Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-02-21

go into that colnty-ina dition to the
private subscriptions.s of Nzitizens of
Rutherfords Me- W. hid the purpose
was to leave the line Of the ". &C. &
r. 3. r. at I6ncolnton and connect.
with the Western n. G. Road, and thus
cut off even cleveland county. Such
a course would be an imposition and
fraud upon the people of cleveland
and Rutherford.
Messrs. Allen, Humphrey, Durham,
Seymour and Murphy urged the pas
sage of the bill without restriction.
The question was first on striking
out, and it was agreed to by a vote Of
"a to IA. .
Mr.. Miller moved to amend by re-
curing the building of the road to
Shelby.
This amendment was adopted.
Mr.. Humphreys amendment was
then adopted, and the bill passed its
third reading-33 to 3.
Mr.. Warning moved to reconsider
this vote and lay the motion to recon-
slider on the table, Adopted.
DUTIES AND SALARIES OF LEGISLATIVE
OFFICERS.
Under u suspension of the rules, the
bill TO provide for the biennial election
of officers of the General Assembly, to
define their duties and to fix their pay,
was considered. The bill. passed it's
second reading, and 7,. ....
On motion of Mr.. Seymour, the
further consideration of the bill was
postponed till II o'clock tomorrow
and to print. -..-t s-r.
The salaries fixed by the bill are:
Principal Clerks Sc per day, and each
an Office clerk at S. per day, with 800
each for preparing the journals for the
printer and 800 for indexing the same;
Reading Clerks Sc per Cay; Doorkeep-
ers So per day; Pages, three for each
House, So per day; Enrolling and En-
crossing Clerks Sc per day, with au-
thOrity to engage, toward the close of
the session, necessary assistants-wlth
the mileage to be provided for MEM
bers. These salaries to take effect from
the commencement of the present ses-
sion. r.. ..f
Indefinite leave of absence was
granted to Hyman, col, on account of
sickness.
THE STATE DEBT.
Mr.. WEIGH, by leave, introduced the
following bill : --
4 bill to be entitled an act declaring
achat portion of the debt of North
Carolina is raid and to pay off the
same.
WHEREAS, The result of the late
war and the legislation of the general
government towards the people of this
State since that unfortunate period,
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the property OF the State and thereby
so impoverished the State as to render
it highly impract1cable and ruinous fo1
the people to fully discharge the obi
cations which they had contracted be-
fore that time; and whereas, irrespon-
sible legislatures, since the adoption OF
the present constitution, without the
consent of the taxpayers proper q
the State, have foisted upon the people
of the State additional enormous obi
cations, thereby rendering impossible
what before would have been ruinous
and whereas, millions of the peoples
money have been extracted from the
treasury of the State through fraud
and collision and whereas, but q
small portion of this money has been
returned to the people in the inter
nal improvements of the State, OF
otherwise and whereas, according to
the last census there are in North
Carolina seventeen hundred and sew
enty-fve lunatics and idiots and deaf
and dumb and blind, only about two
hundred of whom have been provided
with even reasonable accommodations
many of whom are in jails and dun
geons, and many more in suffering and
want and whereas, the poor children
of the State are growing up in ignor-
ance because of the inability of the
State to supply them with public
schools and at the same time meet the
tremendous obligations created by an
Indebtedness, therefore,
Sec. l. The General -issen,Jiy OF
North Carolina do enact, That the
Governor is hereby empowered and
authorized to appoint three discreet
and able persons as commissioners on
the part of this State whose duty it
shall be to ascertain and estimate the
States interest in railroads, canals,
and other public improvements.
Sec. ,. That the commissioners tn
be appointed by the Governor, as pro-
vided i'll the above section, are author
lied and directed to ascertain the debt
contracted by the State anterior to the
war, as well as the amount actually ex-
pended for the legitimate purposes for
which appropriations were made of
the bonds issued from the Public
Treasury during and SINCE the war.
Sec 3. That when these facts shall
have been ascertained, the said COM
missioners are hereby empowered and
authorized 10 assign all the interest
which the Stale of North Carolina holds
i'll all railroads, canals and other i'm
provemCnts of "a like kind to the parties
ascertaincd by the said commissioners
as holding such legitimate claims
against the State of North Carolina, in
such proportion as the aggregate in
terest of the State in railroads, canals
and other improvements of n like kind
bears to the asccrtaincd aggregate
claims held against the State in consid-
Grafton of the surrender on their part
of all claims held by them against the
State.
Sec. !. That the people of North
Carolina, in their representative capac-
ity, hereby sclenply protest against
any other compromise of their Eabili-
ties than that set forth in the above
sections in this act, and further declare
that no other claims held by any party
or parties against the State Of North
Carolina shall eyer be paid in part or
in whole.
Sec. 5. This act shall be in force
from and after it's ratification
On motion of Mr.. Cowles, the bill
was ordered to be printed and made
the special order for Thursday next.
Mr.. Morehead, of Guilford, introduced
bill to insure the completion of the
Western (Coalfelds) Railroad. Re
ferred.
NIGHT SESSION.
The Senate met at u O'Clock and the
calendar Of private bills was taken up.
The resolution TO refund to the coun-
ties Of BruIsyick, Edgeeqmhe apd
Northampton certain sums overpaid