The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-03-26
A SUMMARY
'OF THE WORK DONE BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
1891.
What Was Done, What Was Not
Done, What Should Have
Been Done, and What
Should Not Have Been
Done.

| JO1Ss
I'VE republish this week the sum
mary given last week with additions
and amendments.
Persons from every quarter of The
State, in fact, all with whom we
have talked, say that the Legisla-
ture just adjourned did more i'm.
portant work than any within their
memory. This is very probably
true, tor in spite Of the fact that the
body was rushed, crowded and bur.
dened with an unusual mass of bills
asking FOR purely local, private and
unimportant legislation, yet dozens
of important measures that concern
ed vitality the interests of the whole
State were Investigated, discussed,
considered and enacted into laws.
Yes, more such measures than the
journals of any other General A.
sembly show.
We quote from Col. Fred A. Olds,
that prince of newspaper reporters,
the following excellent summary:
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ESTABLISHED.
theological survey, S1O,O annu-
ally. Bureau of immigration, con
solidated with the Agricultural Bu-
reau, with only $3.50 allowance adj
ditiOnal to Commissioner OF Agri-
culture; Normal and Industrial
School for white girls, $40, 900 annu.
ally; Institution for white deaf
mutes, $4,000 annually; Railway
Commission, three members, $4,000
each, clerk 81 200 and expenses al
lowed; Confederate Soldiers Home,
1000 annually; Colored Agricultur-
al and Mechanical College, $4,000
annually; COlored Normal Sch DOL
of Elizabeth City, 5000 annually,
taken from other normal Soho. Is"
OTHER IMPORTANT LAWS ENACTED.
"FOrbidding oyster and clam
dredging, and creating an oyster
commission !; closing registration
books at noon the Saturday befol e
elections; prohibiting immigration
agents from carrying on their bust
ness, by imposing $1,000 license tax
in each county in which they oper
ate; making it a misdemeanOrt TO en-
tice minors out of the State; pro-
viding for the election of Solicitors
in the same manner as judges; re-
curing clerks Of Superior Courts to
make annual reports of all funds in
their hands and making embezzle-
ment by them felony; allowing
each judge $3.50 annually for travel
ing expenses; allowing perst ms to
change name only once; giving to
justices Of the peace jurisdiction in
cases where though deadly weapon
is used no damage is done; requiring
all banks to make stated reports to
the State Treasurer; prohibiting the
sale OF cigarettes to persons under
II years Of age; providing for tenn
perance text books in the public
schools; limiting the number of
times of meeting of county boards
of education to four annually; max
ing it misdemeanor to make any
threats or use any undue influence
against jurors or witnesses; provid-
ing for the office of tax collector in
the various counties; making the
railway commission court of rec
ord inferior only to the Supreme
court; making gambling at agricul-
tural fairs or other places of public
amusement misdemeanor; to allow
the State board of directors to in
vest its funds received from the sale
of swamp lands AMI defining the
meaning of the term swamp lands. ,
To make four feet the height of o
lawful fence TO allow county con-
victs to build and repair bridges and
to remove distractions from streams:
to prevent the spread of hog cholera
by requiring hogs dying of that dis
ease to be buried deep and not near
ponds or running streams.
ITO pay judges and canvassers of
election 81 per day, and to allow
persons summoned as witnesses at
coroners' inquests the same as regu.
lar witnesses in courts; to allow Su.
preme or Superior Court Judges to
take probate in cases where the pro-
bate judge is party in interest; reg
uiating sheriffs' and constables' fees
in cases Of claim and delivery of
personal property and fixing a uni
form fee for the service of road Or
ders. Requiring all sheep dealers
and butchers to keep registers of
cattle, etc.; Requiring all dentists
from other States practicing here to
stand regular examination, and all
physicians from other States, prac-
tlcing here, to either do this or else
file certificate statement that thew
are regular licentiates; to allow the
Governor to offer not over $500 re-
ward for telOns, whether their names
are known or not; to make the words
adjoining and bounded by of equal
meaning, as applied to land bound
aries; Requiring tax listers to col
lect and report agricultural statistics:
requiring railways to redeem unused
tickets, and to make ticket scalping
a misdemeanor.
10 place the assessing and valuing
OF Railroad property among the du-
ties OF the Railroad Commissioners:
to protect seed buyers, by requiring
GATE to be placed on all packages Of
seed sold; changing the names of in
sane asylums to hospitals and of poor
houses to homes for the aged and in