Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

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Public Printer, 1895
Includes extra and special sessions.
 

Contents

9 Married woman attorney in fact for
21
10Certain acknowledgments of married women to deeds etc legalized
22
11State licenses on cigarettes merrygorounds etc
23
12Costs fees and expenses in suits
25
13Relief against erroneous assessments
26
14Municipalities paving streets etc delinquent taxes
28
15Restoration of lost records
30
16Prohibiting certain railroads from dealing in coal or coke
31
17Railroads freight classification maximum charges etc
32
18Collection of delinquent taxes redemption of part of tract or town lot
35
19Appointment of deputy clerks in criminal or intermediate courts
38
21Compensation of special judges in circuit courts
40
23Compensation for catching drift timber
41
24Filling vacancies in town offices
43
26Amendments of lodge charters etc
44
27Compensation of assessors
45
28Time of working roads
47
29Elections in towns giving less than 600 votes
48
30Compensation of the clerks sheriffs and prosecuting attorneys
49
31Relocation of county seats
51
32Abolishing the fish commission
55
34Justices and constables wrongful fee bills
59
35What are lawful fences
60
36How partners may sue before a justice
61
38Preparatory branch of university established at Montgomery
71
39Concerning the school for the deaf and the blind
73
40Establishing Bluefield colored institute
75
41The university state normal school
77
42State board of examiners for teachers
81
43School levies school term increased to five months
83
44Schools at places of reception for the poor
86
46Removal of county and district officers
91
56Of Huntington elections of commissioners
121
57Of Wellsburg act creating amended and reenacted
122
58Charleston charter amended and reenacted charter of Elk City re pealed the towns consolidated
126
59Sistersville charter amended and reenacted
139
60Huntington charter amended and reenacted
157
61Moundsville charter amended
177
62New Cumberland charter amended
184
63Benwood charter amended and reenacted
187
64Grafton and West Grafton consolidated
201
66Town of Harrisville authorized to issue bonds
209
67New Cumberland charter amended
211
68Mingo act establishing county of
212
69Wayne act abolishing criminal court of
214
70Kanawha terms of criminal court of
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72Berkeley authorized to refund bonded indebtedness
218
73Marion modifying county court of
220
74Of sixth judicial circuit changed
223
75Of seventh judicial circuit changed
224
76Of eighth judicial circuit changed
225
77Authorizing judges of first circuit to employ shorthand writers
226
79Authorizing trustees of M E Church of Moundsville to remove cer tain dead
227
80Concerning Potomac Piedmont Coal Railroad company
229
81Relieving sureties of J A Williamson late sheriff of Barbour county
230
82Extending time for distraint for taxes of 1891 and 1892
231
84The General appropriation bill
236
5Raising joint committees to visit the insane asylums and the peni
264
Position of senate and house bills in these acts 3
271
Congressmen state officers state boards state national guard judicial
279
List of sheriffs
292
Index to acts
299
List of corporations chartered etc following index to acts
127

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Page 124 - ... per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 21 - Any married female may take by inheritance, or by gift, grant, devise or bequest from any person other than her husband, and hold to her sole and separate use, and convey and devise real and personal property, and any interest or estate therein, and the rents, issues and profits thereof, in the same manner and with like effect as if she were unmarried, and the same shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband nor be liable for his debts.
Page 140 - Prisons," and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and may sue and be sued in all Courts and before all Justices and others.
Page 19 - BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE. — The foregoing act having been presented to the governor for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of the legislature in which it originated within the time prescribed by tue constitution of the state, has become a law without his approval.
Page 101 - ... shall possess all the powers, perform all the duties, and be subject to all the obligations and...
Page 129 - City, or of the county, in which he may offer to vote, for six months next preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote, in the ward or election district, in which he resides, at all elections hereafter to be held in this State...
Page 17 - ... during each year, and shall be held at such points in the state as shall be most convenient to those presenting themselves for examination or to the state board of health. At such examinations written and oral questions shall be submitted to the applicants for license, covering all the essential branches of the sciences of medicine and surgery, and the examination shall be a thorough and decisive test of the knowledge and ability of the applicants.
Page 264 - Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring), That a committee of three on the part of the House...
Page 83 - ... for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government...
Page 12 - Every gift, conveyance, assignment, transfer, or charge, which is not upon consideration deemed valuable in law, or which is upon consideration of marriage, shall be void as to creditors, whose debts shall have been contracted at the time it was made, but shall not, on that account, merely, be void as to creditors whose debts shall have been contracted or as to purchasers who shall have purchased...

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