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1895/1896

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Chapter 401

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 chapter 73 of the acts of assembly for the extra session of 1887, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act for working the public roads of Fairfax county.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 402

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Henrico county, Virginia, to adopt sanitary rules and regulations for that portion of said county lying within three-fourths of a mile of the corporate limits of the city of Richmond.
Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 403

An ACT to provide for working and defining the boundaries of certain roads in Fairfax county.
Transportation, Boundaries, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 404

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Buchanan and Dickenson counties.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 405

An ACT for the relief of the Orient company, of Hartford, Con-
Business, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 406

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 25 of an act entitled an act to regulate and control guaranty, trust, indemnity, fidelity, and other like companies having for their purpose, or one of their purposes, to become security for the faithful performance of any trust, duty, contract, agreement, or bond, public or private, official or otherwise, or to assume any duty or obligation of like nature as principal or otherwise, or to become fiduciary, approved March 5, 1894
Amendments, Bonds, Business, Judicial

Chapter 407

An ACT to improve the main thoroughfares of the county of Orange.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters, Budget

Chapter 408

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 12 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Ashland, approved February 15, 1894.
Amendments, Budget, Public expenditures, Education, Municipal charters, Property, Taxation

Chapter 409

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Keysville, Charlotte county.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Alcohol, Property, Public officers

Chapter 410

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pocahontas.
Municipal charters, Budget, Property, Taxation, Law Enforcement, Voting, Alcohol

Chapter 411

An ACT to provide for working roads in Rappahannock county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 412

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 10 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Hampton in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, approved May 23, 1881, and to further amend and re-enact the said act by the adding of two additional sections thereto, to be known as sections 14 and 15 respectively, and to further amend and re-enact said act by changing the numbers of sections 14 and 15 in said act to 16 and 17 respectively, approved February 29, 1892.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Business

Chapter 413

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 52 and 54 of an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact the charter of the town of Martinsville, in the county of Henry,” approved March 3d, 1892 so as to provide for the election of sergeant by the qualified voters of said town.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 414

An ACT to allow the joint library committee and the general librarian of the commonwealth to permit the transfer of duplicate volumes in the state library to the library of the University of Virginia.
Libraries, Education

Chapter 415

An ACT to allow Harvey Terry and Lucius Burke, deputies Robert S. Ryland, late treasurer of King William county, one year longer from the passage of this bill to collect tax-tickets in their hands for years 1891, 1892, 1893, and 1894.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 416

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3225 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the service of process against or notice to a corporation
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 417

An ACT to authorize the personal representative of M. T. Gooch, late treasurer of Louisa county, to collect by distress unpaid tax-tickets held by the said M. T. Gooch at the date of his death in 1894, and which have been accounted for to the state and county and not returned delinquent and insolvent.
Taxation

Chapter 418

An ACT to provide for the adjustment and division of liabilities, property and assets between the county of Warwick and the city of Newport News, Virginia, and to provide for the occupation of certain property.
Budget, Property

Chapter 419

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company,” approved February 18, 1890, and to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to amend and re-enact the first section of an act approved February 18, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Alexandria and Fairfax passenger railway company,” approved February 25, 1892.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 420

An ACT to incorporate the Fairmount traction company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 421

An ACT to prohibit any fire insurance company, incorporated or licensed in this state, from issuing a policy or policies of insurance on any single risk for more than ten per cent. of its capital stock and assets; or, if a mutual company, for more than five per cent. of its cash assets; and providing the penalty for so doing.
Business

Chapter 422

An Act to amend sections 3501 and 3502 of code of Virginia in relation to fees of commissioners in chancery.
Judicial, Lawyers

Chapter 423

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 27, 1894, in relation to the power of the courts to order a suit in equity or action at law to abate as to any improperly joined plaintiff or defendant, and to proceed hereafter by or against the others as if such misjoinders had not been made, &c.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 424

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Tazewell high school to sell and Convey any property held by them to the trustees of the Jeffersonville district free school board, to be held by the latter for free school purposes.
Education, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 425

An ACT to enable the rector and board of visitors of the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college to procure a supply of water and to construct and maintain a system of water-works.
Agriculture, Bonds, Budget, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 426

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act, approved December 17, 1891, entitled an act to incorporate the Marion and Rye Valley railroad company.
Transportation, Industry, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 427

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled “ an act to incorporate Bondtown, in Wise county,” approved February 24, 1894.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 428

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and northwestern railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 429

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Winchester, approved April 2, 1874.
Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 430

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act incorporating the trustees of the Female charity school of Fredericksburg.
Education, Charity, Incorporation

Chapter 431

An ACT to incorporate the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point, and Newport News railway, ferry, and hotel company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 432

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in King George and Stafford counties.
Education, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 433

An ACT to repeal chapter 364 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 25th, 1892, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Warwick county to increase the salary of the commonwealth’s attorney of Warwick county.
Repeal of legislation, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 434

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Kecoughtan Lodge, No. 29, Knights of Pythias, of Hampton, Va.
Fraternal organizations, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 435

An ACT to prohibit the running at large of sheep in a certain district in Prince William county.
Agriculture, Boundaries, Property

Chapter 436

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads of Nelson county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 437

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2048 of the code of Virginia in relation to how boundary lines of lots and tracts of lands made a lawful fence, and excluding the county of Alleghany from the operation thereof.
Boundaries, Fence Laws, Property

Chapter 438

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Bath county in their discretion to levy a tax not exceeding twenty cents on the taxable value of said county for county school purposes.
Education, Taxation

Chapter 439

An ACT empowering the judge of the circuit court of Russell county to order certain causes to be properly indexed by the clerk thereof.
Judicial

Chapter 440

An ACT authorizing M. A. Finch to erect a wharf opposite her land in Newport News, Virginia, on the north side of James river.
Transportation, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 441

An ACT to incorporate the town of Saxis in the county of Accomac.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 442

An ACT to establish a circuit court for the city of Newport News.
Judicial

Chapter 443

An ACT to give James M. Booth, treasurer of Northumberland county, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax-tickets in his hands.
Taxation

Chapter 444

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 17 of chapter 357, acts 1887-88, as to the bonds of the district road commissioners, &c., in the county of Rockingham.
Transportation, Public officers, Amendments

Chapter 445

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2107 of the code of Virginia, 1887, in relation to the inspection of dams and rivers by supervisors and councilmen.
Amendments, Public officers, Utilities, Public spaces

Chapter 446

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4 and 10 of the charter of the town of Shenandoah, Page county, Virginia, approved February 12, 1884, as amended by acts approved February 86, 1890, and to add thereto sections 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Alcohol, Voting, Business

Chapter 447

An ACT to allow G. W. Koontz, treasurer of Shenandoah county, and his deputies, further time for collecting uncollected taxes in Shenandoah county.
Taxation

Chapter 448

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in Spotsylvania county.
Education, Public expenditures, Budget

Chapter 449

An ACT to authorize Z. R. Coats to erect a toll-bridge over the Piankitank river at Turk’s Ferry, in Middlesex county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 450

An ACT allowing G. R. Nichols, deputy treasurer of the county of Campbell, further time for the collection of taxes for the years 1891, 1892 and 1893.
Taxation

Chapter 451

An ACT to allow James M. Crymes, deputy treasurer of Lunenburg county, time to collect unpaid tax tickets now in his hands.
Taxation

Chapter 452

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

Chapter 453

An ACT to allow W. P. Wilson and W.T. Fergusson to erect a pier or wharf at Fergusson’s wharf, in James river.
Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 454

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the fishing of purse nets and pound nets in the tributaries of the Potomac river within the jurisdiction of the counties of Stafford, King George, Westmoreland, and Northumberland, and in the Rappahannock river
Fishing, Amendments, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 455

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Wytheville, Virginia, approved February 26, 1886 (acts 1885-86, page 293), and as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892 (acts 1891-’92, page 654), and to amend and re-enact section 42 of said act, as amended by an act approved January 28, 1890 (acts 1889-’90, page 187), and to amend and re-enact section 45 of said act, approved February 26, 1886 (acts 1885-86, page 293).
Municipal charters, Taxation, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 456

An ACT for the relief of Botetourt agricultural and mechanical association.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 457

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 87 of the charter of the city of Richmond as amended by an act approved February 25, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 15, 33, 87 and 94 and subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 19 of the charter of the city of Richmond.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 458

An ACT to amend and re-enact the first section of an act entitled an act to authorize the supervisors of Amherst county to issue bonds for the purpose of retiring outstanding bonds.
Bonds, Budget

Chapter 459

An ACT to prohibit the catching of fish with seines, weirs, and nets in lake Drummond.
Fishing

Chapter 460

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3164 of the code of Virginia, in reference to allowance to jurors and requiring lists certified by the judge of the court and the clerk thereof to be sent to the treasurer of the county or corporation and to the auditor of public accounts immediately after the adjournment of any court.
Judicial, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement, Voting

Chapter 461

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections thirty-five hundred and forty-nine and thirty-five hundred and fifty of the code of Virginia, in reference to allowance to witnesses; how and by whom entered; by whom and upon what certificate paid, and requiring lists, certified by the judge of the court and the clerk thereof, of all allowances made witnesses on behalf of the commonwealth, to be sent to the treasurer of the county or city and to the auditor of public accounts immediately after the adjournment of any court.
Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 462

An ACT to allow W. Hutchison, treasurer of Prince William county, to collect by levy certain tax bills not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 463

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Page county to apply any surplus that may arise from what is known as the railroad tax to the payment of the amount expended by said board in the erection of a jailer’s residence and jail in said county.
Jails, Public expenditures

Chapter 464

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2,295 of the code in relation to the liability of the corpus of the equitable separate estate of married women for their contracts.
Marriage, Property, Judicial

Chapter 465

An ACT for the relief of John Hargrove, George W. Gates, John W. Bain and W. T. Fisher, deputies of the late Colonel William M. Field, treasurer of Dinwiddie county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 466

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 559 of an act approved March 1, 1892, acts 1891-’92, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact sections 3807 and 3810 of the code of Virginia, relating to the protection of religious meetings and meetings for the promotion of the cause of temperance.”
Alcohol, Religious Institutions, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 467

An ACT to give to John C. Hall, late treasurer of the county of Franklin, and his deputies, power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax-tickets now in his hands.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 468

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to incorporate the Chesterfield transit company.
Transportation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 469

An ACT to require treasurers to report the payment of delinquent taxes made before sale to clerk of court and such clerk to endorse such payment on delinquent list in his office.
Taxation

Chapter 470

An ACT to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments, Amendments

Chapter 471

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Giles county to issue bonds for the purpose of building a bridge or bridges in said county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 472

An ACT to allow William T. Lewis to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay, in Accomac county.
Property, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 473

An ACT to allow Charles T. Jester to erect a wharf on Chincoteague bay in Accomac county.
Public spaces, Property, Municipal charters, Transportation

Chapter 474

An ACT to locate the court-house, clerk’s office, and jail of the county of Warwick.
Judicial, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 475

An ACT to amend the charter of the State building and loan company, granted by the circuit court of the city of Richmond on the seventh day of June, 1894.
Amendments, Business, Property

Chapter 476

An ACT to authorize the Port Norfolk electric railway company to extend its tracks.
Transportation

Chapter 477

An ACT to allow the treasurer of Stafford county additional time to levy for and collect tax-tickets held by said treasurer and not returned delinquent.
Taxation

Chapter 478

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 46 of an act approved February 29th, 1892, acts of 1891 and ’92,chapter 439, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 46 of chapter 4 of an act approved February 12th, 1890, entitled an act to change the name of Goodson to the city of Bristol, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for the same.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 479

An ACT to incorporate the Grayson county farmers mutual benevolent fire insurance company.
Agriculture, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 480

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3056 of the code of Virginia, 1887, providing for the establishment of circuit courts, and also to amend and re-enact subdivision 8, section 3057 of said code, constituting eighth judicial circuit.
Amendments, Judicial, Municipal charters

Chapter 481

An ACT to authorize the sale of the church and lot on Mayo street, in Richmond, known as the Universalist-Unitarian church.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 482

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Warwick Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 72.
Charity, Fraternal organizations, Incorporation, Death and burial, Public officers

Chapter 483

An ACT for compensation of William S. Jones and William T. Daougherty for services beyond the time allotted by law in assessing the lands of Elizabeth City county.
Public expenditures, Property, Public officers

Chapter 484

An ACT to incorporate the McCullough terminal railway, wharf warehouse company.
Business, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 485

An ACT to restrict the sale of spirituous liquors within two miles of Brodnax depot, on the Atlantic and Danville railroad, in Brunswick county, Virginia.
Alcohol

Chapter 486

An ACT to allow M. Thornton, deputy treasurer of Gloucester county, further time in which to collect unpaid tax-tickets now in his hands.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 487

An ACT to repeal chapter 8 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved December 16, 1893, entitled an act to authorize the board of supervisors of Warwick county to increase the salary of the clerk of the county court of the said county.
Repeal of legislation, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 488

An ACT to authorize the county school board of Bath county to compensate school trustees.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 489

An ACT to regulate the granting of licenses to sell wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in the town of Blackstone, Nottoway county, Virginia, or in two miles thereof.
Alcohol, Business, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 490

An ACT to provide for the better preservation of order at race-courses, fair-grounds, base-ball and foot-ball parks, and other places where athletic sports are held.
Amusement, Law Enforcement, Public spaces

Chapter 491

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 9, 1896, entitled an act ratifying and confirming a resolution of the council of the city of Portsmouth, adopted in relation to the terms of its members.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 492

An AC'T to authorize the trustees to sell the William or Stoneberger church property in Page county, Virginia, and invest
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 493

An ACT to empower the town council of Berryville to borrow money to construct an electric plant for lighting said town.
Utilities, Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 494

An ACT to amend the 3d, 15th and 19th sections, and to repeal and re-enact sections 14 and 17 of an act passed March 2, 1892, entitled an act to provide for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county.
Amendments, Public expenditures, Employment and labor

Chapter 495

An ACT to amend and re-enact section fourteen of an act entitled "An act to provide for the working of and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, for opening new roads, and changing the location of existing roads," approved February 14, 1888.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 496

An ACT to amend an act approved March 25, 1872, &c., declaring certain streams in Charlotte county to be highways.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 497

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2726 and 2728 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the action of ejectment.
Amendments, Property, Judicial

Chapter 498

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2164 of the code of Virginia in reference to when license to dredge oysters granted to residents: application therefor as amended and re-enacted by act approved March 5, 1894.
Fishing

Chapter 499

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1792 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the issue of licensed warehouse and other licensed storage receipts, and to provide penalties in respect thereto.
Business, Taxation

Chapter 500

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “An act to regulate and protect the crabbing industry, and to prohibit non residents from catcb-<br />ing crabs in the waters of Virginia,” approved March 7, 1894, and to repeal ao act entitled “An act to protect the crab industry of the commonwealth.<br />approved May 12, 1887.
Amendments, Industry, Agriculture
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