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1889/1890 Private Laws

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Chapter 446

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 24, acts of assembly 1877-78, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act approved March 20, 1887, entitled an act for the protection of
Amendments, Property, Taxation

Chapter 447

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Osceola Lodge, No. 47, Knights of Pythias, of Roanoke, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Death and burial, Property, Public officers

Chapter 448

An ACT to incorporate the St. Paul land company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 449

An ACT to change the name of the Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and Carolina mining and development company to Moccasin Gap Land company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 450

An ACT to incorporate the Hope fire company of the town of Berkley.
Amusement, Charity, Fire fighters, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 451

An ACT to incorporate the Norfolk and Portsmouth land and improvement company.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Public officers, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 452

An ACT to incorporate the Glasgow manganese and mineral company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Property, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 453

An ACT to incorporate the Mercantile Publishing company of Norfolk city.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 134 of the acts of assembly for the session of 1878 and 1879, entitled an act for the protection of game in Alexandria and Fairfax counties.
Hunting, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 455

An ACT to authorize the councils of Norfolk to issue bonds for the erection of a market-house.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 456

An Act to amend and re-enact chapter fifty-six of the acts of assembly of eighteen hundred and eighty one-two, entitled an act in reference to fences in Princess Anne county.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 457

An ACT to incorporate the Appomattox, Buckingham, and Cumberland railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Utilities

Chapter 458

An ACT to provide for the working and keeping in order the roads in the county of Spotsylvania.
Transportation

Chapter 459

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of Richmond College
Education, Religious Institutions, Charity, Amendments

Chapter 460

An ACT relating to unlawful hunting in the counties of Caroline and Norfolk.
Hunting

Chapter 461

An ACT to incorporate the York telephone and telegraph company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 462

An ACT further supplementary to an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Virginia Mineral Railway company, approved March 6, 1880.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 463

An ACT to authorize Charles E. Babbitt to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
Business, Public spaces, Transportation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 464

An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of the Portsmouth land, improvement, and promotion company.
Business, Property, Public expenditures, Industry, Amendments

Chapter 465

An ACT to incorporate the Bedford Industrial and Development company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Woodstock, in the county of Shenandoah, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 467

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Courtland, in the county of Southampton.
Incorporation

Chapter 468

An ACT to incorporate the Speedwell railroad company.
Transportation, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 469

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Stafford county, or any magisterial district thereof, the question of a ‘* Hog Law.'
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 470

An ACT to incorporate the R. W. Coffee machine company
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 471

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

Chapter 472

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to Incorporate the East End beneficial and social society of the city of Richmond, approved February 21, 1882.
Amendments, Charity, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 473

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 38 of an act approved January 31, 1884, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the city of Roanoke.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 474

An ACT to incorporate the Salem street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 475

An ACT to incorporate the Wytheville Development company.
Amendments, Incorporation, Industry, Property, Transportation

Chapter 476

An ACT providing that the board of supervisors of Lunenburg county shall not be required to provide a fire-proof clerk’s office.
Municipal charters

Chapter 477

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act incorporating the Farmville and Powhatan railroad company, approved March 3, 1884, and also to amend and re-enact sections 6 and 10 of said act, approved March 5, 1888.
Incorporation, Transportation, Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 478

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved May 14, 1887, as amended by chapter 355 of the acts of assembly of 1887-88, entitled an act to prevent the destruction of fish and to prevent the obstruction of the free passage of the same in the Dan river ator near Danville, Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 479

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act incorporating the town of Brentsville, in Prince William county.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Alcohol

Chapter 482

An ACT to incorporate the Commonwealth Club.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 485

An ACT to incorporate the Clinch river mineral company.
Business, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 487

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 13 of an act to amend the charter and to extend and define the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, approved April 6, 1887.
Amendments, Boundaries, Business, Debt, Education, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 488

An ACT to incorporate the James River and Rockfish Valley railway company.
Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business, Taxation

Chapter 490

An ACT to incorporate the Roanoke, Fincastle and Clifton Forge railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business

Chapter 491

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland, approved March 3, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved November 24, 1884, and as amended by an act approved February 20, 1886, so far as the same relates to the counties of Chesterfield and Powhatan, and to provide for working of roads and building and repairing bridges in the counties of Chesterfield and Powhatan.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 492

An ACT to make the Cowpasture river, in Bath county, from Lowman’s mill-dam to the Alleghany line, a lawful fence.
Property, Recreation

Chapter 493

An ACT to incorporate the Basic City, West Virginia and Pittsburgh railway company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 494

An ACT to incorporate the Potomac Western railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 495

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Montgomery to issue bonds for the purpose of raising money to build a bridge over New river at or near Radford.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Business, Transportation, Utilities, Property

Chapter 498

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bermuda Hundred construction company
Incorporation, Business, Industry, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 501

AN ACT to incorporate the Central City improvement company.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 502

An ACT in relation to the appointment of officers for the city of Bristol.
Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 505

An Act to incorporate the Vinton and Roanoke Light and Water company.
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 506

An ACT to incorporate the atid City street railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget, Business

Chapter 507

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Russell county to issue and sell, or otherwise dispose of, bonds of the county for the purpose of building bridges.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 508

An ACT to prohibit fishing in the waters of Clinch river, in the county of Russell, for the period of two years (except with a hook and line or gig), or the poisoning or killing with dynamite.
Fishing, Business, Incorporation

Chapter 509

An ACT to incorporate the Tobacco Trade of the city of Richmond.
Business, Incorporation, Agriculture

Chapter 510

An ACT to empower the trustees of Hopewell Grange, No. 585, of Craig county, to sell and convey the property now owned or hereafter acquired by said Grange and to re-invest the proceeds thereof under certain conditions.
Agriculture, Charity, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 511

An ACT to incorporate the True Friends of Charity society, of Pittsylvania county, Virginia.
Charity, Incorporation, Property, Business, Taxation

Chapter 513

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Gladeville College, situated in the town of Gladeville, Virginia, to sell and convey said college building and the lot of land thereto belonging.
Education

Chapter 514

An ACT defining a lawful fence for Charles City
Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 516

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina land, lumber, and quarry company.
Business, Incorporation, Industry, Property, Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 517

An ACT to incorporate the Richlands land company.
Incorporation, Business, Public officers, Taxation, Property

Chapter 518

An ACT to incorporate the Douglas land compass of Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Property, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 519

An ACT to allow the Farmville railroad company to pass across the streets of the village of Powhatan Courthouse, and to vest the title to right of way in said company.
Transportation, Utilities, Budget, Public expenditures, Bonds, Municipal charters

Chapter 521

An ACT dedicating to Belmont seminary a lot and two stores on Bridge street in Bedford City.
Religious Institutions, Education, Property

Chapter 524

An ACT to amet.d and re-enact sections 2 and 3 of an act passed February 21, 1873, entit!d an act to incorporate the town of Lebanon, in Russell county.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 525

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Chesterfield to appropriate money to the Chesterfield cavalry troop.
Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 526

An ACT to prevent obstruction of streams in the county of Mecklenburg.
Fishing, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 527

An ACT to incorporate the Augusta and Rockbridge railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Property, Bonds

Chapter 528

An ACT to incorporate the Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School in Virginia.
Education, Incorporation

Chapter 529

An ACT to exempt the inhabitants of the village of Reusens from road levies.
Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 532

An ACT to change the nameof the Stock Creek coal and iron company to the Virginia and Carolina land company and to authorize it to increase its capital stock.
Industry, Business, Taxation

Chapter 533

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act entitled an act to amend, enlarge, and re-enact the charter of the Norfolk storage company, approved March 7, 1884.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 534

An ACT to amend section 7 of chapter 316 of the acts of assembly for session 1874-75, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Falls Church, in the county of Fairfax.
Amendments, Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 537

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Edinburg, in the county of Shenandoah.
Amendments, Business, Transportation, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 540

An ACT to incorporate the Peak coal and iron company.
Business, Industry, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 541

An ACT to authorize the voters of Northampton county to vote upon the question of moving the courthouse, and to provide for the erection of a courthouse in case of removal.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Property, Voting

Chapter 542

An ACT to empower the supervisors of the county of Northumberland to establish a ferry across the Great Wicomico river.
Transportation

Chapter 543

An ACT to authorize the district school board of Atlantic magisterial district of the county of Accomac to borrow the Piper school fund.
Education, Healthcare, Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 546

An ACT to incorporate the West Bristol land company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 547

An ACT to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of Rassell county.
Salaries, Judicial

Chapter 548

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Grayson county to submit to the voters of the county of Grayson, the right to subscribe to the capital stock of any chartered company.
Business, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 556

An ACT to incorporate the Bristol fuel and gas-light company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities, Business, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 557

An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont construction and improvement company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Labor

Chapter 560

AN ACT allowing treasurer of Fluvanna county further time for collecting taxes.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 561

An ACT to regulate the time for hunting partridges or quail in the county of Princess Anne.
Hunting

Chapter 562

An ACT to incorporate the Dime Savings Bank of Richmond.
Business, Education

Chapter 564

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved March 25, 1872, declaring certain streams in Charlotte county to be highways, as amended by an act approved March 20, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 14, 1878, approved March 3, 1879.
Amendments, Budget, Public officers, Salaries

Chapter 566

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act approved March 15, 1875, entitled an act for the protection of sheep in the county of Rockingham and to repeal section 6 of the same act
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 567

An ACT for the protection of fish in Pittsylvania
Fishing

Chapter 568

An ACT to provide for working the roads in Lovettsville district, Loudoun county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 569

An ACT to authorize the Vinton land, loan, and building company to subscribe for, acquire, hold, and dispose of stock and bonds of other corporations.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 572

An ACT to incorporate the Pulaski street railway company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 573

An ACT to amend and re-enact the ninth section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Mineral Development company, approved May 23, 1887.
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 574

An ACT relating to taxing, uuder conditions, cer-
Taxation, Boundaries, Fence Laws

Chapter 576

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of the act incorporating the town of Rocky Mount
Amendments, Business, Incorporation, Municipal charters

Chapter 577

An ACT to allow the treasurer of Albemarle county additional time to levy for and collect county levies, tax tickets held by said treasurer as to which he has settled with the auditor and board of supervisors without returning the same delinquent.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 578

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Stafford county to borrow money.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 579

An ACT to incorporate the Broadway and West Virginia railway company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 580

An ACT to incorporate the Danville Savings Bank, Loan and Improvement company.
Business, Property, Transportation, Wildlife, Municipal charters, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 581

An ACT to incorporate the Radford Little River railroad company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 584

An ACT to allow the Norfolk marl and phosphate company to erect a wharf on James river.
Business, Property, Utilities, Transportation, Budget, Agriculture, Education

Chapter 586

An ACT to authorize the town of Cape Charles, in Northampton county, to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 589

An ACT to authorize the Brook turnpike company to increase their road to a width not exceeding one hundred and eighty feet, and to set aside one portion of their roadway for carts, drays, and wagons, and another for riding horses, carriages, and other light vehicles.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property
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