The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-02-28
THE HARTE
House Bill 1908 Tabled, and Senate Bill
674 Adopted by Both Houses.

Inc Geu0Tai Assembly OF North
Carolina do enact:
SECTION 1 That chapter los, private
laws of 1889, be amended by adding at
the end of section 2 of said act, the
following: provided that no individ-
ual stockholder in the Business Agency
fund of the Farmers Alliance of North
Carolina or in any other business n
terprIses conducted or in any way con
trolled by the said State Alliance or by
anv County or Sub Alliance; and no
member of said Alliance or Alliances
who is not a stockholder in said fund
or enterprise shall be Individually
liable for any debt or obligation con
traCted by he Alliance OF Alliances,
or by any officer, manager, agent or
employees thereof.
SEC 2. That section 3 of said acts of
1889 be amended by adding to the end
thereof the folio wing: provided that
the amount of salary paid toany officer
or employ ee Of the Farmers State ALI
ance or any County or Sub Alliance
shall 7 OF al any time be increased from
and after the ratification Of this act,
and any amendment 10 any Alliance
COIlSLltNUt VI C"4N Ny Id pdSS6O
hereafter for the purpose of increasing
any such salary shall work a forfeiture
of the charter of the State Alliance,
County Alliance or Sub Alliance pass
ing the same"
SEC 8 That section A of said acts of
1889 De amended by adding to the end
thereof the following: Provided that
from and after the ratification of this
act any person who shall hereafter con
tribute or has contributed any amount
to a fund raised bv the said Farmers
Alliance Of North Carolina for the pur-
nose Of carrying on a State Business
Agency or any other business enter
prIse. sh al have the power to with
draw from such fund the noun 50
maid or con Tibuted to such fund,
whether such amount a be proven
bv certificate or not, Provided that
the person holding a certificate shall
forward the said certificate to the
Trustee Of the Business Agency fund,
or t. any person having charge of said
fund before recovering the amount
paid into said fund. and any person not
holding certificate shall, before recOv-
verlng the amount COntr ibuted by him,
send TO said trustee an affidavit made
before a Justice of the peace stating the
said amount, and tha5 said certificate
has not been transferred and has been
lost Upon receiving the said certificate
or affidavit. it shall be the duty of said
trustee of said Business Agency fund
or ether person having charge of said
fund. to send by mail to the person so
SCI ding such certificate or affidavit the
amount contributed by said pers IN,
less the postage required to send said
amount That any person who has
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tribute any mount to any County
Alliance or Sub Alliance, and said
County Alliance or Sub Alliance has
paid or shall hereafter pay any sum
into the said Business Agency fund
shall have a right to demand of said
trustee his proportional part of the
sum so paid by said County Alliance,
Sub Alliance. The prOportionate part
of said sum due su h person shall be
ascertained by dividing the sum so paid
by said County Alliance or Sub-AlIi.
ancp, by the number of male members
of said County or Sub Alliance at the
date Of payment of such sum into the
SAID fund. The affidavit of any such
applicant stating the number of male
members of such County or Sub ALI
ance az the time Of such payment and
that he was a member thereof, accom-
panied by the certificate of two mem
bers IN good standing of the Alliance
for the county where the applicant re
sides, the t~ruthfulness of such affidavit
shall De sufficient proof # such mem
bershIp ana of the number of members
of SAID County or Sub Alliances at the
time of such payment.
SEC 4 If the trustee shall for the
period Of sixty days after the applica-
ton Of any person under this act for
the re pay ment, fail to pay said person
any sum due Oy virtue of this act, the
said failure to pay shall work a forfeit
ure of the charter of the said State
Alliance The Business Agent ana the
said u Istee of the B Isiness Agency
fund stall each give a bond for the
faithful performance of said duty, pay
abe to the Farmers State Alliance.
with two or more securities. The bond
Of the said Business Agent shall be for
the sum Of thirty thousand dollars and
the bond Of the said trustee shall be
fifty thousand dollars. The suretieS on
said bonds shall be justified as required
by law, as the sureties on tGe bonds of
an administrator, and shall bedepOSted
IN the Cffice Of the Clerk of the Supe
Tor Court of the county where the
Business Agent or trustee respectively
resides.
Sc 5 It shall be the duty of the
State Business Agent to pay in the
months Of May and November of each
year to the said trustee all the profits
ari~inS from the operations as such
Business Agent after paying all neces-
sary expenses of carrying no said bust
ness, such as rents, salaries, fire insur-
ance, etc.
SEQ 6 1t shall be unlawful for the
said trustee or n officer, agent or
employee of the said Business Agency
or State Alliance or County or Sub
Alliances to use or permit to be used
any part of said fund or any fund be