Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-04-01
WHO MAY VOTE on ALTERNATIVE RoAb
LAW.

or city shall be entitled or permitted tC
vote upon the adoption or continuance
OF such alternative road law unless ht
produce tax bill showing that he was
charged with and had paid district
road tax for such district. Upon
petition OF at least one hundred
voters of the county, the County Court
shall order that the said alternative
method OF constructing and keeping In
repair county roads, be submitted to the
qualified voters for adoption or rejec-
tion at the next ensuing election for
delegates to the Legislature, and ma
jority of the votes shall determine the
question.
TAN on HAWK ERs AND PEDDLERs.
Every hawker or peddler, il he travel
without horse, shall pay license tax
of 500 instead of S25 as a present; If
he travel with one horse, with or with
out wagon, $3.50, instead Of SIS as a
present; if he travel with two or more
horses, with or without wagon, 5000.
This law does not apply 10 hucksterS
who travel with or without wagons and
buy the farm products, paying therefor
with merchandise, or part in cash and
part in merchandise.
| PIPE LINE COMPANIES MAY APPROPRIATE
LANDS.
A company organized for the purpose
of transporting natural gas, petroleum
or water necessary for use in piping and
transporting natural gas and petroleum
or for boring for the same, through
tubing and pipes, may enter upon any
land for the purpose OF examining and
surveying a line for its tubing and pipes,
and may appropriate so much thereof
as may be deemed necessary for the lay
ing down Of such tubing aud piping,
and for the erection OF tanks and the
location of stations along such line, and
the erection OF such buildings as may be
necessary for the purpose aforesaid;
such appropriations shall be made and
conducted in accordance with the law,
providing for compensation TO the own
erS of private property taken for public
use, provided that no dwelling house,
yard or garden shall be taken for such
purpose nor shall any oil tank, gas or
oil pipe line be erected or laid within 100
feet of any occupied dwelling house
without the consent OF the owner there
Of: and so far as the rights of the public
are concerned, the county commission
ers as TO county roads, the council OF
any municipal corporation, as to streets
and alleys. in their respective iurisdic
tionS, may grant to such company the
right TO lay such tubing and piping.
FTRNISUING INTOXICANTs TO MINORS
If any person, whether he have State
license to sell spirituous liquors or in
toXicating drinks, or not, shall give or
sell any such liquors to any minor or
person of unsound mind, or to any per-
son who is intoxicated at the time, or
who Is in the habit of drinking to in
tOXication, when he knows or has rea-
son to believe such person is a minor,
or Of unsound mind, ETC.. or II he per-
nit any person to drink to intoxication
in any premises under his control, or
shall sell or give any intoxicating drink
to any one on Sunday, he shall be guilty
of misdemeauor, and fined not less
than twenty, nor more than one hun
dred dollars.
OICONCERNING DRIFT TIMBER, ETC.
If any person knowingly and unlaw-
fully buy, sell, take and carry away,
secretc, destroy or convert to his own
use any timber upon which trade
mark is stamped, branded or other
wise impressed; or II any person
shall knowingly and unlawfully
buy, sell, take and carry away, Sc
crete, destroy or convert to his own use
any timber upon which said trade mark
has been Intentionally and without law
full authority removed, defaced or de-
stroyed as aforesaid he shall be deemed
guilty of larceny thereof and punished
as in other cases OF larceny, and If the
value Of such timber be five dollars or
more he shall be guilty of grand larceny,
and If any person shall Intentionally
put any such timber in such position
or place so remote from the stream from
which it which it was taken or on which
it was aflOat as to render it inconvenient
or necessarily expensive to replace the
same in such stream he shall BE- guilty
of a mSdemeanOr, and fined not less
than twenty dollars.
JAIIR'S FEES FOR MAINTAINING LUNA
TICS.
The fees Of jailer for the mainten-
ance and care of a lunatic. shall be fix
ed by the court in whose jail he is con
| fined, but shall not exceed one dollar,
fnstead of sixty cents day; except in
extraordinary cases the court may al
low larger sum not exceed two dollars
Cnstead OF one dollar per day.
PROPERTY, RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
OF MARRIED WOMEN.
The entire law on these subjects is ma
terially changed. Her separate prop
erty already lawfully acquired shall be
hers solely and not subject to her hus-
bands control nor liable for his debts
and if lawfully acquired hereafter, the
the same unless acquired from her hus-
band, in which case it is subject to all
his debts or liabilities existing at the
time she acquired the property. She
may carry insurance on her husbands
| life for her own benefit: obtain, sell or
dispose of patents for inventions; own
stock and vote as q stockholder
! OF any bank, or other in
corporation. But no married woman
shall become the security, endorser, or
guarantor Of or for her husband or for
any other person, for any debt or liabll-
itv whatever; and every contract. agree
ment or conveyance made by her, In any
way binding or attempting to bind her
separate property, real or personal, the
rents issues, increase or profits thereof
/ for the payment of any debt or liability
OF her husband. whatever, shall be abso-
lutely null and void. She may in her
own name, but not by an agent, carry
on for her own use and benefit, any
trade or business. but she shall not do
so rs the partner Of her husband or OF
any other person. She shall not be
bound or held liable for any contract or
agreement, verbal or written, not made
by her personally. Her earnings aud
ali property purchased by her with such
earnings, shall in all cases be her sole
and separate property, not subject 70
her husbands control or disposal, nor
liable for his debts. She may sue or be
sued without Joining her husband, in
cases where the suit concerns her sep
arate property; where the suit is be-
tween herself and husband; where she
is living separate and apart from her
husband, or where he is NON compoS
montis
ANNUAL EXAMINATION or BANKS.
In April each year the Governor shall
lappoint some competent person, a
citizen of the State, experienced and
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