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1887/1888

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections four thousand two hundred and two, four thousand two hundred and three, and four thousand two hundred and four of the act entitled an act to revise, arrange and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
Amendments, Legislative Amendments, Judicial, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act enti-
Incorporation, Utilities

Chapter 3

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Loudoun county to borrow money to build a jail.
Amendments, Bonds, Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 4

An ACT to declare valid the deed from the trustees of St. Luke’s P. E. Church in Amherst county to G. D. Meriwether.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 5

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections seventeen and twenty-one of an act approved April second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled an act to provide for the working of roads in the counties of Culpeper and Buckingham.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend the second section of an act to incorporate the Warrenton and Marshall Road Company.
Business, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 7

An ACT to incorporate the Dunlop and McCance Milling and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Industry, Bonds, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 8

An ACT to incorporate the Bank of Christiangurg.
Business

Chapter 9

An ACT to amend an act respecting wild game in Loudoun
Wildlife

Chapter 10

An ACT to incorporate the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association.
Monuments and memorials, Confederate, Unclassified

Chapter 11

An ACT requiring educational institutions receiving state appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education.
Education, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact section let of an act approved May 18, 1887, entitled an act to authorize a subscription by the county of Chesterfield to the stock of the Petersburg and Chesterfield Railroad Company.
Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Bonds

Chapter 13

An ACT to prevent county, district, school and corporation officers and school trustees from purchasing county and corporation warrants and school claims.
Public officers

Chapter 14

An ACT to amend and re-enact the 5th and 7th sections of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottesville Railroad Company as amended and re-enacted by the Act of Assembly, approved the 18th day of May, 1887.
Transportation, Amendments, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 15

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections one hundred and twelve, six hundred and thirty-three, six hundred and seventy-four, two thousand five hundred and thirty-three, three thousand and forty-five, three thousand and fifty-three, three thousand and ninety-three, three thousand and ninety-one, three thousand four hundred and fifty-five, three thousand four hundred and ninety-two, four thousand and forty-eight, and four thousand and forty-nine of the act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887.
Amendments, Judicial, Civil Rights, Property, Inheritance and succession, Public officers

Chapter 16

An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Roanoke county to borrow money for the purpose of enlarging the clerk’s office of said county, and for other purposes.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 17

An ACT to provide for the payment of expenses of the circuit court for Frederick county.
Budget, Judicial, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 18

An ACT to authorize the mayor and common council of the town of Chatham, in the county of Pittsylvania, to borrow money.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 19

An ACT to authorize the Northampton county court to pay to George T. Turner and others, trustees of Trinity church, the damages assessed them, on the petition of the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk railroad company to acquire the real estate of said church for the use of said company.
Property, Religious Institutions, Transportation

Chapter 20

An ACT for the relief of John Collins from the payment
Judicial, Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 21

An ACT for the relief of Walter S. Phillips
Business

Chapter 22

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Baptist State Mission Board.
Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 23

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk Fuel and Gaslight Company, of Norfolk, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 24

An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester to increase its bonded debt.
Budget, Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 25

An ACT to incorporate the Wythe Canning and Manufacturing Company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 26

An ACT to incorporate the Merchants Bank of Danville.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Taxation

Chapter 27

An ACT to amend section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and reduce into one act the several acts for opening and extending the navigation of the Appomattox river
Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 28

An ACT to facilitate the transfer of shares in the Upper Appomattox Company and to provide for changing the same from real to personal estate, and to authorize the said company to mortgage its property and franchise.
Business, Property, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 29

An ACT to incorporate the Loudoun Creamery Association.
Agriculture, Business, Incorporation, Public officers, Property

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections two and five of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Chowan and Southern railroad company, approved May 5th, 1887, and to authorize the stockholders of said company to change its name to the Norfolk and Carolina railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 31

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirty-three of an act entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes, &c., approved March 6th, 1886, in regard to the tax on peddlars.
Amendments, Taxation, Business

Chapter 32

An ACT to incorporate the town of Courtland in the county of Southampton.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Judicial, Voting

Chapter 33

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg and Asylum railway
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Bonds

Chapter 34

An ACT for the relief of Wm. Scroggins, late treasurer of Warren county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 35

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Clarke county to loan out certain money to the credit of the sinking fund, provided for the redemption of the bonds of the county.
Bonds, Budget, Business

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to reduce the number of trustees in Upper Appomattox company
Amendments, Business, Utilities

Chapter 37

An ACT to empower and authorize the local board of improvement of Brambleton Ward, city of Norfolk, by and with the consent of the select and common councils of the city of Norfolk to borrow money.
Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers, Education, Municipal charters, Boundaries

Chapter 38

An ACT to incorporate the Crimora Manganese Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Property

Chapter 39

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fifth section of the charter of the Farmville and Charlottsville railroad company as amended and re-enacted by an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved on the 13th day of January, 1888.
Transportation, Amendments, Business

Chapter 40

An ACT to incorporate the Falls Church and Potomac railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 41

An ACT to allow George R. Dalby and Labon J. Belote to erect a wharf on Nassowodux creek in Northampton county.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 42

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act for working and repairing the public roads of Grayson and Patrick counties
Labor, Public expenditures

Chapter 43

An ACT to incorporate the Galilean Fishermen relief association of the commonwealth of Virginia.
Charity, Cemeteries

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Rappahannock Valley Agricultural and Mechanical society of Fredericksburg.
Agriculture, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 45

An ACT to incorporate the Christian Multitude of Norfolk county.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Property

Chapter 46

An ACT to empower the auditor to issue a duplicate of warrant No. 8786.
Armed forces, Public expenditures, Pensions

Chapter 47

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Northumberland county to use a portion of the county school fund for the erection of school-houses in Lottsburg school district.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 48

An ACT to provide for the deposit of state funds in certain cases.
Budget, Business, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 49

An ACT to repeal sections 10 and 11 of chapter 86, Code of 1873, and the 41st section of chapter 86, Code of 1873, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 41 of chapter 86, Code of 1873, in relation to inspections
Repeal of legislation, Public officers

Chapter 50

An ACT to incorporate the Chester Lumber and Manufacturing company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 51

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the courts of the sixteenth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of South Boston in the county of Halifax.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Voting, Cemeteries, Taxation, Business, Charity, Education, Healthcare, Budget

Chapter 53

An ACT to incorporate the Workingmen’s Association of Prince Edward county.
Business, Charity, Death and burial, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend sections 16, 21, 23, 26, and 28 of the charter of Suffolk.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation, Public officers, Law Enforcement

Chapter 55

An ACT for the relief of Henry Mahany
Public expenditures, Transportation, Business

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend sections 2,3, and 8 of an act passed March 14, 1853, entitled an act to establish Roanoke college in the county of Roanoke.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Charity

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of chapter 100, Code 1873, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1878, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 31, 1879, in relation to unlawful fishing.
Fishing

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, and 3 of an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath, and Highland, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of same act, and to add independent section.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 59

An ACT for the relief of Charles W. Walker, late treasurer of Giles county and his sureties.
Bonds

Chapter 60

An ACT making an Pppropristion for furnishing the new addition to the Central Lunatic asylum and for the support of additional inmates and paying of arrearages.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 61

An ACT to incorporate the Manchester Manufacturing company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 62

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alleghany county to borrow money to build bridges in said county.
Bonds, Budget, Transportation

Chapter 63

An ACT to provide for an improved form of General Index to Deed-Books and other records in the chancery court of the city of Richmond.
Property, Judicial

Chapter 64

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian church at Roanoke City, to borrow money and secure by deed of trust.
Religious Institutions, Debt

Chapter 65

An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville Street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 66

An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville Telephone company,and to authorize the merger of the charters of the Wythe,land, Carroll, and Grayson Telephone company, and the Wytheville Telephone Exchange in said company.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 67

An ACT to incorporate the Lexington Street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 68

An ACT to incorporate the Abingdon railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 69

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Charlotte county to issue bonds for the purchase of a farm for the reception of the poor of said county.
Bonds, Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 70

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to confirm a law passed by the Legislature of North Carolina, entitled an act to incorporate the Elizabeth City and Norfolk railroad company (now the Norfolk Southern railroad company)
Transportation, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 71

An ACT appropriating money to pay for publishing the Bien second, eighty-third, and eighty-fourth volumes of Virginia reports.
Budget, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 72

An ACT to prevent the pollution of drinking water in this state.

Chapter 73

An ACT incorporating the Berkley and Currituck turnpike company.
Transportation, Industry, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 74

An ACT to incorporate the Berkley Street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 75

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Cape Henry railroad and hotel company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 76

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax county to issue its warrant on the treasurer of said county in favor of Joseph C. Walker for the sum of thirty-five dollars, with interest from February 9, 1871.
Charity, Public expenditures

Chapter 77

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 61 of the Code of Virginia, as amended by an act approved March 30. 1887, as amended by an act approved May 21, 1887, and to amend and re-enact section 12 of said chapter 61 in relation to turnpike companies.
Transportation, Amendments, Property

Chapter 78

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Mining and Manufacturing company.
Incorporation, Industry, Property, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act approved February 18, 1886, entitled an act for the better protection of game in Henry county.
Hunting

Chapter 80

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Richmond county to appropriate one hundred dollars of the county school fund to the erection of a school-house in Stonewall school district of said county.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 81

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond city and Seven Pines railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Cemeteries, Industry

Chapter 82

An ACT to authorize the county of Madison to subscribe to the stock of the Madison courthouse and Orange railroad on certain conditions.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Voting

Chapter 83

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Madison Courthouse and Orange railroad company
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 84

An ACT granting a loan of arms of the state to the principal of Marion High school in the county of Smyth.
Education, Armed forces, Public officers

Chapter 85

An ACT to authorize Christian Hanson to erect a wharf in front of his shore for shipping oysters.
Agriculture, Business, Property, Transportation

Chapter 86

An ACT to authorize and empower the Tunis Lumber company of Baltimore city, to hold land in the state of Virginia.
Business, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 87

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth, to issue bonds for the Purpose of retiring and refunding certain outstanding bonds of said city.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 88

An ACT to allow the Eastern Shore steamboat company of Maryland, to acquire, hold, and dispose of a certain tract of land in Northampton county, Virginia.
Property, Industry, Transportation, Fishing, Agriculture

Chapter 89

An ACT to allow W. J. Cave, treasurer of Madison county, further time to collect tax-tickets for which he has accounted to the state.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 90

An ACT to authorize the Radford Land and Improvement company to erect a dam across New river.
Utilities, Transportation, Property

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 16, 1886, entitled an act to allow Wm. H. Ellis to erect a wharf at Franklin city, Accomac county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business, Fishing

Chapter 92

An ACT for the relief of Bethel Presbyterian church, Shemariah Presbyterian church, and St. John’s German Reform church in Augusta county.
Religious Institutions, Taxation

Chapter 93

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to adjudicate, adjust, and allow certain claims and demands of George W. Cooper and the executors of P. C. Smith, deceased, against said county for repairing and keeping in order certain sections of the public roads of said county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 94

An ACT to repeal sections 1853, 1854, and 1884 of chapter 84 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, in relation to the inspection of flour and fish.
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 95

An ACT for the protection of game in the county of Pittsylvania.
Hunting, Wildlife, Recreation

Chapter 96

An ACT to incorporate the Farmers Independent and Benevolent society of Southampton county.
Charity, Agriculture, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 97

An ACT to make Nansemond river in the county of Nansemond, between certain points, a lawful fence.
Fence Laws, Property, Transportation

Chapter 98

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 20, and 21 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1873, the act amending section 2, approved February 23, 1875, and the acts amending sections 4 and 17, approved April 28, 1874, and February 23, 1875, respectively.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 99

An ACT to incorporate the Danville Storage company.
Business, Agriculture, Incorporation

Chapter 100

An ACT to allow the Charlottesville and University of Virginia Electric Light and Gas company to locate its poles and wires in, along and through the streets and alleys of the town of Charlottesville.
Utilities
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