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1881/1882

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 233

Chapter 105

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Presbyterian church of Martinsville, Henry county, to sell and purchase property.
Property, Religious Institutions, Armed forces

Chapter 106

An ACT to provide for the election of two Commissioners of the Revenue for the counties of Fluvanna and Stafford.
Public officers

Chapter 107

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections three and eight of an act appropriating the proceeds of the Glebe lands and other property belonging to the parishes of Abingdon, Ware, and Petsworth, in the county of Gloucester, and fur other purposes, passed January 26th, 1814, Session Acts, 1818-14, chapter 56.
Amendments, Charity, Public officers, Utilities, Municipal charters

Chapter 108

to authorize the trustees of Guests river Methodist church, in the county of Wise, to sell their church property and invest the proceeds in a new church.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 109

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved November 5, 1870, entitled an act declaring the Shenandoah river a lawful fence within the county of Clark.
Boundaries, Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 110

An ACT to authorize the Trustees of Lebanon Church in the county of Campbell, to sell and convey certain real estate and invest the proceeds.
Religious Institutions, Property, Business

Chapter 111

An ACT to repeal an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Powhatan.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 112

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prescribe a tence law for the district of Guilford, in the county of Surry
Repeal of legislation, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the supervisors of Bath county to build a turnpike road in said county.
Transportation, Public officers, Religious Institutions

Chapter 114

JOINT RESOLUTION appropriating a certain sum of money to James S. Browning, private secretary to the governor.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 115

An ACT to confirm a deed of conveyance executed by the trustees of Smithfield Baptist church (white), in Smithfield, Virginia.
Education

Chapter 116

An ACT to authorize the Presbyterian church of the town of Lexington to acquire and hold additional land within the limits of the town of Lexingtan, to that now owned by said church and congregation.
Cemeteries, Religious Institutions, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 117

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Berkeley avenue Baptist church, in what is known as Berkeley, in the county of Norfolk, to borrow money and execute one or more deeds of trust to secure the time.
Religious Institutions, Debt, Bonds

Chapter 118

An ACT to authorizo the Holston Valley Gypsum Com-
Business, Public spaces, Education, Municipal charters

Chapter 119

An ACT to provide for the compensation of Special House committee and their clerks appointed by resolution of the House cf Delegates of Virginia, adopted March Yth, 1880.
Budget, Taxation, Property, Business, Public expenditures, Agriculture, Healthcare, Employment and labor, Education, Public officers, Judicial, Cemeteries, Civil Rights, Marriage, Children -- Institutional care, Divorce, Legislative Amendments, Public spaces, Utilities, Labor, Fraternal organizations, Voting

Chapter 120

An ACT authorizing the voters of Roanoke county to vote upon the question of granting license for the sale of liquors therein, or in any magisterial district thereof.
Alcohol, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 121

An ACT requiring the county judge of Brunswick county to submit the question of continuing or repealing the fence law to the voters of Totara and Red Oak magisterial districts in said county, upon certain conditions.
Fence Laws, Voting, Salaries, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 122

An ACT cunfirming the issue of the capital stock of the Norfolk and Western railroad.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral and Gypsum Railroad Company, and to change the name of the said company.
Amendments, Transportation, Business

Chapter 124

An ACT to incorporate Scottsville Wollen Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 125

An ACT to incorporate the Washington-Virginia mining and manufacturing company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 126

An ACT to provide commutation to such maimed soldiers, sailors, and marines, in lieu of artificial limbs or eyes, or otherwise disabled, as may not heretofore have received the same under the provisions of former acts.
Armed forces, Healthcare, Charity, Civil Rights, Incorporation, Death and burial

Chapter 128

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk Knitting and Cotton Manufacturing company, approved March 8d, 1880, and to re-enact sections six and ten of said act.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 129

An ACT to incorporate the Sons and Daughters of Joshua, No. 1, of Norfolk, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 132

An ACT to incorporate Mount Calvary Lodge, No. 73, Independent Order of Good Samaritans, of Berkeley, Norfolk county, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Death and burial

Chapter 140

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, of an act enti-
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 141

An ACT to allow T. D. Arundall, deputy treasurer of Meadsville and Staunton districts, Halifax county, additional time to make returns of delinquent taxes.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 142

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Lodge, number eleven, Knights of Pythias, of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 143

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, four, and six of an act entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Warren, approved February 27, 1880.
Agriculture, Property, Taxation, Education, Wildlife

Chapter 144

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Amherst and Nelson counties.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Industry

Chapter 146

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the terms of the eighth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Property, Religious Institutions, Amendments

Chapter 148

An ACT to enable the trustees.of Methodist parsonage of Green circuit to sell and convey the same.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 149

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two, five, six, seven, and eight of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 150

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections five, six, and seven of an act for the protection of sheep in the counties of Clarke, Frederick and Charlotte, approved March 6, 1874, as to the county of Clarke.
Agriculture

Chapter 151

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections nine, twenty-one, and twenty-two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mutual Benefit Association, of Virginia, approved February 27, 1880.
Amendments, Bonds, Death and burial, Charity

Chapter 152

An ACT to incorporate the East End Beneficial and Social Society of the city of Richmond.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 155

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Annie F. Hughes
Property, Taxation

Chapter 156

An ACT amending chapter 271, Acts 1879-80, incorporating the town of Middletown, of the county of Frederick.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 157

An ACT to allow Abel A. Lake to erect a wharf at Franklin city, in Accomac county, on Chincoteague bay, for the purpose of shipping oysters.
Transportation, Industry, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 158

An ACT to incorporate the Gladeville college, in the county of Wise, and to constitute the territory for three miles around said college a sub-school district.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation, Business

Chapter 162

An ACT to tax Telegraph companies for county and schoo!
Taxation, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 163

An ACT to make Otter river, in the county of Campbell, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Chatham.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Education, Taxation, Charity, Slavery, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 166

An ACT to amend and re-enact section nineteen, chapter eighty-four, of the Code of 1873, in relation to public health.
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 167

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Gloucester Steamboat Company.
Incorporation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend and re-enact section ten of chapter one hundred and eighty-three, Session Acts, 1877-8, in regard to the pay of county judges.
Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 169

An ACT to incorporate the Bar.k of Buchanan.
Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 170

JOINT RESOLUTION for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the disaster at Midlothian coal mines, and provide for the better protection of miners.
Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 171

An ACT to incorporate the Buckingham Mining and Water Company.
Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 173

An ACT to incorporate the Narrows Bridge and Ferry Company.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 174

An ACT in relation to the sale of certain church property
Religious Institutions

Chapter 175

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Carolina Turnpike Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Prisons

Chapter 177

An ACT for the relief of P. T. Johnson.
Bonds, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 178

An ACT to incorporate the Blue Ridge Mining Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 179

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and West Virginia Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 180

An ACT to incorporate the Silver Star Society of Sussex county.
Charity, Death and burial, Dead bodies (Law), Cemeteries, Amendments

Chapter 181

An ACT to provide for the relinquishment to the United States of title to, and jurisdiction over a space within limits, to be determined by accurate survey, between certain latitude and longitude, for the purpose of establishing a quarantine hospital, and erecting a building for the temporary storage of the cargoes of infected vessels.
Healthcare, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters, Budget, Industry

Chapter 182

An ACT to authorize the Methodist Episcopal church, south, of the city of Fredericksburg, to raise moncy for improving and repairing church property.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Property, Bonds

Chapter 183

An ACT to authorize the county of Elizabeth City to procure and grant the right of way for a railroad through said county from Newport News to the centre of the chunnel of Mill creek.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 184

An ACT to incorporate the Arcadia Iron Works Company.
Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 186

An ACT to authorize the East River Railroad Company, of West Virginia, and its successors to extend and operate part or parts of its line in the state of Virginia, to unite, connect, and consolidate with other companies and to borruw money.
Transportation, Boundaries, Property, Fishing

Chapter 187

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Wesleyan Female Institute, at Staunton, Virginia, to borrow money and secure the same by mortgage or otherwise.
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 188

An ACT to provide for the purchase of corn by the supervisors of Patrick and Franklin counties.
Agriculture, Bonds, Budget, Property, Transportation, Fence Laws

Chapter 189

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States of certain real estate in the county of Norfolk, and exempting the same from taxation.
Taxation

Chapter 190

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 81 of chapter 188, Code of 1873, in relation to the return upon writs of fleri facias.
Amendments, Debt, Judicial

Chapter 191

An ACT to incorporate the Nansemond and Isle of Wight Draw-Bridge Company.
Business, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 192

An ACT to authorize the stockholders of the Richmond and West Point Terminul Railway and Warehouse Company, to change its name to the Richmond, Danville, and Southern Railway Company.
Industry

Chapter 194

An ACT to presrrvo the endowments of the colleges and other literary institutions of this state, where they are held in the obligations of the stute.
Education, Public expenditures, Bonds, Charity

Chapter 195

An ACT to incorporate the Alleghany Extension Railroad Company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 196

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Street Railway Company and to make valid the acts of said company, under a charter heretofore granted to it by the circuit judge of the city of Lynchburg.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twenty-one of chapter one hundred and eighty-one of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four-seventy-five, and to amend and re-enact section ten of chapter fifty-five of the Acts of cighteen hundred and seventy-eight-seventy-nine, in relation to working public roads and keeping the same in repair, &c., so far as the same relates to certain counties.
Transportation

Chapter 198

An ACT to incorporate the Pilgrim Travelers’ Society.
Charity, Public officers, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 199

An ACT authorizing the voters of Dinwiddie county to vote for a fence law by magisterial district.
Fence Laws, Education, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT concerning the surveyor’s office, and prescribing
Public officers, Property, Judicial

Chapter 201

An ACT directing the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute to be vacated and the appointment of a new board.
Armed forces, Education, Public officers

Chapter 202

An ACT to constitute the town of Abingdon, and a certain portion of the surrounding country, a separate school district.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 203

An ACT providing for submission to the people of the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Virginia in reference to the elective franchise and qualifications to office.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Voting, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 205

An ACT creating a Board of Harbor Commissioners of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and for the preservation of the harbor of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 206

An ACT for the relief of William E. Jacob, late treasurer of Accomac county.
Taxation

Chapter 207

An ACT for the relief of William H. Bluxom, late treasurer of Accomac county.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 208

An ACT for the relief of John H. Cassin and others.
Property, Judicial, Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 210

An ACT to amend and re-enact the thirteenth section of chapter thirty-two of the Code of Virginia of 1873, relating to the assessment of lands and lots.
Property

Chapter 211

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia State Beneficial and Social Society.
Charity, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 212

An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Liberty, in the county of Bedford, to borrow money.
Bonds, Taxation, Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 214

An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Boards of Supervisors in this state.
Public expenditures, Healthcare, Charity

Chapter 215

An ACT for the relief of Edwin S. Brent, late clerk of the circuit court of Frederick county.
Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 216

An ACT to incorporate the James River and Blackwater Railroad and Lumber Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 217

An ACT authorizing the county judge of Isle of Wight to make an allowance for George M. Waddill.
Lawyers, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 218

An ACT to renew the charter of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company.
Business, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 219

An ACT tu amend and re-enact the seventh section of the Revised Criminal Code, approved March 14, 1878, to prevent the carrying of cuncealed weapons.
Armed forces, Taxation

Chapter 221

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one, chapter 106, Acts 1879-80, taxing railroads in certain cases fur county and school
Taxation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved March 12, 1878, entitled an act to amend and re-enact certain sections of the Code of 1873, and certuin Acts of Assembly, amendatory thereof, and other Acts of Assembly, in relation to the salaries of certain officers of the government and their employees; compensation of members and officers of the General Assembly, mileage and other allowances; to detine the salaries of certain officers; und to repeal chapter 153 of the Acts of 1874, and section 27 of chapter 16; and sections 2, 4, and 6 of chapter 161; and sections 5, 16, and 24 of chapter 18 of the Code of 18738, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict.
Salaries, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 223

An ACT to prevent the catching of oysters at night or on Sunday.
Fishing

Chapter 224

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections five of chapter one hundred, Code of Virginia, 1873, in relation to fishing for ale-wives.
Fishing

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact section eleven of an act approved fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in relation to public roads in Amherst and Nelson counties.
Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 227

An ACT for making or repairing division fences between coterminous land owners in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Highland, Rockbridge, Loudoun, and Frederick.
Fence Laws, Property, Business

Chapter 230

An ACT to protect Jand owners in making advances to tenants.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 231

An ACT to authorize L. B. Porterfield and others, surviving trustees, to sell certain property.
Property, Education, Charity

Chapter 233

An ACT to limit the compensation of supervisors of the county of Chesterfield to twenty days in any one year.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 234

An ACT to authorize the erection of a pier, or wharf, at or near the mouth of Lyon’s creek, in the county of Isle of Wight.
Industry, Transportation, Property
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