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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
An Act to Provide for the Payment OF the State
Debt Contracted before the War;

WHEREAS, 1t appears by the estimate of the Public
Treasurer that the debt of the State upon coupons
due bonds issued under acts passed prior to the 10th
day of May, A. d. 1861 is about the of two and hall
millions dollars, and that the falling due the
1866, will amount to about the Of six hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and that the bonds ofthe State
due and to become due i'll the 1866 amount to the
of three hundred and sixty-our thousand dollars
making aggregate of three million five hundred
and fourteen thousand dollars of the public debt which
contracted before the war; to be provided for during
The present fiscal Therefore, in order provide
means to enable the Public Treasurer to pay said debts,
SEC. l. Be enacted by tie General assembly Of tie
State Of NORTH CrUnG md it Is hereby cctelUy the
hoty OF tie sdae Chat tho Public Treasurer be- and he
hereby authorized and directed to to be prepared
and to sell bonds OF the State to amount exceeding
the of three million five hundred THOUSAND, dollars
for the purpose Of paying said debt, which bonds shall
bear date the LIST day of january 1885, and to DC made
payable thirty years thereafter with bear
ing per cent. interest payable at such places the
Public Treasurer prescribe the said bonds shall be
of the denomination Of hundred five hundred and
thousand dollars and shall not be disposed of for
than par, and i'll all other respects shall be issued areea
bly, to the provisions of the nineteenth chapter of the
vised Code and the said bonds and the interest accruine
thereon, shall be exempt from taxation
SEC. g That the bonds of the State which ac4c issued
under acts passed prior to the Goth day OF May
which have already become due, may become due be
fore the list day of January A d. 1867 shall inter
est at the rate of six cent anun, from the time
the shall have or may become due.
SEC. g. That this act shall be in force from it's ratifca
ton. .f.,. off ,...-...lI l..f ....
Ratified the ninth day of March, 1866
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

No clerk shall grant such license admit probate such in
strument until the tax shall have been paid and ic
tered with the same. $500 " ''-'
6. All the property and other subjects taxation shall he
nualy faxed by this enacted such propcrt
expressly exempted from taxation this other ne,
and the property and estate hereby exempted from IN ya
all such, and then profits belong United S
or to this State on may belong 10 orb set apart
used for the university colleges institutes, academies m
schools for the education Of YOUTH the support poor
afflicted especially set apart for, AMI
ercise of divine worship the propagation gospel ,
may set apart and Kept Tor graveyarls ana @
lots all such property estates and their profits NAV
long ~ the State and county agricultural societies.
apart and used by them for agricultural fairs and all
their profits as may belong to any church or religious
and be set apart and used by them for parsona2cs.
And he JtufKr edCted That all laws imposing taxes
subjects of which revised in this Get hereby rcpc
IOrfed THAI this repeal shall be construed extend
the provisions any they taxes ~
which ought to have been listed which may due for
year 1865, for any year previous thereto.
Read three times and ratified in General Assembly this I,
| day Of March, 4. D., 1866,
:. T. PHILLIPS
Spc aker House of COmmur.
{. :. WINSTEAD.
| Speaker OF the Scna,.
certify that the foregoing copy of the original on
in this Office. II. W. BEST.
| Secretary Of
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

Having already published in full the bill con
corning negroes and persons OF color OF of mixed
blood, we publish below the ninth section us it
finally passed. Of the bill which confers the right
to testify upon the negro i'll certain cases.
The bill in other respects, is substantially the
same as it came from the commission appointed
by the Provisional Governor, but this particular
section has been greatly changed by amendment.
It is rs follows
SEC. o. BE HJm1ter enacted That persons Of color, not
otherwise incompetent. shall be capable Of bearing
dence in all controversies at law and in equity where the
rights person property of persons of color shall be
put ISSUE and would be concluded by the Judgment
decree of court and also in pleas of the State where the
violence, fraud injury aedged shall be charged to have
been done by to of color In all other civil and
criminal cases such evidence shall be deemed inadmssbc
unless of the parties record Prorded That
this section shall not go into effect until Jurisdiction i'll
matters relating to freedmen shall be fully committed to
the courts of the State: Prouided further, That person
shall be deemed incompetent to bear testimony such
cases. because of being party to the record i'll interest
[Rotlfed the tent. day Of March, 1861
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
ShRtlgeIpl.

Some veassgsge, while i'll conversation with MI
Calhoun, upon the power of Tic President 10 re
move from office. he expressed the opinion, that
although such had ever been the usages) nc
such power belonged to him. But that III I'LL cases
of Appointment to office which required the con
firmation of the Senate the President had only
the power of suspension, and his action re
quired the approval of the Senate to perfect 1t.
We see it suggested that the Radicals fre dis
posed to reduce this theory into practice, TO pre-
vent the President from demonstrating his Cabi
net.
The Legislature has adjourned, and alread,
many of the members have arrived at their homes
having left Raleigh on Saturday last. We saw
Col. Hall here on Sunday.
We gave in yesterdays evening edition the pro
ceedings of Friday last together with the 9th sec
ton of the bill relative to negro testimony pas
sed; also an act 10 establish the rate of interest
These we believe are the most important measure
of the last days of the Legislature
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
The Gold Suit a against General Butler.

The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks in regard to
the suit against General Butler for fifty thousand
dollars in gold, seized in New Orleans, which he
has now paid back to the owners, that General
Butler has paid back the same coin which he seiz-
ed; the money having been on special deposit in
4 bank at Boston ever since it was sent from New
Orleans. General Butler said that for three
years he had defended the claim in the interest of
the government; but as the latter had not taken
possession of the money, and had refused to as
sumo the responsibility which he had undertaken
upon its account, he felt at liberty to relieve him
self from unpleasant position. The money was,
therefore paid to the claimants just it had been
seized, and the suit withdrawn
The New York Post asks if there is not
some mistake about this, Did not General Butler
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

g LIFE AND TINES OF JAMES MADISON The
second volume of this valuable contribution to
the political history of the country by Hon. VIM
c. Riyes has been published in very handsome
states in his preface that this volume was prepared
for the press more than four years ago, in the
state in which it is here given, but prevented
from publication by the inauspicious circumstances
of the times. 1t eomprehends the instructive and
eventful period from the close of the war of the
Revolution, down to and including the formation
and establishment of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States. The history of this period, Mr. Madi-
son observes the author was accustomed to say,
is like the preamble of statute, the key to true
conception and just Interpretation of the Constr
tuition The correspondence and papers of Mr..
Madison, embraced in this work, throw new and
important light on the great drama in which he
was 30 conspicuous and influential an actor.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
An Act Establish a Scale of Depreciation OF


WHEREAS, By ordinance of the Convention, entitled
An ordinance declaring what laws and ordinances are in
force, and for other purposes ratified the 18th day of
October, A. D., 1865 it is made the duty of the General
Assembly to provide scale Of of the Cofeder
ate currency from the time of its first issue to the the
and is further therein declared that all eAecuory
contracts solvabe in money whether under seal not
made after the depreciation of said currency before the
day of May 1865, and yet untitled Except official bonds
and penal bonds payable to the stae shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
sovable i'll of the value of the said currency sub
ject nevertheless to evidence Of different intent of the
parties to the contract; therefore
Be enacted By the General assembly Of he state OF
North Carolina and IS hereby enacted GyHe u1hoUy Of
the same That the following scale of depreciation be and
the is hereby adopted and established the
of value Of one gold dollar in Confederate
for each month"; and tho fractional parts of the month
December, 1864 from the LIST day Of November 1861
the LIST day of May, 1865, to-wit:
Scale Of appreciation Of Confederate cUrccy tee gold dot
dr being the unH GHh Of rGl1 from November
1861. TO Nan st. 1865
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

SIC And Whefeas, many grave and IlthCuIt disputes
may between executors, administrators guardians
and trustees and their legatees distributes, wards and
cestuque trust, the settlement of their accounts
trusts arising from the depreciation of Confederate
rency State treasury notes and bank notes. incident to
and growing out of the late and that law and
expensive litigation may be obviated,
BE therefore enacted, That in all such cascg, the par
tics hereby empowered to form full and perfect state
mont of the both sides which shall be sub
mtted to the determination of of the judges of the
Superior Courts, chosen by the parties, who is hereby
thorized to consider and determine the same, according
equity and good conscience P-ocjded hocecD, That
of this seCtion shall be construed to estOp
any person from proceeding i'll the usual Of law if
he shall deem the necessary Ratified the twelfth,
day of March. 1866
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
HAvRE, Feb'y 18th, 1866.

Speaking of rosin, the writer says " The pro-
auctions in the lands instead of diminishing
will augment for the future, even if the United
States should commence to produce now as before
the war i-'
The only production of the lands is the rosin
There is no other kind of crop They will be- there
fore, obliged to produce rosin. There would be
no other revenue of the country. Since several
years they commenced to large (?) plains with
trees which in short time will commence to pro-
duce. ..- : {
Even if the price should go down as far as SIS
per 100 ko (?) (similar product of brown American
rosin,) the production would not diminish, on the
contrary, 1t must augment for reasons above
stated.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
| An Act to establish the Rate of Interest and Re
peal Chapter La of the Revised Code. Entitled
,tTs

Be it enacted ty the General assembly Of the State q
NORTH Carolina and Is hereby enacted Ly he authority
Of the same That the legal rate of interest upon al
of money where interest allowed shall be six PER cont
per foI such time interest may accrue and
more; Prortded omete, That any person may for the
ot res a set ne p oenf bo G
and the ratio of interest shall be set forth obligation
signed by the party to be charged or his agent Aud il
any person shall agree to take greater ratio of interest
than six per cent per annun, when rate is named il
the Obligation greater rate than eight per cent wc
the rate is naned the interest shall not he recoverable
Law or i'll Equity and III all trials at Law Equity, when
tho plea Of Usury shall be relied the defendant may
examine the plaintiff upon oath, either by deposition
open Court, according to the course of Court.
BE further enacted. That Chapter IA of the Revised
Code entitled Uusury." is hereby repealed and this ac
shall be i'll force from its ratification.
LRatfcd the twelfth day of March, 1866.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
C0nnercial

Through the kindness of mercantile house of
this city, We have been permitted to publish, for
the benefit of the farming and commercial inter
ests, the suboned extracts from their foreign cor
respondence. The letter dated ''London" is from
Il house well known in Wilmington.
The reader will note the statement that the coll
sumption of American cotton is increasing, spin
ners giving it the preference
.r. LONDON, February II, 1866
Cotton is maintain a very nigh value,
and we think prices will advance very considera-
bly, as soon as stocks on your side get reduced
The consumption of American Increases, and
spinners are largely Increasing their use of your
growth in preference to Indian. -.'- ..-a@-'f
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
Now Hanover County Court.

March term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions for New Hanover County convened here
on Monday last, VIM. A Wright, Esq, Chairman
presiding. No business of Importance was trans
acted on that day.
At its session Oh CTuesday) the following ap-
poiment of County officers was made: .
Special Cowt-Wm. A. Wright, Chairman; s.
D. Wallace, John d. Powers, VIM. S. Larkins,
John A. Taylor, John A Sanders
Coausty ,Solicitor-John L. Holmes.
C0,oaty .Su,'revors-James w. Williams John
Moore.
Re9ister-George ". Pollock.
Entry ICAter-John J. Conoley.
Cogoneys-John G. Wood, (Senior,) and Daniel
F. Bland. Junior.)
Superintendent Of Common iSchools-S. d. Wal
lBce, James Kerr, VIM. S. Larkins, John D. Pow
ers r. X. Bryan.
Wr7ens Of Poor-Jno A. Sanders, Jno. A.
Taylor Isaac James, Joel l.. Moore L. B. Hug
gins, Archb'd Mcmillan, W. S. Larkins.
Committee Of Flnance-Jno. A. Taylor, Jno. A
Sanders S. D. Wallace
Co,aaty T1'ustee-Owen Fennell, Jr. .
T}'easure, Of Public Baeildtngs-S. r. Bunting.
Inspectors of Timber and Lumber-E. Turing
ton, w. NJ Munroe, JAS Alderman, L. II. Bow
den, Geo. McDuffe, H. NJ. Bishop.
Inspectors of NaroI Stores-W. J. Price, Alfred
Alderman Archbd Alderman, Jno. S. James,
Thos W Player, B. Switzerland, J. o. Bowden,
J. c. Bowden, J. NJ Henderson, r. c. johnson.
Inspectors Of Prooisons-D. E. Bunting, j, w.
Munroe Geo. Alderman. --.
PUBLIC ROADS.
O,dercd That committee of three in each Captain 8
district be appointed to invite proposals to construct such
bridges necessary to be built repaired by the
county and report the next term of this Court and that
said committee further nearly be practicable
ascertain what amount of voluntary labor and material
can be secured aid in the construction of any such
bridges as it may be deemed necessary to build.
On Wednesday nothing of a public character
ranspired. The State docket, which is very large.
was taken up. We learn that a called Court of o
majority of magistrates will be made to levy taxes
at future date
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

OSCAR I. BURNE, of Albany, N. Y, is reported
in the New York Wor1d as being @ defaulter to
the amount of moro than two hundred thousand
dollars. He was largely engaged in specializing
in real estate, oil stocks, &c. A large number of
banks are involved by the transaction a s
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

An Irish glazier was putting pane of glass into
a window, when q groom who was standing b.
began joking him, telling him to mind and pnt
In plenty of putty The Irishman bore the banter
for some time, but at last silenced his tormentor
by Arrah, now, be off wild We, or else I'll put q
pain in your bead without any putty /,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15
PUBLIC ROADS.
Depreciation Of Confederate Currency.

We publish elsewhere the very important bill
establishing scale of depreciation of Confederate
currency passed by the General Assembly and rati-
fed the morning of adjournment, We would adj
wise all to preserve copy of the scale for ready
reference.
The scale adopted will doubtless work in furious
" in many instances, but the Legislature was
forced by an ordnance of the Convention, to es-
tabhsh some scale, we think the one agreed upon
was probably The best of all those which were sub
mitted.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

plead, when suit was first brought for the gold,
that he had expended it in paving off his troops
in New Orleans?
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

It is announced that Stevens course is produc-
ing a very happy transmutation of affairs in Penn
sylvania. The friends of Mr. Johnson claim that
Stevens and his party will be defeated the next
fall elections.
In New York, also, it is said, Mr.. Stewards
course is having a very healthy influence.
Many Republicans admit that they will be i'll a
minority in the next Congress, without the addi-
ton of southern members ...
''Timon," the correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch, writes, ''the House is being very thor
oughly divided against itself on many important
questions" r ..
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

Ii is stated by our exchanges that Secretary
Mallory is about to be, if he has not already been
released. .. 4.... 81. 6afu.aar.. -....
An order to that effect was issued last week,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

The Sheriff shall collect the taxes set forth in the
schedule annually, unless otherwise directed and grant
to each party paying the tax, license to carry his bus
mess until the first day OF July next ensuing, except il
where the tax is nonresident horse and mule
droyers in which no license shall BIO required
Every company of circus riders exhibitors of col
ectiOns Of animals seventy dollars for each county il
which they shall perform exhibit for reward Every
separate exhibition commonly known side shows)
companynS such performers exhibitors which canno
be seen without the payment of separate charge, fifteen
dollars for each county in which it is exhibited for
ward.
= Every company of tnerant stage theatrical per-
formers or persons performing feas of strength ag
y, exhibiting natural artificial Objects Except
eur performers twenty dollars for each county which
they exhibit for reward and two hundred dollars wheI
such company perform for longer time than two months
i'll any county. .. :
B. Every company of nerant singers or on
musical instruments, dancers tinerant companies
who otherwise exhibit for the public amusement ten dol
lars in each county in which they exhibit for reward.
Every insurance company incorporated by this State,
except companies for mutual assurance ta no pol
icy out of the State one hundred dollars. :"
D. Every hotel restaurant eating house, half Of
one per cert on the receipts if exceeding three hun
dred DOLLARS and every company and every telegraph
company, one Per cent. on gross receipts.
o. Every agency OF insurance company incorporated out
OF the State i've per cent gross receipts and ten dol
lars for every county in which such company may have an
agency. -
Every agency of bank incorporated out of the State
FIVE hundred dollars.
.. Every money exchange, bond or note broker pr
Vate banker agent of foreign broker banker shall
pay the SUM OF hundred dollars for each county in
which he har an Office place of business and every
son acting Tor such broker whster yh without COM
Pensatlon, shall be held and deemed broker to all in.
tents and purposes in the place county in which he
shall SO act, and shall be liable for the above tax.
~ Every person who is not resident of State and
who shall come in this State n the capacity Of or agent
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-03-15

licenses SHAH only apply to persons dstng
in which there court session when this act
shall go III force the license may he obtained any seven
nom day January 1865 and the Sheriff Shall collect
the same quarterly on the first day of April July and
81 Every company gypscs srong company of per-
trading, tinkerins begging hundred dollars in each
county in which they offer to practice any crafts
cradle out Of property belonging the company
But nothing herein contained shall construed as 10
s Every license granted under the pro1sos h lW act shall
be for twelve months from the issuing Of the
The subjects embraced i'll this schedule shall he taxed the
amount specled and the taxes collected and
l. Every corporation might become Incorporated by let
H @ c"P o So sl ae Sbn C.
Assembly and obtain special of Incorporation
secured by letters patent under said law by special act
which shall treasurer Of the State St 10 amend
= NO corporation shall organize under special
derive benefit under amend their Charter until
es a Of ns ss o a 5 certified COPY Of such act from the
eh eePy ea the applying shall have delivered
ing section, which receipt secretary shan file in his ONCE
Ie president and cashier of each of the banks in this State
'n r. ta h Treasury the following tax to wit
SIX ana not more than seven per cent Oneaf of per
and not more than eight cent one per cent
on the stock thus owned than eight per cent one per
cent OH the stock thus owned In said officers of any
bank shall neglect or fail to tho required said
shall be sued for Attorney General in the
name OF the State the Superior Court county of Wake
superior courts een dollars to be pa az the ne
43 afg he same to me clerk OF the supreme court
Treasurer Of the State list setting names of the per
into the public treasury total amounts less Gve per cen
commission for receiving accounting for the same
contract and deed in trust made to debts OF
5a and other deed
MY CENTS payable to the clerk of the county court
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-06-09
NeqO Advertisements.
LOCAL LAWS.
PUBLISHED by AUTHORITY.

TN accordance with an Act passed by the Leg
islature on the Oath Of January, 1865, re-
curing that every Public Local Local made to
take effect before the first of June next, after
the session at which it may be passed, shall
Immediately after its passage be published once
in each of three successive weeks in all the
newspapers of the respective counties in which
it may operate.
The undersigned, Commissioners of Balti-
more county, hereby publish the following Lo-
cal Laws for Baltimore county:
JOSHUA F. C0CKEY,
DAN'L J. McCAULEY,
JAMES BUTTON,
Commissioners of Baltimore county.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-06-09
DR.. JOHN w. WAUGH,

formerly of Millersville A. Arundel Co., Md
HAvING located at Priceville, Baltimore
III county, Md, thus succeeding the late
DR.. Mahlon Price, but more recently DIR. Elias
Price, now of Baltimore,) respectfully offers
surrounding country. 1t affords him pleasure
to give as reference an experience Of eighteen
years active and successful practice which he
hopes will sufficiently recommend him to the
patronage of the public. May 2, lS66-6m,