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1879/80

Laws in Volume
Displaying 1 - 100 of 296

Chapter 1

An ACT to incorporate the Lovettsville Union Cemetery Company
Cemeteries, Incorporation, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 2

An ACT granting a loan of arms of the state to the principal of Hoover’s Select High School, at Staunton.
Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 3

An ACT in relation to the commissions of the commissioners of the revenue for the county of Loudoun
Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 4

An ACT to authorize the Gordonsville Grays, of Orange county, and the Culpeper Minute-Men, of Culpeper county, and the Norfolk City Guards, to uniform themselves in such manner as they may prescribe.
Armed forces, Amendments

Chapter 5

An ACT fixing the time for holding the circuit courts in the sixteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 6

An ACT to legalize the organization of the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company.
Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 7

An ACT to authorize a change in the site of the terminal station in Richmond of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company.
Transportation

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the congregation Beth Ahaba, of the city of Richmond, to borrow money.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend the fifth section of an act to incorporate the Insurance and Savings Company of Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize the Mutual Building Fund Association of Lychburg to hold real estate and convey the same.
Business, Property

Chapter 11

An ACT to regulate the time of holding circuit the third judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to regulate the time of holding circn of the ninth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 13

An ACT to authorize the Tobacco City Building Fund Association, of Lynchburg, to hold real estate and convey the same.
Business, Property, Debt

Chapter 14

An ACT appointing certain trustees to sell and convey the old site of the Buck-Mountain church in Albemarle county.
Religious Institutions, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 15

An ACT to incorporate the Following Sons of Abraham Society
Charity, Civil Rights, Incorporation, Death and burial

Chapter 16

An ACT to authorize the judge of the eleventh circuit to hold special terms of the courts in his circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 17

An Act appropriating fifteen hundred dollars to enable the governor to enforce the oyster laws in the waters of the Rappahannock river.
Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 18

An Act to amend the charter of the Richmond and Mecklenburg railroad company
Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 19

An ACT to provide for the continued use of convict labor by the James River and Kanawha Company.
Transportation, Prisons, Labor

Chapter 20

An ACT to prescribe the manner of summoning jurors in certain cases where a city, town or county shall be a party.
Judicial

Chapter 21

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the auditor of public accounts to borrow money to pay arrearages to lunatic asylums and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution, &e.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 22

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 8 of an act approved January 11, 1877, enlarging the powers of the Royal Land Company so as to secure a connection for its railroad with the city of Richmond and otherwise to enlarge its powers.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 24

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina Mining and Transportation Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds, Business

Chapter 25

An ACT to incorporate the Mount Vernon Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 26

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Angora Company.
Business, Agriculture

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend the charter of the city of Staunton.
Amendments, Business, Law Enforcement, Property, Taxation

Chapter 28

An ACT to incorporate the Teachers’ Mutual Life Assurance Association of Virginia.
Education, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 29

An ACT to incorporate the True Issue Publishing Company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act to provide a charter for the town of Front Royal, approved November Ist, 1870.
Amendments, Business, Alcohol, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 31

An ACT to authorize and empower Preston Lodge, No. 47, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jonesville, Lee county, to sell and convey certain real estate.
Fraternal organizations, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 32

An ACT to authorize Smithfield Lodge of Independent Order of Odd-Fellows to borrow money.
Fraternal organizations, Bonds, Business

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize James II. Fletcher to erect a wharf on his lands on Pokomoke river in the county of Accomac.
Property, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company.
Business, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 35

An ACT to fix the time for holding the terms of the circuit court of Campbell county.
Judicial

Chapter 36

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Court Street Baptist church, of the city of Lynchburg, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 37

JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the destruction of certain unissued bonds of the commonwealth now in the treasury.
Bonds

Chapter 38

An ACT incorporating the trustees of Oak Hill Academy
Education, Incorporation, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 39

An ACT to make valid and authorize the re-execution of a lost lease made by the trustees of the Presbyterian church of Scottsville.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 40

An ACT to change the time of holding circuit courts in Essex county.
Judicial

Chapter 41

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake and Idaho Gold and Silver Mining Company
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 42

An ACT for the sale and reinvestment of church property and the appointment of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church for Mount Tabor church, in Montgomery county.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 43

An ACT for the relief of A. M. Pierce from the payment of a tine and costs of same.
Business, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 44

An ACT providing for the transfer of the Anandale church property, in the county of Fairfax.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 45

An ACT granting a loan of arms of the state to the principal of Locust Dale Academy, in Madison county, Virginia.
Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 46

An ACT for the relief of John Milliner, administrator of Robert Milliner, deceased.
Property, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 47

An ACT requiring the attorney-general to institute the necessary proceedings in the proper court to ascertain whether the charter of the Arlington Turnpike Company has been forfeited, and repeal a joint resolution upon the same subject, approved March 1879.
Transportation, Repeal of legislation, Public officers

Chapter 48

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Clarke county to borrow money.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 49

An ACT to authorize the Potomac and Ohio railroad company to record mortgages and deeds of trust under certain conditions.
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 50

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the governor to place at the disposal of the civil authorities of Lancaster, Middlesex and Mathews counties arms and ammunition for the enforcement of the oyster laws.
Armed forces, Fishing, Public officers, Property

Chapter 51

An ACT to authorize the judge of the eleventh circuit to hold special terms of the courts in his circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 52

An ACT to repeal an act.
Hunting

Chapter 53

An ACT for the relief of J. F. Tompkins, of Rockbridge county, from an erroneous assessment of his lands for the years 1874 and 1875.
Property

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 115 of the Code of 1873 as amended by an act approved March 31st, 1875, and as further amended by an act approved February 1st, 1879, relating to mechanics’ liens.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 55

An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the James River and Kanawha Company and the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway Company.
Industry, Transportation

Chapter 56

An ACT prescribing the times for holding the courts of the eighteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 57

An ACT to incorporate Cross Keys Lodge, No. 51, Independent Order Good Templars.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 58

An ACT to incorporate the Mineral Land Company of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Bonds

Chapter 59

An ACT to incorporate the Staunton and West Augusta Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 60

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Library Association.
Libraries

Chapter 61

An ACT to establish the Southern Bible and Book Association, of Richmond, Virginia.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Education

Chapter 62

An ACT to incorporate Burwell Lodge, No. 18, of the Independent Order of Good Samaritans, of the city of Manchester.
Charity, Incorporation, Civil Rights

Chapter 63

An ACT to incorporate the Christian Brotherhood, of Norfolk, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 64

An ACT for the protection of dairymen and to prevent deception in the sale of butter and cheese.
Agriculture, Business

Chapter 65

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the New Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran church near Lovettsville, in the county of Loudoun.
Religious Institutions, Incorporation

Chapter 66

An ACT to release Charles IT. Steele from the payment of a fine.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 67

An ACT to allow commutation to John E. Young, of Dinwiddie county, for artificial limb.
Amendments, Armed forces, Healthcare

Chapter 68

An ACT for the relief of Hamilton Shields, of Petersburg, from payment of a fine.
Amendments, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 69

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Council of the Grand Ancient Order of Sons and Daughters, Brothers and Sisters of Moses in the state of Virginia.
Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Death and burial, Public officers, Religious Institutions

Chapter 70

An ACT to incorporate Freedom Lodge, No. 199, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, of the town of Lovettsville, in the county of Loudoun.
Fraternal organizations, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1, chapter 65 of the Code of 1873, in relation to telegraph companies.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 72

An ACT to extend the time for collection of taxes in the county of Patrick for the years from 1874 to 1879, inclusive.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 73

An ACT for the relief of C. H. Ingles, treasurer of Henry county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of chapter 180 of the Code of 1873. in relation to the fees of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and Clerk of the House of Delegates.
Amendments, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 75

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Sobriety of the State of Virginia.
Fraternal organizations

Chapter 76

An ACT to exempt the counties of Westmoreland and Northumberland from the provisions of the 25th section of chapter 214 of the Acts of 1874, in relation to planting and bedding oysters.
Agriculture

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3 of an act to incorporate the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of chapter 130, Acts of 1878 and ’79, entitled an act to attach the school districts of Dan River, Tunstall and North Danville, in Pittsylvania county, to the city of Danville, for purposes of school supervision.
Education

Chapter 79

An Act to repeal an act approved February 27, 1879, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Goochland county to permit W. B. W. Brooking to erect a store and warehouse on the public land at Cedar Point, in the county of Goochland.
Repeal of legislation, Business

Chapter 80

An ACT to prohibit the pulling down and leaving down of fences in the county of Princess Anne.
Fence Laws, Property, Judicial

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for working the roads of the county of Loudoun, passed 1856, and to repeal certain acts amendatory thereof, approved February 2, 1875, and February 1, 1879.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 82

AN ACT to provide for submitting the question of liquor licenses or no liquor licenses to the qualified voters of Loudoun county and to the qualified voters of each magisterial district in said county.
Alcohol, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 83

An ACT to incorporate Ever True Division, No. 32, Sons of Temperance, of City Point, Prince George county, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Death and burial, Cemeteries, Civil Rights

Chapter 84

An ACT to define the authority of the Council of Portsmouth over the streets and alleys of said city.
Municipal charters, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 85

An ACT authorizing trustees of Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church South to borrow money.
Charity, Debt, Property

Chapter 86

An ACT making an appropriation for the ventilation of the hall of the House of Delegates.
Public expenditures

Chapter 87

JOINT RESOLUTION directing the secretary of the commonwealth to furnish each member of the general assembly with five copies of Hotchkiss’ Geological and Geographical Report.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 88

An ACT to provide more effectually for the control and investment of the Glebe fund of the county of Northampton.
Property, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 89

An ACT to authorize the principal of Turkey Cove High School to confer certificates of distinction.
Education

Chapter 90

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of S. F. G. Beale
Debt, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 91

An ACT to incorporate the Mount Alto Mining and Land Company of Virginia.
Incorporation, Industry, Property, Business

Chapter 92

An ACT to amend an act approved February 3, 1871, entitled an act to authorize the city of Portsmouth to lease out the ends of certain streets.
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 93

An ACT to authorize the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, to organize a separate school district.
Education

Chapter 94

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 14, 1878, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 14 of chapter 36 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the taxes collected by the clerks, notaries public and the secretary of the commonwealth.
Taxation

Chapter 95

JOINT RESOLUTION on the subject of the celebration of the battle of King’s mountain.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 96

JOINT RESOLUTION requesting our senators and representatives in congress to aid the passage of a bill setting apart the proceeds of sales of public lands to aid the cause of education, &c.
Education

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 64 of the Acts of the special session of 1879, entitled an act to regulate the fees of notaries and commissioners in chancery.
Amendments, Lawyers, Public officers

Chapter 98

An ACT for the relief of James H. Noel, of King and Queen county.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 99

An ACT authorizing the conveyance of the state’s Interest in a lot of land in Alexandria county, of which James Hilton died seized, and which has escheated to the commonwealth, to said county for poor-house purposes.
Property, Public expenditures, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 100

An ACT to authorize the board of trustees of Roanoke College to borrow money.
Business, Charity, Healthcare, Public expenditures
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