The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-02-26
THE LEGISLATURES.
wEDNEsDAY-FEBRuARy:iSTH.

wEDNEsDAY-FEBRU
In the Senate bills passed dividing
and defining the crime of murder;
amending charter East Carolina
Land and Railway Company; incor-
porating Hub, Columbus; also Ora
ham Brown Stone Company; concur
ring in House amendments to com
mission bill. Williams six per cent
interest bill made special order for
to-day.
In the House bills passed amend
ing section 1882 of the Code as to
fees; incorporating Scottish Brown
Stone Company; increasing tax for
common schools; incorporating Wa
chovia Loan and Trust Company:
incorporating town of Ruffin, Rock
ingham; Incorporating Scotland
Neck Bank; requiring all dealers in
sheep in Allegheny to adopt a brand
! and have the same registered. After
lengthy debate bill to salary Solicit
tors failed to- pass, aye Il; nay SO.
FRIDAY-FEBRUARY 2OTH.
In the Senate bills passed incorpo-
rating Statesville Development Com
pany; New WilkesbOrO Land Compa-
ny; relating to Davis School fund; for
better protection lives and property,
New Berne; charging charter Carroll
ma Construction Company; authoriz-
| ing New Berne to issue bonds and
levy special tax; incorporating
Greensboro Street Railway; Oak
Ridge Institute; establishing Geolog-
! ical Survey of State; extending 80
i; years Baltimore and North Carolina
! Copper and Mining Company; revis-
ing dividing line between Allegheny
and Ashe; incorporating Farmers
Loan and Trust Company, Morgan
ton; also Commercial and Farmers
Bank, Raleigh. Tabled: Bills rela-
ting to running trains on Sunday;
relating to gambling.
| In the House, MIR. Denny intro
duced bill to settle boundary lines be.
tween Stokes, Surry and Forsyth.
Special order was a resolution in.
STRUGGLING the judiciary to report a
bill letting the State printing to the
lowest bidder, and it was soon TIA.
bled, without an aye or nay vote.
Bills passed esta blishing graded
school at Concord; enabling Cleve
land to build u Jail; funding the debt
of Onslow; amending charter of At
lanta, Asheville and Baltimore Rail
road; to prohibit hunting of o'pos
sums between first of Feb1 uary anC
October, in Guilford, Davidson
Stokes and Rockingham; improving
road across the Allegheny; providing
in cases of mortgage Foreclosures
that sufficient provision for thirt,
days shall be left by the sheriff; au
thorizing Commits ,ioners of Leaks
vile to issue bonds for street TIM
provements.
sA!URDAy-FEERUA DIST.
In the Senate bill passed secont
reading to incorporate the tow
North Wilkesboro. Bill passed thirt
reading to amend chapter 40, law
of 1887, in regard to the A. and Nj
College, making an appropriation G
$4,000, but later was re-considered
and made special order tonight a
eight O'Clock. Bill making it mis-
demeanor to.entice tenants was pass
ed, then re-considered and finally
tabled amid much confusion. Bill
passed requiring Secretary of Stat
to keep and present to the Legisla
ture all Information and sta tistice i,
regard to insurance companies doins
business in the State, amended no
to apply to any benevolent or frater
nal association.
In the House several bills passe,
second reading, and various bills
resolutions and petitions were intro
duced. The revenue bill was report
ed and made the special order 70
Tuesday. Most of the time wa
wasted in explaining positions Q
members on the State printing mat
ter, those deepest in the steal man
ifesting the most Indignation at pro
tests against the trust
MoNDAY-EaBRUAE $50.
In the Senate bills passed incorpo
rating Webster and Hot Spring
Railroad; Incorporating Rocky Poin
and Fender Phosphate and Improve
ment Company; authorizing Wi
mington to establish sewers and otf
er improvements; authorizing Shell
, to vote on graded school; amending
charter Winston-Salem Land an
) Investment Company; authorizing
, Wilmington Street Railway to us
electricity; Incorporating Greensbor
Building and Loan Company; author
. ling Ashevilie to vote on issue {
100000 bonds; authorizing Supt
, rior Court Clerks to be absent on
Monday during the year; allowin
! Trustees of Public School Fund t
sell Swamp lands, and buy four Pc
cent. State bonds; appropriatin
! $15, 900 to Agriculturalan and MechaI
ical College.
, In the House bills passed authori
, ing Leaksville to issue $1,000 in
, proyemeut bonds; incorporatin
T Danville and East Tennessee Raj
way company; amending charte
Pilot Mountain; allowing Granvil
the alternative system of workin
roads; authorizing Madison to ISIS,
bonds; providing for study in pull
: schools of alcoholic drinks and ma
l cotics; chartering Norfolk, Wilmin,