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1895/1896

Laws in Volume
Displaying 801 - 860 of 860

Chapter 802

An ACT authorizing the purchasers of the property and franchises of the South Atlantic and Ohio railroad company, their assigns and successors to become a corporation, to adopt a name therefor, and to possess and exercise general powers, and authorizing the leasing to or by and the consolidation therewith of other corporations.
Business, Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 803

An ACT directing the librarian to turn over certain relics to the Confederate memorial literary society.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 804

An ACT for the relief of Daniel B. Martin, of Lee county, a dis-abled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 805

An ACT to place James S. Oden, of Fairfax county, on the pensia
Pensions, Confederate, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 806

An ACT for the relief of one E. Collins, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Armed forces, Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 807

An ACT for the relief of Byram Hall, a wounded Confederate soldier, of Grayson county.
Confederate, Pensions, Employment and labor

Chapter 808

An ACT for the relief of W. M. Nuckols, of the county of Rockbridge.
Civil Rights, Armed forces, Pensions, Transportation

Chapter 809

An ACT to place George W. Johnson, of Prince William county, on the pension list of the state of Virginia.
Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 810

An ACT for the relief of Robert S. Robertson, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 811

An ACT for the relief of C. S. Burks, a blind Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions

Chapter 812

An ACT for the relief of Ephraim Williams, a Confederate soldier of Carroll county.
Confederate, Pensions, Civil Rights

Chapter 813

An ACT to place the name of Benjamin E. Ward, a Confederate soldier, of Lunenburg county, on the pension roll.
Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 814

An ACT to place H. C. Harover, of Prince William county, on the pension list of the state of Virginia.
Pensions, Confederate, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 815

An ACT to place the name of W. W. Mink, of Lee county, on the pension list.
Pensions, Civil Rights, Confederate

Chapter 816

An ACT to authorize Alfred Oury, of Wythe county, to be placed on the pension list.
Pensions, Confederate, Employment and labor

Chapter 817

An ACT for the relief of Granville Kelly, a disabled Confederate
Confederate, Pensions, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 818

An ACT for the relief of Nancy Jane Rollins, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Charity, Pensions

Chapter 819

An ACT for the relief of C. M. Hicks, a Confederate soldier.
Armed forces, Pensions, Civil Rights, Confederate

Chapter 820

An ACT for the relief of Starling S. Cooper, of Pittsylvania county, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Armed forces, Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 821

An ACT for the relief of V.W. Gibson, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Armed forces, Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 822

An ACT for the relief David F. Haley, of Pittsylvania county, a disabled Confederate soldier.
Confederate, Pensions, Employment and labor, Healthcare

Chapter 823

An ACT to increase the pension of W. A. Trent, of Radford, Virginia.
Pensions, Civil Rights, Armed forces

Chapter 824

An ACT to impose a special license on dealers in cast-off clothing
Business, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 825

An ACT for the relief of Patrick Fox from certain fines and costs
Alcohol, Charity, Judicial

Chapter 826

An ACT for the relief of the estate of William W. Larkin, deceased, from a forfeited recognizance.
Judicial, Debt

Chapter 827

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2476 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend sections 2475 and 2476 of the code of Virginia, with reference to liens for work done and material furnished by artisans, mechanics, lumber dealers and others, approved January 16, 1896, and to amend and re-enact section 2477 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend section 2477 and 2479 of the code of Virginia in relation to the lien of mechanics, approved February 28, 1894.
Business, Property

Chapter 828

An ACT to incorporate the Blue Ridge railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 829

An ACT to eradicate the San Jose or pernicious scale, a disease affecting fruit-trees, and to prevent its spread.
Agriculture, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 830

An ACT to incorporate the American milk company.
Business, Incorporation, Agriculture, Industry, Taxation

Chapter 831

An ACT to amend and re-enact independent section 11 of an act entitled " an act to amend and re-enact sections 2131, 2138, 2134, 2135, 2137, 2148, 2151, 2158, and to repeal sections 2141, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145 and 2147 of chapter 97 of the code of Virginia, in relation to oysters, and to add independent sections thereto," approved February 25, 1892.
Fishing

Chapter 832

An ACT to repeal so much of an act approved April 2, 1879, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1880, in reference to school dis- tricts, as applies to certain districts.
Education

Chapter 833

An ACT for the relief of Mrs James T. Gallier, the widow of a Confederate soldier.
Pensions, Confederate

Chapter 834

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 8,4 and5of an act approved May 6, 1887, entitled "an act to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company," and to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 4 of an act approved May 21, 1887, entitled "an act to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of act approved May 6, 1887, to incorporate the Portsmouth street railway company," and to authorize the county courts of Norfolk, Nansemond and Isle of Wight counties to regulate the use of county roads by the said company in those counties.
Business, Transportation, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 835

An ACT to amend sections 1586 and 1592 of the code of Virginia in relation to the Virginia agricultural and mechanical college.
Agriculture, Education, Amendments

Chapter 836

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2109, code of Virginia, relating to penalty for unlawful fishing.
Fishing, Law Enforcement

Chapter 837

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, Rockingham county, approved March 9, 1880, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the town of Dayton, approved March 9, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereof, approved February 29, 1892, and to add an independent section empowering the town council of said town to negotiate a loan not to exceed five thousand dollars.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 838

An ACT for the relief of R. W. Read, a Confederate veteran, of Augusta county.
Armed forces, Pensions, Civil Rights, Confederate

Chapter 839

Confederate, Pensions, Civil Rights, Armed forces

Chapter 840

An ACT for the relief of E. B. Lee
Amendments, Debt

Chapter 841

An ACT to amend an act to incorporate Shoemaker college, in Scott county, approved March 1, 1894.
Education, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 842

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to prevent trapping and seining in New river and its tributaries
Fishing

Chapter 843

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to appoint trustees for the Mattaponi tribe of Indians of King William county, and to prescribe their duties
Indigenous peoples

Chapter 844

An ACT to incorporate the Newport News female seminary.
Education, Incorporation

Chapter 845

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 4106 of the code of Virginia, touching the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace as to the trial of offenders in certain cases
Judicial, Amendments

Chapter 846

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 8 and 6 of an act entitled an act to protect. and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers and the guarantee and conditions upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violations of the same
Agriculture, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 847

An ACT to amend chapter 192, acts 1893-’94, entitled an act for the protection of certain game in Roanoke county.
Hunting, Wildlife

Chapter 848

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 28, 1890.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Judicial, Industry, Municipal charters

Chapter 849

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia transit company and to authorize it to engage in mining, manufacturing, and storage.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 850

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 70 and 71 of an act approved March 6, 1890, entitled an act to provide for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, and incomes, and on licenses to transact business, and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the government and public schools and to pay the interest on the public debt, and prescribing the mode of obtaining licenses, &c., so as to exempt from the license tax boarding-house keepers who keep boarders for a period not exceeding two months.
Taxation, Business

Chapter 851

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 22, 1871, to incorporate the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and to provide a new charter for same.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 852

An ACT to amend section 31 of an act approved February 29, 1896, to provide for opening and working of roads and keeping the same in repair, and to provide for erecting and maintaining bridges in the county of Culpeper.
Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 853

An ACT to protect pheasants and jack rabbits in the counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland and King George.
Wildlife

Chapter 854

An ACT for the relief of A. V. K. Deekins, a student at the university of Maryland, allowing him to receive a temporary certificate to practice dentistry.
Education, Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 855

An ACT declaring a certain portion of ground in York river a natural oyster rock.
Fishing

Chapter 856

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3969 of the code of Virginia, with reference to when a justice to discharge an accused person who is before him for examination, and what to do when there is sufficient cause to charge him.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments

Chapter 857

An ACT to amend the charter of the Roanoke mineral belt line railroad company, acts of 1893-’94, chapter 189.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 858

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3725 of the code of Virginia of 1887, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 8725 of the code of Virginia, as to obstructing or injuring canals, &c., how punished
Amendments, Judicial, Transportation

Chapter 859

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 100 of the act passed January 16, 1896, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Salaries, Public officers

Chapter 860

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of W. P. Bugg.
Civil Rights

Chapter 861

An ACT in relation to officers and teachers of public free schools having any pecuniary benefit in furnishing books, &c., to public free schools in this state.
Education, Employment and labor, Public officers, Judicial, Charity, Civil Rights, Amendments
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