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1901es

Laws in Volume
Displaying 201 - 300 of 347

Chapter 201

An ACT to allow J. F. Duke, deputy treasurer of Louisa county, further time within which to distrain and levy and collect certain tax tickets for which he has accounted to the State.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 202

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act creating and establishing a teachers’ retirement fund in the city of Richmond
Education, Pensions, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 203

An ACT to authorize the city councils of Norfolk to increase the compensation of the assesors of lands and lots for the year 1900.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 204

An ACT to authorize B. W. Hefferron and J. L. Mulford to erect a wharf, dock, or pier on their lots, situated in the town of West Point, King William county, on the Mattaponi river, and known on the map of said town as numbers 391 and 392.
Transportation, Property, Public spaces

Chapter 205

An ACT to incorporate the Independent Baptist aid society of Westmoreland courity, Virginia.
Charity, Cemeteries, Death and burial, Incorporation

Chapter 206

An ACT authorizing the board of supervisors of Henrico county to pay additional compensation to L. L. Fussell, temporary superintendent of poor of said county.
Charity, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 207

An ACT for the relief of William H. Brauer, treasurer of Henrico county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 208

An ACT for the relief of Louis K. Walz.
Healthcare, Employment and labor

Chapter 209

An ACT to authorize the trustees of Oxford Presbyterian church, in the county of Rockbridge, to sell certain lots for burial purposes.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Charity

Chapter 210

A JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the Torrens system of land registration and transfer.
Property

Chapter 211

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to make sale and transfer to the William R. Trigg company of the Richmond dock and so much of its real estate as may be necessary and appurtenant to the use thereof, lying and being in the city of Richmond, Virginia, east of the eastern face of the masonry of the first lock above the ship-lock.
Business, Transportation, Municipal charters

Chapter 212

An ACT to incorporate the Southwest Virginia agricultural and live stock association.
Agriculture, Amusement, Business, Public spaces, Recreation, Taxation

Chapter 213

An ACT to authorize the justices of the peace of the Washing-
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 214

An ACT in relation to the erection of gates across public highways in the county of Rockbridge. Virginia.
Transportation

Chapter 215

An ACT to protect the Mongolian and the cross between the Mon-
Wildlife

Chapter 216

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 11 of an act entitled an act to create the board of fisheries, define its duties and fix the salaries of its members
Amendments, Fishing, Public officers, Utilities

Chapter 217

An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to empower and in-struct the board of sinking fund commissioners to sell the State’s interest in the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad and to repeal an act entitled an act to empower and instruct the board of sinking fund commissioners to sell the State’s interest inthe Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company and to invest the proceeds of the sale in century bonds
Repeal of legislation, Transportation, Bonds

Chapter 218

An ACT to incorporate the Central railway of Virginia.
Incorporation, Industry, Transportation, Bonds, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 219

An ACT to amend the charter of the Virginia sugar refining company
Business, Incorporation, Industry

Chapter 220

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1373 of the Code of Virginia in relation to the public ferry across the Curotoman river in the county of Lancaster.
Transportation

Chapter 221

An ACT to make the corporation of the town of Clintwood a separate road district.
Transportation, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 222

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the payment of charter fees, when charters granted by the courts are ratified in whole or in part by the General Assembly, so as to provide for additional fee when court charter or any of its provisions are ratified or amended.
Business

Chapter 223

An ACT to incorporate the Lewis Ginter land and improvement company.
Business, Incorporation, Property, Public expenditures

Chapter 224

An ACT to incorporate the Bethel military academy, Fauquier county, Virginia.
Education, Armed forces, Charity, Municipal charters

Chapter 225

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 149 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved February 8, 1898, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 3, 1900, in reference to the pay of judges of election so far as it relates to the counties of Prince William, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Warwick, Prince George, Surry, Amherst, Greene, Madison, Campbell, Tazewell, Scott, Mecklenburg, Amelia, Buckingham, Cumberland, Prince Edward, Russell, Culpeper, Pittsylvania and Frederick so as to include the county of Nelson.
Judicial, Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 226

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Westhampton park railway company, approved March 7, 1900.
Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities, Business

Chapter 227

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 42, 45, and 50, of the charter of the city of Manchester as enacted by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 20, 1874, providing for the submission of the same to an election by the qualified voters of said city, and providing for the proper operation of said amendments, and enact- ing a schedule in relation thereto.
Municipal charters, Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers, Wards

Chapter 228

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved February 28, 1896, entitled an act to repeal subdivision 9 of section 19, chapter 3 of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 8, 1894, entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Clintwood in Dickenson county.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 229

An ACT to give consent by the state of Virginia to acquisition by the United States, of such lands as may be needed for the establishment of a National forest reserve in the said state.
Public spaces, Property, Utilities

Chapter 230

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3319 of the Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted, so as to give Rappahannock county five commissioners in chancery.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 231

An ACT to authorize R. E. Richardson to erect a wharf, dock or pier on his lot in the town of West Point, King William county, on the Pamunkey river, and known on the map of said town as number 55.
Transportation

Chapter 232

An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the “Peoples Telephone Company,” and to give it additional powers.
Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 233

An ACT to authorize the town of Abingdon to take control of the hall in said town, known as Temperance hall, and to provide for repairing and enlarging the same.
Amusement, Municipal charters, Public expenditures

Chapter 234

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to define who are officers and employees of cities, towns, and counties
Public officers, Amendments, Employment and labor

Chapter 235

An ACT to exempt certain lands of H. V. Hudson from taxation by the town of Luray for corporation purposes.
Agriculture, Taxation, Property

Chapter 236

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1666 of the Code of Virginia as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 7, 1900, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1660 to 1712, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to state hospitals for the insane and the commitment of insane persons.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Judicial

Chapter 237

An ACT to ratify and confirm the charter of the Ocean View pleasure pier company.
Business, Amusement, Public spaces

Chapter 238

An ACT to incorporate the Hanover and Henrico telephone and telegraph company.
Incorporation, Business, Utilities

Chapter 239

An ACT for the relief of Harry Howard, of Newport News, Virginia.
Business, Healthcare, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 240

An ACT to establish a dispensary for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Jerusalem magisterial district, Southampton county, Virginia, to prohibit all persons, firms or corporations, except manufacturers of apple and peach brandy within said district, to sell, barter or exchange such liquors in said district, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this act, so far as they apply to the said district.
Alcohol

Chapter 241

A JOINT RESOLUTION etecting an electoral board for Warwick county.
Public officers, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 242

A JOINT RESOLUTION providing for a commission to investigate certain matters in relation to the penitentiary.
Prisons, Labor, Budget

Chapter 243

An ACT to provide for the selection of delegates to the constitutional convention, for the convening of said delegates, the organization of the said convention and for submitting the revised and amended constitution to the people of the State of Virginia for ratification or rejection.
Legislative Amendments, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 244

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia artesian water company.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 245

An ACT providing for taking the sense of the qualified voters of Slate river magisterial district of Buckingham county, on the question whether the board of supervisors of said county shall negotiate a loan and issue bonds of said county for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a bridge across James river, at or near Scottsville, and shall levy a special district tax in said district to pay said bonds and interest thereon, and authorizing the board of supervisors of said county to issue said bonds and a sinking fund to pay said bonds by a tax to be levied in said district.
Bonds, Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Transportation

Chapter 246

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1749 1750 and 1752, of chapter 77 of the Code, regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in Virginia, approved March 7, 1900.
Healthcare

Chapter 247

An ACT to incorporate Norfolk dime savings bank.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 248

An ACT to authorize and enable the Cumberland Gap water company, incorporated under the taws cf Tennessee, to extend their water supplies to the Virginia side.
Utilities, Incorporation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 249

An ACT to incorporate the Greene county telephone company.
Business, Utilities, Incorporation

Chapter 250

An ACT to incorporate the town of South Hill, Mecklenburg county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Boundaries, Public officers, Taxation, Alcohol, Public expenditures, Law Enforcement

Chapter 251

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Norfolk, Virginia, to improve any street, avenue, road or sidewalk within the limits of any piece or plot of land that has or may hereafter be plotted and laid off into lots, streets, avenues, roads and sidewalks by plot thereof, duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the county court of said county, and to levy a tax for the purpose of making such improvements against the lots abutting on the streets, avenues, roads and sidewalks to be so improved.
Public expenditures, Transportation, Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 252

An ACT providing for the payment of a special license tax on bulls, and for the protection of persons paying such tax by lien on the offspring thereof.
Agriculture, Business, Property

Chapter 253

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Hanover, in their discretion, to pay the jailer of said county annually such an amount as may be necessary to cover the costs of fuel for heating the county jail.
Jails

Chapter 254

An ACT to incorporate the order of Jamestown, 1607.
Incorporation, Religious Institutions

Chapter 255

An ACT for the relief of Mrs. R. F. Burks.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 256

An ACT to provide what evidence may be considered in the appellate courts.
Judicial

Chapter 257

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to increase
Judicial, Law Enforcement, Amendments, Municipal charters

Chapter 258

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for the town of Pulaski, approved February 2, 1898.
Municipal charters

Chapter 259

An ACT to amend section 1 of an act entitled an act for the<br />protection of game and song birds in the counties of Amelia and Nottoway
Hunting

Chapter 260

An ACT to incorporate the Hollins internal improvement company.
Incorporation, Industry, Utilities, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 261

An ACT to incorporate the Union terminal company.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds

Chapter 262

An ACT to allow F. P. Smith, treasurer of Madison county, and his deputies, further time in which to collect unpaid tax bills in his hands and for which he has accounted to the state and county.
Taxation, Public officers, Public expenditures

Chapter 263

An ACT to authorize and empower Roman Eagle lodge, No. 122, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, of Danville, Virginia, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor, secured by deed of trust, mortgage, other lien upon its real estate in Danville, Virginia, for the purpose of improving and erecting buildings on said real estate.
Bonds, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Property

Chapter 264

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 7 and 17 as amended by an act entitled 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.
Amendments, Bonds, Debt, Public expenditures

Chapter 265

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 7, 1835, providing a charter for the town of Bridgewater, as amended by an act approved March 3, 1884, and as amended by an act approved August 26, 1884, and all other acts amendatory thereof on condition.
Amendments, Municipal charters, Voting, Public officers

Chapter 266

An ACT to authorize the trustees of the Preshyterian church in the county of Brunswick to dispose of a part of the manse or parsonage lands in said county and to convey to purchasers thereof a valid title thereto.
Religious Institutions, Property

Chapter 267

An ACT to authorize the Chesapeake and Ohio railway company to acquire or acquire an interest in extensions and additions to its system of railroads within and without this state, and to acquire, hold, or guarantee the stock and bonds, or either, of other corporations.
Transportation, Business, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 268

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia and Louisa improvement company.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 269

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act to amend, consolidate, and re-enact chapter 31, acts of 1872-73, approved January 16, 1873, entitled an act to incorporate the town of Covington, in the county of Alleghany, and chapter 774, acts of 1895-96, approved March 4, 1896, entitled an act authorizing the election of a town assessor for the town of Covington, in Alleghany county, Virginia, relating to the charter and corporate limits of the town of Covington, and to extend the corporate limits of said town and enlarge its powers, as amended by an act approved February 21, 1900.
Municipal charters

Chapter 270

An ACT to allow school district number one, of Norfolk county, to borrow money and issue bonds therefor.
Bonds, Education, Public expenditures, Taxation, Municipal charters

Chapter 271

An ACT to prevent hogs or swine from running at large in Warwick county, and provide a penalty for violation of the same.
Agriculture, Property, Boundaries

Chapter 272

An ACT for relief of Gilbert Marshall from a fine.
Alcohol

Chapter 273

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia casket, cemetery, burial and crematory company.
Cemeteries, Death and burial, Judicial, Property, Public officers

Chapter 274

An ACT to repeal an act to prohibit the hauling of seine in the counties of Prince George and Surry
Fishing

Chapter 275

An ACT requiring the superintendent of the state penitentiary to give certain information relating to bids and bidders for supplies for said institution.
Prisons, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 276

An ACT for protection of sheep owners in Nelson district, York county, Virginia.
Agriculture, Taxation, Property

Chapter 277

An ACT to empower the council of the town of Rocky Mount to contribute from the revenues of the town to the support and maintenance of a graded school in Rocky Mount school district.
Education, Public expenditures

Chapter 278

An ACT in regard to the collector of delinquent personal taxes of the eity of Norfolk.
Taxation

Chapter 279

An ACT to allow the county court of Albemarle county to make corrections of clerical errors in assessor’s books for 1900.
Property, Taxation, Judicial, Public officers

Chapter 280

An ACT to authorize and empower the board of supervisors of the county of Isle of Wight, in their discretion, to contribute, out of their county levy of said county, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be used and employed in building an armory in said county.
Armed forces, Public expenditures

Chapter 281

An ACT to make owners or keepers of bulls in Grayson county liable for injuries done by said animals beyond the limits of the land of said owner or keeper.
Agriculture

Chapter 282

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 13 of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to provide for the making, building, and keeping in repair the public roads and bridges in Grayson county.
Transportation, Public expenditures

Chapter 283

An ACT releasing the Florence Crittenden home from taxes erroneously assessed.
Charity, Taxation

Chapter 284

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Wythe county to levy a tax upon dogs.
Taxation

Chapter 285

An ACT to prevent hogs from running at large upon the public roads in Wythe county.
Agriculture

Chapter 286

An ACT to transfer the state’s interest in the Harrisonburg and Warm Springs turnpike, within the county of Augusta, to said county.
Transportation

Chapter 287

An ACT to authorize the auditor of public accounts to issue a duplicate for the school warrant of Greene county, and to take from the treasurer of said county an indemnifying bond.
Public expenditures, Education, Bonds

Chapter 288

An ACT to incorporate the Appomattox banking and trust company.
Business, Amendments, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 289

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Lunenburg to borrow six thousand dollars, said bonds to be used exclusively for the purpose of paying off the present bonded debt of the county as it becomes due.
Bonds, Budget, Taxation

Chapter 290

An ACT to authorize the council of the town of Basic City to close up and abandon a part of Essex avenue in said town and convey to a private corporation or individual the fee simple or other less title in the part of said street so closed.
Municipal charters, Property

Chapter 291

An ACT to provide for the necessary traveling expenses of the commissioners for the promotion of the uniformity of legislation in the United States, appointed by the governor in pursuance of an act approved March 6, 1900, entitled an act to authorize the governor to appoint a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation.
Legislative Amendments

Chapter 292

An ACT for the relief of the heirs of S. M. Allen from improper assessments of land located in Madison county.
Property, Taxation

Chapter 293

An ACT to incorporate the Isle of Wight Confederate memorial association.
Confederate, Monuments and memorials, Incorporation, Charity

Chapter 294

An ACT to authorize the holding of an additional term of the circuit court in Norfolk county.
Judicial

Chapter 295

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 3 and 4 of an act to incorporate the town of Elba, Pittsylvania county, approved February 2, 1901.
Municipal charters

Chapter 296

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Portland railway company.
Transportation, Industry, Business, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 297

An ACT to authorize Willard H. Owens to erect a wharf on Cockrell’s creek, in the county of Northumberland.
Transportation

Chapter 298

An ACT to provide for winding up abandoned, insolvent, or unprofitable corporations at the suit of stockholders.
Business

Chapter 299

An ACT to incorporate the West Point, Urbana and Yorktown railway and development company.
Incorporation, Transportation, Business, Public expenditures

Chapter 300

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for the separate accommodation of white and colored passengers in the sitting, sleeping, and eating apartments of steamboats plying in the waters within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, and to provide certain police powers for captains, pursers, and other officers in command to enforce such regulations and to prevent and suppress disorderly conduct on said boats
Segregation, Transportation, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement
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