The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-01-24

coast, and the State of North Caroline
not having received the benefits of the
act can do SO at any time, the appro
priation therefore being a permanent
one, under the decision of the Second
Comptroller dated March IS, 1884.
Very respectfully,
r. MACFEELY,
Acting Secretary of War.
If a permanent camping grounds is
established, the L. S. Government ap-
propriates s5,ooo.oo with which tc
prepare the grounds and erect the
above battery.
3rd. BY increasing the pay of the
Adjutant General, SO that he may be
able to give more of his time to his
very important duties.
Personal liberty is of the first con-
Germ to a good citizen, and this per
sonal liberty can best be preserved by
having an organized force at the COM
mand Of the Executive to be used
promptly, whenever the emergency
may arise. My distinguished prede~
cesSor authorizes ME to state that on
one occasion at least, during his ad l.
ministration, the fact that we had a
State Guard, in his opinion, preserved
the public peace and saved North Car
olina from riot and bloodshed.
SPECIAL TAX BONDS.
Improper taxes should not be i'm
posed or collected. In this connec-
tion your attention is called to that
clause OF the Constitution of our State
which provides that no tax shall be
levied for the payment of any special
tax bonds until the same has been sub
mltted to a vote of the people.
a suit is now pending for the col
lection of the special tax bonds
issued by the Legislature of 1868, and
| wish each and every member of the
General Assembly to understand dis
tinctly that everything which the Gov
ernor can constitutionally do to pre-
vent the collection of these bonds or
any portion of them, principal or in
tereSt, will be done, and that he, as
well as the people of North Carolina,
relies upon your earnest cooperation
in protecting the State from this i'm
position.
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.
10 an intelligent man seeking a
new home the educational facilities
by State to the young of
both sexes are Of prime importance.
We are proud of the record made by
North Carolina upon this subject.
For our guidance in the present and
the future we must look to the require
ments of our State Constitution and
the wants of the people.
No one can peruse the Constitution
adopted by North Carolina in 1889,
or its various changes since without
being struck by the solicitude of our
people that our
StA UNIV ERSIlI
should be fostered by the Legislature.
Under that Constitution its care is
your duty and its proper maintenance
by you one OF its most binding obllga-
tions.
Whether the people acted wisely or
not in establishing a University for
the State is not the question SO long
as that Constitution continues its pres
ent provisions. Although the honor
of being one of its matriculates is not
mine, yet the glorious desire of our
revolution and past revolutionary faith
ers, to establish in North Carolina a
University in which every true son Of
the State may feel an honorable pride,
finds responsive echo in my heart.
To your kind care it is committed
and anything that may be necessary
to make it more effective and useful
you will no doubt take pleasure as
we'll as pride in doing.
COMMON SCHOOLS.
Our common schools are an honor
to the State. We have appropriated
more and more money for the educa
ton of our boys and girls. In 1868
there was expended for this purpose by
the State, $4,000; in 1888 about
s7oo,ooo. But yet in some Of the
counties Of the State the schools are
not kept open four. months each year
as the Constitution requires. There
seems to be no practicable way, under
an act, which is uniform in levyine
taxes upon the different counties O
the State to remedy this evil by leg
islation, yet it should be remedicd
The suggestion is, therefore, made fo
your consideration whether it woule
not be we'll to make some change il
the Constitution Of the State 50 tha
the amount needed to keep the school
open for the four months shall be lev
led upon the property of the count
in which the deficiency occurs.
TITLE TO LAND.
1t is of the utmost importance to Il
to have the titles to our real estate a
clear and simple as possible. But ye
owing to an old provision in our law
! which might at one time have bee
reasonable, it often happens that
title is condemned, or, in case a ma
desires to negotiate loan, doubt
! thrown upou il TO such an extent thl