An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1889/1890 Private Laws |
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Law Number | 482 |
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Law Body
CHAP. 482.—An ACT to incorporate the Commonwealth Club.
Approved March 3, 1890.
1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Alfred T. Harris, Joseph R. Anderson, J. W. Allison, Levin
Joynes, James H. Dooley, Joseph Bryan, Charles E. Bol-
ling, Byrd Warwick, J. H. Montague, R. D. Hudgins, W.
R. Trigg, J. S. Crenshaw, P. H. Mayo, and Thomas Atki-
son, and such other persons as are now associated as the
Commonwealth club, or may hereafter become associated
with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the
name of the Commonwealth club, to be located in the city
of Richmond, for the promotion of social intercourse and
for the purpose of maintaining a library and reading-
room. /
2. The said corporation shall have power to make and
adopt a constitution and by-laws, rules, and regulations
for the admission and expulsion of its members and their
government, the election of its officers and to define their
duties, and for the safe-keeping and protection of its pro-
perty and funds, and from time to time to alter or repeal
such constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations: pro-
vided, that the same be not inconsistent with the consti-
tution and laws of the United States or of the state of
Virginia. ; |
3. The said corporation may purchase, lease, hold or
dispose of any real or personal estate: provided, that they
shall not hold real estate in excess of five acres of land;
and said corporation may borrow money upon its property,
both real and personal, and may issue bonds, with interest
coupons attached, therefor, and may secure the same by
deed of trust, mortgage, or otherwise.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage, and be
subject to amendment, alteration, or modification at the
pleasure of the general assembly of Virginia.
CHapP, 483.—An ACT to incorporate the Border City Club of Dan-
ville, Virginia.
Approved March 8, 1890.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That F. X. Burton, O. W. Dudley, L. C. Berkeley, junior,
E. H. Miller, J. M. Neal, W.S. Copeland, A. Gerst, J. D.
Spencer, W. H. Massie, J. I. Pritchett, Henry E. Barks-
dale, W. F. Swann, W. W. Clark, and such other persons
as are now associated as the Border City club, or may
hereafter be associated with them, are hereby constituted
a body corporate by the name of the Border City club, to
be located in the city of Danville, Virginia, for the pro-
motion of social intercourse and for the purpose of main-
taining a library and reading-room.
2. The said corporation shall have the power to make
and adopt a constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations
for the admission and expulsion of its members and their
government; the election of its officers, and to define their
duties, snd for the safe-keeping and protection of its
property and funds; and from time to time to alter or
repeal such constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations:
provided, that the same be not inconsistent with the con-
stitution and laws of the United States or the state of
Virginia.
3. The said corporation may purchase and hold or lease
any real or personal estate: provided, that the real estate
he'd by them at any one time shall not exceed one acre of
land.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage, and be
subject to amendment, alteration, or modification, at the
pleasure of the general assembly.
CuapP. 484.—An ACT in relation to working the public roads of
Halifax county.
‘Approved March 3, 1890.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That all persons in Halifax county liable to road duty
under the general road law of Virginia, shall, either in
person or by a sufficient substitute, work two days in every
year upon some public road in their respective precincts,
after having at least two days’ previous notice by the sur-
veyor, his deputy, or agent of the time and place of
working.
2. The board of supervisors shall, on the first Monday
in April, hold a meeting for the discharge of their duties
under chapter forty-three of the code of eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven of Virginia, and may appoint and hold
such other regular meetings and such special meetings as
may be necessary for that purpose.
3. Any road surveyor failing to have his road worked,
as required by law, shall, upon the complaint of six free-
holders to any justice of hia district, be summoned to ap-
pear before a justice of said district to show cause, and
on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five nor
more than twenty-five dollars, which fine, when collected,
shall be paid to the treasurer to the credit of the road
fund of said district: provided, that if in any case the
fine imposed by the justice exceed ten dollars, the sur-
veyor shall have the right of appeal to the county court.
In case the complaint is not sustained, the costs shall be
paid out of the road fund of said district.
4. The board of supervisors of each county may annu-
ally levy, along with the county levy, a tax upon the prop-
erty, real and personal, assessed for taxation in any mag-
isterial district, which shall be applied to the working,
keeping in order, and repairing the public roads and
bridges in such districts, and the compensation of the
surveyors and supervisors provided for by sections nine
hundred and sixty-nine and nine hundred and seventy-
five, code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. Such
tax shall be not less than five nor more than ten cents
upon every one hundred dollars in value of such property,
and the same shall be collected, accounted for, and paid
out upon the warrant of the board, as if it were a county
levy, except that the fund collected from each magisterial
district shall be kept separate by the county treasurer,
and a different rate of tax may be prescribed for the dif-
ferent districts in the same county. The amount collected
in each district shall be expended therein.
5. Every surveyor of a road shall be entitled to compen-
sation, at the discretion of the court, to be by it certified
to the board of supervisors, and paid out of the county
levy, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day for
the time actually employed in summoning hands to work
on the road, which time shall be stated in writing and
sworn to.
6. The general road law of the state, except so far as
the same is in conflict with this act, shall be in force in
Halifax county.
7. This act shall be in force from its passage.