thereof.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 334

An ACT to amend an Act entitled an Act to Provide a Charter for the City of Winchester
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 335

JOINT RESOLUTION to Provide for the Safekeeping of Certain Bonds of the Commonwealth.
Bonds, Registration of births, etc., Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 338

An ACT to extend the time for Repairing and Rebuilding Mills and Machinery burned during the War.
Industry, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 339

An ACT to provide for the Removal of the Penitentiary.
Prisons, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 340

An ACT to Provide for Amending and Correcting Informalities in the Returns of Judges and Clerks of Elections.
Judicial, Public officers, Voting

Chapter 341

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 9th Section of Chapter 156 of the Code of 1878, for the Transfer of Causes from the Counties of Amherst and Nelson, to the Court at Staunton.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 342

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Hotel Company.
Business

Chapter 343

An ACT to repeal the Act approved March 27, 1874, entitled an Act Requiring the County Judges of the Counties of Albemarle, King William, Sussex and Surry to submit the question of Continuing or Repealing the Fence Law, to the Voters of their Townships in their respective Counties, on Certain Conditions.
Fence Laws, Repeal of legislation, Public officers

Chapter 344

An ACT to Incorporate the Town of Occoquan.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Death and burial, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to incorporate the Presbyterian Cemetery at Lynchburg.
Cemeteries, Incorporation

Chapter 346

An ACT Authorizing the Division of Cities and Towns of more than 5,000 Inhabitants, into Wards.
Municipal charters, Voting, Boundaries

Chapter 347

An ACT to Amend and Re-enact section 86 of chapter 18 of the Code of 1873, in relation to Pay of Sheriffs and Sergeants, and to Repeal section 50 of chapter 49 of the Code of 1873.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Civil Rights, Education, Pensions, Transportation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 349

An ACT to Provide the Mode of Ascertaining Compensation for Land Condemned for a Road or Landing.
Transportation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 350

An ACT Chartering the Bank of Commerce
Business, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 351

An ACT to Authorize the Qualified Voters of the County of Chesterfield, to vote upon the question of the Removal of the County Courthouse.
Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers, Judicial, Public spaces

Chapter 352

An ACT to Incorporate the New River and Piedmont Marrow-Gauge Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 353

An ACT to incorporate the Hampton and Fort Monroe Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 354

An ACT to Incorporate The Giles County, Iron Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 356

An ACT to incorporate the Ladies Memorial Association of Fredericksburg.
Incorporation, Monuments and memorials, Confederate

Chapter 357

An ACT to incorporate the Marion High School.
Education, Public officers, Municipal charters, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 358

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first and second Sections of an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Hollywood Cemetery Company, passed 26th February, 1856.
Cemeteries, Incorporation

Chapter 359

An ACT to incorporate The Southern Settlement Society.
Incorporation, Property, Voting
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