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CHAP. 11.-An ACT to regulate the time of holding circuit courts in the third judicial circuit.

Approved January 24, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the circuit courts of the third judicial circuit shall be hereafter held at the times and places hereinafter specified, to-wit:

County of Prince Edward-First March and first September. Prince Edward County of Amelia-Tenth March and tenth September. Amelia County of Charlotte-Twentieth March and twentieth Sep- Charlotte tember.

Powhatan

County of Powhatan-Fifth April and fifth October.
County of Buckingham-Fifteenth April and fifteenth Oc- Buckingham

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County of Cumberland-First May and first November. Cumberland County of Lunenburg-Tenth May and tenth November. Lunenburg County of Mecklenburg--Twentieth May and twentieth No- Mecklenburg vember.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Inconststent hereby repealed.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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CHAP. 12.-An ACT to regulate the time of holding circuit courts of the ninth judicial circuit.

Approved January 24, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the circuit courts of the ninth judicial circuit shall hereafter be held at the times and places hereinafter specified, to-wit:

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Gloucester

County of Essex-March fifteenth and September fifteenth. County of Gloucester-April twelfth and October twelfth. County of King William-April first and October first. County of King and Queen-May fifteenth and November King & Queen fifteenth.

King William

County of Lancaster-April twenty-fifth and October twenty- Lancaster fifth.

County of Northumberland-April twenty-second and Octo- Northumbertober twenty-second.

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2. This act shall be in force from its passage, and all acts Commencem't and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby re- consistent acts pealed.

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CHAP. 13.-An ACT to authorize the Tobacco City Building Fund
Association, of Lynchburg, to hold real estate and convey the same.

Approved January 24, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the Tobacco City Building Fund Association, of Lynchburg, be authorized, in its corporate character as well as by its trustees, to hold the legal title to real estate not exceeding five acres, and such as it may acquire in part or in whole satisfaction of debt, whether Power to con- heretofore or hereafter acquired, and shall be permitted to convey the same under its corporate seal when its board of directors shall so order.

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2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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CHAP. 14.—An ACT appointing certain trustees to sell and convey the old site of the Buck-Mountain church in Albemarle county.

Approved January 24, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Rev. D. C. T. Davis, Dr. T. A. Michie and Dr. Birckhead be appointed trustees to sell and convey the lot of land lying near Earleysville, in Albemarle county, which was formerly the site of Application of Buck-Mountain Episcopal church, and apply the proceeds of such sale as the vestry of said church may direct. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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CHAP. 15.-An ACT to incorporate the Following Sons of Abraham

Society.

Approved January 24, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Christopher Roane, Thomas Vartors, Gabriel Brooks, Thomas Finley and Reuben Roane, and such others as may be associated with them, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of The Following Sons of Abraham Society, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and do all and every act necessary to enjoy the powers conferred by this charter.

2. The objects of said society are, to aid its sick and bury its deceased members, to assist members to bury their wives and children, and to aid the families and widowed mothers of deceased members.

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3. The society may hold any real or personal estate, pro- Power to hold vided the real estate does not exceed one acre of land, and the personal estate does not exceed in value the sum of five thousand dollars.

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4. The said society shall have the power and authority to Power to make and adopt a constitution and by-laws, rules and regula- tution and bytions for the admission and expulsion of its members and their laws government, the election of its officers and to define their duties, and for the safe-keeping and disbursement of its funds, and from time to time to alter, amend or repeal such constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations: provided, that the same Proviso be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or the state of Virginia.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be commencem't subject to amendment, alteration or modification, at the pleasure

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CHAP. 16.-An ACT to authorize the judge of the eleventh circuit to hold special terms of the courts in his circuit.

Approved January 24, 1880.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Judge authorthe judge of the eleventh judicial circuit be and he is hereby special terms authorized to hold, in such manner as is now prescribed, special terms of his court in any county of the said circuit when in

his opinion it is proper that the same should be held. At any What causes such special term any civil cause or matter at law or in chancery may be heard may be heard and determined which could have been heard and determined if the same had been a regular term.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage, and expire on Commencem't the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

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CHAP. 17.-JOINT RESOLUTION appropriating fifteen hundred dollars to enable the governor to enforce the oyster laws in the waters of the Rappahannock river.

Approved January 24, 1880.

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1. Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concur- Governor auring), That the governor be and he is hereby authorized and thorized to requested to take such immediate measures as he may think to enforce the proper for the enforcement of the oyster laws in the waters of the Rappahannock river; and for this purpose the sum of fif- Appropriateen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated to defray any expense incurred in the execution of this resolution.

2. This joint resolution shall take effect from its passage.

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CHAP. 18.-An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond and
Mecklenburg Railroad Company.

Approved January 24, 1880.

§ 2 of act 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That amending the charter of the the second section of the act entitled an act to amend and reRichmond and enact an act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond and Mecklenburg railroad company, approved March twenty-fifth. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, approved April second, eigh teen hundred and seventy nine, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

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pany, approved 25th March, 1875, approved April 2, 1879, amended and re-enacted When company to be incorporated

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§ 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever five thousand dol lars of the amount aforesaid shall have been subscribed, the subscribers, their successors and assigns shall be and they are hereby declared and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad Company, and as such shall be entitled to all the privileges granted, and subject to all the restrictions and regu lations imposed by the Code of Virginia and the laws amendatory thereof, so far as the same are applicable to said corpora tion and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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CHAP. 19.—An ACT to provide for the continued use of convict labor by the James River and Kanawha Company.

Approved January 24, 1880.

Whereas the James River and Kanawha company is now in possession of one hundred and eighty convicts, which were received under the provisions of an act approved December twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and entitled an act to provide for the use of convict labor on the James River and Kanawha canal, and that the Buchanan and Clifton Forge railway company has contracted for the use of said convict labor under the authority of an act approved March seventeen, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the limita tion of time for the use of said convicts, which was restricted by the acts aforesaid to the first Wednesday in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is extended to the first Wednesday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty: provided, that such extension of time shall apply to the use only of such convicts as are now in the possession and use of said companies, and shall not be construed to authorize the delivery of any other convicts from the penitentiary to said James River and Kanawha company.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CHAP. 20.—An ACT to prescribe the manner of summoning jurors in certain cases where a city, town or county shall be a party.

Approved January 24, 1880.

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1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That in any case where freewhich is to be tried by a jury, where a county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall be a party, and the trial is ty may be had in a court of said county, city, town or other municipal jurors corporation, the judge of the court in which such suit shall be pending shall, upon the application of either party, cause to be summoned twenty freeholders from an adjacent county, city or town, free from objection, from which panel of twenty jurors so summoned a jury shall be selected in the manner directed by the twenty-third section of chapter one hundred and fiftyeight of the Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and seventythree.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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CHAP. 21.-JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the auditor of public accounts to borrow money to pay arrearages to lunatic asylums and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution, &c.

Approved January 29, 1880.

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1. Be it resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate Authority to concurring), That the auditor of public accounts be and is hereby authorized and instructed to borrow an amount of money not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, as soon as possible, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per centum Rate of inteper annum, and to apply immediately as much of said sum as Purpose of may be necessary for the payment of all arrearages to the sev- loan eral lunatic asylums and the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution of the state up to the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and the revenue of the state Revenue are hereby pledged for the repayment of the sum so borrowed. pledged as se

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CHAP. 22.—An ACT to incorporate the Richmond and Southwestern

Railway Company.

Approved February 2, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Corporators William Amory, Junior, Walter M. Sweet, Parker C. Chandler, William Frazier, Francis H. Manning, Otis Kimball, Edward C. Ellis, and their associates and successors, who may become stockholders, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name and style of The Richmond and Corporate Southwestern Railway Company.

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