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1881/1882

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Coal and Iron Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Property, Taxation

Chapter 2

An ACT confirming to John C. Olinger, and those claiming under him, the title to a certain tract of Jand purchased at a tax sale.
Property, Taxation, Utilities, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 3

An ACT providing for holding the term of a court by the judge of another court, the incumbent dying before the term is completed.
Judicial, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 4

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Martha Washington College to borrow money.
Education, Business, Industry, Armed forces, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 6

JOINT RESOLUTION for the appointment of a joint committee of the general aseembiy of Virginia to confer with a like committee of the fe islature of Maryland, in reference to the boun-<br />dary line along the Potomac river, &c.
Boundaries, Taxation, Public officers, Fishing

Chapter 7

An ACT to prevent frauds upon the commonwealth and the holders of her securities, in the collection and disbursement of revenues.
Bonds, Debt, Taxation, Cemeteries, Employment and labor

Chapter 8

An ACT to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahanock river, at or near the town of Falmouth.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Berryville, in the county of Clarke.
Municipal charters, Property, Religious Institutions

Chapter 10

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Louisa county to borrow a sum of money for certain purposes.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures, Business, Industry, Healthcare, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 11

An ACT to authorize Leigh street Baptist church in the city of Richmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
Religious Institutions, Business, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures, Transportation, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Building and Savings Association.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 13

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Gold Belt Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Transportation

Chapter 14

An ACT to fix the times for holding the terms of the circuit court of Bedford county.
Judicial, Lawyers, Business, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 15

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Pine street Baptist church, of the city of Richmond, to borrow money and execute deeds of trust.
Religious Institutions, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 16

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Goodman’s chapel to sell real estate.
Business, Debt, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 17

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

Chapter 18

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Pine street Baptist church, in the city of Richmond, to sell the church property.
Religious Institutions, Education

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, three, four and six of an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Sewell’s Point railroad company, approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and to change the name of said company.
Business, Transportation, Judicial

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend the first, second, and third sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Saltville and Coal-mine railroad company, and to change the name to the Norfolk and Cincinnati railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Healthcare, Bonds

Chapter 21

An ACT authorizing the payment of certain costs and expenses incurred by the state in the litigation for escheated property in Richmond.
Property, Judicial, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 22

An ACT to authorize trustees of Black Lick Methodist church, south, to sell and convey certain real estate, &c.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 23

An ACT to loan fifty stand of arms and four swords to the principal of the Augusta male academy.
Armed forces

Chapter 24

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections fifty-five and sixty-four of an act entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Norfolk, in force March 16, 1871.
Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Business

Chapter 25

An ACT to incorporate the Lebanon and Buchanan turnpike company.
Transportation, Business, Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 26

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol and Ervinton Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 27

An ACT to incorporate the towns of Buchanan and Pattonsburg, in the county of Botetourt, under the name of the town of
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Civil Rights, Public officers

Chapter 28

An ACT authorizing the city of Norfolk to issue its bonds
Bonds, Budget

Chapter 29

An ACT to incorporate the Henrico Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Fence Laws, Public officers

Chapter 30

An ACT to authorize the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Strasburg, Shenandoah county, Virginia, to borrow money.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled an act to incorpurate the Suffolk Female Institute.
Education, Incorporation, Charity, Cemeteries, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 32

An ACT to incorporate the order of the Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity of Clarke county.
Charity, Healthcare, Cemeteries

Chapter 33

An ACT to ratify and confirm the consolidation of the Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company with the Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio Narrow Gauge Railroad Company, under the name of the Richmond and Louisville Railroad Company, and to increase the capital stock and enlarge the powers of said Richmond and Louisville Railroad Company.
Transportation, Religious Institutions, Business

Chapter 34

An ACT for the relief of William Reynolds from a fine.
Civil Rights, Labor

Chapter 35

An ACT to change the name of the Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow Gauge Railroad Company to South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company, and confer certuin privileges thereon.
Property, Law Enforcement, Business

Chapter 36

An ACT to authorize sale of Methodist parsonage, situate in upper Botetourt.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 37

An ACT to provide for repairing the guvernor’s mansion and appropriating money therefor.
Public expenditures, Religious Institutions, Education

Chapter 38

An ACT to repeal sections 1 and 2, chapter 57, Acts of Assembly, 1877-78, in relation to the sale of cotton in Sussex and Greenesville counties.
Agriculture, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 39

Joint Resolution of Instruction to Senators and Members of Congress from Virginia
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved January 26, 1877, entitled an act to amend section 68 of chapter 78 of the Code of 18738, in regard to admission to the public free schools, approved January 14, 1878.
Education, Property, Civil Rights, Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 41

An ACT to provide for the more efficient collection of the revenue to support government, maintain the public schools, and to pay interest on the public debt.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Business, Industry, Recreation

Chapter 42

An ACT to incorporate the Holston Iron and Steel Company.
Incorporation, Business, Education, Charity

Chapter 43

An ACT to remove the disabilities of W. H. Payne, and others.
Civil Rights, Education, Incorporation

Chapter 44

An ACT to authorize the St. John’s German Evangelical Church to borrow money.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 45

An ACT to incorporate Cobb’s Island Seaside Company.
Incorporation, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 46

An ACT to define the line between the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City, near Newport News.
Boundaries, Education, Public officers

Chapter 47

An ACT for the relief of the administrator of Reese B. Gillespie, deceased.
Inheritance and succession, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 48

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Cotton Compress and Warehouse Company.
Business, Religious Institutions, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 49

An ACT to legalize payments heretofore made by the auditor to the lunatic asylums, and appropriating certain other monies.
Healthcare, Education, Charity

Chapter 50

An ACT to amend the act approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act to incorporate the Gallego Mills Manufacturing Company.
Incorporation, Business, Religious Institutions, Noncitizens

Chapter 51

An ACT allowing S. Bassett French, judge of the hustings or corporation court of Manchester, compensation for helding two terms of the hustings or corpuration court of Alexandria, pending the disability of the judge of said court.
Judicial, Prisons, Employment and labor

Chapter 53

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian church, in the town of Jonesville in the county of Lee, state of Virginia, to make sales of certain property belonging to said church, and for other purposes.
Religious Institutions, Property, Fence Laws

Chapter 54

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Isle of Wight county to borrow money and issue bonds therefor for the pur- of building a bridge over Pagan creek.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 55

An ACT to appropriate a part of the Glebe Fund, in the county of Northampton, to build a Poorhouse in said county.
Charity, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 56

An ACT in reference to fences in Princess Anne county.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Charity, Incorporation, Civil Rights

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Big Lick, approved February 28, 1874, and all acts amendatory thereof.
Incorporation, Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Cemeteries, Property, Business, Healthcare, Alcohol

Chapter 58

AN ACT to incorporate the Colored Masonic Mount Zion Lodge, No. 18, of Staunton.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Cemeteries

Chapter 59

An ACT to authorize Henry N. Price to construct a tramway to Smithfield, in Isle of Wight county, Virginia.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 60

An ACT to refund to Silas J. Lawson, of Halifax, a license tax paid by him.
Alcohol, Business, Transportation

Chapter 61

An ACT authorizing the town of Goodson to issue bonds
Bonds, Taxation, Budget, Public expenditures, Property, Business, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 62

An ACT to establish and define the boundaries of the town of Wytheville.
Boundaries, Incorporation, Business, Budget, Public officers, Transportation, Amendments, Utilities

Chapter 64

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Second Baptist church, known as Byrne Street, in the city of Petersburg to sell and purchase property, and to borrow money.
Religious Institutions, Property, Judicial

Chapter 65

An ACT to empower and authorize the city of Lynchburg to convey property to the United States government for certain purposes.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Transportation, Debt, Taxation, Property

Chapter 66

An ACT to enable the people within the corporate limits of the town of Hillsville, in the county of Carroll, to take the sense of the qualified voters of said town upon the question of repealing the charter of said town.
Municipal charters, Judicial, Amendments, Property, Debt, Prisons, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 67

An ACT to repeal chapter two hundred and twenty-five of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven-eight, in relation to working roads and repairing bridges in the county of Buckingham.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 68

An ACT to incorporate the Big Quarry Slate Company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Charity, Death and burial, Labor, Confederate, Religious Institutions, Public expenditures

Chapter 69

An ACT to incorporate the Vapor Fuel Company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 70

An ACT to establish a Ferry or Bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public officers, Property, Public expenditures, Budget, Judicial, Taxation, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Education, Employment and labor

Chapter 71

An ACT to incorporate the Potomac Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Incorporation

Chapter 72

An ACT to establish a Board of River and Harbor Commissioners for Nansemond river.
Business, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 73

An ACT to incorporate the Estillville Virginia Marble Company.
Business, Property, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 74

An ACT to authorize the voters of Waynesboro and vicinity to decide by popular vote on the propriety of selling intoxicating liquors within certain limits.
Alcohol, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 75

An ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Zion Benevolent Society of Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Monuments and memorials, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT to incorporate. Arbor Hill Grange.
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 77

An ACT ratifying the sale by the Board of Public Works of the claim of the state against the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio railroad.
Transportation, Budget, Property, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 78

JOINT RESOLUTIONS proposing an amendment to the first section, Article 3 of the Cunstitution concerning the elective franchise.
Amendments, Voting, Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 79

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the Attorney-General
Business, Charity, Cemeteries, Municipal charters, Public officers, Property, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Healthcare, Wards, Transportation, Employment and labor, Judicial, Education, Amendments

Chapter 80

An ACT to incorporate the United States Beacon Light and Signal Company.
Incorporation, Bonds, Public expenditures, Business, Transportation

Chapter 81

An ACT for the relief of Ella J. Jones, a person of un- sound mind.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Marriage, Property

Chapter 82

An ACT to authorize the issuing of two new bonds to Mrs. Phebe H. Builey.
Bonds, Amendments, Education, Public officers

Chapter 83

An ACT to incorporate the town of Brentsville, in the county of Prince William.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Debt, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 84

An ACT to incorporate the Botetourt manufacturing company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Property

Chapter 85

An ACT to incorporate the Buckingham Mining and Development Company.
Business, Taxation, Incorporation

Chapter 86

An ACT to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Railroad Company.
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 87

An ACT to change the location of the courthouse of Dickenson county.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Business, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 88

An ACT to authorize the Washington, Cincinnati, and St. Louis railroad company to adopt a standard gauge.
Transportation, Industry, Agriculture, Business

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and eighty-one, Acts of 1874-75, approved March 20, 1875, to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the commonwealth, so far as applicable to the county of Albemarle.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Monuments and memorials, Transportation, Property

Chapter 90

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in Abingdon, to sell and convey certain property.
Taxation, Property, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 91

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section nineteen of chapter seven of the Code of Virginia, edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, in relation to vacancies in the office of judge.
Judicial, Business, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 92

An ACT for the relief of the citizens of Carroll county.
Agriculture, Charity, Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 93

An ACT to authorize the Upper Appomattox Company to increase its capital stock.
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 94

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Debt, Property

Chapter 95

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the senators and representatives in congress from Virginia to procure an impost duty levied on foreign sumac.
Agriculture, Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 96

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the purchase of Temple farm and Moore house.
Amusement, Property, Public expenditures, Transportation, Industry, Public spaces

Chapter 97

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Suffolk.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 98

JOINT RESOLUTION returning thanks to certain persons, donors of portraits.
Budget, Boundaries, Taxation, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 99

JOINT RESOLUTION in reference to abolishing the Federal internal revenue tax on manufactured tobacco.
Taxation, Agriculture

Chapter 100

An ACT in relation to the Peninsula Railroad Company.
Transportation, Industry

Chapter 101

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, to sell certain church property on Elk creek, in Grayson county.
Religious Institutions, Property, Charity

Chapter 102

An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one-two, and eighteen hundred and eighty-two-three.
Budget, Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Judicial, Municipal charters, Utilities, Transportation, Civil Rights, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 104

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and congregation at Staunton, to borrow money and to execute deeds of trust.
Religious Institutions
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