North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-11-27

During the pendancy Of the bill before the House
of Representatives, was again notified by the End
auditor, that the additional sum of 81 00 had been al
lowed at his office. No steps have been taken 70
place these paltry sums the Treasury. No valid
reason can be shown why this claim of North Caro-
lima should be rejected while similar claims from other
States have been freely allowed and paid.
WESTERN TURNPIKE AND CHEROKEE
An act was passed at your last session, to pro-.
vide for Turnpike Road from Salisbury, West, to
the line of the State of Georgia. By this act, it
was made the duty of the Governor to appoint COM
petent and experienced Engineer and three Commits
sioners to survey and locale said Road and upon
the report of the Engineer and commissioners being
presented to the Governor, it made " his duty
further to appoint one of said Commissioners, or
other suitable person, to act Agent of the State to
contract fAr, and superintend the making of said
Road"
The demand, in the neighboring States, for men
of science and practical skill in civil engineering for
their various public works of Internal Improvement
such, that met with some difficulty and delay
in procuring the services of suitable Engineer tor
the work in question. Major S. Moyan Fox at
length presented hmself and being satisfied entire
ly of his skill and fitness, appointed him Engineer
and Messrs. Andrew H. Shuford, of Catawba JOS
J. Erwin, of Rutherford; and George w. Hayes, OF
Cherokee county, Commissioners under the act
Subsequently,, Joseph J. Erwin resigned. and APP
pointed E. d. Austin, of Rowan, to supply the vacan-
cy. The extent of the reconnoisances and the num-
Der of experimental lines necessary be run to deter
mine the most eligible route for Road traversing
succession of mountains. which had unavoidably to
be crossed required greater labor and consumed more
time. than was anticipated. Since the completion OF
the survey the Engineer and his assistants have been
engaged in making such a map, profile and descrlp-
ton of the Road, as would he indispensable to the
States Agent charged with letting out and suPerln-
tending its construction.
This has delayed the report of the Engineer and
Commissioners. and agent to contract for and SUI
Derintend the work has been aDpointed.
In a few days shall make you special commu nj
cation. transmitting typographical chart OF the Turn
pike, together with copy OF the report OF tnese
unctonares. showing the cost Of their work ana the
expenses of the party in detail and suggesting some
alterations in the law which are believed to be
needful.
At present. call the attention of the Legislature to
an important inquiry connected with this SUBJECT
Among the funds appropriated and pledged for the
making of this Road, are all the debts now due the
State for the sales of the Cherokee lands.
twill! be remembered that at the time when those
sales were made, spirit Of adventure and specua-
tion which pervaded the United States, had been
awakened with many in the purchase OF these lands
while others, stimulated with the desire to retain their
humble dwellings and improvements, entered also Into
the competition of bidders and that the land soid In
some instances for tenfold-n all, for prices far be-
yond its value. While the public domain OF the
State had been granted under the entry laws at fUe
cents per to Others these have been sold at from
three 10 thirty dollars per
Impressed with knowledge of these facts, the Lee
gslature has from time time granted indulgence In
the collection of these debts. In the year 1914, an
act passed establishing Board OF Auditors to
inquire and make report to solvent and nsolvent
purchasers, and allowing those who found to be
unable pay, surrender their lands to the State
directing their bonds 10 be cancelled and delivered
although The sureties in snid bonds might be good BY
virtue of this large amount OF these bonds were
returned to the purchasers, and they released
from their contracts In the year 1885, another act
passed for the relief of the same class of Debtors
BIZ which they were allowed the right of preemption
of said lands at the fair cash valuation, assessed by
the said Board of Auditors.
Why this discrimination between purchasers! II
the principal doctors, who were unable to pay ihe
price originally agreed upon, were released together
with their suretes and were allowed to repurchase the
same land at the assessment, why should those
who solvent be held to hard bargain and be COM
PEELED to pay more confessedly than the land is worth
be forced to pay the whole of the purchase money
and in many be rendered bankrupt by the opera
toni
In my judgmentitis the true policy of the State
not Cypress any of her citizens, them to
the fulflment Of an iludged or ruinous speculation
Establish then new board of auditors, who shall
the fair cash valuation of the residue Of the lands
and allow all purchasers retain them that valu
alton and be relieved from the excess.
By this you will secure the speedy settle
of this protracted Indebtedness, and long vexec
subject; grant fair and honest relief to oppressed
but patriotic ople. and attach good citizens to the
State; while by the contrary exactng process, you
ruin many and compel otnerS, In oroeT 10 save some
thing from the general wreck, to abandon their homes
quit the State and leave nothing at last for the salts
faction of their Indebtedness, but the intrinsic value
of the ai SELF
commend this subject to the generous and cqui
table consideration of the Legislature.
In the original sales all Of the Cherokee lands no
estimated to be worth twenty cents per acre, wer
surveyed and offered for sale; and there remains
addition according the reports of the States agents
large quantity Of these lands the property of tn,
State subject the entry laws, and for the dis
posal of which provision has been made.
All of the lands having, by the of the last ses
sion, been appropriated to the construction of tn,
Turnpike road, provision should be made at once 70
the bringing of the whole of them, surveyed and un
surveyed into MARKET that their value may be real
lied and made available for the purpose declared BY
the act.
FAYETTEVILLE AND WESTERN PLANE
ROAD.
By an act of the last session of the General As
sembly, chapter 80, entitled act to incorporate I'll.
Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Company, thu
Public Treasurer required to subscribe, in tn
and behalf of the State, for hree-fths of tn
capital stock of said company, amounting the
of $I2O 600 and enable the State to pay her SAT-
subscription, the Treasurer required from tim
to time. the money should be called for to issu
Bonds, under the great seal Of the State, signed b.
the Governor and countersgned by the Treasurer
and to convert them into cash. In obedience to tn
requirements of this statute, bonds 10 the amount
$50 900, the LIST November instant, have been is
sued and the proceeds applied directed, leaving
of $4,000 to be thereafter issued, in the
ner and on the terms stipulated therein. This sub
iect will be again referred to in the Report on tn
Board of Internal Improvement, which will be pre-
scented at an early day.
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