Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-02-11
Gbe Stan1arb,
RALEIGH, SATURDAY. FEB. 7. 1857.
Adjournment of the LEGISLATURE.

The General Assembly oil TINS Otatc auJourneo
sine die Wednesday morning last, at one o'clock,
after session of eighty days. Some thrty.four
public acts, and hundred private acts and fifty
three resolutions were passed.
The Legislature of 1854 $50 was in session ninety
days, and passed two hundred and ninety three pub
lie and private acts and sxtyone resolutions That
Legislature adjourned on the 18th February, 1856
the late Legislature, on the 4th February. 1857.
We publish to-day list of the acts and resolu-
tons. 1t is no easy NATTER amid the hurry and
confusion incident to Adjournment to obtain full
list; but we believe that have obtained nearly,
if not quite all. There may be few private acts
and resolutions which do not appear in our list but
VIC have certainly given the captions, and, in many
instances, the material outlines of nll the important
public acts. n 4
A number of private bills, of IMPORTANCE to per-
sons and localities failed to become laws account
of the time consumed on the last day and night of
the session by the Cape Fear and Deep River Navi-
CATION bill That measure also failed, most proba-
bly, for want of time also the bill to charter the
Rockingham Coalields Road We may be mista-
ken, but We think there would ave been small
majority in the Commons for the engrossed 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 Sem
ate for the Rockingham Coa6clds charter. engrossed
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 impres.
sons only to the strength of these two measures
without intending to be understood censuring
anv 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 ap9 but for the necessity
which existed for considerably increased taxatioQ.
Every public work, however, to which the State is
already committed, by way of subscription or en-.
dorsement Of bonds, and which applied for aid
with the exception of the Cape Fear and Deep River
Company-was aided to some extent and among
these we may mention the Western Extension, the
North. Carolina Railroad, the Atlantic and North
Ca, ,ona Railroad, the Wilmington and Rutherford
Railroad, and the Albcmarle and Chesapeake Canal.
That this Democratic Legislature will be assaed
by the piebald opposition we 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
Inent, after full hearing has been given to the
saian,s and the assailed. We do not fear that judg
ment as We do not at al doubt as what it will he.
We take pleasure in stating, that in our opn-
ion-and we have observed many Legislatures-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 Doorkeepers,
every duty, so far we could judge, was we'll and
fully discharged and if the public business was
and then mpeded delayed, it was the result Of no
fault negligence the part Of the officers Of the
two Houses.