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1901/1902

Laws in Volume
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Chapter 1

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Delta Chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity of the University of Virginia.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Charity, Education, Business

Chapter 2

An ACT to amend the charter of the Virginia Mechanics Institute so as to authorize the same to acquire and hold real estate, etc.
Education, Incorporation, Business

Chapter 3

An ACT to authorize school district No. 2, in the county of Elizabeth City, to borrow a sum not exceeding $18,000, and issue bonds therefor, and to repeal an act entitled “an act to authorize the county school board of Elizabeth City county to borrow $15,000,” approved February 16, 1901.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 4

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 14 and 19 of an act of the general assembly 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 and re-enacted by an act approved February 12, 1894, as amended by an act approved January 11, 1900, and as amended and re-enacted by act approved January 27, 1900.
Budget, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 5

An ACT to confirm the union, merger, and consolidation of the Lynchburg Traction and Light Company and the Lynchburg Electric Railway and Light Company into one corporation under the name of the Lynchburg Traction and Light Company, and to confirm the agreement of consolidation and all acts and contracts of said consolidated company, and all deeds, mortgages, and trust deeds executed by it, and to amend and enlarge its charter.
Business, Incorporation, Utilities, Public expenditures

Chapter 6

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to change the name of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company to the Pocahontas Collieries Company
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 7

An ACT to authorize and empower the trustees of Shenandoah Institute, in the county of Rockingham, to borrow money.
Education, Bonds, Business

Chapter 8

An ACT to authorize the increase of the capital stock of the Old Dominion Railway Company.
Industry, Transportation, Business

Chapter 9

An ACT to authorize the Old Dominion Railway Company to create divisional mortgages.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 10

An ACT to empower the county of Fluvanna to borrow the sum of $2,800 for the purpose of building a bridge in said county, and to issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 11

An ACT to permit Louis S. Landford to erect a wharf or pier on his land on Nassawaddox creek, Northampton county, Virginia.
Property, Transportation

Chapter 12

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Boykins, approved November 24, 1884, as amended by act approved February 14, 1901.
Municipal charters, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 13

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Berkley.
Bonds, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 14

An ACT to permit Charles Lockey Collier, a person under the age of 21 years, to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
Employment and labor, Lawyers, Judicial

Chapter 15

An ACT to authorize the directors of the Sweet Briar Institute to pay to the Protestant Episcopal church, known as Ascension church, at Amherst, Virginia, a legacy hequeathed to it by the will of the late Indiana Fletcher Wiliams.
Charity, Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 16

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county to issue bonds for the purpose of refunding the indebtedness of the said county created to pay the subscriptions of the said county to the stock of the Valley Railroad Company.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 17

An ACT to authorize the city of Norfolk to close Duke-street canal and vest the city of Norfolk with the title of the State of Virginia in a portion thereof.
Municipal charters, Public spaces, Transportation

Chapter 18

An ACT to define a lawful fence in Little River district, in the county of Floyd.
Fence Laws, Agriculture

Chapter 19

An ACT to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters of Lunenburg county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock of the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, and to empower and direct the supervisors of said county to subscribe to the preferred capital stock of said railroad company to the amount of $100,000, par value, upon the terms and conditions prescribed in the order of court under which said election was held.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 20

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Western Railroad Company, approved February 10, 1894, and to amend and re-enact section 11 of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Western Railroad Company, approved February 10, 1894, and to amend and re-enact section 11 of said act as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 10 and 11 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia Seaboard and Western Railroad Company, approved February 10, 1894, approved January 11, 1896, said last mentioned act being chapter 1008 of the acts passed by the general assembly during the session of 1897-1898.
Incorporation

Chapter 21

An ACT to authorize J. N. Whittaker, of Amelia county, Virginia, to become a notary public in the State of Virginia while acting as clerk to United States officials.
Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 22

JOINT RESOLUTION to suspend the operation of the act approved March 6, 1890, and acts amendatory thereof, entitled an act to require the payment of fees on certain charters so far as it applies to the charter of incorporation of any company that may be authorized by the general assembly for the purpose of celebrating the ter-centenary of the founding of Jamestown.
Amendments, Incorporation, Public officers

Chapter 23

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia State Horticultural Society and to define its powers and duties
Agriculture

Chapter 24

An ACT to incorporate Eastern and Northwestern Railway Company.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 25

An ACT to allow R. M. Sanders, treasurer of the county of Lancaster, and his deputies further time to collect unpaid tax tickets now in their hands.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 26

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act entitled "an act to incorporate Machapungo bridge," approved March 3, 1898, and to add an additional section thereto.
Amendments, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 27

An ACT to incorporate the Jefferson University.
Education, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 28

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 20 of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact chapter 573 of the acts 1891 and 1892, entitled an act for opening and keeping in repair the public roads of Pulaski county, as amended by an act passed March 2, 1892, as amended by an act passed January 25, 1898, as amended by an act passed February 28, 1898, as amended by an act passed March 6, 1900, as to the limit of the road levy in Pulaski county.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Taxation

Chapter 29

An ACT to permit Charles H. Gurney, Jr., a person under the age of 21 years, to obtain a license to practice law in the courts of the State of Virginia,
Lawyers, Legislative Amendments, Judicial

Chapter 30

An ACT for the relief of George B. Keezell, Pembroke Pettit, and John A. Curtis.
Public expenditures

Chapter 31

An ACT to incorporate the Elizabeth River Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 32

An ACT to change the name of the town of Smithville.
Municipal charters

Chapter 33

An ACT to allow Edward O. Gladstone, late deputy treasurer of Northampton county, further time in which to collect certain tax tickets in his hands not returned delinquent.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 34

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Norfolk county to borrow money.
Budget, Public expenditures

Chapter 35

An ACT to incorporate the Dixie Beneficial Association.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations, Charity, Death and burial, Public expenditures

Chapter 36

An ACT to incorporate the Home Telephone Company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 37

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved January 13, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act entitled "an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk," approved February 22, 1890, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1896, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act approved February 22, 1890, entitled "an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk, and to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6, and 12 of said act as amended by an act approved February 12, 1892, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 12 of an act entitled an act to extend the boundaries of the city of Norfolk approved February 22, 1890."
Boundaries, Budget, Business, Taxation

Chapter 38

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Appomattox county to make an appropriation for the purpose of aiding in erecting a monument in memory of the Confederate dead.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials

Chapter 39

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

Chapter 40

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Frederick county to purchase the private stock of the North Frederick Turnpike Company.
Transportation

Chapter 41

An ACT to incorporate the American Ministers Life Insurance Company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 42

An ACT to incorporate the town of Fries, in Grayson county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Law Enforcement, Taxation, Alcohol

Chapter 43

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Pulaski county to borrow money for the construction of and repair to the bridge across New river at Towe’s ferry, in Pulaski county.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 44

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 15, 1901 entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act for the protection of game in Floyd county, approved March 7, 1894.
Hunting

Chapter 45

An ACT to validate certificates of acknowledgment taken by persons styling themselves officers authorized by law to take and certify acknowledgments, but whose terms of office had expired prior to the taking and certifying thereof.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Property

Chapter 46

An ACT to enable Eldridge M. Gathright, of Louisa county, Virginia, to stand an examination by the Court of Appeals for a license to practice law.
Lawyers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 47

An ACT for the relief of Clinton M. Wolfe, of Scott county.
Employment and labor, Healthcare

Chapter 48

An ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Roanoke to issue bonds or certificates of debt to the amount of $25,000 for the purpose of purchasing, improving, and maintaining a public park and cemetery in the city of Roanoke.
Bonds, Cemeteries, Public expenditures, Public spaces, Voting

Chapter 49

An ACT to authorize the paymaster and cashier of the Lowmoor Iron Company of Virginia to carry concealed weapons
Armed forces, Business

Chapter 50

An ACT declaring Stuart's creek, in Halifax county, to be a highway
Transportation

Chapter 51

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 22, 1898 entitled an act to regulate the killing, capturing, hunting, buying, selling or offering for sale any partridges (or quail) in the counties of Cumberland, Chesterfield, and Powhatan.
Hunting

Chapter 52

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Portsmouth Dime Savings Bank, approved February 15, 1901, so as to authorize the said bank to act as agent for individuals and corporations.
Business

Chapter 53

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2 of an act entitled “an act to confirm the organization and corporate existence of, and to grant certain powers to, the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church Railway Company, approved March 4, 1896.
Transportation

Chapter 54

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3650 in chapter 178 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in regard to exemptions.
Amendments, Debt, Property, Death and burial, Agriculture

Chapter 55

An ACT inviting the government of the United States to establish a military post in Virginia, and giving the consent of the State to the purchase of land for the same.
Armed forces

Chapter 56

An ACT to authorize the town council of Farmville, Virginia, to exempt from municipal taxation the bonds of said town issued under section 21 of the charter of said town, as approved February 8, 1901.
Bonds, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 57

An ACT to incorporate the board of trustees of the ministerial relief fund of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States.
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 58

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to authorize the school trustees of school district No. 5, in Norfolk county, to sell and convey certain school-houses and lots in the town of Berkley and the village of South Norfolk
Education, Bonds, Budget

Chapter 59

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5 of an act approved March 8, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Louisa, Louisa county, Virginia.
Municipal charters, Law Enforcement

Chapter 60

An ACT to protect fish in the waters of Roanoke river and its tribu-
Fishing

Chapter 61

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 164 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 1, 1884, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 13, 1896, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 23, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 14, 1900, so as to allow foremen, quartermen, ete.
Amendments, Employment and labor, Legislative Amendments, Armed forces

Chapter 62

An ACT to authorize and empower school district No. 4, in the county of Elizabeth City, to borrow $17,000 and issue bonds therefor, to build a school-house in the town of Phoebus, and to repeal an act approved December 11, 1901, authorizing the county school board of Elizabeth City county to borrow $10,000 to build a school-house in the town of Phoebus.
Education, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 63

An ACT to authorize the consolidation of the Portsmouth and Suffolk Water Company, the Berkley and South Norfolk Water and Electric Light Company, and the Nansemond Water Company, under the name of the Portsmouth, Berkley and Suffolk Water Company.
Utilities, Business, Municipal charters

Chapter 64

An ACT vesting conductors and motormen on street cars in the counties of this State with police powers, and authorizing them to carry concealed arms while on duty.
Law Enforcement

Chapter 65

An ACT to enable Aubrey G. Weaver, of Warren county, Virgima to appear before the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals and take the required examination for a license to practice law.
Lawyers, Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 66

An ACT for the protection of deer in the counties of Gloucester and Mathews.
Hunting

Chapter 67

An ACT to refund to Mary A. Yancey, administratrix of W. L. Yancey, deceased, of Harrisonburg, a certain license tax paid by said W. L. Yancey in his lifetime as an attorney at law.
Lawyers, Public expenditures, Death and burial, Inheritance and succession

Chapter 68

An ACT to incorporate NDodge’s Business College of Tazewell, Virginia.
Business, Education, Incorporation

Chapter 69

An ACT to authorize the city of Portsmouth to issue bonds to continue the paving and grading the streets in the fifth ward of said city.
Bonds, Boundaries, Budget, Municipal charters

Chapter 70

An ACT for the relief of the sureties and personal representatives of John W. Roberts, deceased, late treasurer of Isle of Wight county.
Taxation

Chapter 71

An ACT to authorize Richmond Bland and J. L. Bland to erect.
Transportation, Property

Chapter 72

An ACT to authorize R. re. Richardson to erect. a wharf, dock, or piet
Transportation

Chapter 73

An ACT to protect game in the county of King and Queen.
Hunting

Chapter 74

An ACT to permit Charles B. Merritt to erect a wharf or pier on Lewis creek, on Chincoteague island, Accomac county, Virginia.
Property, Public spaces, Utilities

Chapter 75

An ACT to permit Frank Merritt to erect a wharf or pier on Lewis creek, on Chincoteague island, in Accomac county, Virginia.
Public spaces, Property, Transportation

Chapter 76

An ACT to amend sections 3 and 9 of chapter 53 of the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, extra session 1901, entitled a “bill to incorporate the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, to grant said corporation certain privileges, and authorize the counties through which said road may be constructed to aid the construction thereof.
Amendments, Business, Transportation

Chapter 77

An ACT to authorize the county of Powhatan to exchange the conditional bonds of said county subscribed to the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad Company for value received coupon bonds.
Bonds, Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 78

An ACT to invest the manager or other person in charge of the property of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities at James-
Amendments, Public officers, Public spaces, Property

Chapter 79

An ACT to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters of Floyd county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock of the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, and to empower and direct the board of supervisors of said county to subscribe to the preferred capital stock of said railroad company to the amount of $150,000, par value, upon the term and under the conditions prescribed in the order of the county court under which said election was held.
Transportation, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 80

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 712, acts of assembly 1897-8, approved March 3, 1898, incorporating the Princess Anne, Cape Henry and Lynnhaven Bay Railway Company.
Transportation, Incorporation, Public expenditures

Chapter 81

An ACT to amend and re-enact secticn 2 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Ohio and Big Sandy Coal Company, approved February 22, 1890, as amended by an act approved February 29, 1890, so as to authorize the increase or reduction of the capital stock of said company.
Business

Chapter 82

An ACT to authorize Richmond Bland, Joseph L. Bland, W. II. Bell, and J. W. Marshall to erect wharves, docks, or piers on their lot in the town of West Point, King William county, on the York and Mattaponi rivers, known as a part of the Beach lot.
Municipal charters

Chapter 83

An ACT to refund to John R. Dillon, of Southampton county, the sum of $100 paid into the county court of Southampton county as bail in the case of the Commonwealth v. Peter Austin, lately pending in said court.
Judicial, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 84

An ACT to allow J. L. Sanders and his personal representatives further time in which to collect certain tax tickets now in his hands.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 85

An ACT to legalize a certain election held by the qualified voters of Grayson county, Virginia, for the purpose of subscribing to the stock of the Mount Rogers and Eastern Railroad Company, and to empower and direct the board of supervisors of said county to subscribe to the preferred capital stock of said railroad company to the amount of $100,000, par value, upon the terms and under the conditions prescribed in the order of the county court under which said election was held.
Transportation, Budget, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 86

An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of meal ground or milled from Indian corn.
Agriculture

Chapter 87

An ACT to amend and re-enact section | of an act entitled an act to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of Culpeper county to issue bonds and raise money for the purpose of providing for and erecting the neces- sary buildings for a poorhouse
Bonds, Charity

Chapter 88

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act approved February 20, 1894, entitled ‘‘an act authorizing the purchasers of the Richmond and Danville railroad, their assigns and successors, to become and be 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, Incorporation

Chapter 89

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of the charter of the city of Richmond, as embodied in the act approved May 24, 1870, and to provide for the establishment of certain election precincts in said city.
Boundaries, Voting, Municipal charters

Chapter 90

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, approved January 14, 1879, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend sections 6, 7, and 9 of chapter 28 of acts of assembly for the session of 1878-9, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in Fairfax county, approved March 4, 1890; and to amend and re-enact section 7 of said act amended as aforesaid, and as further amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved January 14, 1879, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Herndon, in the county of Fairfax, approved March 3, 1892.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Taxation, Public expenditures, Property, Transportation, Education

Chapter 91

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 33 of an act of the general assembly of Virginia approved March 30, 1874, entitled “an act to provide a charter for the city of Manchester.”
Municipal charters, Bonds, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 92

An ACT to authorize the town of Suffolk, Virginia, to issue bonds to redeem bonds maturing during 1902 and 1903.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 93

An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Loudoun Lodge, No. 101, Knights of Pythias, of Lovettsville, Virginia.
Incorporation, Fraternal organizations

Chapter 94

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate Saint Mary's Benedictine Institute, approved March 15, 1875, Richmond, Virginia.
Education, Religious Institutions, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 95

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 2, 1898, changing the name of the John Hay Normal and Industrial School, of Alexandria, Virginia.
Education, Children -- Institutional care, Incorporation

Chapter 96

An ACT to incorporate the Richmond Methodist Mission Association
Charity, Religious Institutions

Chapter 97

An ACT to incorporate the Security Life and Annuity Company of America.
Incorporation, Business, Pensions

Chapter 99

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act for the relief of Louis K. Walz
Healthcare, Employment and labor, Business

Chapter 100

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 8, and 11 of an act approved February 11, 1898, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Potomac River Railroad Company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 101

JOINT RESOLUTION directing the clerk of the house of delegates and keeper of the rolls of Virginia to provide a safer place for the keeping of the rolls, and directing the register of the land office to have the necessary work done.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments
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