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1897/1898

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 501

An ACT to incorporate the Walkerton and Mattaponi bridge company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 502

An ACT for the protection of game in Charlotte county.
Hunting

Chapter 503

An ACT to authorize John HW. Alexander, Charles F. Berkley, George W. Rupp, Jasper C. Dawson and George W. Grimes, trustees for Loudoun Lodge, No. 26, Independent order of Odd-fellows, at Leesburg, Virginia, to sell and convey.
Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 504

An ACT to incorporate the Clinch river and Big Sandy railroad company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 505

An ACT to re-enact subdivision 9 of section 19 of chapter 3 of an act approved March 3, 2804, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county.
Municipal charters, Property, Wildlife

Chapter 506

An ACT to authorize the town of Big Stone Gap to receive and disburse road taxes, and to provide for a settlement with the Richmond magisterial district in Wise county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 507

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4, 11, 15 and 17, and to repeal sections 12 and 15 of an act entitled ‘An act to amend the charter of the town of Big Stone Gap, and to legalize certain acts of the town council,’ approved February 28, 1890.
Municipal charters, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 508

An ACT to change and amend charter of the Farmers’ mutual benefit assuciation.
Agriculture, Business, Amendments, Public officers, Property

Chapter 509

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections of the charter of the city of Richmond
Amendments, Business, Municipal charters, Public officers, Fire fighters, Healthcare, Coroner, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 510

An ACT to allow Captain Gillie T. Bunting to erect a wharf or pier on Powell bay, at Wishart’s point, in Accomac county.
Transportation

Chapter 511

An ACT granting to M. C. Armstrong the right to establish a ferry from Blackbeard point, on Hampton creek, in the county of Elizabeth City
Transportation

Chapter 512

AN ACT to authorize the school board of the Evansham school district of the county of Wythe to borrow money and to secure payment of it by deed of trust upon its real estate.
Education, Budget, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 513

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3768 of the code of Virginia in relation to contempts, to define what are direct and what are indirect contempts, and to provide a mode of procedure in such class of cases.
Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 514

An ACT for the relief of the Sheltering arms hospital from collateral inheritance tax, under bequests made said hospital by the late James H. Farish and Elizabeth C. Waller, and to relieve the Woman’s Christian association and the Virginia hospital from the collateral inheritance tax under bequests made said association and said Virginia hospital by the late Elizabeth C. Waller.
Charity, Inheritance and succession, Public expenditures

Chapter 515

An ACT to exempt those engaged in the publication of newspapers from being required to obtain a license fur the privilege or right of printing or publishing the same in the cities, towns and counties in this state.
Public officers, Business, Amendments

Chapter 516

An ACT to enlarge the criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the city of Richmond.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Cemeteries, Public spaces

Chapter 517

An ACT to prohibit hogs from running at large upon public roads in that section south of Clinch river in the county of Russell.
Agriculture, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 518

An ACT for the relief of J. M. Curtis, treasurer of Warwick county, to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit said treasurer with lost school warrant.
Public expenditures, Education

Chapter 519

An ACT to authorize the school trustees of Clintwood town school district to contract with a teacher for a term of vears.
Education

Chapter 520

An ACT to incorporate the Nelson telephone company.
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 521

An ACT to amend charter granted "Citizens exchange bank" by the judge of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, Va., January 13, 180s, and to give said bank also the powers of a trust, guarantee and safe deposit company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 522

An ACT for the relief of W. H. Ewing, treasurer of Prince Edward county.
Debt, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 523

An ACT to incorporate the Southern mutual life insurance company
Incorporation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 524

An ACT authorizing the city council of Radford city to make an allowance for the clerk of the hustings court of said city.
Salaries, Municipal charters, Public officers

Chapter 525

An ACT to provide for working vagrants on public roads in the counties of Franklin, Warren, Clarke, Augusta and the city of Staunton.
Vagrancy, Public expenditures, Labor, Jails

Chapter 526

AN ACT to incorporate the Richmond, Petersburg and Southside telephone and telegraph company.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 527

An ACT to authorize the Maysville magisterial district and other magisterial districts of Buckingham county to vote a subscription towards the construction and extension of the Buckingham branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway to Buckingham courthouse.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 528

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3, 4 and 10 of an act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the Virginia and northwestern railroad company,”
Transportation, Business, Bonds

Chapter 529

An ACT to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling, or offering for sale, any partridges (or quail) in the county of Powhatan.
Hunting

Chapter 530

An ACT to provide for an issue of bonds by the mayor and council of the town of Rocky Mount to raise the funds necessary to pay off the amount of $20,000, subscribed by the people of the town of Rocky Mount to the Roanoke and Southern railway company.
Bonds

Chapter 531

An ACT to incorporate the Accomac Tribe, No. 90, Improved order of Red Men.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 532

An ACT to ratify and confirm the erection by John R. Dos Passos, of a wharf at Lynch’s point, in the Yeocomico river, in the county of Westmoreland
Property, Transportation

Chapter 533

An ACT to permit J. B. Hinton and R. FL Rock to erect a wharf on Mill creek, in Yeocomico river, in the county of Northumberland.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 534

An Act to amend and re-enact section TP oof an act entitled an act to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 535

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to determine to whom the title to the Falmouth bridge, in the county of Stafford, shall be conveyed
Amendments, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 536

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to establish a ferry or bridge across the Rappahannock river at or near the town of Falmouth
Transportation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 537

An ACT for the removal of the disabilities of Samuel C. Harper, incurred by duelling.
Amendments, Civil Rights, Judicial

Chapter 538

An ACT to amend and re-enact the title and sections 12 and 13 of an act approved February 26, 1877, entitled ‘An act to constitute one quarantine district of the Elizabeth river and its branches, and to create a board of quarantine commissioners and a quarantine medical officer for said district,” as amended and re-enacted by acts severally approved January 29, 1886, extending the powers of said Commissioners and officer to land and to add another section thereto.
Amendments, Healthcare, Public officers, Transportation

Chapter 539

An ACT to amend and re-enact section Poof an act entitled ‘ An act to impose a tax on collateral inheritances, and regulate the collection of same, approved February 14, 186
Taxation, Inheritance and succession, Charity, Education, Religious Institutions, Public expenditures

Chapter 540

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3063 of the code of Virginia, relating to the pay of Judge of one circuit sitting in another to hold special term.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 541

An ACT providing that the lot of land belonging to the county of Henrico, located on the southwest corner of Twenty-second and Main streets, shall be declared to be a part of Henrico county, with power in the courts of said county to hold their sessions and transact their business at said place.
Boundaries, Judicial, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 542

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3054 of the code of Virginia in relation to the terms of the corporation courts, and at what terms civil and criminal cases shall be tried therein.
Judicial, Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 543

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 4,5, 6, and 9 of an act approved February 26, 1804, entitled an act to incorporate the Madison and Orange railroad company, and also to amend and re-enact sections 3B, 7, ands of an act approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 3, 7 and S of an act entitled an act. to incorporate the Madisun and Orange railroad company, approved February 26, 1904.
Transportation, Business, Utilities, Bonds, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 544

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Shenandoah county to lease or sell and convey certain portions of lots upon which the courthouse and jail now stand.
Business, Jails, Property, Municipal charters

Chapter 545

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 5 of chapter 656 of the acts of 1895-’96 entitled an act providing for the working, opening and keeping in repair the roads in the counties of Brunswick, Nottoway and Amelia, and for the building and keeping in repair the bridges of said counties
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 546

An ACT authorizing Edwin R. Vanghan and Charles Williamson to erect a wharf on James river, in Warwick county, Virginia.
Utilities, Property, Transportation

Chapter 547

An ACT authorizing the circuit judge of Bath, Highland, Rockbridge and Alleghany to appoint inspectors of all outdoor platform scales and weights used in weighing live stock, farm products, or other things in said counties and providing compensation therefor.
Agriculture, Business, Property

Chapter 548

An ACT to permit Z. Oakley and H. G. Oakley to creet a pier on the oyster-planting ground of N. Z. Oakley, in the mouth of Moratico creek.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 549

An ACT to repeal an act approved February 8, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section & of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Ohio river and Charleston railroad company as the successors of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad company, approved February 12, 1894.
Transportation, Incorporation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 550

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 812 of the code of Virginia in regard to the superintendent of the poor of Lee county, so as to include Hanover county, and also the county of Northampton.
Amendments, Public officers, Pensions

Chapter 551

An ACT to amend the charter of the town of Gordonsville.
Amendments, Budget, Property, Taxation

Chapter 552

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

Chapter 553

An ACT to authorize the county court and board of supervisors of Orange county to allow a monument to the Confederate dead to be erected on the public square.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Public spaces

Chapter 554

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Cedar Grove school property to sell said property and dispose of and invest the proceeds according to the provisions of this act.
Education, Property, Public expenditures, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 555

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors to extend the payment of certain county bonds in the county of Smyth.
Bonds, Debt, Healthcare

Chapter 556

An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Augusta to submit to the vote of the people the question of building a new courthouse and clerks’ offices for said county and of issuing bonds of said county for the purpose of raising funds to be used in the erection of said courthouse and clerks’ offices, and to give said board the power of building said courthouse and clerks’ offices, if the vote results favorably thereto.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Voting

Chapter 557

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 3581 of the code of Virginia in relation to fieri facias on judgment for money; what writs may not issue; and when writ of distringas may issue.
Amendments, Debt, Judicial, Property

Chapter 558

An ACT to authorize the county school boards of Highland, Bath and Alleghany counties to compensate school trustees.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 559

An ACT to amend and re-enact subsection second of section 1466 of the code of Virginia in relation to the duties of boards of school trustees.
Education, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 560

An ACT to prevent the unlawful use of telephone and telegraph tines and instruments and to protect them from injury and prescribe a penalty therefor.
Property, Law Enforcement

Chapter 561

An ACT to amend and re-enact section fifty-eight of the charter of the town of Basie City.
Alcohol, Business, Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 563

An ACT to relieve certain legatees and devisees of Miss Mary J. Baldwin, of Staunton, from the operation of the act approved February 14, 1896, imposing a tax on collateral inheritances.
Inheritance and succession, Taxation, Charity

Chapter 564

An ACT to regulate the method of disbursing the fund provided by an act of the general assembly, approved February 26, 1877, for the protection of sheep in the county of Fairfax.
Agriculture, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 565

An ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled an act to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the state of Virginia
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 566

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

Chapter 567

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to eradicate the San Jose, or pernicious scale, a disease affecting fruit trees, and to prevent its spread
Agriculture

Chapter 568

An ACT to validate the bequest and devise made by Gideon Koiner, of Shenandoah county, to Dr. W. P. Crickenburger, Rev. J. S. Koiner, Newton G. Moore, D. F. Kagey, and C. W. Bennick, trustees, for the use and benefit of Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran church, a religious congregation worshipping in the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 569

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 2498 of the code of Virginia in relation to satisfaction of lien to be entered by creditor; how signed; how owner of real estate may have lien released
Property, Debt, Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 570

An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Southern electric company
Utilities, Business, Budget, Incorporation

Chapter 571

An ACT to authorize the sale of the Front Royal turnpike company, its real and personal property, and all its corporate stock and franchises and that of the stockholders of the same, and as a means to that end to recognize the regularity of its organization and to authorize a re-issue of its corporate stock.
Transportation, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 572

An ACT to exempt the wages of minors from garnishment process.
Children -- Institutional care, Employment and labor

Chapter 573

An ACT to revive, amend and re-enact an act entitled "An aet te an. corporate the Richmond, Gavton and southside railroad company"
Incorporation, Transportation, Industry, Public officers, Public expenditures, Taxation, Bonds

Chapter 574

An ACT to authorize the school electoral board of Norfolk county to increase the number of district school trustees for Washington magisterial dis- trict.
Education, Public officers

Chapter 575

An ACT to amend and re-enact section six of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573, acts of 1891-’92, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, and to amend and re-enact chapter 494, acts of 1895-’96, entitled 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, approved January, 1898.
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 576

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to authorize certain persons when arrested or convicted to be committed to the custody of the Prison association of Virginia
Children -- Institutional care, Prisons, Judicial, Custody of children, Vagrancy

Chapter 577

An ACT to incorporate the Lee fire insurance company of Alexandria, Virginia.
Business, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 578

An ACT to protect wild turkeys in the county of Gloucester
Wildlife, Hunting, Recreation

Chapter 579

AN ACT authorizing the Gladeville school district in the county of Wise to Issue bonds for the payment of the cost of building free school-house for said school district, at Norton, Wise county, Virginia.
Education, Bonds, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 580

An ACT to remove the political disabilities of G. Wray Booker, of Hampton, Virginia.
Civil Rights

Chapter 581

An ACT authorizing board of supervisors to provide for a premium for chicken-hawks killed in the county of Shenandoah.
Agriculture, Wildlife

Chapter 582

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 3, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood, in Dickenson county, as amended by an act approved February 20, 1896.
Municipal charters

Chapter 583

An ACT for the establishment of district high schools in the county of Rockbridge.
Education

Chapter 584

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Washington, in the county of Rappahannock, approved February 12, 1894, with license to sell liquor in said town.
Alcohol, Amendments, Business, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 585

An ACT to authorize the town of Buchanan to issue bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 586

An ACT to empower and authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to use a portion of the surplus taxes collected for county purposes for the purpose of opening new roads in the county of Pulaski, and for improving the grade of existing roads therein.
Transportation

Chapter 587

An ACT to amend an act approved January 31, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Emporia.
Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 588

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 375, acts of 1891-’92, entitled an act for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Wythe.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 589

An ACT for the removal of the political disabilities of Clement R. Green.
Civil Rights, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 590

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3909 of the code of Virginia, edition of 1887, with reference to clerks keeping registers and descriptive lists of persons convicted of felony and copy of Hsts, to be evidence of identity, furin of register and such reference to taking photographs.
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Civil Rights

Chapter 591

An ACT to amend an act to provide for a Normal school in the Virginia Normal and collegiate institute, approved May 21, 1857.
Education, Amendments, Civil Rights

Chapter 592

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4052 of the code of Virginia, in relation to writs of error; where lhe, when for accused, when for state.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 593

An ACT to provide for the classification of and working of roads in Bedford county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 594

An ACT to direct the county superintendent of schools in the county of Franklin to transmit annually to the board of district school trustees approximate statements of the amount of funds to be expended by said board.
Education, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 595

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 5 of an act authorizing the judge of the county court of Giles county to appoint a board of county road commissioners for Giles county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 596

An ACT to incorporate Newport News and Old Point railway and electric company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Utilities, Business

Chapter 597

An ACT amending creek laws in Charlotte county, Virginia.
Amendments, Transportation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 598

An ACT to protect game in the county of Stafford
Hunting

Chapter 599

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

Chapter 600

An ACT determining the respective interests of the county and corporation of Alexandria in the half square of ground in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded by Columbus, Queen and Princess streets, upon which stands the courthouse, and the half square of ground in said city, bounded by St. Asaph, Princess and Pitt streets, upon which stands the jail, and authorizing the partition of said properties between the county and corporation of Alexandria, and of the sale of the courthouse property.
Property, Municipal charters, Jails, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 601

An ACT to require fire insurance companies doing business in this state to refund to policy-holders a certain proportion of the premiums paid in certain cases.
Fire fighters, Public expenditures, Business
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