The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-03-05
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THE LEGIsLATURE.
WEDNESDAY-FEB Is.
In the Senate charter of Winston
Loan and Trust Company passed
second reading with amendment by
committee.
Bills passed Incorporating Jackson
vile in Onslow, Norwood in Stanly:
the Hot Springs Railroad Company:
American Home Mineral and Mining
Company; and Iredell Land Improve.
ment and Construction Company.
Bills also passed authorizing Dur
ham to issue bonds for school. pur-
poses; repeating old Buncombe Turn
pike Company; amending charter
Statesville Air Line Company; estab-
fishing Statesville Graded School:
anil appropriating $50 for a portrait
of Henry Lawson Wyatt, of the old
EdgecOmbe Guards, first Southern
soldier killed in the war. Also bills
encouraging exploration for and dis
covery ofphosphate rock in naviga-
bic waters of the State; authorizing
ccrtain townships to subscribe to
Townsville and Silver Valley Rail-
road; amending charter Greensboro
Water Company; chartering South
Eastern North Carolina Railway
Company, and Incorporating Caro-
lima Charity Association.
The House spent the day session on
the revenue bill, and made Indifferent
progress. The night session was a
veritable oyster stew, the House
tangling on the oyster bill, and final
ly passing a permanent prohibition
against dredging for oysters, save in
Onslow county.
THURSDAY-FEB. 26.
In the Senate bills passed amend
ing charter of Greensboro; incorpora-
ting South Carolina, Seaboard and
Northern Railroad, and Wilson and
Carolina Railroad; providing for
study of nature of alcohol and mar
cotics, and their effects. in public
schools; changing dividing line,
Wilkes and AllegEaney; incorpora-
ting Carolina, Greenville and North
ern Railway; incorporating Falls
Manufacturing Company. A large
number of local bills passed various
readings.
In the House Mr.. Lineback intro
duced a bill to establish lines of GER
tain townships in Forsyth
Bill to amend charter of Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad SO as
to extend the road West of Goldsbo-
70, came up, was debated and went
back to the committee. and made
special order for Saturday.
The Revenue bill was taken up and
several sections discussed; the present
rate of taxation for State purposes,
twenty-five on the hundred dollars,
and seventy-five cents on the poll was
adopted. Various local bills passed,
the great majority being acts of in
corporation of one sort and another.
FRIDAY-FEB. 81.
In the Senate bills passed, prohibi-
ting the sale of liquor in CASTOR
county; establishing criminal court
for Hartford county; Incorporating
town of Mountain Island, CASTOR;
apportioning members of the Senate;
authorizing Stanley to build a court
house; preventing gambling at fairs;
prohibiting sale of cigarettes to mi
nors; declaring Rowan county under
the operation of the stock law; au-
thorizing MANNED Confederate SOL
diers to peddle, license free.
In the House bills passed amending
charter of Roanoke and Southern
Railroad; Incorporating Commercial
Security Company, of Greensboro;
incorporating Building and Loan
Company of Greensboro; ratifying
charter Greensboro Water Company;
amending charter Guilford Battle
Ground; amending charter Fayette-
vile and Albemarle Railroad; appor-
tioning members of the Senate; pro-
tecting children in sale of husbands
interest in land belonging to wife; re-
pealing charter town of Osgood, in
Chatham; authorizing Governor to
offer rewards for horse thieves when
names are not known; Incorporating
Oak Ridge Institute, Guilford.
The House tabled by SO to 81, q
bill to encourage sheep husbandry.
MONDAY-MARCH 2.
In the Senate bills passed to revise
and amend the charter of Winston;
amending Asheville, Cranberry and
Pulaski City Railroad; Incorporating
the South Atlantic University; incor-
porating all the churches in North
Carolina not heretofore incOrpora-
ted, amended so as to apply to GER
tain counties and prohibits the sale
of liquor within two miles of every
church; re-arranging senatorial dis
tricts; placing Forsyth, Rowan and
Davidson in the 26th senatorial dist;
establishing normal and training
school for Elizabeth City; incorpora-
ting the grounds of Trinity College as
Trinity Park; Incorporating Buena
Vista, in Buncombe; authorizing
special tax, Wilkes county.
In the House bill to make legal rate
of interest 6 per cent. was made spe-
cial order for tonight at 9 O'Clock.
Bills passed to supplement Green's
borO school fund; Incorporating town
of North Durham; amending Raleigh
charter; compelling physicians from
other States who practice I'm this
State to make oath that they are
regularly licensed, or else stand an
examination before the State Medi-
cal Board; protecting farmers in the
purchase of seeds of all kinds.