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1897/1898

Laws in Volume
Displaying 101 - 200 of 1005

Chapter 101

An ACT to provide for the 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, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 102

An ACT for the preservation of game in the county of Fairfax.
Hunting

Chapter 103

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 174 of the code of Virginia, in relation to how officer of another state or country may take affidavit.
Judicial

Chapter 104

An ACT providing for the relief of H. J. Swindall, Fd. Tall, and John Hall, administrators of John Branham, deceased, all of Wise county of Virginia
Amendments, Death and burial, Judicial, Public expenditures

Chapter 105

An ACT to prevent the destruction of fish, and to prevent the obstruction of the free passage of the same, in Dan river, at or near Danville, Virginia.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Property, Recreation

Chapter 106

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to prevent the destruction of fish and to prevent the obstruction of the free passage of the same in Dan river at or near Danville, Va.
Fishing

Chapter 107

An ACT to validate judgments and decrees of courts.
Judicial

Chapter 108

An ACT to incorporate the Rockingham mutual telephone and telegraph company.
Business, Utilities

Chapter 109

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to Increase the pay of overseers of the poor in said county.
Charity

Chapter 110

An ACT to amend sections 2 and 5 of the act extending the boundaries of the city of Portsmouth, approved February 23, 1894.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 111

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to issue redemption bonds
Bonds, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 112

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of article 1 and section 7 of article 4 of an act entitled 'an act incorporating the town of Barton Heights, in Henrico county'
Amendments, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Budget, Property

Chapter 113

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act to amend and re-enact sections 7, 17 and 18 of an act approved February 20, 1892, entitled an act to provide for the settlement of the public debt of Virginia not funded, etc.
Debt, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 114

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

Chapter 115

An ACT for the relief of W. H. Purkins, treasurer of Middlesex county, Virginia.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 116

An ACT to authorize the circuit court of Chesterfield to dispose of the funds arising from the sale of Bethia Baptist church property and land as desired by the congregation of said church.
Religious Institutions

Chapter 117

An ACT to repeal the act to establish a board of river and harbor commissioners for Nansemond river
Repeal of legislation, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 118

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3871L of the code of Virginia, making dogs in the cities of Richmond, Manchester, and in the county of Henrico the subjects of petit larceny, and making all dogs listed for taxation a subject of petit larceny and trespass.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 119

An ACT to provide a lawful fence for the county of Essex.
Fence Laws, Agriculture

Chapter 120

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

Chapter 121

An ACT requiring the commissioners of roads in the county of Russell to settle their accounts before the board of supervisors of Russell county each year at such time as the board may prescribe.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 122

An ACT to compensate school trustees other than of district school boards in Russell county.
Education

Chapter 123

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the counties of Alleghany, Bath, and Craig to increase the salary of the judge of the county courts of said counties.
Salaries

Chapter 124

An ACT to amend and re-enact section three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia-Alaska gold mining company.
Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 125

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Tazewell county to rent law offices located on courthouse square in said county.
Law Enforcement, Judicial, Business

Chapter 126

An ACT to permit F. T. Adams and George W. Taylor to erect a wharf at or near the mouth of Mud creek, in Lancaster county.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 466 of the code of Virginia, styled 'what the table of town lots to contain' so far as the same relates to or affects the assessment or listing for taxation of town lots in the town of Pulaski.
Taxation

Chapter 128

An ACT for the protection of partridges in the county of Roanoke.
Hunting

Chapter 129

An ACT to authorize the town of Suffolk to borrow money.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 130

An ACT to incorporate the Cherrystone normal, agricultural and mechanical stitute.
Education, Agriculture, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 131

An ACT to amend and re-enact. an act for the protection of game and song birds in the counties of Buckingham and Cumberland.
Hunting

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 24, 1896, entitled an act to incorporate the Blacksburg railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Industry

Chapter 133

An ACT to provide for the expenses of the boards of directors of the several state hospitals, and the boards of visitors of the various institutions of learning receiving aid from the state.
Healthcare, Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 134

An ACT to incorporate the Prince William horseman’s association
Agriculture, Business, Property, Taxation, Public spaces

Chapter 135

An ACT to incorporate the Campbell county mutual fire insurance company.
Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 136

An ACT to amend and re-enact section seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potomac river power company, approved January 21, 1896.
Amendments, Incorporation, Utilities, Transportation

Chapter 137

An act to incorporate the trustees of Lovettsville council, No. 101, r. O. U. A. M., of Lovettsville, Virginia.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend section seventeen of the charter of the city of Portsmouth.
Municipal charters, Amendments, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 139

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to make one special levy to provide for the payment of the interest and principal of the bonded indebtedness of Catalpa school district in said county, and to authorize the board of school trustees for said district to apply the proceeds thereof to said indebtedness.
Education, Debt, Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 140

An ACT to provide that every alien casualty insurance company shall have a deposit of not less than $200,000 in the United States, dedicated to its business and liabilities in the United States.
Business, Public officers

Chapter 141

An ACT appropriating fifteen hundred dollars for the purpose of printing and binding the ninety-fourth volume of the Virginia reports.
Public expenditures

Chapter 142

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Portsmouth to unite with the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to repair a public road.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 143

An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale of partridges (or quail), wild turkeys and native pheasants, in the county of Albemarle, and to prohibit the catching of same in traps or the destruction of the eggs of same in said county.
Hunting, Wildlife, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 144

An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake and Hampton Roads railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 145

An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the county of Henrico.
Vagrancy, Labor, Public expenditures, Jails

Chapter 146

An ACT to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of imitation butter.
Agriculture, Business, Healthcare

Chapter 147

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4 and 5 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk safe and deposit trust company, approved February 29, 1892, the name of which corporation was changed by the said act approved February 23, 1894, to the Norfolk bank for savings and trusts.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 148

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 5, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections seventy and seventy-one 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, etc., so as to define who shall be deemed boarding house keepers.
Taxation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 149

An ACT to ratify, confirm and amend the charter of the Monticello company and its financial plan, and to give it additional powers.
Business, Incorporation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 150

An ACT to confirm and quict the title of John Elson and those claiming under him in the lot of land fronting forty-two feet by one hundred and thirty seven feet, more or less, at the northwest corner of Broad and Third streets, in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
Property

Chapter 151

An ACT to authorize the Winchester Presbyterian church of the United States to receive a gift or a bequest, or both, as the foundation of a scholarship.
Charity, Education, Religious Institutions, Wards

Chapter 152

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act incorporating the town of Grundy, in Buchanan county, Virginia, approved March 3, 1879.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Law Enforcement, Public expenditures, Budget, Property, Vagrancy, Recreation

Chapter 153

An ACT to amend and re-enact section one of an act approved February 20, 1896, entitled an act to provide for working and defining the boundaries of certain roads in Fairfax county.
Transportation, Public officers, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 154

An ACT to declare the Conway river a lawful fence between the counties of Greene and Madison from mouth of Pocosan creek, on said river, to where said river empties into the Rapidan river.
Fence Laws, Boundaries

Chapter 155

An ACT to empower the boards of supervisors of Giles, Pulaski, Craig, Lee, Wise, Dickenson, Buchanan and Scott counties to require old fines and costs to be worked out upon the public roads and streets of the towns of said counties, and providing rules and regulations therefor.
Public expenditures, Labor, Prisons, Debt

Chapter 156

An ACT for the preservation of quail in the county of Rappahannock
Hunting

Chapter 157

An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters of the county
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 158

An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Winningham school district, in Nottoway county, to issue the bond of said school district for $650 for the purpose of completing the schoolhouse at Crewe, in said district, and to authorize the board of supervisors of Nottoway county to levy a tax on the property of said district for the purpose of paying interest and discharging said bond
Education, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 159

An ACT to allow A. Markle, R. C. Keefer, F. C. Stout, J. B. Emory and others to erect a wharf on their land on Wallop’s island, in Chincoteague Inlet, Accomac county, Va.
Property, Amendments, Public spaces

Chapter 160

An ACT to prevent the obstruction of public roads in the counties of Buchanan and Dickenson.
Transportation, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 161

An ACT to incorporate the American development company of the United States.
Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 162

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

Chapter 163

An ACT defining what shall be a lawful fence in the county of Campbell.
Fence Laws, Agriculture

Chapter 164

An ACT to submit the questions of a hog law to the qualified voters of Little River district, in Floyd county, Virginia.
Agriculture, Voting, Boundaries, Property

Chapter 165

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Halifax county to provide for the payment of the interest on the bonds of said county issued pursuant to an act approved December 9, 1807, and to provide a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 166

An ACT to legalize and make valid the bequest made by Mrs. Fanny Crockett, lute of the city of Danville, Va., to Main-street Methodist Episcopal church, south, of said city, and to authorize the payment of the amount thereof to the trustees of said church by the personal representatives of the said Mrs. Fanny Crockett.
Charity

Chapter 167

An ACT to incorporate the Alexandria shoe company.
Business, Incorporation

Chapter 168

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 340 of the acts of 1891-92 entitled an act to repeal chapter 324 of the acts of extra session 1887, and to put in full force section 1189 of the code of Virginia in relation to branch roads and lateral works.
Transportation, Industry, Public expenditures

Chapter 169

An ACT to incorporate the Point Comfort Beach railway company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 170

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 39, 52, 58, 62, 63, 64, 66 and 71 of an act approved March 20, 1874, entitled an act providing a charter for the city of Manchester and to validate the delinquent land books and liens for delinquent taxes and assessments in said city and the ordinances for the collection of water rents by the board of water commissioners.
Amendments, Budget, Business, Property, Taxation, Utilities

Chapter 171

An ACT to incorporate the B. F. Johnson school book publishing company.
Business, Education, Incorporation

Chapter 172

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act to incorporate the Merchants’ and mechanics’ savings bank of the city of Norfolk, and for other purposes,
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 173

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Emporia.
Municipal charters, Boundaries, Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Taxation, Healthcare, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 174

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 14, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to protect game in the county of King and Queen, approved March 7, 1894.
Hunting

Chapter 175

An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Newport News to cause to be issued for and in the name of the said city certificates of debt or bonds in addition to these authorized by section JOL of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter theretor, approved January 16, 1806, or any amendment thereto now existing or hereafter enacted, and in addition to the present indebtedness of the said city.
Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Education, Jails

Chapter 176

An ACT to require the treasurer of Campbell county to give as surety on his official bond some guarantee company in good standing, and providing that the board of supervisors may recommend to the county court that a new additional bond should be required of such treasurer.
Bonds

Chapter 177

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the code of Virginia, in reference to pay of judges and clerks of election, so far as it relates to the county of Henrico.
Public officers

Chapter 178

An ACT to authorize and permit the Old dominion land company to erect a wharf or pier, and to construct a bulkhead on and along its water front in the city of Newport News, Virginia, and to authorize the issue by it of negotiable notes or bonds secured by mortgage or deed of trust to pay for the same.
Business, Property, Transportation

Chapter 179

An ACT to ratify and confirm the consolidation of the City gaslight company of Norfolk and the Norfolk gas and electric company under the name of the City gas company of Norfolk.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 180

An ACT to incorporate the Grayson telephone exchange.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 181

An ACT to require city and street railway companies to use vestibule fronts on all cars run on their lines during the months of December, January, February and March of each year.
Transportation

Chapter 182

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5260 of the code of Virginia
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 183

An ACT to convert the Deep Run Hunt Club, of Richmond, Virginia, from a joint stock company into a social corporation without stock, to extinguish the existing stock of said corporation, to declare those now entitled to membership to be members of said corporation, to continue and to validate the said corporation, its acts and contracts, and to enlarge its powers.
Business, Recreation, Hunting, Property

Chapter 184

An ACT to authorize the Franklin female seminary company of Southampton county to issue diplomas of graduation.
Education

Chapter 185

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads in the counties of Alleghany, Bath and Highland
Amendments, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 186

An ACT to repeal section 12 of chapter 4 of an act to provide a new charter for the town of Graham, in the county of Tazewell.
Municipal charters

Chapter 187

An ACT to incorporate the Peoples light, fuel and power company of Norfolk, Virginia
Incorporation, Utilities, Business, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 188

AN ACT to provide for working a certain road in Fairfax county, and to make appleable thereto the provisions of an act approved February 20, 1596.
Transportation

Chapter 189

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in Westmoreland and Northumberland counties.
Education, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 190

An ACT to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski.
Municipal charters, Property, Taxation, Voting, Business, Alcohol, Public officers, Public expenditures, Utilities, Law Enforcement

Chapter 191

An ACT in relation to fences in Mount Vernon magisterial district, Fairfax county.
Fence Laws

Chapter 192

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fifth section of the act to incorporate the Medical college of Virginia as amended by an act passed January 22.
Education, Charity, Healthcare, Public officers

Chapter 193

An ACT to prescribe the time for holding the cireuit courts of the Sixteenth Judicial district.
Judicial

Chapter 194

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act to incorporate the Norfolk and Atlantic terminal company, approved January 28, 1802, as amended by an act approved March 1, 1892.
Transportation, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 195

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Carroll to let to contract the public roads of said county, and levy a tax to keep them in order
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 196

An ACT to empower S. N. Hurst to publish a pocket code of Virginia
Legislative Amendments, Business

Chapter 197

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Norfolk public library, approved February 12, 1804.
Incorporation, Libraries

Chapter 198

An ACT extending time for collecting tax tickets, &e.
Taxation

Chapter 199

An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges of Page county, and for opening new roads and changing the location of existing roads.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Property, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 200

An ACT defining the territorial jurisdiction of the circuit court for the city of Lynchburg and validating any Judgment, order or decree heretofore made by said court within the jurisdiction mentioned in first section.
Judicial, Municipal charters
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