1899/1900

Displaying 1 - 100 of 1483

Chapter 1

An ACT to authorize the city of Winchester to increase its debt and to issue bonds.

Bonds, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 2

An ACT to regulate the sale of cider and other intoxicants in the village of Palmyra, Fluvanna county, Virginia.

Alcohol

Chapter 3

An ACT to authorize the town of Berryville, Virginia, to borrow twenty-five thousand dollars to construct water-works for said town.

Utilities, Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 4

An ACT to empower the town of Berryville, Virginia, to hold real estate for the purpose of constructing water-works for said town, and to acquire and exercise jurisdiction over the same.

Utilities, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 5

An ACT to incorporate the Eta chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity of the University of Virginia.

Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Education, Property, Bonds

Chapter 6

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to increase the salary of the county judge.

Salaries

Chapter 7

An ACT to change the name of the Petersburg perpetual building and loan company, and to amend and re-enact sections 1, 2, 4, 7, ana 10, and to repeal sections 8 and 9 of an act approved May 10, 1887, entitled an act to incorporate the Petersburg perpetual building and loan company, and to add independent sections to the said act to confer additional powers upon the said company.

Incorporation, Business, Public officers

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Alexandria county to borrow money by the issue of bonds to repair and improve and increase the public roads of said county, and to authorize the qualified voters of said county to vote on the question.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 9

An ACT for the relief of W. J. B. Duncan, of the city of Alexandria, Virginia.

Business, Healthcare

Chapter 10

An ACT amending and re-enacting sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 of an act entitled an act to protect and advance agriculture by regulating the sale and purity of commercial fertilizers, and the guarantee and condition upon which they are to be sold, and fixing the penalties incurred for violation of the same.

Agriculture

Chapter 11

An ACT to suspend for forty days the operation of section 666 of the code of 1887, as amended by an act approved February 11, 1898, in relation to delinquent lands purchased in the name of the auditor of the commonwealth.

Property, Taxation, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 7 of an act approved July 11, 1870, entitled an act for the incorporation of the town of Bowling Green, in the county of Caroline.

Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Law Enforcement, Property

Chapter 13

An ACT to authorize the Winchester Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, to receive a gift as the foundation of a scholarship.

Charity, Education, Religious Institutions

Chapter 14

An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit J.C. Haynes, late treasurer of Montgomery county, with a lost warrant

Budget, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 15

An ACT to enable commissioners in chancery to adjourn proceedings before them from their own county or corporation to any other county or corporation, and there continue such proceedings and take depositions and other evidence and compel attendance of witnesses.

Judicial, Law Enforcement

Chapter 16

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled "an act to repeal section 2 of an act approved January 28, 1890, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 22 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871, and to amend and re-enact section 7 of said act as amended by an act approved January 31, 1888; also to amend and re-enact sections 31, 32, and $5 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Charlottesville, approved March 28, 1871; and also to amend and re-enact section 37 of an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Charlottesville, approved March 3, 1892," approved February 9, 1894.

Municipal charters, Public officers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 17

An ACT to incorporate the South Atlantic life insurance company.

Business, Incorporation

Chapter 18

An ACT to authorize the Atlantic coast line railroad company of Virginia to change its name, and to increase the number of its directors and officers: to authorize said company to increase its capital stock, and to issue bonds and secure the same by one or more mortgages, and to authorize the leasing by it and the consolidation therewith of other corporations; and otherwise to enlarge its powers.

Business, Transportation, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 19

An ACT authorizing the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina railroad company, as successor of the Virginia and Carolina railroad company, to exercise the franchises, powers, and privileges of the Virginia and Carolina railroad company, to change its name, and to possess and exercise general powers, and authorize leases, purchases, sales, or consolidations between it and other railroad or transportation companies.

Transportation, Business, Taxation, Amendments

Chapter 20

An ACT to renew, re-enact, and extend the charter of the Longdale iron company for the period of thirty years from the expiration thereof.

Business, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 21

An ACT to repeal section 14 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act for working and keeping in repair the roads of the county of Tazewell, approved February 24, 1888, and further to provide for permanent improvement of the roads in said county, approved February 29, 1892, as amended by an act approved February 12, 1894.

Transportation, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 22

An ACT to change the name of Christianville voting precinct in Mecklenburg county to Chase City voting precinct.

Voting

Chapter 23

An ACT to change the name of Christianville magisterial district in Mecklenburg county to Chase City district.

Municipal charters

Chapter 24

An ACT to incorporate the Snickersville telephone company.

Business, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 25

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 24 and 25 of an act approved January 25, 1898, entitled an act to provide for the opening and working of roads, and to provide for the erecting and maintaining of bridges in the county of Culpeper.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Taxation

Chapter 26

An ACT for the protection of game in Mecklenburg county.

Wildlife

Chapter 27

An ACT to give S. P. Withers, executor and deputy for S. M. Withers, late treasurer of Washington county, and the other deputies of said S. M. Withers, late treasurer of Washington county, the power of levy and distress to collect certain uncollected tax tickets in their hands.

Taxation

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 17, 1898, entitled an act to convert the Lakeside wheel club 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; to enlarge its powers and authorizing it to change its name to Lakeside country club.

Business, Recreation

Chapter 29

An ACT to compensate school trustees, other than clerks, in Richmond county.

Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 30

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Fredericksburg and adjacent national battlefields memorial park association of Virginia, approved February 12, 1898, and to add to the incorporators thereof.

Amendments, Monuments and memorials, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 31

An ACT to authorize the councils of the city of Norfolk to issue bonds from time to time, not exceeding a total of $75,000 of principal, predicated upon the assessed valuation of the property of Brambleton ward.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 32

An ACT regulating appointment of assessors of lands and lots in the county of Warwick, and providing compensation for same.

Property, Public expenditures, Taxation, Budget

Chapter 33

An ACT to quiet the title to that certain lot in the city of Winchester, known as the old Catholic cemetery, and to provide for the removal of the remains interred therein and the sale of said lot.

Cemeteries, Healthcare, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 34

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act appointing trustees for the town of York, in the county of York

Municipal charters

Chapter 35

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Rappahannock county to appropriate one hundred and twenty-five dollars out of the county funds of said county, to assist in repairing Waterloo bridge, in Fauquier county.

Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 36

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 19, 1894, entitled an act to provide police for Newport magisterial district, in the county of Warwick.

Law Enforcement, Judicial, Public officers, Municipal charters, Amendments

Chapter 37

An ACT to empower the trustees of the Bell home to receive land for the use of the said Bell home, in the county of Westmoreland, Virginia.

Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Property

Chapter 38

An ACT for the relief of the personal representatives and deputies of James C. Haynes, late treasurer of Montgomery county.

Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 39

An ACT for the relief of P. D. Divers, treasurer of the county of Franklin, directing and empowering the auditor of public accounts to issue in his behalf a duplicate of a lost warrant.

Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 40

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia electrical railway and development company, approved February 7, 1898, designated as chapter 212 of the acts of 1897.

Business, Transportation, Incorporation

Chapter 41

An ACT to amend and re-enact the fourth subdivision of section 834, code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898.

Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 42

An ACT to permit George F. Parramore to build a bridge across King's creek, in the county of Northampton.

Transportation, Public expenditures, Public spaces

Chapter 43

An ACT to prevent the obstruction of streams and promote the drainage of dams in the county of Bedford.

Agriculture

Chapter 44

An ACT to authorize the city council of Fredericksburg to issue its coupons or registered bonds for the purpose of obtaining an electric plant for lighting the city.

Bonds, Public expenditures, Utilities, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 45

An ACT to authorize the council of the city of Fredericksburg to apportion the expense of street and other local improvements between the city treasury and the real estate benefited thereby.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 46

An ACT to incorporate Newport News lodge, benevolent protective order of elks, number 315.

Charity, Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Public officers

Chapter 47

A RESOLUTION suspending the operations of the existing law requiring a 'brand tax' on fertilizers.

Agriculture, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 48

An ACT to incorporate Hampton lodge, number 366, benevolent protective order of elks, Hampton, Virginia.

Incorporation, Charity, Property, Public officers

Chapter 49

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1271 of the code of 1887, in relation to the securities to be deposited with the treasurer by foreign and home insurance companies.

Business, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 50

An ACT to incorporate the colonial coal and coke company.

Business, Industry, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 51

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to build iron bridges in the said county.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 52

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight to sell and convey and make title to the poorhouse farm, in said county.

Charity, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in relation to the records of Alexandria county, approved March 3, 1879.

Property

Chapter 54

An ACT authorizing the council of the town of Hampton to burrow money and issue bonds therefor to the amount of thirty thousand dollars.

Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 55

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and section 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potts Valley railroad and iron company

Incorporation, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 56

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the united land and investment company, approved February 10, 1896.

Incorporation, Business

Chapter 57

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 129 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890, entitled an act to prescribe the time for holding the courts of the seventeen-th judicial circuit, as amended by an act approved February 16, 1892, and further amended by an act approved February 7, 1898.

Judicial

Chapter 58

An ACT to create Fairmount district, in Fairfield magisterial district, in the county of Henrico; to provide for the establishment of a board of improvement commissioners; to empower them to make a special levy on the property of said Fairmount district, and to disburse same and road tax or levy, made by the supervisors of Henrico county, on the property of said Fairmount district; to prescribe the method whereby said funds shall come within their control, and to authorize and direct the use of said funds for lights, sewerage, and other improvements of a public nature.

Municipal charters, Public expenditures, Property, Taxation, Voting

Chapter 59

An ACT to incorporate the New River, Holston and western railroad company.

Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 60

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 94 and 97 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News, in the county of Warwick, and to provide a charter therefor, approved January 16, 1896; and creating the office of city attorney and authorizing the common council to fill said office.

Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Salaries

Chapter 61

An ACT to authorize the school board of Jefferson township, in Culpeper county, to borrow money.

Education, Bonds, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 62

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wise county to levy a tax for county school purposes.

Education, Taxation

Chapter 63

An ACT to incorporate the southern investment company.

Business, Incorporation, Bonds

Chapter 64

An ACT to amend section sixty-two of an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Newport News in the county of Warwick, and provide a new charter therefor.

Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 65

An ACT for the issue of $50,000 of bonds for the establishment and equipment of proper school buildings for the city of Newport News.

Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 66

An ACT to authorize and empower the council of the town of Farmville to vacate and close so much of Spruce street as lies between High and Chambers streets.

Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 67

An ACT for the relief of A. W. McKim

Taxation

Chapter 68

An ACT to authorize the Richmond standard steel spike and iron company to construct a railway across the county road in Dunlap’s Creek Valley in Alleghany county, upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board of supervisors of Alleghany county.

Transportation, Industry

Chapter 69

An ACT to allow M. S. Cahoon, late treasurer of Botetourt county,

Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 70

An ACT to change the name of the title and trust company to southern trust company, and to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to incorporate the Virginia mercantile and safe deposit company, of Richmond, Virginia, approved January 24, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved January 22, 1894.

Business, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 71

An ACT to amend the charter of the old dominion building and loan association of Richmond, Virginia, granted by the judge of the circuit court of Richmond, Virginia, in vacation, January 18, 1890, as amended by the order of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, entered August 1, 1890, and to change the name of the said corporation, and to grant it the power of a trust, guarantee and safe deposit company.

Amendments, Business, Property, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 72

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled 'an act to incorporate the town of Berkley, in the county of Norfolk'

Municipal charters, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 73

An ACT to provide for the decrease of the nominal amount of the common capital stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company.

Business, Transportation, Public officers

Chapter 74

An ACT to amend section 2498 of the code of Virginia, as here- tofore amended in relation to the release and satisfaction of liens.

Amendments, Debt, Property, Judicial

Chapter 75

An ACT to define a lawful fence for the county of Campbell.

Fence Laws, Property, Agriculture

Chapter 76

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to provide for the working and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in the county of Stafford,

Repeal of legislation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 77

An ACT to seize, retain, destroy, and attach forged or counterfeit obligations, bonds, or coupons of the state, and to exonerate the officers and employees of the state in making such seizure, retention, destruction, and attachment.

Bonds, Judicial

Chapter 78

An ACT to protect Mongolian and English pheasants in Rockbridge and Augusta counties.

Wildlife, Hunting

Chapter 79

An ACT to amend the charter of the Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company by amending and re-enacting section 2 thereof as amended and re-enacted by the act approved January 11, 1896, SO as to authorize said Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company to issue preferred as well as common stock: and by adding an independent section to said charter authorizing and permitting said Newport News ship-building and dry-dock company and its successors to manufacture steel and iron and the products thereof, and armor and arms, carriages and ammunition, and to erect and maintain piers, docks, bulkheads, and other properties and works in the James river westerly trom and in front of the property owned or which may be owned by said company or its successors at Newport News.

Business, Industry, Transportation

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 9 of an act approved March 3, 1898, entitled an act to incorporate the mutual benefit insurance association of Virginia, so as to change the location of the principal office of the association.

Business, Incorporation

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the appointment of special prosecuting attorneys in proper cases

Judicial, Law Enforcement, Public officers

Chapter 82

An ACT to amend the charter of the Leesburg and Point of Rocks turnpike company and to confirm its title to certain road-bed.

Transportation, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 83

An ACT authorizing the courts of this commonwealth to require no security, other than its own obligation, of the Lynchburg trust and savings bank, when under the provisions of its charter it is appointed by any such court, executor, administrator, guardian, committee, receiver, trustee or other fiduciary.

Business

Chapter 84

An ACT regulating the appointment of assessors of land in the city of Newport News, and providing for compensation!

Property, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 85

An ACT to authorize the Norfolk and Southern railroad to purchase or consolidate other railroad properties and franchises and to sell its own.

Transportation, Industry, Business

Chapter 86

An ACT to permit C. W. Grandy, of Norfolk, Virginia, to erect and maintain a wharf on James river in Charles City county, Virginia, opposite the land called Kennon’s or Neilson’s landing.

Transportation

Chapter 87

An ACT for the relief of George W. Koontz, treasurer of Shenandoah county, and to authorize the auditor of public accounts to credit said treasurer with lost school warrant.

Public expenditures

Chapter 88

An ACT to permit C. W. Grandy, of the city of Norfolk, to erect, maintain and rebuild a wharf on James river, in Charles City county, Virginia.

Property, Transportation

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2465 of the code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 4, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1898, in relation to contracts, deeds, &c., that are void as to creditors and purchasers unless recorded.

Property, Debt

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 186 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the increase of salaries of judges of certain cities.

Judicial, Salaries, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 91

An ACT to incorporate the Keysville bluestone mission industrial school.

Education, Children -- Institutional care, Charity, Civil Rights, Public expenditures

Chapter 92

An ACT to create a board of sinking fund commissioners for Wise county.

Budget, Debt, Taxation

Chapter 93

An ACT for the protection of fish in Gunstock creek, Bedford county, Virginia.

Fishing

Chapter 94

An ACT to prescribe the manner in which the mutual assurance society against fire on buildings in the state of Virginia shall deposit its moneys and invest its surplus funds.

Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 95

An ACT for the creation of a corporation to be known as the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News railway company by the consolidation of the Port Norfolk electric railway company, the Portsmouth and Smithfield railroad company, and the Portsmouth, Pig’s Point and Newport News railway, ferry and hotel company, and to define its powers.

Transportation, Business, Incorporation, Bonds

Chapter 96

An ACT to incorporate the town of Phebus, in Elizabeth City county.

Municipal charters, Boundaries, Property, Budget, Public officers, Taxation, Education

Chapter 97

An ACT giving courts of law jurisdiction over suits on lost past due bonds, notes, or other written evidences of debt, and enabling said courts to require the party in whose favor the judgment may be rendered to execute proper indemnifying bond before execution is issued.

Debt, Bonds

Chapter 98

An ACT relating to the signing heretofore or hereafter of certain obligations by corporations as surety, through duly authorized agents or attorneys in fact without the use of corporate seal, and declaring the force and effect of the same.