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1882es

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

JOINT RESOLUTION directing the publication of the Acts of the late and present sessions in one volume.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 2

An ACT to incorporate the Equitable Gas Company of Norfolk city.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 3

An ACT to allow the trustees of the Lutheran church, at Mount Jackson, Shenandoah county, Virginia, to sell a part of a lot belonging to said church and convey title to same.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact section seventeen of chapter two hundred and thirty-eight of the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as amended by an act approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled an act to provide for the organization and government of the volunteer militia of the state, and to repeal existing laws concerning the same.
Amendments, Armed forces

Chapter 5

JOINT RESOLUTION instructing the auditor of public accounts to sell Jand in Alexandria county delinquent for taxes.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 6

An ACT to provide for the election of two commissioners of the revenue for the county of Roanoke.
Public officers, Budget

Chapter 7

An ACT authorizing the governor to appoint inspecting officers of the volunteer militia.
Armed forces

Chapter 8

An ACT to amend and re-enact the second section of an act entitled an uct incorporating Thornrose Cemetery Company, at the town of Staunton, passed February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and to repeal sections eleven and twelve of said act.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 9

An ACT to allow the trustees of the Methodist church at Big Lick to sell property.
Religious Institutions, Property, Amendments

Chapter 10

An ACT to incorporate the Farmville Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Agriculture

Chapter 11

An ACT to incorporate the Powhatan Land, Lumber and Construction Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 12

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

Chapter 13

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Gold Belt Company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 14

An ACT to prevent Attorneys-at-Law, who fail to pay over moneys and valuables received by them, within a given time, from practicing in the courts of the commonwealth.
Lawyers, Judicial, Civil Rights

Chapter 15

An ACT to incorporate the Union cotton mills of Richmond, Virginia.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and three of an act to incorporate the Farmers and Mechanics Benevolent Fire Insurance Association of the counties of Roanoke and Botetourt.
Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 17

An ACT to authorize the Upper Appomattox company to discharge its indebtedness to the commonwealth in bonds of the state.
Debt, Business, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 18

JOINT RESOLUTION vacating the offices of the Visitors of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind institute, at Staunton, Virginia.
Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 19

An ACT to amend and re-enact section four, chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in relation to mandamus, prohibition, &e.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 20

An ACT to authorize the Common Council of tho city of Petersburg to purchase and donate certain lands, and to issue and sell bonds therefor.
Business, Debt, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 21

An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors of Louisa county to allow compensation to Judge J. L. Cochran for holding terms of county court of Louisa, in place of Judge Lune, who was then sick.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Employment and labor, Public expenditures, Taxation, Boundaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 24

An ACT to incorporate the Liberty Perpetual Building and Loan Company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled an act to protect sheep in the county of Augusta, and to repeal an act approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, amending and re-enacting section four of the act aforesaid.
Agriculture, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Wildlife

Chapter 26

An ACT to incorporate the L. O. L. Order of Brotherhood.
Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Civil Rights

Chapter 27

An ACT to incorporate the East-End Pleasure Club.
Charity, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 28

An ACT to incorporate the town of Mineral City, in the county of Wise.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 29

An ACT to extend the time for the repeal of the present fence law in the magisterial district of Belfield, in the county of Greenesville.
Fence Laws

Chapter 30

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

Chapter 31

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Lodge, No. 1440, G. U. Order of Odd Fellows.
Incorporation, Charity, Healthcare, Property

Chapter 32

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

Chapter 33

An ACT to authorize the trustees vf the Baptist church of Danville to sell certain property.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 34

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in order the public roads in the county of Hanover.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Employment and labor

Chapter 35

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of the county of Greene to employ a detective in certain cases.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 36

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

Chapter 37

An ACT to empower the Episcopal church, in the town of Liberty, to hold additional land.
Religious Institutions, Education, Property

Chapter 38

JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for the removal of the statue of Henry Clay from the capitol grounds to the rotunda of the capitol, and to provide fur the preservation of the same.
Monuments and memorials

Chapter 39

An ACT to prescribe the manner in which the Richmond and Louisville railroad company shall pay the tax on its mortgage to secure bonds hereafter to be issued.
Transportation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for making or repairing division fences between co-terminous land owners in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Botetourt, Highland, Rockbridge, Loudoun and Frederick, approved March 6, 1882.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 41

An ACT to prevent the floating of loose logs down the Nottoway and Blackwater rivers by persons engaged in lumber trade.
Industry, Transportation

Chapter 42

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Atlantic school district, in the county of Accomac, to take charge of and invest in a school-house the Piper charity fund, and sell and convey old school.
Education, Charity, Property

Chapter 43

An ACT to incorporate Curry college, in Lee county.
Education, Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 44

An ACT to incorporate Fidelity Division, No. 1, Sons of Temperance, of Richmond, Virginia.
Charity, Healthcare, Property, Amendments

Chapter 45

An ACT to appoint trustees to sell and convey church property known as the Old Mount Zion church, in the county of Appomattox.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 46

An ACT providing for a new Board of Visitors for the University of Virginia.
Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 47

An ACT authorizing the trustees of Bascom chapel, Methodist Episcopal church, South, at Onancock, in the county of Accomac, to sell and convey said church and lot of land on which it is located, and to invest the proceeds.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 48

An ACT to authorize the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in Buckingham county, to sell and convey certain church property.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 49

An ACT to empower the trustees of Liberty Hill schoolhouse and church to sell and convey certain property.
Education, Religious Institutions

Chapter 50

An ACT to incorporate the Board of Foreign Missions of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States of America.
Religious Institutions, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 51

An ACT to provide for the erection of a suitable building for the confinement and employment of the female convicts in the penitentiary.
Prisons, Employment and labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act passed March 3d, 1880, entitled an act authorizing the board of supervisors to determine what amount shall be paid certain county officers.
Amendments, Public officers, Salaries, Budget, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 53

An ACT to declare Little river a lawful fence from its mouth to Alley’s ford in Montgomery county.
Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved April 2, 1870 to district the state tor county judges, approved March 20, 1873.
Judicial

Chapter 55

An ACT to incorporate the Liberal Publishing Company of Norfolk city.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 56

An ACT to incorporate the Star Light Society of Dover district, Goochland county, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 57

An ACT requiring the timber-men of Buchanan county to brand or mark their saw-logs, &c.
Property, Business

Chapter 58

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg Mozart Association
Incorporation, Amusement

Chapter 59

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

Chapter 60

An ACT authorizing the Norfolk and Portsmouth Terminal Railway, Wharf, and Warehouse company, to change its name to the Consolidated Southern Railway company.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections, 1, 14, 15, 31, 82, 44, 48, 60, 53, 54, 55, 57, 62, 69, 78, 85, 88, 96, 100, 116, 126, 127, and to repeal sections 3, 16, 20, 28, and 111 of an act entitled an act prescribing general provisions in relation to commissioners of the revenue, and the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT to repeal chapter 91 of the Code of 1878, and all actes and parts of acts, in relation to pilots and piloting of vessels, and to enact a law to govern and regulate pilots and piloting of vessels in the waters of the state of Virginia.
Transportation, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend certain sections of an act in relation to the deposits of foreign insurance companies.
Business, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 65

An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Danville railroad company to discharge its indebtedness to the state.
Transportation, Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 66

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14, chapter 2, sections 5, 6, 7, 12, 18, 25, and 27, chapter 3; sections 10, 24, and 27, chapter 10; and section 22, chapter 18 of the criminal code, 1878, and to repeal section 29, chapter 10, and section 12, chapter 25 of said criminal code, and all acts and parts of acts relating to punishment by stripes, and to substitute other forms of punishment therefor.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures

Chapter 67

An ACT to appropriate $800 for the repair and preservation of the statue of Henry Clay.
Monuments and memorials, Public expenditures

Chapter 68

JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize and direct the superintendent of the penitentiary to furnish convict labor to the Hollywood and Oakwood Memorial Associations, to keep in order the graves of the Confederate soldiers of the army of Northern Virginia buried in Hollywood and Oakwood cemeteries.
Cemeteries, Confederate

Chapter 69

An ACT to suppress duelling in the commonwealth of Virginia.
Civil Rights, Law Enforcement, Judicial

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the city of Norfolk.
Municipal charters, Utilities, Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Pensions, Public spaces, Cemeteries, Property, Taxation, Budget, Business

Chapter 71

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Augusta county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 72

An ACT to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Culpeper and Buckingham.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 73

An ACT authorizing any railroad or other company, or companies, to acquire and hold shares of the capital stock of the Roanoke machine works.
Business, Industry, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 74

An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue coupon bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 75

An ACT giving the consent of the state of Virginia for the purchase, by the United States, of a tract of land at Yorktown, for the purpose of the erection thereon by the United States, of a monument to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and his forces, to the allied army commanded by General George Washington, in October, 1781.
Monuments and memorials, Legislative Amendments, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 76

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Land and Improvement company.
Business, Property, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 77

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of R. H. Thompson, late collector of Goodson township, in Washington county.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 78

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, and 11 of chapter 218 of the act entitled an act to provide for a charter for the town of Salem, in the county of Roanoke, approved March 28, 1871.
Amendments, Business, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 79

An ACT providing a home for aged and indigent females,
Charity, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Religious Institutions, Wards

Chapter 80

An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Buchanan county to borrow money and issue bonds for the same.
Bonds, Budget, Jails, Public expenditures

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 supervisors of Montgomery county to pay W. D. Vaughan for services rendered in holding the court for the said county.
Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 83

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

Chapter 84

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

Chapter 85

To extend the time for the collection of taxes in the county of Bedford for the year 1881.
Taxation

Chapter 86

To incorporate the Manchester railway and land improvement company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact section two of an act approved March 6, 1882, entitled an act to authorize the consolidation and merger of the Alexandria and Fredericksburg railway company and the Alexandria and Washington railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 88

An ACT to incorporate the Consolidated Abattoir Company of Alexandria, Washington and Georgetown.
Business, Agriculture, Judicial, Public expenditures, Labor, Transportation

Chapter 89

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the purchase by the United States of two parcels of land in the county of Westmoreland, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a monument to mark the site of the birthplace of George Washington; ceding jurisdiction over the same, and exempting the same from taxation.
Monuments and memorials, Property, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 90

An ACT directing the governor to convey to the United States the title of the commonwealth to certain real estate in Westmoreland county, and ceding jurisdiction over the same to the United States, and exempting the same from taxation.
Property, Public expenditures, Monuments and memorials, Taxation

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Farmville and Staunton river railroad company, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.
Incorporation, 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, Budget

Chapter 94

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Utilities, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 95

An ACT to incorporate the Atlantic and Danville Narrow-Gauge railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Industry

Chapter 96

An ACT to incorporate the Surry county railroad and lumber company.
Business, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 97

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

Chapter 98

An ACT to extend the time for the collection and payment of the revenues, for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in the county of Alleghany.
Taxation

Chapter 99

An ACT to return to the public free schools a portion of the moneys diverted therefrom.
Education, Public expenditures, Amendments, Business

Chapter 100

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria Mining, Manufacturing, and Warehouse company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 101

An ACT to authorized the school trustees in Manassas magisterial district, in Prince William county, to devote a certain sum from the county school funds due said district for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to the payment of certain indebtedness of said district.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

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, Public expenditures, Healthcare, Education, Civil Rights, Agriculture, Labor

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to provide for working the roads and repairing the bridges in the county of Botetourt, by adding thereto in the first section, the counties of Westmoreland and Northumberland.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters
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