Acts passed by the Virginia Legislature.
The following is a list of all the acts passed a the extra session of the General Assembly which adjourned on Monday last:
An act amending the road law of the
Commonwealth.
An act to amend and re-enact the 11th section of the act for the production and distribution of salt, passed March 30, 1863, as amended by the act passed September 18. 1863.
An act to provide for the appointment of general agents and storekeepers for counties and corporations.
An act to amend the charter of the Merchants' Insurance Company of the city of
Richmond.
An act making an appropriation for the purchase of salt.
An act to provide for the trial of friendly suits in chancery, for partition, &c., arising in counties in the possession of the enemy, or threatened with invasion.
An act authorizing the Board of Public Works acting as a board of supervisors for the production and distribution of salt, to modify the contract of lease between
Stuart,
Buchanan & Co. and
Thomas R. Friend.
An act to suppress the further issuing of small notes as a currency by the counties, cities, and towns of this Commonwealth.
An act amending and re-enacting the 109th section of an act entitled an act imposing taxes for the support of Government, passed March 28th, 1863.
An act to amend and re-enact the 3d section of an act to incorporate the
James River Canal Packet Company, passed March 16th, 1860.
An act to authorize the
Governor to call out forces for the public defence.
An act amending and re-enacting section 8, chapter 160, of the Code of
Virginia, edition of 1860.
An act to repeal the act passed March 5th, 1862, entitled an act to authorize the issue of registered certificates of State stock to
Dr. Peter F. Brown, in lien of two lost bonds.
An act to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the support of the
Central Lunatic Asylum.
An act to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to provide for trial of persons charged with offences committed in counties in the possession of the enemy, or threatened with immediate invasion, passed March 27, 1862.
An act to amend and re-enact the 4th, 5th and 56th sections of the 87th chapter of the Code of
Virginia.
An act incorporating the
Southern insurance and Savings Society of the city of
Petersburg.
An act amending and re-enacting the first and third sections of chapter ten of the Code of
Virginia, (edition of 1860,) so as to extend the time within which a person intending to contest the election of another as
Senator or Delegate may give notice.
An act for the relief of indigent soldiers and sailors of the
State of Virginia, who have been or may be disabled in the military service, and the widows and minor children of soldiers and sailors who have died, or may hereafter die in said service, and of the indigent families of those now in service.
An act to repeal so much of the Ordinance of the
Convention of April 24th, 1861, as provides for a pay department of Virginia forces.
An act authorizing the payment of fees of
Commissioners of the Revenue.
An act to amend the charter of the Bank of Rockbridge.
An act to amend and re-enact the 9th section of the 47th chapter of the Code of
Virginia, edition of 1860.
An act to amend and re-enact the 14th section of chapter 14 of the Code of
Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 13th, 14th, and 15th sections of chapter 14, the 27th section of chapter 23, and the 10th section of chapter 66 of the Code of
Virginia, addition of 1863 so as to increase the salaries of certain officers of the
Government pressed October 13, 1863.
An act to provide for the payment of certain claims against the
Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
An act for the relief of
Washington G. Singleton,
Clerk of the District Court for the 8th judicial district.
An act to authorize the sale of the
Capon Springs.
An act to amend the act passed February 13th, 1863, entitled an act amending and re-chanting the 1st and 2d sections of an act to repeal the fence law of
Virginia as to certain counties, and authorize the county Courts to dispense with enclosures in other counties, passed October 3d, 1862, and to legalize the action of county Courts held under said law.
An act to amend and re-enact the 1st and 3d sections of an act passed March 13, 1863, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act further to provide for the public defence, passed October 3d, 1862.
An act amending and re-enacting the sixth and eleventh sections of an act, passed March 30th, 1863, entitled an act to provide for the production and distribution of salt.
An act to incorporate the
Confederate Savings and Insurance company of
Petersburg.
An act to amend and re-enacts act entitled an act to incorporate the Old Dominion Trading company, passed March 25th, 1863.
An act to repeal so much of the act passed February 15th, 1863. as exempts the while male citizens of the county of
King George, of 45 years and upwards, from working on the public roads in that county.
An act to amend the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 13th, 14th and 16th sections of chapter 14, the 14th section of chapter 21, the 27th section of chapter 23, and the 10th section of chapter 66, of the Code of
Virginia, (edition of 1860,) so as to increase the salaries of certain officers of the
Government.
An act incorporating the Virginia Volunteer Navy company.
An act to suppress gaming.
An act to enlarge the pounds of the Common Council of the
City of Petersburg.
An act to increase jailors' fees for keeping prisoners.
An act authorizing special terms of the
Circuit Courts to be held, to carry into effect the provisions of the law to prevent the unlawful distillation of whiskey or other spirituous or mail liquors.
An act making an appropriation to pay certain expenses of Government.
An act to amend the act passed February 13th, 1862, entitled an act to amend section 14 of chapter 163 of the Code, in relation to the removal of the records and papers of Courts.
An act declaring what contracts shall be payable in currency.
An act for the relief of
Wm E. Gaskins and
Jas. H. Gaskins
An act to incorporate the
Virginia Female institute of the
City of Richmond.
An act to amend and re-enact the 17th section of the 61st chapter of the Code of
Virginia, giving priority of transportation for food to consumers.
An act requiring certain railroad companies to provide for the transportation of fuel in certain cases.
An act to amend and re-enact the act passed March 11th, 1863, in relation to the unnecessary consumption of grain by distillers and other man 4 factures of spirituous and malt liquors.
An act to authorize the
Governor to hire free negro and other convicts to work in coal pits.
An act for the relief of
Wm. F. Ritchie, public printer.
An act allowing the
Petersburg Iron Manufacturing Company to hold not more than 20,000 acres of land at any one time.
An act to reorganize the Board of Trustees for Bethany College.
An act to authorize the arrest of deserters by the civil authorities.
An act to provide for fuel and lights for the
Governor's house.
An act to authorize the transfer of causes from the Circuit Court for the city of
Williamsburg and counties of
James City to other Circuit Courts.
An act to amend and re-enact section 11 of chapter 208 of the Code of
Virginia.
An act to authorize the
Auditor to pay the funeral expenses of
Israel Robinson, late
delegate from
Berkeley county.
An act to authorize the sale and transportation of salt belonging to
John N. Clarkson.
An act refunding to
John Nuran part of a license tax paid by him.
An act to amend and re-enact an act passed March 11th, 1863, entitled an act to amend the 39th section of chapter 184 of the Code of
Virginia, (ed, of 1860) so as to increase the compensation of Clerks and Sheriffs for public services.
An act authorizing the
County Court of
Washington to dispose with the law of enclosures in said county.
