The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-01-17
to the committee on Finance, with post
ponement Of present action

Mr. L'ng said the F nance committee
nsd already considered the bill There
was merit, there was no justice in it, this
| putting IT all railroad taxes in one pot,
ms DIVIDING equally among all counties
There was a constitutional objection.
mere was no power to tax the real prop
ertv OF one county to help another.
Mr. Kay said the objection was chin
erical, and xes under the act OF 1876
we're equally divided among the.counties
There wss perfect justice in the bill; it
Vas an honest bill: it was giving justice
to the small counties.
Mr.. Ward opposed the bill on the
ground that if the bill passed, the taxes
Will be scattered around Taxes ought
| to be properly distributed where collect
"a. II" agreed with Mr.. Kitchen tha,
the bill be inds finitely postponed and
made motion to that effect, which. on
division, was carried, ayes AZ, nays %
SPECIAL ORDER
! Senate bill l. house bill 21O, a bill to
charter tie bank Of Washington was put
on its third reading. Amendments of
the committee, and by Mes Robert
son, Jones of Caldwell and Cook were
| adopted, and the bill passed and ordered
| 70 be sent to the senate with engrossed
| amendments
J House resolution "a, a join. resolution
| to repeal the 10 per cent. on state banks
at as early day as possible. Mr. Long
| called the ayes and nays. and the resolu
tion passed by a vote Of SO ayes, 20 nays,
and WAS ordered to be engrossed
House bill, a bill requesting @ President
| elect Cleveland to call an extra session
of congress at as early a day as practic
| able to take measures to relieve the courts
OF the burdens under which it labors !;
said call to be made as 80 IN after the in
suguration as possible, was put on its
reading. Mr.. Vance, If Buncombe,
made call for the ayes and navs. The
resolution was adopted. Ayes, G2; nays,
| 80.
House bill IS, bill to amend section
1S, chapter lS9 Laws of 1899, on motion
| Of Mr Holt was laid on the table.
| Hou e bill 90. bill to amend chapter
| 175, laws OF 1895, in section 1876, relat
ing to peddlers, and relating only to
Hrrtford county, on motion of Mr.
Holt, was tabled
House bill 1O9 a bill to allow Lincoln
county t. levy special tax of Is cents
on the hundred ard 45 cents on the poll
to pay the Indebtedness of the county.
passed its second reading by av1te #
AYES SO, nays O.
House bill =. bill to amend chapter
Isl, laws of 1887. ia regard to trustees
on deeds of tlust passed lts several read.
logs, and was ordered to he engro.s sed.
House bill 13l, in relation to the
offences when judgment is suspended
for more than two years. Ga motion of
Mr.. Holt was tabled.
| House bill l42. a bill TO amend chapter
2543, laws of 1891, in relation to the
hunting Of o'pos>ums was taken up on its
sec md reading
Mr.. Watson, of Vance, said bis people
favored hunting 'possums. This Dill to
be repealed gave them great trouble IN
| the last election.
Mr. Spruill said that Mr. Watson, OF
Forsyth, who was absent to day, wanted
to .e Lca1d cn this bill; aud on his mo
tioa further present consideration was
post poned.
House bill 149, bill &c repeal chapter
"a laws of 1891, in relation t, the local
laws of the towns of Weldon and E., field
IN relatl N to cotton weighers passed its
several readings, and Was ordered to b.
engtossed.
House bill l6G, bill to amend section
lS0 of the Code regarding suits brought
for infants and persons now compos
mentis such persons may be repre-
sented by their next friend passed its
several readings and was ordered to Of
engrossed.
House till 1s5, bill to repeal chap
ter 1872. laws OF 1891, to increase the
salary of judges, on motion Of Mr. Nc
Curry was tabled; and also house bill
1856, bill to make drunkenness a mis-
demeanor-a wilful drunk to pay fine
o 50, and not more than $40 or impris
Onmrnt.
House bill 1873. a bill to repeal section
1927. section 20, volume 2 of the Code
rrlating TO school tax, on motion of Mr.
Holt was tabled.
House bill l9l, bill to make Jere
miah Barnes citizen of Surry county
The bill explains that Barnes lives il
Wilkes county, most Of his lands being
ia Surry. His listing will be the same
a. usuL. The county laws are not to bt
changed passed over informally.
House DILL eli, bill to exempt the
bonds of the Fifth Street Methods,
church. Wilmington, issued to the ex
tent OF S25 900. with coupons with PEI
cent. interest, Was taken up on second
reading
On the suggestion of Mr. Gimer, 0
Haywood. tina; the constitutiouali,y 9
such legislation might be questioned, tn
bill was referred to the committee on Ju
aiciary.
Mr. Byrd was added to the committc
on Penal Institutions; and then, on mo
tion of Mr. Mckenzie, the house ad djourn
ed until this morning at 10 80 O'clock.
The bill introduced by r ,presentativ:
Clark to amend the Code 80 as to exclud
certain lllegitimate persons from tn
public schools has reference to the pa
rents of illegitimate children, and not t.
the children.
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