Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1850-12-06

Division, No. 16, S. of T.; the Judiciary COM
were instructed to enquire into the ex
pediency of amending the act of last session, :
which prevents the selling or giving of spiritu-
Gus liquors at places Of public worship; to pro-
vide for the incorporation Of plank and turn {
pike road companies; the bill to incorporate the {
Fayetteville and Southern Plank Road Com
pany was ordered to be engrossed concern
ing dispositions to instruct committee on Mill
tary affairs to report a bill to abolish the entire
militia system: rejected; %instrueting the COM
mittee on the Judiciary to report a bill to COM
pensate justices appointed by county courts to
take tax lists: adopted to instruct Committee
on Internal Improvements to inquire into the
expediency either Of repairing or of disposing
of the Raleigh and Castor Rail Road, list
Whether the State shall repair, retaining en-
tire interest. I'd Whether new company shall
be formed with capital of $3.50, O00-State's in
terest to be 1-3-private individuals 1-S-and
the State to take whatever may emain to put
road in proper order. Sd Whether the Gov
ernor be authorised to SELL. Ordered to be
printed; to incorporate Raleigh Chapter, No.
10, of Royal Arch Masons; to regulate duties
of Superior Court Clerks in issuing writs of
recordari; to appoint commissioners for the
town of Wentworth to instruct committee on
military affairs to report a bill superceding the
present system of militia training; providing
for calling out militia when necessary and en-
couraging volunteer companies: adopted; linn
ting prosecutions for assaults and batteries ;
instructing judiciary committee to enquire into
the ~expediency of making amendments to the
law concerning executors and administrators
Committee on education, reported favorably on
a bill to incorporate Windsor Male Academy
also, on the bill to amend common school sys-
tenn, unfavorably: recommitte d also, on bill
to give people power to elect committee men,
adversely: discharged from further considera-
ton the committee on Internal improvements,
reported in favor of the bill to incorporate the
Raleigh and Greenville Plank Road Company,
) read I'd time and passed; TO amend an act,
passed at Session of 1s30-'S1, entitled an act
1 to establish the town of Gainesville in the coun-
ty of Gates to encourage the investment of
: capital for mining and manufacturing purpo-
: SEES; to amend the present Militia law so as
I to make all males at present subject to Militia
+ ry duty, liable to serve between the age of 81
and As instructing the Committee on the Ju-
, dietary to inquire into the expediency of a.
! mending the law, so as to require Clerks of the
Superior Court to withhold all certificates from
the Judges, until all the cases on docket shall
have been tried or disposed of: adopted that
e the Committee on Internal Improvements be
instructed to inquire into the expediency Of
permitting the Stockholders in the Raleigh and
Castor Road to mortgage the sam for the pur-
> pose of rebuilding, which was adopted to in
. corporate the Raleigh and Summerville Rail.
" Read; the bill to restore jury trials in county
courts of Buncombe, passed second reading
also, the bill on original attachments, with an
10 amendment, which was concurred in; a bill to
e. give a new name to the county town of For
sythe, was read second time the bill to incor
Ne porate the Fayetteville and Centre Plank Roac
ne Company was concurred in. Received a mes
n sage from the Senate, proposing praise a join
of select committee of three on part of the Sen
ate, and five on part of the House, to inquir,
VI into the manner In which the Institution for tn
ty Deaf and Dumb had been conducted. Agreed
If to; bills to incorporate the Robeson Institute
and Buena Vista Lodge, No. 81, l.. o. o. FL
Greensboro; passed second reading the bill
to incorporate Colerain Female Academy wa
er read second time and passed; to Incorporate
Id Greensboro Division, No. 6,'S. Oft; referred
Dr. the bill to incorporate the Greenville and Ra
leigh Plank Road Company, was read the 8
" time and passed.
A Memorial from the Justices and Grand il
ne ry of Mecklenburg county, praying that the ia
on retailers Of spirituous liquors be increased
one hundred dollars, was referredsto the CON
mittee on Finance; to incorporate Independel
~ Division, No. 81, of the Sons Of Temperate
{. IN the town Of Fayetteville to incorporate II
a. Tennessee River Railroad company, with
of capital of 81 100000; which passed its fir
Al reading to divide the School fund according
the white population for the Incorporation
OF the town of Madison ; for the Incorporation
to the Gafysburg and Ocuneechee Plank Road CC
ock a series of resolutions, which were referred
.5 the Committee on negro slavery, authoring Il
Governor, in event Of the repeal or modlficatiC
eM OF the Fugitive Slave Law, to convene Il
eco Legislature Immediately a bill for calling
i to Convention to amend the Constitution of ii
its State. CThis bill directs the Governor to eau
Polls to be opened, in order to ascertain Il
sense of the People as to the necessity of hol
peal ing a Convention. The returns must be ma
urts to the Governor, and opened, before the LIST
rate September 1851 !; whereupon the Governor,
they be favorable to the calling of a Conve
ton, shall issue his Proclamation fo- the ele
ton Delegates, to take place in November ne,
Ju- The Delegates, so elected, shall assemble
with Convention, in Raleigh, or the 2nd Monday
the January, 1852, with full and unlimited auth
a. ity to make such alterations in the State c.
' %slitution as their wisdom may suggest.) +