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1878/79

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 107

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of the county of Augusta to purchase the property of the Baldwin-Augusta Fair,
Amusement

Chapter 108

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 68th section of an act for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c., and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and free schools, and to pay the interest on the public debt
Alcohol, Taxation

Chapter 109

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth water company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 110

An ACT providing for the rebinding books of record.
Public officers, Judicial, Property

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend section 1, chapter 39, Code of 1873 in reference to the price paid for land warrants for waste land.
Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 112

An ACT to incorporate the Central Virginia Mining Company.
Industry, Business, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 113

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth Library Association.
Libraries, Incorporation, Amendments

Chapter 114

An ACT to amend the charter of the Bank of Portsmouth
Business, Amendments, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 115

An ACT to refund to C. M. Adkisson, agent, certain taxes erroneously assessed against and paid by him.
Taxation

Chapter 116

An ACT to authorize the corporation of Farmville to borrow money
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 117

An ACT to provide for the election of four commissioners of the revenue for the county of Fauquier.
Public officers, Amendments, Budget

Chapter 118

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 86 of chapter 49 of the Code of Virginia, edition of 1873, so as to authorize courts, or judges thereof in vacation, or justices of the peace, to order sales of personal property seized under writs of fieri facias or under distress warrant, in cases Where such property is expensive to keep or perishable.
Amendments, Business, Property, Law Enforcement

Chapter 119

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Marble and Mining Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 120

An ACT allowing any person to have his dog listed for taxation, thereby making the same personal property.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 121

An ACT to authorize the Virginia Savings Bank of Lynchburg to establish a special savings department
Business, Bonds

Chapter 122

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax Agricultural and Industrial Association.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 123

An ACT to incorporate the Farmers Mutual Fire Protection Association
Incorporation, Agriculture, Business

Chapter 124

An ACT to incorporate the Lake Drummond Masonic Temple Association of Deep Creek, Norfolk county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 125

An ACT to repeal an act for the protection of fish in Powell’s river.
Fishing

Chapter 126

An ACT providing for the assessment of a tract of land belonging to Henry A. Goodloe, of Rockbridge county, and for refunding taxes erroneously assessed thereon.
Property, Taxation, Agriculture

Chapter 128

An ACT declaring the James river to condemnation line
Property, Agriculture

Chapter 129

An Act to empower the board of supervisors of Augusta county to levy a tax in aid of the Augusta Memorial Association for the Confederate dead
Confederate, Death and burial, Cemeteries, Public expenditures

Chapter 130

An Act to provide for the erection of suitable shoots for the passage of fish by the owners of mill-dams across the North Brauch of the Shenandoah river
Fishing, Public expenditures, Agriculture

Chapter 131

An ACT to declare a portion of Rockfish river, between Nelson and Albemarle counties, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 132

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the government of the United States of land in Alexandria county for the abutment of and the necessary approaches to the bridge proposed to be constructed across the Potomac river at or near the Three Sisters’ island, and the building of such abutment and approaches upon such land, and ceding jurisdiction over the same.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 133

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to regulate the working of the public roads in the counties of Prince William, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and Lancaster.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 134

An ACT for the better protection of game in Alexandria and Fairfax counties.
Hunting, Wildlife, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 135

An ACT to provide for the registration of the voters of the counties of Lee and Buchanan.
Voting

Chapter 136

An ACT to allow H. C, Hudson, treasurer of Halifax county, extension of time to make his returns of delinquents and insolvents in the revenue for 1877.
Public officers, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 137

An ACT to incorporate and establish the Craig Agricultural and Mechanical Association
Agriculture, Business, Charity, Property, Religious Institutions, Debt

Chapter 138

An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Dublin
Business, Public expenditures, Incorporation

Chapter 139

An ACT to authorize the James River and Kanawha Company to make sale and transfer of all its works, property, and franchises to the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company, and to define the powers and duties of the Board of Public Works in respect thereto.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 23, chapter 97, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relating to repeal of fence law in counties that have adopted it, so far as said section applies to the county of Greensville.
Fence Laws, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 141

An ACT to authorize the city of Alexandria to compromise the debt of the city, and to issue bonds in accordance with the terms of such compromise, and prescribing the mode in which the payment of interest On such bonds may be enforced
Debt, Bonds, Budget, Taxation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 142

An ACT to authorize the erection of a pier or wharf on Lyon’s creek, in the county of Isle of Wight.
Transportation, Business, Public spaces

Chapter 143

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to extend the limits of and provide for electing trustees for the town of Marion, in the county of Smyth, investing them with certain corporate powers
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 144

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Portsmouth
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Bonds, Property

Chapter 145

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of S. F. G. Beale, late treasurer of Fauquier county.
Bonds

Chapter 146

An ACT to amend the first section of an act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 15, 1849, entitled an act to extend the limits and provide for electing trustees for the town of Marion, ta the county of Smyth, investing them with ceftain corporate powers.
Amendments, Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Marion with reference to the election, duties, and powers of councilmen, by adding an additional section thereto.
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 148

An ACT to incorporate the town of Bangs, in Montgomery county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Masonic Mutual Life Assurance Association of Norfolk, Virginia, approved February 26, 1876, and to change the name of said Association.
Amendments, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation

Chapter 150

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Goochland county to permit W. B. W. Brooklug to erect a store and warehouse on the public land at Cedar Point, in the county of Goochland.
Business, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 151

An ACT to incorporate the town of Waverly, in the county of Sussex
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 152

An Act for the relief of Emma A. Hodges, of the city of Portsmouth.
Property

Chapter 153

An ACT to empower the trustees of the Columbia Baptist church, in the town of Falls Chureh, in the county of Fairfax, to seli and convey church property.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 154

An ACT to amend and re-cnaect section 1 of an act ap-
Amendments, Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 155

Unclassified

Chapter 156

An ACT for the protection of fish in certain waters of the commonwealth.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 3d, 4th, ith, aud 6th sections of an act entitled an act to inesrporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 30, 1875.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Public officers, Property

Chapter 158

An ACT to incorporte the Masonie Building Association
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 159

An ACT authorizing the trustees of Bethel Methodist Episcopal Chureh, South, in Westinoreland counts, to sell and pur- chase church property.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 160

An ACT for the relief of Richard Crenshaw and C. Pate, of Bedford county, Virginia
Charity, Healthcare, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 161

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth Water Company
Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 162

An ACT to authorize the Pulaski and Giles Turnpike Company to change the grade of their road.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures, Incorporation

Chapter 164

An ACT to change the times for holding cireuit courts in the fourth judicial cireuit.
Judicial

Chapter 165

An ACT to incorporate the Sons and Daughters of Canaan, of the city of Alexandria, Virginia.
Incorporation, Death and burial, Charity, Cemeteries

Chapter 166

An Act to incorporate the Norfolk and Ocean View Railroad and Hotel Company
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 167

An ACT for the removal of the disabilities of James Barbour, of Culpeper, and others.
Civil Rights, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act approved March 25, 1872, declaring certain streams in Charlotte county to be highways, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1878.
Transportation

Chapter 169

An ACT allowing further time to A. J. Farish, treasurer of Albemarle county, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for 1877.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 170

An Act for the appointment of commissioners, engineers, and surveyors to complete the boundary line between the States of Virginia and West Virginia, and to defray the expenses thereof.
Boundaries

Chapter 171

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 172

AN ACT to amend and re-enact the 7th section of chapter 212 of the Aets of 1876-77, for the protection of fish In the waters of the Commonwealth above Tidewater.
Fishing, Amendments, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 173

An Act instructing the Board of Public Works to enquire into the alleged contract heretofore existing between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the Potomac Steamboat Company, and to take such action as may be necessary to protect the State’s interest in said railroad company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 174

An ACT to furnish convict labor to work on the public roads of Wythe county.
Labor, Prisons, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 175

An ACT to refund to Edward Cannon a license tax.
Taxation

Chapter 176

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 8 of chapter 156 of the Code of 1873, in relation to business done in the Court of Appeals at Wytheville and Richmond
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 177

An ACT to secure to the Public Free Schools the money set apart by the constitution and laws for their benefit.
Education

Chapter 178

An ACT in relation to the records of Alexandria county.
Property, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact the Ist section of an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Berkley Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 180

An ACT for the relief of Joseph A. Carr, of Loudoun county.
Property, Religious Institutions, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 182

An ACT for the protection of the institutions of the State, public trusts and funds.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Charity, Judicial

Chapter 183

AN ACT to amend and re-enact the 3d section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Company
Amendments, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 184

An ACT to authorize the county court of Giles county to exempt residents of the town of Newport from working on the public roads outside of said town.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 186

An ACT for the relief of Callohill M. Weegenton, Abram Staples, Wiliua C, Smart, and Sanders Bowman, of Patrick county.
Civil Rights, Judicial, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 187

An ACT to refund to Thomas I. Gravatt, of Caroline county, a license tax.
Alcohol, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 188

An ACT to incorporate the North and Southside Virginia Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Wildlife

Chapter 190

An ACT in relation to hauling seines, &e., in the waters
Fishing

Chapter 191

An ACT to incorporate the Young Men’s Independent Social Club, No. 1, of the city of Richmond.
Incorporation, Charity, Civil Rights

Chapter 192

An ACT to refund to Carroll and Beard, citizens of Rockbridge county, Virginia an amount of money improperly paid as taxes
Taxation, Property

Chapter 193

An ACT allowing further time to John H. Chichester, treasurer of Fairfax county, to make his return of delinquents and insolvents for eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 195

An ACT for the relief of James K. Lowry, late collector
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 196

An ACT to authorize the construction of a turnpike road from Fincastle to Blue Ridge Springs, Botetourt county, Virginia.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 197

An ACT providing for submitting the question of liquor license or no liquor license to the qualified voters of Fairfax county at the first election for district officers, and at every subsequent election for district officers.
Alcohol

Chapter 199

An ACT to amend section 12 of an act entitled an act to provide for the division of school districts into sub-districts, and for the appointment of school directors
Education, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 201

An ACT to reduce the commissions of the commissioners of the revenue for the county of Loudoun.
Taxation

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the town of Grundy.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 203

An ACT declaring Meherrin river, North Meherrin river, South Meherrin river, and Middle Meherrin river, respectively, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 204

An ACT to authorize the Odd-Fellows’ Joint Stock Company of Alexandria, Virginia, to borrow money and execute one or more deeds of trust upon its property.
Business, Debt, Property

Chapter 205

An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of Chilton Lodge, Independent Order Good Templars
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 206

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 60th section of chapter 101, Code of 1873, for the protection of tetrapins and terrapin eggs
Amendments, Wildlife, Fishing

Chapter 207

An ACT appropriating one thousand dollars for necessary repairs to the Capitol.
Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 208

An ACT for the relief of A. T. Mooklar, late deputy sheriff of King William county.
Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 209

An ACT to refund to Kirk & Shoemaker state taxes erroneously assessed.
Budget, Business

Chapter 210

An ACT for the relief of W. J. Shumate
Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 211

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12, chapter 115, Code of 1873, in reference to the enforcement of liens on crops.
Agriculture

Chapter 212

An ACT to reassess the lands of R. Shiflett, Mistress E. V. Little, and Mistress Emma Smith
Property

Chapter 213

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the sixteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 214

An ACT providing commutation for D. Vest, of Rockbridge county, and Jesse Couch, of Bedford county, and others, one-legged soldiers who are unable to wear the legs furnished them.
Armed forces, Pensions
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