The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-17
extension of the corporate limits of that
town. Referred to the Committee on cor
n0rations fsa1-i
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.

| ton 10 NllOW Tue Cuuiity
Richmond county to levy aspcclal tax. 1T
fcrrcd to the Committee on Finance.
BY Mr.. GREENE: Bill to authorize Jpha
than Mann, late Sheriff of Staniy county Il
collect arrears of taxes. Referred TO tn
Committee on Private Bills
By Mr.. JUSTICE of Rutherford: Bill ia
the relefof sureties. Referred to the Judi
ciary Committee.
By Mr.. FRENCH: Resolution to amen'
the rules of the House as follows:
Resolyed, That the rules Of the House be 81
| amended that the Code Commissioners, TIT
| heads of the executive departments, except TN
| Governor be entitled and required, when eallet
upon to attend the Sessions of the House whel
in Committee of the Whole"
! The Resolution was adopted.
On motion of Mr.. MENDENHALL, resnlu
! ton to authorize the Board of Education to
sell the Stock of the Wilmington and Wei
don Railroad, and the Wilmington and
Manchester Railroad, held by the Literary
Fund, was taken up.
Mr.. ESTES SAID as the question was raised
ON Saturday last whether the Board of Edu-
cation had authority to sell the Stock with
out the consent of the Legislature. he ad-
dressed communication To Hon. K. 2. Bat
tie for his opinion. He read the opinion
received in reply, which Was to the effect
that the Board could not give valid title
to those stocks without the approval OF the
Legislature, and it was competent for the
Legislature to authorize the sale beforehand.
He hoped the resolution would pass third
reading. ai
The resolution passed third reading by
the following vote
WEAKNESSES Ames, Ashworth, Blair, Carey, Cav
thorn, Cherry, Crawford, Downing, Estes, Forkner,
Foster, franklin, French, Gahagan, Graham: farlis
of Wake, Hendricks, Horney hudgings Ingram,
,Justus of Henderson, Justice of Rutherford. Kelly of
Moore. Leary, Long of Richmond, Mayo, McCanless
Mcmillan, Mendenhall Merrill Morris, Parker Pear
50 Ii Price Reynolds, Segrist Simonds, Snipes, Sui
ley ley. Vestal' Vest White iliam-'n and Nis"all
NHYs-Messrs Allison, Banner, Boddie Carson,
CLAYTON OF Pennsylvania Davis. Davidson, tarroW,
Ferrebee Gibson Green Grier Hicks High llinnant
Hodnetl Kelly OF Davie, Long of nathan, Moore,
Painter, Profltt, Renfrow. Robinson, Shaver Smith
of Allegheny Smith of Wayne, Sweat, WEIGH, and
Wilson-29.
On motion of Mr.. JUSTICE, of Rutherford,
Senate hill in regard to obtaining license to
practice law in this State, was taken up on
its second reading.
MIR. JUSTICE of Rutherford advocated the
passage of the bill He had repeated re-
quests from the people of his section to press
this bill forward Poor men were now
often compelled to employ counsel among
their bitter enemies and pay them their last
dollar. Many men who do not practice law
are as thoroughly informed and competent
as those who do, and it is proposed tn allow
them to obtain license upon paying fee
nf $40. without the expense of coming to
Raleigh to be examined before the Supreme
Court
Mr.. DOWNING thought the effect would
be to greatly increase litigation; and said it
required no examination of applicants be-
fore any judge, and moved to amend by re-
quiring the person to possess a competent
law knowledge upon examination l'efore a
Judge of the Supreme or Superior Court.
Mr.. STILLEY opposed the amendment, be-
cause it would take off the fee, from which
considerable revenue would accrue-the only
good feature of the bill.
Mr.. PoU and Mr. VEST favored the bill.
The amendment was rejected.
The bill passed second reading by the
following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Ashworth, Banner, Blair, Carson,
Carey, Cawthom, Cherry, Clayton Of Pennsylvania,
Crawford, Ellington, Estes, FaTow, Ferrebee Foster,
Franklin, Gahagan. Graham, Green, Harris of Wake,
Hayes Hendricks. Hicks Hinnant, HOrney. Hudgings,
Ingram, Justus of Henderson, Justice ofRutherford,
Leary. Long of Richmond. Mayo, Mcmillan, Morrill,,
Morris. Parker Pearson, Peck, Pou, Reynolds, Sic
Waldrop Weich. WiISie Wiamsen and WiisonNSf
NAYs-Messrs. Davidson. Downing. Gibson, Grier,
High, Hodnett, Jarvis Kelly of Davie, McCanless,
Mendenhall, Moore, Robinson Shaver, Smith OF Ale
ghany, and Smith of Wayne-15.
The bill passed third reading
On motion of Mr. FEREBEE, bill to amend
the charter of the town of Lenoir, Caldwell
county, was taken up and passed its second
and third readings.
Bill to allow the town commissioners of
the town of Rutherfordton to levy taxes,
and for other purposes, passed third read
ing-yeas rs, nays0.
SPECIAL ORDER
Bill to raise revenue was taken up on its
third reading. Several verbal amendments
were adopted.
Mr.. FRENCH moved to strike out sections
- and Is, which impose five per cent tax
upon all sales of liquors brought into the
State, and three per cent upon the sales of
all liquors bought from the maker in this
State for sale. He thought those sections
were repugnant to art. sec. 2 of the Con-
stitution, which provides that ''laws shall
be passed taxing by uniform rule all MONEYS.
credits, investments in bonds, joint stock
companies and otherwise, and all real and
personal property, according to its true value
In money" Merchants claim that we have
no right to tax liquors upon the tax of the
United States, which would result from tax
ing upon the gross sales according to the
bill.
MIR. DOWNING did not understand this ar
ticle of the Constitution to refer to such SUBJ
Jects of taxation as those sales. He hoped
the sections would not he stricken out.
The amendment was rejected.
On motion of Mr. STILLEY q substitute
tor section 21, schedule B, was adopted.
MIR. ESTES moved to strike out the section.
Pending the motion, the House adjourned
until n o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The House met at II o'clock.
The renewal bill was taken up, several
amendments were adopted, and at q late
hour
The House adjourned.
SENATE.
TUESDAY, Feb. Q.
The Senate met according to adjourn
ment efu9asa 4lf
Mr. WINsTEAD in the chair.
The journal of yesterday was read and APP
proved. ~
MIR. Lone presented the petition of GER
tain citizens of Forsyth county. Referred
to the committee on Propositions and erie.
vances.
MIR. BRoGDEN from the Committee on FL
nance reported fayorably on bill to provide
for collection of taxes
On motion OF Mr.. HAYES it was made a
special order for tomorrow at II o'clock.
A message was received from the House