Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-08
THE OLD NORTH STATE.
nils tina, Have Become Insurance
The Collection or Taxes.


Especial Telegram to the Dispateh.l
RALEIGH, N. c.. March THE
Senate and House to-day adopteda reso-
luton to transact no business in tho at
tcrnoon on Wednesday and to adjourn
next Thursday sine die. The sixty days
of the regular session ended to-day, and
members will serve six days without
compensation.
The Senate to-day, by a rising vote,
adopted the following resolution of
thanks to its presiding officer: That
the thanks Of this Senate be rendered
Lieutenant-Gove Stedman for the
able and courteous manner in which he
has presided over this body.
Bills have become law renewing the
charter of the Roxboro' railroad and
incorporating the Caswell railroad.
The House has concurred in the Senate
amendments to the bill to secure the
completion of the Western North Caro-
lima railroad to Murphy. This is one
of the leading measures of the session,
and involves large expenditures.
The pension bill to-day became a
law. 1t allows ex-Confederate soldiers
who were in the service Of the State
$50 per annum, provided the entire
amount of the appropriation does not
exceed 100000 annually. No person
worth over $500 is to be pensioner.
Pensions are allowed widows Of SOL
ders.
To-day the Senate confirmed the fol-
lowing appointments made by the Gov
ernor of directors of the penitentiary
+. Il. Stamps, c. NJ. Cooke, ii. X.
Bryan. Walter l.. Steele, A. ID. Brown,
Frank l.. Reid. Levi Scott, c. +. Lowe,
James L. Robinson.
COLLECTION or TAXES.
The Senate has passed bills to enforce
the collection of taxes on lands sold for
taxes and bought in by the State to
authorize the hiring Of conyicts to the
Raleigh and Augusta Airline railroad,
so that it may extend its lines. Both
houses to-day elected magistrates for
the entire State. This is work of
great labor. Lists of nominees for
magistrates are made out for each
county by the commissioners thereof
and sent to the committee of the Legis-
lature. who examines the lists, reports
to both branches Of the Legislature,
which adopts their reports.
Some changes will be made to-day in
the new State flag, the coat-of-arms be-
ing taken from the centre of the union
and a single star substituted for it. 1t
is now the same flag adopted in 1861.
INSURANCE.
One of the most ably-discussed qucs-
tons before the Legislature was the in
surance law. The body has now passed
bill making great changes in the old
law. The new law reduces the annual
license-tax on insurance companies from
1925 to $50, repeats the law requiring
all insurance companies to make a
10000 deposit before doing business
in the State, permits persons in this
State to go out of the State and insure
in foreign companies, whether said COM
panies have paid taxes in North Caro-
lima or not, and rendering valid all
such contracts it repeats the loss
clause and average clause, but does not
touch the three-fourths-yalue clause in
the policies.
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
The House of Commons tonight
passed the bill establishing State in
dustrial school, the expenses to be
borne by the Department of Agricul-
ture. The measure is regarded as a
particularly important one.