Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-07
Adjournment of the Legislature.

The General Assembly Of this State adjourned
sine die on Wednesday morning last at one o'clock,
after session of eighty days. Some thirty Hour
public acts, and one hundred private acts and fly
three resolutions were passed.
The Legislature Of 1854 SO was in session ninety
days. and passed two hundred and ninety three pub
lie and private acts and sixtyone resolutions. That
Legislature adjourned on the l7th February, 1865
the late Legislature, on the 4,h February, 1857
We publish to-day list Of the acts and resolu.
tons. 1t is no easy matter amid the hurry and
confusion incident to adjournment, to obtain full
list; but we believe that we have obtained nearly
if not quite all. There may be a few private acts
and resolutions which do not appear in our list but
we have certainly given the captions, and, in many
instances the material outlines of all the important
public acts
A number of private bills, of importance to per.
sons and localities failed to become laws on account
of the time consumed on the last day and night of
the session by the Cape Fear and Deep River Nav.
CATION bill. That measure also failed, most proba.
bly, for want of tmc also, the bill to charter the
Rockingham Coafclds Road. We may be msta.
ken, but we think there would have been a small
majority in the Commons for the engrosscd bill
from the Senate appropriating 100000 to the Cape
Fear and Deep River works. and placing them un.
der the control of the Governor and Board of Inter-
nal improvements; and small majority in the SEN
ate for the Rockingham Coafclds charter, engrosscd
from the Commons, if final vote on these meas
ures could have been obtained in the respective
Houses. We speak Of facts, and give our impress
sions only to the strength of these two measures,
without intending to be understood as censurng
any one for their failure.
On looking over and considering the acts passed,
we find much in the way of legislation which can.
not fail to be useful and beneficial. Much more
would doubtless have been accomplished, if the
majority Of members with cut respect to party had
been more easy in their minds in relation to the
States financial condition and but for the necessity
which existed for considerably increased taxation.
Every public work, however, to which the State is
already committed by way Of subscription or
dorsement of bonds, and which applied for MD
with the exception of the Cape Fear and Deep River
Company aided to some extent; and among
these we may mention the Western Extension, the
North. Carolina Railroad the Atlantic and North
Carolina Railroad, the Wilmington and Rutherford
Rlilroad and the Abcmarc and Chesapeake Canal.
That this Democratic Legislature will be assaied
by the pcbad opposition VIC do not doubt No
matter what it might have done, omitted to do, it
would not have escaped censure from that source.
We are ready at any moment, to appeal to the
whole people OF the State, and to abide their judg.
rnent after full hearing has been given to the as.
sailans and the assalcd We do not fear that judg.
ment as do not at al doubt to what it will be.
We take pleasure in stating, that in our opin.
ion-and we have observed many Legslatures-no
General Assembly Of this State ever had better Off.
GERS than those of the Assembly which has just
adjourned. From the Speakers to the Dooikecpcrs,
every duty, SO far as VIC could judge, well and
fully discharged and il the public business was now
and then impeded delayed, it was the result Of
fault negligence OIL the part of the officers of the
two Houses.