1876/1877

Displaying 301 - 363 of 363

Chapter 301

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the act entitled an act prescribing general provisions in relation to commissioners of the revenue and the assessment of taxes on person:, property, income, licenses, &c.

Taxation, Religious Institutions, Cemeteries, Charity, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 302

An ACT authorizing the school board of Middle River District, of Augusta county, to convey a lot of land in the town of Mount Sidney.

Education, Property

Chapter 303

An ACT appropriating sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college.

Agriculture, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 304

An ACT directing the governor to hire not more than fifty nor less than twenty-five convicts to president Upper Appomattox canal company.

Prisons, Forced labor, Labor, Public officers

Chapter 305

An ACT for the relief of George Ben Johnston, of Wash-ington county.

Gambling, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 306

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Norfolk county, to make an allowance to the clerk of the circuit court of said county, from the treasury thereof, for services rendered by him.

Public officers

Chapter 307

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Lutheran church and congregation at Staunton, to execute a deed of trust upon their parsonage.

Religious Institutions, Debt, Property

Chapter 308

An ACT to authorize the International steamship company to recocd iertygayges and deeds of trust under certain condi-

Business, Debt, Property, Taxation

Chapter 309

An ACT to anthorize the Board of Supervisors of Alexandria county to increase the salary of the county judge of Alexandria county.

Salaries

Chapter 310

An ACT to incorporate a society called the True Friends of Charity, in the town of Danville.

Charity, Cemeteries, Healthcare, Incorporation, Noncitizens

Chapter 311

An ACT prescribing the compensation to commissioners of the revenue and treasurers, for services under the act imposing a tax, and prescribing the mode of collecting the same, on the privilege of selling wine, ardent spirits, or malt liquors, within the limits of the commonwealth, for the support of the government, and to pay the interest on the public debt

Alcohol, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 312

An ACT to correct the erroneous assessment of a tract of land in Halifax county belonging to Alexander Bruce.

Property

Chapter 313

An ACT to authorize the directors of the Baldwin Augusta county fair to borrow money.

Amusement, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 314

An ACT to prohibit and prevent the officers and agents of corporations from becoming contractors with the said corporations.

Business, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 315

An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1876-77.

Budget, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Civil Rights, Education, Salaries, Transportation, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 316

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.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 317

An ACT to provide for the working of roads and repairing bridges in the county of Rappahannock.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters, Labor

Chapter 318

JOINT RESOLUTION directing the attorney-general to appear as counsel for certain parties who were officers of the state in April, 1865, in a suit instituted against them in the United States district court.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 319

JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Roanoke navigation company to report certain information to the next general assembly.

Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 320

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the attorney-general to proceed aguinst commissioners of sinking fund for the defalcation in 1873-74.

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 321

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the auditor of public accounts to assess the real and personal property of the Richmond and Petersburg railroad company for taxation.

Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 322

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to appoint seven commissioners to the Exposition Universelle, at Paris, France, to be held in 1878.

Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 323

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of immigration to distribute the Geographical and Political Summary of Virginia, published by said board.

Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Education

Chapter 324

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of public works to take proper steps to protect the interest of the state in the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 325

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6, chapter. 100, of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1873, in relation to unlawful fishing.

Fishing

Chapter 326

An ACT to amend and re-enact the sixty-eighth section of chapter thirty-four of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved the thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, in relation to the deposit of securities to be made by foreign insurance companies as a prerequisite to obtaining license.

Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 327

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 32d section of the 36th chapter of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1873, in relation to selling bonds belonging to insurance companies failing to pay their liabilities.

Bonds, Judicial

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad company

Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 329

An ACT securing to married women, on conditions, all property acquired by them before or after marriage.

Marriage, Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 330

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to prescribe the times for holding the courts of the fourth judicial circuit

Judicial

Chapter 331

An ACT to confirm the purchase by the town of Charlottesville of the property, corporate franchises and privileges of the Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company; to authorize the corporate authorities of said town to negotiate a loan to carry into effect said purchase; to validate the bonds which have been or may be issued for that purpose; and to vest in the town all the rights, privileges and franchises which by act of assembly passed March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, were conferred upon the Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company.

Business, Bonds, Utilities

Chapter 332

An act to confirm the acts of G. A. Perdicaris and others, acting as an incorporated company under the name and style of The Charlottesville and University Gas-Light Company.

Incorporation, Business

Chapter 333

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23 of the act approved March 28th, 1871, providing a new charter for the town of Charlottesville.

Amendments, Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 334

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 18, chapter 3. and section 2, chapter 4 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March 11, 1875, relative to appointment of city engineer, and taxation on city bonds.

Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 335

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia quarrying company

Business, Incorporation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 336

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and North Carolina railroad company.

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 337

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 174, Code of 1873, so us to lessen expenses of advertising property in judicial sales, by authorizing the court to control the manner and cost of advertising.

Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 338

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-two, chapter one hundred and eighty-one of Acts eighteen hundred and seventy-four and seventy-five, entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, approved March twentieth, cighteen hundred and seventy-five, so as to provide for garnisheeing road tines.

Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Labor, Judicial

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 11 and 12 of an act approved March 8, 1877, entitled an act to Incorporate the town of North Danville.

Municipal charters, Judicial, Property

Chapter 340

An ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 56 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1873, imposing restrictions upon incorporated companies.

Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 341

An ACT for the formation of the New river mining and manufacturing company.

Business, Industry, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 342

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.

Agriculture

Chapter 343

An ACT requesting the governor to appoint two inspecturs of tobacco for the public warehouse in the city of Richmond.

Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 344

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 15th section of an act entitled an act to prescribe the times for holding the terms of the circuit courts of this commonwealth, and to repeal the 15th section of the 155th chapter of the Code of 1873, which authorizes the judges ef said courts to fix said terms, approved March 27, 1874, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1876, with reference to the times of holding circuit courts in the 15th judicial circuit.

Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 345

An ACT to amend certain sections of the act to authorize the formation of the New river railroad mining and manufacturing company, as amended by acts approved 2d April, 18738, and 15th March, 1875; and to change the name of the said company to that of the New river railroad company.

Transportation, Business, Bonds, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend the charter of the Citizens’ bank,

Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 347

An ACT to authorize the Walker Light Guard, a volunteer company of the city of Richmond, to adopt a uniform for company purposes, in addition to that prescribed by law.

Armed forces, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 348

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Buckingham, Rockbridge, Smyth and Pulaski

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 349

An ACT to amend the 15th section of chapter 38 of the Code of 1878, in relation to returning lists of sales of delinquent lands.

Property, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 350

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Prince William county, in their discretion, to release Crawford Cushing, W. E. Goodwin, and W. W. Kincheloe, sureties, from the payment of delinquent township taxes, after all township dues are paid.

Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 351

An ACT to provide for paying to Wilson Mealy, of Fluvanna, part of a fine imposed by the county court of said county.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 352

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Broad creek toll-bridge and turnpike road company

Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 353

An ACT in regard to the duties and salary of the attorney-general

Amendments, Lawyers, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to amend the act to incorporate the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union, passed March 19, 1858, and to add an additional section thereto.

Amendments, Incorporation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 355

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 57 of an act approved March 20, 1874, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Manchester.

Debt, Taxation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 356

An ACT for the relief of D. B. Wood

Debt, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act to amend section 5, chapter J14, Code of 1873, with reference to recordation of deeds

Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 358

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Jonathan Lodge, 1,434, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, of the village of Hampton.

Charity, Incorporation, Wards, Death and burial, Children -- Institutional care, Religious Institutions

Chapter 359

An ACT to submit the question of repealing the fence law to the voters of Brentsville and Manassas districts in Prince William county.

Fence Laws, Voting

Chapter 361

An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier White sulphur springs company

Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Recreation

Chapter 362

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 4th and 9th sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Brock’s gap, Hardy and Hampshire railroad company, approved March 31, 1873, and first section of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled un act to incorporate the Brock’s Gap, Hardy and Hampshire railroad company, approved March 31, 1873, and to change its name, approved April 2, 1874.

Incorporation, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 363

An ACT for the working and keeping in order the public roads in Alexandria county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 560

An ACT to provide for keeping in repair partition fences

Fence Laws, Agriculture