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1878/79

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Chapter 215

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 19 of an act entitled 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.

Taxation, Business, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 216

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake Lodge, No. 1596, Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows, of the village of Hampton.

Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation

Chapter 217

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 28 of the act approved March 26, 1875, prescribing the powers, duties, and compensation of district officers, and to repeal the 47th chapter, and section J of chapter 48 of the Code of 1873.

Amendments, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 218

An ACT to amend sections 7 and 9 of an act approved December 29, 1877, entitled an act to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the Lee Monument Association, approved January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one

Amendments, Monuments and memorials, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 219

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Amelia county to pay counsel employed by them to prosecute certain suits on behalf of the county.

Budget, Civil Rights, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 220

An ACT to refund to John Manders part of a license tax improperly assessed upon and paid by him.

Alcohol, Taxation

Chapter 221

An ACT providing for submitting the question of liquor license or no liquor license to the qualified voters of the several magisterial districts of Alexandria county.

Alcohol

Chapter 222

An ACT for the relief of John F. Lewis and LL. L. Lewis, executors of S. H. Lewis, deceased.

Inheritance and succession, Property, Judicial

Chapter 223

JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the payment of the expenses of the committee appointed to accompany the remains of the late Dr. E. C. Robinson to his home.

Death and burial, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 224

An ACT to authorize the principal of the High School of Jeffersonville, Virginia, to confer certificates of distinction

Education

Chapter 225

An Act to amend and re-enact section 14 of the charter of the city of Danville.

Amendments, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Debt, Transportation

Chapter 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 4th section of an act approved March 12, 1878, in relation to office hours of certain officers and clerks of the state government

Amendments, Salaries, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 227

JOINYT RESOLUTION to provide for the assessment of property for taxation for the year 1879.

Taxation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 228

An Act instructing Attorney-General to defend citizens of Virginia unlawfully molested by Federal courts, and requesting our Representatives in Congress to ask for a committee of investigation on the same subject.

Judicial, Civil Rights, Amendments

Chapter 229

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of the Black Lick Presbyterian church to make sale of certain property belonging to said church

Religious Institutions, Property, Education

Chapter 230

An ACT for the relief of A. W. Houchins, late deputy treasurer of Patrick county

Taxation, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 231

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

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 232

An Act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Portsmouth Insurance Company, passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

Business

Chapter 233

ACT to incorporate the Relief Society of the Poor of the Cumberland Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Norfolk, Virginia, and to provide a home for the same.

Charity, Religious Institutions, Property, Taxation

Chapter 234

An ACT to incorporate the Grand United Order of Sons and Daughters of Zion, of the state of Virginia,

Charity, Public officers, Legislative Amendments, Employment and labor, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 236

An ACT to provide for the use of convict labor on the public grounds of Richmond city

Forced labor, Public expenditures, Labor, Prisons, Reformatories

Chapter 237

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11, chapter 13, of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to the salary of county judges of Norfolk and Henrico

Judicial, Salaries, Amendments

Chapter 238

An ACT to incorporate the town of Columbia, in Flu- Vanna county.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Judicial, Public officers, Jails, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 239

An ACT prohibiting non-residents hunting, shooting, trapping, or netting partridges in the counties of Accomac and Northampton.

Hunting, Noncitizens, Property

Chapter 241

An ACT to authorize BE, A. Jeffreys to erect a wharf upon his land on Chincoteague, in the county of Accomac.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 242

An ACT to incorporate the town of Madison in the county of Amherst.

Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 243

An ACT for the relief of William Chim, of Prinec Wuil-iam county.

Public expenditures, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 244

An ACT to amend section 7 of chapter 81 of the Code of 1878, in reference to the admission of pupils to the asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind.

Amendments, Education, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 245

AN ACT for providing for submitting the question of liquor license or no liquor license to the qualified voters of the town of Glade Spring, in the county of Washington, at the first election for district officers, and at every subsequent election for district officers.

Alcohol, Voting

Chapter 246

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Charlotte to make a levy to pay counsel for services in defending the suit of Stuart, Buchanan & Co.

Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 247

An Act for the relief of Silas D. Martin, of Lee county.

Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 248

An ACT to amend und re-enact section 3 of an act to Incorporate the Wytheville Mining, Manufacturing and Hotel company.

Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 249

An ACT to protect oysters in the bay of Matchapungo and its tributaries.

Budget, Healthcare, Fishing

Chapter 250

An ACT permitting J. W. Bagwell, of the county of Aceodmac, to build a bridge acio~s a branch of Onanrockh creek.

Transportation, Amendments, Industry

Chapter 251

An Act to extend the time for the repeal of the present fence law in the magisterial district of Sappony, in the county of Dinwiddie.

Fence Laws

Chapter 252

An Act to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 105, Code of 1873, in reference to granting divorces.

Divorce, Marriage, Civil Rights, Segregation

Chapter 253

An ACT for the protection of deer in the county of Rocihngham.

Hunting

Chapter 254

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Cedarville Parsonage of Abingdon Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the county of Washington, to borrow money and secure payment of same by deed of trust on the said parsonage property.

Religious Institutions, Charity, Property

Chapter 257

An Act to allow Barnes Brothers, of New Kent, to erect a pier in Chickahominy river, below Binn’s bar.

Property, Public spaces, Religious Institutions, Municipal charters, Amendments, Law Enforcement, Cemeteries, Boundaries

Chapter 259

An ACT to allow Thomas J. Gillespie, treasurer of Buchanan county, until the Ist day of May, 1879, to make return of his delinquent and insolvent lists for the year 1877.

Budget, Public officers

Chapter 260

An ACT to authorize the county court to release G, S. Meem from payment of district road tax in Shenandoah county

Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 261

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Gladeville, In the county of Wise, approved February 24, 1874, with reference to the boundary lines of said corporation.

Incorporation, Boundaries, Municipal charters

Chapter 262

An ACT appropriating the public revenue for the fiscal year 1878-79.

Budget, Public expenditures, Civil Rights, Public officers, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Voting, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Education, Utilities, Public spaces, Death and burial, Cemeteries, Amendments

Chapter 264

An ACT to provide for working and keeping the public roads in order in Prince Edward county.

Public expenditures, Transportation, Employment and labor, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 265

An ACT for working the roads in the counties of Powhatan, Cumberland, and Goochland.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments