The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-01-16


rHPrnses 1hlls engaged % he sessiss q
he STATE.
Such injusnies on The part Of The L.
gislslDre. wss not % be expected. snd
that body very issliy ssid that
:. he said Board Qalsrnsl Impro. ENEMY
. may hold . SESSIONS ahsrevsr ard
phsnessr The Governor may direct; snd
+. he said Conn issi6lsFs shall receive for
: their services Il esnm afIbres dollars each
per day. and lheir travelling expenses
. Tor ihe iipe they may be employed IL
The public sersies;" Aud xho are these
Con lsissiontIs Of Internal improvement.
10 very esideni from the consuuciion Of
Tie provisions in The 9th section OF lie 6lst
chapter; for unless The Governor be ore
nf The Commissioners. then The olhtr
Commissioners Of ibis Board have pow
ers which ,he President of this Board
does not possess. Again, Chsp. 9Th
says, the Literary Board shall consist Of
tie Governor, WHO, By virtue OF bis Office.
shall be President. end g the other mem
bers cf said Boa'd" shsl be appointed By
The Governor, &c. THIS sei gises no
compensation. bul chaI ter co. ser. "a,
says, . The persons composing the LieIa-
.Iy Board. creaied under The Act entitled
:. An acl 10 drain the swamp lands q .his
. Stale, and 10 create . fund for Cons
mon Schools, shall be entitled to receive
the same pay. and under the same rtgu-
iaiians, as persons composing The Board
created under an Act entiled An act
10 aid The internal improvements Of this
Stste.'" All these Acts we're passed by
The same Legislature Of 1886.
| No construction Of this last Act can ex-
clude The Governor from The same pay as
other members OF The Board. unless il DO
decided tbs, lie is not " a person, and not
member offhe Board."
| After satisfying myself ss 70 the con.
struciion ofthe Acts on The subjeel. then
looked 10 The selioa Of The Bosrds.
These BoanIs were organized 10 ,be
early part Of The year 1897 BY Governor
Dudley. / found besides The President,
on the Board Of Internal Improvements,
Col. Csdu allsder jones and Will. ID.
Mosely. an comment lawyer aud dis,in-
guished citizen. On the Literary Board,
besides the presidenh Gem. sWsqsmt,
Esqrs the two lssi pamed genuemrr,
distinguished members Of The legsl pro-
Iessi0n.
From The organization OF The Boards
under the Acts Aforesaid. il has been the
unanimous opinion Of the members of each
Board. that the President a!the Board was
entitled to The same per diem pay ss any
other men, Der, aud to be allowed bis
Travelling expenses az other members; and
they have uniformly ordered The pay
ment. .........
The Comptroller, an active and vigi'ant
officer. has uniformly put the same con.
snuciion upon the law, and passed the
warrants for the paymen. Of the Governor
as member oil hess Bnards. 1885,.
The pubic Treasurer. who first raid
these warrants. D. W. Courts, Esq, a
lawyer of distinction, and an officer OF
great vigilance. did not hesitate to pay
Them, from The organization Of the Board
mill be retired from Office in April 1899:
from which time 10 The present, they have
been uniformly and PROMPTLY paid, with
the one exception referred to in the cor
respandence. | then had an interview
with my predecessor. who had organized
the boards, on the subject, " her was in
formed by him that upon looking TO Char.
I 81, he found the words commissioner"
used, as he understood the act, promis-
cuously, sometimes meaning allthe mem
bers of the Board, snd sometimes me an.
ing only those appointed By the Governor;
that he referred the question TO dIstiG-
guished gentlemen Of The legal profession.
who gave il as their opinion, that be was
entitled 10 compensation for bis service.
| | Thea directed my attention to the &C.
ton Of the Legislature and lis organs on
the same subject. found all the war
1 rants and vouchers. pay ing the Governor
bis per diem for service on these Boards.
un,iurmly passed upon and allowed by
the Committees of Finance oil the Legisla-
lures of 1898, 1910 and 1912, and acqui-
esced in by thess legislatures.
And that 1t may be seen who compos-
ed these committees, and passed these
vouchers, give their names.
COMMITTEES OF FINANCE IN ls3s.-Se-
ndte-Edmund Jones. l.. d. Wilson, III.
G Spruiil, ]. d. Hawkins, William Al
bright, Alfred Dockery, Caleb Etheridge,
| Hodge B.bun. ~ I'll .- -. @-.
i Commons FL. Hill,W. p. Williams,
j. McWilliams. Nathaniel Rand, Will.
Huggins. Isaac CIegg, Caleb Matthews,
L. A. Gwynn.
II $780, Senate--H. G. Spruill. L ID.
) Wilson. w. Albright, Robert Melvin,
5 Alfred Moye. Alfred Hargrsve, Archibald
: McDermid. Thomas Ward.
: Conmoas-J.P P. Caldwell, Asa Biggs
h Isaac Burns, ]. L. Foreman, David Reid
n Lewis Thompson, Calvin Graves, J
= OK. Williams.
h ls42-Seaaie-S. L. Arlington. II. G
!! Sprulll, Whi,mel Stallings, Alfred Moye
| N IIa.to. w. AiL...n, an ID n~kn.r