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1887/1888

Laws in Volume
Displaying 401 - 500 of 500

Chapter 402

An ACT to allow John R. Aldrich, further time to collect certain tax-tickets.
Taxation

Chapter 403

An ACT to incorporate the Rockbridge Fair company.
Incorporation, Agriculture, Property, Taxation

Chapter 404

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Building and Loan company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 405

JOINT RESOLUTION directing county and city treasurers not to sell lands for delinquent taxes, &c.
Taxation

Chapter 406

An ACT to incorporate the railway reform rolling stock company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Transportation

Chapter 407

An ACT to incorporate the Mutual Live Stock association of Accomac parish.
Agriculture, Business, Industry

Chapter 408

An ACT to allow the qualified voters of Dranesville dis-
Fence Laws, Voting, Property

Chapter 409

An ACT to amend and re-enact section thirteen of an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them within the waters of the commonwealth
Amendments, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 410

An ACT to amend section 26 of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Botetourt
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Property

Chapter 411

An ACT to submit the question of increasing the levy for district school purposes, including lengthening of school term, to the qualified voters of Occoquan district, Prince William county.
Education, Taxation, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 412

An ACT to incorporate the town of Estillville in the county of Scott.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public officers, Judicial, Pensions, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 413

An ACT to incorporate the Commercial club of Berkley, Norfolk county, Virginia.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 414

An ACT to relieve Rev. Isaac Long, of Rockingham county, of taxes improperly paid by him.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Religious Institutions

Chapter 415

An ACT to incorporate the Rosenberger and Shirley telephone company.
Business, Utilities

Chapter 416

An ACT extending the time for collecting taxes to James A. Tilman, late treasurer of Powhatan county.
Taxation

Chapter 417

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Shenandoah Valley railroad company, and to issue preferred stock or convertible under any plan of reorganization thereof
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Incorporation

Chapter 418

An ACT to provide for a new registration of voters of Roanoke city.
Voting

Chapter 419

An ACT to exempt the property of the international committee of the Young Men’s christian association, located at the University of Virginia, from taxation.
Taxation, Religious Institutions, Charity

Chapter 420

An ACT extending the time for one year for the collection of certain taxes and levies by the treasurer of Fluvanna county, and his deputies.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 421

An ACT to change the name of Iron Belt land, mining, and development company of Virginia, to the Virginia company.
Business

Chapter 422

An ACT to provide compensation to B. F. Bland and Margus Jones for services rendered the state.
Public expenditures

Chapter 423

An ACT for the gd of Jacob Fisher and Robert E. Stuart.
Amendments, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Debt

Chapter 424

An ACT to amend an act to authorize the city of Fredericksburg and certain districts in Stafford and King George counties, to purchase or lease Scott’s bridge and make the same a free bridge.
Amendments, Transportation, Voting, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 425

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria perpetual building fund association.
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 426

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of Ye common eat ap paved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February,
Inheritance and succession, Judicial

Chapter 427

An ACT to make Jackson’s river in the county of Alleghany, a lawful fence between certain points.
Fence Laws

Chapter 428

An ACT to relieve the owners of certain lands sold to the eeteerateealtit for the non-payment of taxes and liens accrued prior to 1884.
Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 429

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of C. H. Ingles, late treasurer of Henry county.
Bonds

Chapter 430

An ACT authorizing a new registration in the county of Wythe.
Voting

Chapter 431

JOINT RESOLUTION transferring a certain claim of the state of Virginia against the government of the United States, to the Mount Vernon avenue association, chartered by this state.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Legislative Amendments, Industry

Chapter 432

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to defining the line separa-ting Virginia from West Virginia.
Boundaries

Chapter 433

An ACT to provide for a Board of Agriculture of Virginia and making appropriation therefor.
Agriculture, Budget, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 434

An ACT to establish a normal school at William and Mary college in connection with its collegiate course.
Education

Chapter 435

An ACT for the relief of G. W. Hawbert, of Roanoke county.
Taxation

Chapter 436

An ACT to incorporate the Washington, Western and Southwestern railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 437

An ACT for the relief of Samuel Sweeney and Elkanah
Unclassified

Chapter 438

An ACT to prescribe the times for holding the circuit courts in the ninth judicial circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 439

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Tazewell coal and iron company
Industry, Transportation, Amendments

Chapter 440

An ACT to amend section 1 of chapter 14 of an act to fix the times for holding the terms of the circuit court of Bedford county, approved 14th of January, 1882.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 441

An ACT for the relief G. S. Healy, sheriff of Middlesex county.
Public expenditures, Healthcare, Law Enforcement

Chapter 442

An ACT to relieve Fannie E. Harvie of taxes erroneously charged.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 443

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4219, chapter 205, Code of Virginia, edition of 1887, in regard to criminal proceedings against convicts.
Amendments, Labor, Prisons, Judicial

Chapter 444

An ACT to incorporate the Isle of Wight and Nansemond lumber and transportation company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Property

Chapter 445

An ACT for the relief of William H. Carter, of Washington county.
Debt, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 446

An ACT for the relief of James A. Tilman, late treasurer of Powhatan county.
Public officers, Budget, Debt

Chapter 447

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 10, 1884, entitled 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.
Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 448

An ACT for the relief of John H. Sears, late treasurer of Mathews county.
Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 449

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of H. R. Burger, late treasurer of Botetourt county.
Bonds, Budget, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 450

An ACT to give the right of appeal in cattle guard cases
Agriculture, Transportation

Chapter 451

An ACT for the reimbursement of Richard E. Frayser for money expended by him in behalf of the commonwealth.
Budget, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 452

An ACT to authorize the town of Goodson to subscribe to the capital stock of the Bristol and Danville railroad company.
Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 453

An ACT for the relief of John Henry Purvis, a lunatic.
Property, Taxation, Judicial

Chapter 454

An ACT for the relief of R. H. Downman
Public officers, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 455

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1101, chapter 46, of Code of 1887, authorizing internal improvement companies to take wood, stone, gravel, earth, or water from convenient lands.
Amendments, Business, Property, Utilities

Chapter 456

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of John B. Pitzer, late treasurer of Alleghany county.
Budget, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 457

An ACT to incorporate the Norma Iron railroad company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 458

An ACT for the relief of Lillias D. Womack, a lunatic.
Healthcare, Judicial, Civil Rights, Wards

Chapter 459

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth and South Mills railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 460

An ACT to incorporate the Danville real estate investment, trust and land title company.
Business, Property, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 461

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2, chapter 196, Acts 1883-4, entitled an act to provide for working the roads, repairing bridges, and opening new roads in the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, and Augusta.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 462

An ACT to incorporate the Southern Paper and Pulp company.
Business, Incorporation, Property

Chapter 463

An ACT to incorporate the Southern improvement association.
Incorporation, Business, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 464

An ACT for the relief of D. C. Mallory, treasurer of Grayson county.
Public expenditures

Chapter 465

An ACT to incorporate the Hebrew cemetery company of Richmond.
Cemeteries, Charity, Property, Death and burial

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 614 of chapter 27 of an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth, approved May 16, 1887, in relation to the compensation of county and city treasurers as amended by an act approved February 29, 1888.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 467

An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg, Ettrick, and Matoaco railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 468

An ACT to relieve Andrew Rodgers from the payment of a license tax for peddling in the county of Pulaski.
Business, Employment and labor, Charity

Chapter 469

An ACT to provide for a new registration in the county of Appomattox.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 470

An ACT to repeal chapter 149 of the Acts of the Extra Session of 1884, entitled an act for the protection of fish in Back bay, in Princess Anne county, Virginia, approved November 27, 1884.
Fishing, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 471

An ACT to consolidate the Brighthope railway company with the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Amendments

Chapter 472

An ACT to relieve Levi Midkiff, surety of Tyler Midkiff.
Judicial, Debt, Prisons

Chapter 473

An ACT repealing an act protecting rabbits or hares in the county of Chesterfield.
Hunting

Chapter 474

An ACT to amend section one of an act entitled 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

Chapter 475

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of W. S. Mathews and others.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 476

An ACT to authorize the extension of the Powell’s Valley railroad from the Tennessee state line across the southwest corner of Virginia to the Kentucky state line at or near Cumberland Gap.
Transportation, Industry, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 477

An ACT. to provide for the payment of justices of the peace, witnesses, and physicians in certain cases.
Judicial, Healthcare, Public expenditures

Chapter 478

An ACT to prohibit fishing in the waters of the ‘North fork of Holstein river by seines and traps, or by poisoning, or by killing with dynamite.
Fishing

Chapter 479

An ACT to define and extend the powers of the council of the city of Portsmouth.
Municipal charters

Chapter 480

An ACT to authorize T. E. Henshaw and W. H. Ruark to place a boom in Mattaponi river.
Property, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 481

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Norfolk county, in their discretion, to pay over to the city collector of Norfolk city, for the use of Brambleton ward, in said city, a portion of the taxes collected from citizens of said ward by the treasurer of Norfolk county for the year 1887.
Taxation, Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 482

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 437 of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the commonwealth.
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 483

An ACT to extend the time of settlement for John C. Gray, treasurer of Washington county.
Debt, Public officers, Budget, Bonds

Chapter 484

An ACT for the relief of William M. Dooley, of Campbell county.
Taxation, Public officers, Bonds

Chapter 485

An ACT to empower the trustees of the district school boards of Gill’s creek and Blackwater school districts, Franklin county to use any surplus county public school funds belonging to said districts, for the purpose of purchasing or erecting buildings for school purposes, or discharging any indebtedness of the said district.
Education

Chapter 486

An ACT providing for the sub-division of tracts of land into lots or parcels, and for the record of plats thereof.
Property, Amendments, Public spaces, Municipal charters

Chapter 487

An ACT to incorporate the Fauquier and Rappahannock railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 488

An ACT to change the boundary lines between the counties of Rockbridge and Botetourt, south of James river, and to transfer a small portion of Botetourt to Rockbridge county.
Boundaries, Property, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 489

An ACT to provide for abating public nuisances, and for disposing of fines imposed therefor.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Property

Chapter 490

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 376 of Acts of Assembly 1885-86, entitled an act to authorize the voters of Pittsylvania county to vote for or against the repeal of the present fence law by magisterial districts.
Fence Laws, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Property, Public officers

Chapter 491

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10, chapter 228, Acts of Assembly, 1883 and 1884, entitled an act incorporating the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company.
Transportation, Bonds, Amendments, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 492

An ACT to incorporate the Building Association of American Lodge No. 1789, Grand United Order of Odd-Fellows of the city of Richmond.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 493

An ACT to incorporate the Fincastle telephone and telegraph company.
Incorporation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 494

An ACT to give consent of this state to purchase by the United States of a lot of land in the city of Portsmouth, for the use of the lighthouse board.
Property

Chapter 495

An ACT to allow the district school board of Buchanan district, Botetourt county, to purchase Blue Ridge hall, and for conveyance of same.
Education, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 496

An ACT to incorporate the Oakwood cemetery company, in the county of Surry.
Cemeteries, Charity, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 497

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding, and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the Acts of Assembly of 1879-80.
Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Libraries

Chapter 498

An ACT to relieve the sureties of A. F. Creel.
Debt, Public officers

Chapter 499

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the town of Charlottesville
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 500

An ACT appropriating the public revenues for the fiscal years 1888 and 1889.
Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Healthcare, Amendments, Public officers, Taxation, Legislative Amendments, Cemeteries, Civil Rights, Charity, Judicial

Chapter 883

An ACT to authorize the Petersburg railroad company to lease its road.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments
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