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1883/1884

Laws in Volume
Displaying 301 - 400 of 569

Chapter 303

An ACT to authorize the Governor to furnish convict labor for the extension of the Danville and New River Railroad beyond Patrick courthouse, Virginia.
Armed forces, Labor, Slavery, Transportation

Chapter 304

An ACT giving the consent of this state to the acquisition by the government of the United States, of so much land as may be necessary for a public building in the city of Staunton.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Property

Chapter 305

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Band of Brethren: Lodge, No. 1,950, G. U. O. of O. F. of Yorktown, Virginia.
Charity, Amendments, Incorporation, Death and burial, Public officers

Chapter 306

An ACT to incorporate the Loudoun County Live Stock Exhibition Association.
Agriculture, Business, Civil Rights, Recreation

Chapter 307

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of North Danville.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Voting, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 308

An ACT to incorporate the Lynchburg and Southwest Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Bonds

Chapter 309

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Milnes, in the county of Page, approved February 12, 1884.
Municipal charters

Chapter 310

An ACT to amend chapter 73 of the Acts of Assembly 1878-6, entitled an act tu provide fur the working of roads in the counties of Shenandoah, Page, and Rockingham.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 311

An ACT for the establishment of a State Female Normal School.
Education, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 312

An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck News Company
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 313

An ACT to enable the Danville and New River Railroad Company to obtain further subscriptions to the capital stock of said company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 314

An ACT to authorize and empower the Common Council of the city of Petersburg, to issue bonds for a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding the Virginia and Carolina Railroad Company, in the construction of their railroad.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 315

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of South Boston, Halifax county, Virginia.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Debt, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation

Chapter 316

An ACT to repeal the charter of the town of Daniel, in the county of Campbell.
Municipal charters, Budget, Debt, Property

Chapter 317

An ACT to make additional provisions for paying the debt of Patrick county on account of certain Bonds issued to the Danville and New River railroad company.
Debt, Bonds, Taxation, Business, Alcohol, Amusement

Chapter 318

An ACT to allow P. D. Divers, treasurer of Franklin county, further time to return lists of insolvents and delinquents.
Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 319

An ACT for the relief of Charles W. and Jacob Harris
Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 320

An ACT to amend section one, chapter one hundred and seventy, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as amended by an act approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, in relation to the removal of causes from the corporation to the circuit court.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 321

An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Louisville Railroad Company, to transfer to the Iron Belt Railroad Company, a part of its franchises, rights, privileges and property.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Budget, Business

Chapter 322

An ACT to incorporate the Atlantic Improvement Company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 323

An ACT to incorporate the Valley and Southwest railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 324

An ACT to authorize Treasurer of Albemarle county, to complete delinquent returns as to county levies, and to collect tax tickets held by said Treasurer, but as to which he has settled with the Auditor and Board of Supervisors without returning the same delinquent.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 325

An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Company to issue preferred stock.
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 326

An ACT for the relief of R. J. Montgomery.
Amendments, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 327

An ACT to repeal the act passed January 26, 1866, relating to fences, so far as said act applies to the Little Mill election district, in the county of Sussex.
Fence Laws, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 328

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act approved March 8, 1875, entitled an act to provide for the election and qualification of county officers.
Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 329

An ACT for the compensation of Elijah H. Simpson for his services as Inspector of the Public Warehouse from Ist November, 1881, to Ist January, 1884.
Public expenditures, Public officers, Business

Chapter 330

An ACT to provide for certificates of election for certain officers elected by the General Assembly.
Education, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 331

An ACT to amend and re-enact section twelve of chapter eighty-six of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relative to inspection of fish.
Fishing, Amendments

Chapter 332

An ACT for the relief of A. Moore, Jr.
Bonds

Chapter 333

An ACT authorizing the town of Berryville, in Clarke county, to issue bonds and to levy a tax to provide a sinking fund for the purpose of providing water-works for said town.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 334

An ACT to incorporate the Fredericksburg and Chesapeake Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 335

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of L. L. Deakins, treasurer of Greenesville county.
Public officers, Debt, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 336

An ACT to authorize the county of Fluvanna to raise money for rebuilding a Bridge across the Rivanna river.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 337

An ACT to authorize a subscription by the county of Frederick, in money or bonds, to the stock or bonds of the Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad Company.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 338

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads in Albernarle county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 339

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for making and repairing division fences between co-terminous land-owners in the counties of Northumberland, Page, Wythe, and Tazewell, approved March 6, 1882.
Amendments, Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 340

An ACT providing for an eight weeks’ course of instruction for the colored teachers in this state.
Education, Equality before the law, Civil Rights, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 341

An ACT for the protection of Sheep in the county of Page.
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 342

An ACT to incorporate the National Compress Association Company of Norfolk.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Bonds

Chapter 343

An ACT to incorporate the Rorer Iron Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 344

An ACT authorizing the Sulphur Mines Company of Virginia, to construct railways for the transportation of ores, etc., same not to exceed forty miles in length.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 345

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mining, Milling and Transportation Company.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 346

An ACT to amend, enlarge, and re-enact the charter of the Norfolk Storage Company.
Business, Industry, Utilities, Public expenditures, Amendments, Property

Chapter 347

An ACT to direct the Board of Education to place upon the list of Books prescribed for use in the Public Schools, the two works of J. Esten Cooke, entitled, respectively, ‘ Virginia: a History of Her People,” and ‘ Stories of the Old Dominion.’
Education

Chapter 348

An ACT authorizing the trustees of the Sulem Academy, in Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia, to convey to the Public School Trustees of Sulem Schoul District, in said county, the Academy Buildings and Grounds belunging to the same.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 349

An ACT to provide a new Registration of Voters in the Town of Danville.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 350

An ACT fixing the time within which a suit shall be brought to enforce the payment of county, city, or town subscriptions to railroad companies in certain cases.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Bonds

Chapter 351

An ACT to allow D. E. Bass, late treasurer of Campbell county, further time to levy for taxes.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 352

An ACT to provide for the working and repairing of Public Roads and Bridges.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property, Employment and labor

Chapter 353

An ACT to provide for the sale of certain lands in the town of Buchanan and city of Richmond.
Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Municipal charters, Utilities, Public officers

Chapter 354

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one and two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Manchester Railway and Land Improvement Company, passed April 21, 1882.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 355

An ACT to authorize the Boards of Supervisors of the counties of Albemarle and Augusta to allow the Sheriff of said counties a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for fuel used at Jails of said counties.
Jails, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 356

An ACT for the relief of William M. McGruder, late treasurer of Henrico county.
Public expenditures, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 357

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved April 14, 1882, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 8, 1880, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act passed April 2, 1879, authorizing the Board of Supervisors to determine what amount shall be paid to certain county officers.
Judicial, Salaries, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 358

An ACT to incorporate the Electric Company of Virginia.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 359

An ACT to enable the Dunbar Furnace Company, of Pennsylvania, to hold real estate in the commonwealth.
Industry, Property

Chapter 360

An ACT to authorize the surviving trustee of the Halifax Academy to appoint new trustees, and said trustees to dispose of the
Education, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 361

An ACT to allow A. S. Grigsby further time to levy for taxes in Campbell county.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 362

An ACT to incorporate the Alleghany Elevator Company.
Business, Incorporation, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 363

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the Mayor and Common Council of the town of Liberty to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 364

An ACT for the relief of J. H. Sears, treasurer of Mathews county, Virginia.
Budget, Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 365

An ACT to amend and re-enact the act approved March 3, 1880, entitled an act to re-enact and renew the charter of the Petersburg Gas Light Company.
Utilities, Municipal charters, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 366

An ACT to limit the time within which the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company shall commence and complete its road.
Transportation, Industry

Chapter 367

An ACT to amend an set approved January 18, 1884, entitled an act to incorporate the Lynchburg, Halifax and North Carolina Railroad.
Transportation, Incorporation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 368

An ACT for the relief of the creditors of Central township, in the county of Rockingham.
Debt, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 369

An ACT in regard to repeal of Fence Law in the county
Fence Laws, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 370

An ACT to incorporate the West Virginia and Ohio Mineral Railway Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry

Chapter 371

An ACT to incorporate the New River and Chambers Valley railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 372

An ACT to amend and re-ennct section 17, chapter 42 of the Cude, relating to the duties of the Sinking Fund Commissioners.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 373

An ACT to authorize the proper authorities of any college, institution or seminary of learning, or manual labor school, to convert consol coupon bonds into funded registered consol bonds of the state.
Education, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 375

An ACT authorizing the Board of Supervisors to compensate Judge J. L. S. Kirby for holding courts in Amherst county.
Judicial, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 376

An ACT to allow Edwin E. Dennis, of the county of Accomac, to erect a wharf at Franklin City, in said county, for the purpose of shipping oysters.
Agriculture, Business, Transportation

Chapter 377

An ACT allowing C. B. Crumpler, while judge of the county court of Isle of Wight county, compensation for holding a term of the county court of Surry county, during the absence of the judge of said court.
Judicial

Chapter 378

An ACT to incorporate the Farmville Lumber Company.
Business, Industry, Property, Transportation

Chapter 379

An ACT for the protection of Deer in the counties of Bland and Wythe.
Hunting

Chapter 380

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Gymnasium and Athletic Association.
Incorporation, Recreation, Business

Chapter 381

An ACT to accept the provisions under the will of Lizzie H. Taylor, deceased, to designate the same as the Hoge School Fund of Loudoun county, and to dispose of the same for the education of the indigent children of said county.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 382

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke Library Association.
Libraries, Incorporation, Education

Chapter 383

An ACT to confirm the organization of the Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad Company, and declaring such company vested with the powers and franchises possessed by the Washington and Ohio Railroad Company.
Transportation

Chapter 384

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 182 of the Code as amended by an act approved February 17, 1874, as amended by an act approved April 2, 1877, as amended by an act approved February 22, 1878, as amended by an act approved March 9, 1880, in relation to judgment liens.
Judicial, Debt, Property, Public officers

Chapter 385

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 28d section of the charter of the city of Richmond, in relation to encroachments upon streets.
Municipal charters, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 386

An ACT to incorporate Stevens Lodge, number fourteen hundred and thirty-five, of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, of the county of Alexandria.
Charity, Incorporation, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 387

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

Chapter 388

JOINT RESOLUTION providing for burning unissued bonds of the state, unissued and kept in the office of the treasurer of the commonwealth.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 389

An ACT to repeal the collateral inheritance tax.
Inheritance and succession, Taxation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 390

An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Relief of the Preachers of the Virginian Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and their Families, their Widows and Orphans.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 391

An ACT to prevent obstructions of streets, turnpikes and county roads or the crossings on railways.
Transportation

Chapter 392

An ACT to incorporate Vigilant Steam Fire Company, No. 1, of Roanoke city.
Incorporation, Fire fighters

Chapter 393

An ACT to equalize the taxes for the support of Public Free Schools in the Municipal School District of Bedford county.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 394

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act incor-porating the Lynchburg Street Railway Company, approved March 3, 1882.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 395

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Nail and Iron Works Company.
Business, Industry, Incorporation, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 396

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 35 of chapter 36 of the Code of 1873, in relation to returning bonds to insurance companies.
Bonds, Business

Chapter 397

An ACT to give an appeal as of right to the commonwealth in all cases where suits are instituted under the act approved January 14, 1882, entitled an act to prevent frauds against the commonweulth and the holders of her securities in the collection and disbursement of revenues.
Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 398

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved January 14, 1882, entitled an act to prevent frauds on the commonwealth and the holders of her securities, in the collection and disbursement of revenue.
Taxation, Debt, Bonds

Chapter 399

An ACT to appoint B. P. Green and John A. Parker avents to prosecute to settlement certain cluims of the state of Virginia ayainst the United States.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 400

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2 and 8 of an act entitled an act to authorize the formation of the Iron Belt Railroad Company.
Transportation

Chapter 401

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of chapter 197 of the Acts of 1881 and 1882, as amended in relation to working public roads and keeping the game in repair, etc., so far as the same relates to certain counties.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 402

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act incorporating Oak Hill Academy in Grayson county, approved February 2, 1880.
Education, Incorporation

Chapter 403

An ACT to allow John F. Powell to erect a wharf at Franklin City in Accomac county, on Chincoteague bay, for the purpose of shipping oysters.
Business, Transportation, Legislative Amendments
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