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1881/1882

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Chapter 237

An ACT to empower the court of Norfolk county to grant to the owner or owners of marsh lands the right to drain the same.

Agriculture

Chapter 238

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Press Association

Business, Incorporation

Chapter 239

An ACT to increase the compensation of the Sheriff of Norfolk county.

Law Enforcement, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 240

An ACT to incorporate the Labor Association of Lynchburg, Virginia.

Labor, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 241

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Bethel Presbyterian Church, in Washington county, to sell and convey certain real estate.

Religious Institutions, Public expenditures, Transportation, Business

Chapter 244

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the board of supervisors of Surry, to make a special allowance to Judge Arnold for holding three terms of the County Court of Surry.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 245

An AOT authorizing and directing the directors of the Central Lunatic Asylum to contract for the erection, near the city of Petersburg, of suitable buildings for the accommodation of the colored insane of the state.

Healthcare, Civil Rights, Equality before the law

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act authorizing and directing the directors of the Central Lunatic Asylum to contract for the erection, near the city of Petersburg, of suitable buildings for the accommodation of the colored insane of the State.

Amendments, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures, Civil Rights

Chapter 247

An ACT declaring certain grounds under the water, known as Hampton Flats, open and eligible for the planting of oysters.

Agriculture, Fishing, Taxation

Chapter 248

An ACT to incorporate the Tagus Mill and Mining Company of Virginia.

Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 249

An ACT to incorporate the Iron Belt Land, Mining, and Development Company, of Virginia.

Business, Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 250

An ACT requiring the judges of Nottoway and Amelia counties to submit the question of fence law to the voters of said counties.

Fence Laws, Voting, Agriculture, Public officers

Chapter 251

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one, four, six, and seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge Railroad Company, approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 252

An ACT to amend the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth sections of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse Company, approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty.

Amendments, Transportation, Municipal charters, Voting, Property, Public officers

Chapter 255

An ACT to amend section 4 of chapter 100 of the Code, in relation to catching fish for the purpose of manufacturing the same into oil or manure.

Fishing, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 256

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the roads of the counties of Churles City and New Kent, and repeal sections 21 and 22 of chapter 181, «f an act entitled an act to provide for working and kerping in order the roads of this commonwealth,

Taxation

Chapter 257

An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company to ext-nd the water-works dam at Lynchburg, and to condemn such lands as may be necessary to enable it to do so

Utilities, Transportation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 258

An ACT to incorporate the Great Natural Bridge and Tunnel Company.

Incorporation, Business, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 259

An ACT requiring the county judges of Norfolk and Dinwiddie counties to submit the question of continuing or repealing the fence law to the voters of the magisterial districts in said counties, upon certain conditions.

Fence Laws

Chapter 260

An ACT to incorporate the Moccasin Manufacturing Company.

Incorporation, Industry, Business, Taxation

Chapter 261

An ACT to incorporate the Farmville and Staunton River Railroad Company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 262

An ACT to incorporate Cedar Bluff High School.

Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Budget, Amendments

Chapter 263

An ACT to incorporate the New River and Southwest Virginia Mining and Manufacturing Company.

Industry, Business, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 264

An ACT to pay to the public free schools the money set apart by the constitution and laws for their benefit, and to repeal chapter 248 of Acts of 1877-78, and chapter 177 of Acts of 1878-79.

Education, Budget, Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 265

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Terminal Company.

Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 266

An ACT to incorporate the Normal and Collegiate Institute, and provide for the support of the same.

Education, Civil Rights, Property, Employment and labor

Chapter 267

An ACT to provide for laying out and working roads in Henrico county.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 268

An ACT to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the counties of Bedford and Frederick.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 269

An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Portsmouth, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith.

Municipal charters, Judicial, Public expenditures, Public officers, Debt, Taxation, Employment and labor, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Recreation, Law Enforcement, Wards, Public spaces

Chapter 282

An ACT to authorize the supervisors of Chesterfield county to allow additional compensation for special services to Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 285

An ACT authorizing the sale of Young’s chapel church property, in Grayson county.

Religious Institutions

Chapter 286

An ACT authorizing the county of Pittsylvania to sell its stock in the Virginia Midland Railroad Company.

Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 1838

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections three and six of chapter eighty-two of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three regulating lunatic asylums and the care of insane persons and their estates, and to add additional sections thereto.

Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care