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1889/1890 Private Laws

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Chapter 150

AN ACT incorporating the Riverton bridge company in Warren county.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 151

An ACT to incorporate the Carroll iron company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Pensions, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 152

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol building and loan association.
Incorporation, Business, Property

Chapter 153

An ACT to incorporate the Berlin and Lovettsville bridge company for the purpose of constructing and owning a bridge at Berlin, Frederick county, Maryland, across the Potomac river to Loudoun county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Property

Chapter 154

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria railway and improvement company.
Transportation, Business, Property, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 155

An ACT to incorporate the Georgetown and Falls Church railway company.
Transportation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 157

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Elizabeth City county to borrow money by the issue of bonds to rebuild the county bridge across Hampton river, to repair or rebuild the court-house and clerk’s office of said county, and to repair the public roads of said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Budget, Property

Chapter 158

An ACT to incorporate the Mechanics’ bank of Richmond, Virginia.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 159

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

Chapter 160

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 95, chapter 9, of the code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to the appointment of superintendents of the poor and county surveyors in the counties of Dinwiddie, Cumberland, Buckingham, Greenesville, and Sussex.
Amendments, Budget, Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 162

An ACT to incorporate the Luther coal and iron company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business

Chapter 163

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the trustees of Emory and Henry college, in the county of Washington.
Education, Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act approved February 24, 1888, entitled an act to incorporate the Lynchburg Baptist seminary.
Amendments, Incorporation, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 167

An ACT to allow H. W. Bland and R. M. Hart to establish a ferry from Shepherd’s warehouse, in King and Queen county, across the Mattaponi river.
Transportation, Taxation, Business

Chapter 169

An ACT defining a lawful fence for Amherst county.
Fence Laws, Agriculture

Chapter 170

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Mathews county to compromise certain claims due said county
Debt, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 171

An ACT to incorporate the Metropolitan Western railroad of Virginia.
Transportation, Business, Bonds, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 172

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Enterprise company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 173

An ACT to confirm and extend the charter and franchises of the Carnegie land company.
Business

Chapter 174

An ACT to incorporate the Malvern Hill railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 175

An ACT to incorporate the Universal drying and curing company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 177

An Act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Central City, in Montgomery county, approved May 28, 1887, and to change the name of said town to Radford.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Judicial, Taxation, Education, Property

Chapter 178

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act’ to incor-porate the Game Point association, approved February 2, 1888.
Incorporation, Business, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol, Public spaces

Chapter 182

An ACT to allow the James river marl and bone phosphate company to erect a wharf on James river near Jordan’s Point.
Business, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 184

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

Chapter 185

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to construct, operate, and maintain a branch or connecting line between its railroads in the counties of Goochland and Henrico, or either of them.
Transportation, Incorporation, Charity, Children -- Institutional care, Healthcare, Education

Chapter 186

An ACT to incorporate the town of Ridgeway, in Henry county.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Public spaces

Chapter 187

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act amending an act to incorporate the trustees of Randolph Macon college
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 188

An ACT to incorporate the Legislative investment company of Roanoke.
Business, Property, Fence Laws

Chapter 190

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake, Fredericksburg and Western railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 191

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 307 of the acts of 1887-88, in relation to trespass by certain animals in the county of Halifax.
Agriculture, Property, Transportation, Pensions, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 193

An ACT to incorporate the Pittsburg and Knoxville railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 194

an ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incor-porate the American Tobacco company
Business, Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 195

An ACT relating to the trespass of stock in vertain parts of Washington county.
Agriculture, Business, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures, Death and burial, Law Enforcement, Utilities, Vagrancy

Chapter 197

An ACT to incorporate the Salem Improvement company of Salem, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 199

An ACT to incorporate the Old Folks Home of the First African Baptist church, Richmond, Virginia.
Charity, Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 201

An ACT to change the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol and provide a new charter for the same.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Property, Taxation, Healthcare, Cemeteries, Recreation

Chapter 203

An ACT to authorize the county court of Montgomery county to employ a road foreman and force of hands to open, change, or repair any of the roads of said county where the same is deemed necessary by the court.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 205

An ACT to amend and re-enact section six of an act approved May 6, 1887, entitled ‘an act to incorporate the Rockbridge company.’
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 206

An ACT to enable the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to acquire, or acquire an interest in, extensions or additions to its system of railroad outside this state, and to create stock and deeds of trust or mortgages, or to guarantee bonds for that purpose.
Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 207

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Land company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation

Chapter 208

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

Chapter 209

An ACT to incorporate the Round Mountain Mining and Manufacturing company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Bonds, Property, Transportation

Chapter 210

An ACT to incorporate the Clifton Forge company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Bonds

Chapter 211

An ACT relating to unlawful fishing in the tributaries of the Potomac river within the jurisdiction of Stafford, King George, Fairfax, and Alexandria counties.
Fishing

Chapter 212

An ACT to incorporate the Globe refining company.
Incorporation, Business, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Luray to borrow money for the use of said corporation.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 214

An ACT to incorporate the Clifton Forge electric light and power company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Bonds

Chapter 215

An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish with nets in the Hawksbill creek, in Page county.
Fishing

Chapter 216

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8 of an act approved April 7, 1882, entitled an act to incorporate the Liberty perpetual building and loan company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 217

An ACT to incorporate the American oil and fuel gas company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Utilities, Taxation

Chapter 219

An ACT to incorporate the Radford academy.
Education, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act passed February 27, 1856, entitled an act to give greater uniformity to the charters of the Great Bridge lumber and canal company granted by North Carolina and Virginia and to repeal certain provisions therein.
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Transportation

Chapter 221

An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont mining and manufacturing company.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 222

An ACT to incorporate the Coal Mountain mining company.
Incorporation, Industry, Business, Property, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 223

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled ‘‘An act to incorporate the Virginia State insurance company,’’ so as to provide for a president, vice-president, and board of directors for said company.
Business

Chapter 224

An ACT to incorporate the Big Ax coal, coke and iron company.
Incorporation, Business, Industry, Bonds, Property

Chapter 225

An ACT to authorize the board of school trustees of Lee magisterial district, in the county of Accomack, to borrow money for the purpose of erecting a school-house in the town of Onancock, in the district and county aforesaid.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 226

An ACT for the protection of fish in the counties of Lee, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan, and Scott.
Fishing

Chapter 227

An ACT to extend the time for the collection of tax tickets in the hands of James Haislip and others, late deputy treasurers of Fairfax county.
Taxation

Chapter 228

An ACT to incorporate the Hebrew Home for the aged and infirm of Richmond, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 229

An ACT to incorporate the South Boston Improvement company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 230

An ACT to enable the city of Petersburg, for the protection of its interests growing out of its dealings with the Virginia and Carolina railroad company, to sell and dispose of its claims against the said company, or to bid in, at any sale made at its instance or for its own protection, the property and works liable to sale under the deed of trust of said company securing bounds of the company held by said city, and the same, if purchased by it, to resell; and defining the powers and rights that shall grow out of said purchase by said city, as well as the powers and rights of any purchaser from it under a resale by it, and to repeal the act approved March 6, 1886, entitled an act to provide the manner in which the common council of the city of Petersburg may purchase the Virginia and Carolina railroad to the extent of the claim of said city against said road, or sell or dispose of the claim of said city against said road.
Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 231

An ACT to incorporate the Annetta company.
Transportation, Business

Chapter 232

An ACT to incorporate the Radford school of mines.
Incorporation, Education, Industry, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 235

An ACT to change the name of the Chesapeake Dry-Dock and Construction company to Newport News ship building and dry-dock company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1, 4, 6, 7 and 8 of chapter 51 of acts of assembly 1885-86, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesapeake Dry-Dock and Construction company.
Business, Amendments, Industry

Chapter 236

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Tidewater coal and railroad company.
Business, Industry, Transportation, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 237

An ACT to incorporate Belmont seminary at Liberty.
Amendments, Education, Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 239

An ACT to incorporate the United States harness and manufacturing company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 240

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act incorporating the Air Line turnpike company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 241

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Loudoun county, to increase the salary of the county judge of said county.
Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 242

An ACT to provide that the general road law of the state shall apply to Rockbridge county, except in so far as the same is inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of the special road law of said county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public spaces

Chapter 246

An ACT to repeal chapter 302 of acts of assembly of 1887-’88, to provide for working and altering roads, building and repairing bridges in the county of Mecklenburg.
Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 248

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to add to the county judge’s salary of Culpeper county.
Salaries

Chapter 249

An ACT to incorporate the Exchange Bank of Radford, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 250

An ACT to incorporate the Jeter Female Institute, at Liberty, Virginia.
Education, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 251

An ACT for the relief of William Dillow, treasurer of Bland county.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 252

An ACT to incorporate the Winchester manufacturing and development company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 253

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2088, 2084 and 2067, of the code of 1887, in relation to the fishing with pound-nets in the waters on the eastern side of the Chesapeake bay.
Fishing, Transportation, Industry, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 255

An ACT to incorporate the Metompkin fish and game associatian.
Incorporation, Fishing, Hunting, Property

Chapter 256

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 7 of an act approved July 9, 1870, entitled an act amending the charter of Harrisonburg, in the county of Rockingham.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 257

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4 and 9 of an act approved March 5, 1880, to incorporate the Warrenton and Fauquier White Sulphur turnpike company.
Transportation, Business, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 259

An ACT to incorporate the Jefferson Davis Monument Association.
Monuments and memorials, Incorporation, Public spaces, Transportation, Business

Chapter 261

An ACT to work and repair the public roads in the county of Grayson.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Property

Chapter 262

An ACT to incorporate the city of Danville
Municipal charters, Judicial, Property, Taxation, Public officers, Cemeteries, Public spaces, Legislative Amendments, Healthcare, Public expenditures, Fire fighters, Alcohol, Business

Chapter 263

An ACT to provide for the opening, altering, changing and working the public roads in the county of Rappahannock.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Civil Rights, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 264

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Amendments, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 268

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 470f chapter 4 of the acts of 1871-72, providing a charter for the city of Staunton
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 269

An ACT to make Aquia creek in the county of Staf.
Fence Laws, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 270

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8, 6, 7, and 8 of an act approved April 28, 1887, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved February 12, 1888, entitled an act to incorporate the Roanoke and Southern Railway company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation

Chapter 272

An ACT to incoporate the Central Street-railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 273

An ACT for removing obstructions from Big and Little Nottoway rivers.
Agriculture, Property, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 274

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company.
Transportation, Business, Agriculture, Public expenditures, Recreation, Hunting

Chapter 278

An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Western railroad company and certain other railroad companies to make and carry out contracts for the purchase by the Norfolk and Western railroad company of connecting lines of railroads.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 280

An ACT to prescribe the time in which it shall not be lawful to kill or capture partridges or wild turkeys in the counties of Isle of Wight, Nansemoud, and Southampton.
Hunting

Chapter 281

An ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Clarke county to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Transportation, Business, Education

Chapter 284

An ACT to incorporate the New York and Virginia mining and mineral company of Virginia.
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 286

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Prince William improvement company, approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 287

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 224 of the acts of assembly of 1877-78, entitled an act to incorporate the Peninsula railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 288

An ACT to allow Peter H. Davis to build a wharf at his place known as Davis’ wharf, and also at his place recently purchased of William S. Kellam, both on Occohannock creek.
Transportation, Property, Public expenditures
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