The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-26
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS
THIRTY THIRD DAY-sENATE.

Madison.
Ammons, petition from citizens o
township No. 9, Madison, concerning
the stock law.
Also petition from citizens of Madi
son county in reference to stock law.
Francks, petition from Onslow coun
ty, asking that southwestern prong o.
New river be opened for floating logs
Hamrick, petition from employees
of cotton mills against the labor law
Hamrick, petition asking that the
court house of Rutherford county be
moved from RuUherfordtod to Forest
City.
Mitchell, petition from citizens OF
RoXboro against Incorporation.
The committee on enrolled bills re-
ported sundry bills and resoluGlons
properly enrolled and signed by the
speaker of the House of Representa-
tives which were ratified by the sigma
ture OF the President of the Senate.
Reports from standing committees
were submitted by Senators Person,
Paddison, Bellamy, DoRd, Cook.
A MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
Transmitting sundry bills and resolu-
tions asking the concurrence OF the
Senate, which were read by theIr title
and referred to committees or placed
on the calendar.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills and resolutions
were introduced, read the first time
by their title and referred TO appro
pirate committees.
McC Askey, bill to amend sections
1885 and 1886 of the Code.
Also, resolution to reimburse the
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insane asylums the sum of $47 55 ex-
penses Incurred In visiting the colored
hospital at Goldsboro.
Franck, bill to make all script, check,
due bill, or other evidences of debt, Is
sued by any person, company, or o
poration, payable in money at the OPP
ton of the holder.
Franck, bill, prohibiting the setting
Of a draw net or pound nets In certain
waters of OnsloW county; fish and
fishing Also, a bill to incorporate the
N. Q. Home Training School for idiotic
and weak-minded children.
Hamrick, bill, TO remove the court
house from Rutherfordton to Forest
City.
Fowler, bill, to incorporate Eliza
beth, Charlotte and Abbottsburg Rail
road Company.
Norris, bill, to define the qualifca-
tions of telegraph operators who are
employed in handling railroad trains.
Starbuck, bill for tie redemption of
land after sale.
Garter, by request, bill for the re
lief of James Q. Smith, ex sheriff of
Cumberland county; also, a bill to
amend and continue in force the Fay
etteville Land and Improvement Com
pany.
By Mr.. White, of Perquimans. Bill
to amend section 1897 of the Code.
By Mr.. Adams, bill to authorize the
board of commissioners of Moore
county to fund the county indebted
ness.
By Mr. Padison, bill to amend sec
ton 1927 of the Code.
By Mr.. White, of Alamance, bill to
amend sub section 8, section 155 of the
Code.
By Mr.. Farthing, bill to ratify the
sale Of the States interest In the Cald-
well and Watauga Turnpike Company;
also, a bill to reduce the State appro-
priation to the Oxford Orphan Asylum.
By Mr.. Grant, bill to prohibit sale of
liquor within three miles of st. Math-
eW's~ Presbyterian church, in Wake
county.
THE CALENDAR
was taken up and the following bills
and resolutions were disposed of:
Bill to require railroad companies to
redeem unused railroad tickets, passed
its second and third readings.
Bill to repeal the charter of the town
of Elizabeth City, N. c.; also, enact
ing an entirely new charter on it's sec
Ond and. third readings.
Bill TO make all scrip, check, due
bills, or other evidences of debt, issued
by any person, company, or corpora
ton, payable in money at the option
of the holder.
This bill had heretofore been passed
by the Senate and sent to the House.
where it was lost. 1t was taken I'D
and passed its second and third read
iDgs.
To incorporate Steele Mills in Rich
mond county; passed its second and
third readings.
To incorporate the Wake Banking
and Surety company, of Raleigh
N. G.; passed its second and third
readings.
To incorporate the town of Browns.
vile, Yadkin county; passed second
and third readings-ayes 80, noes O.
anu o It's place on the calendar of
bills on their third readings.
To amend the charter of the town
or Edenton, N. O., the bill passed it's
second and third readings.
To provide for Working convicts on
the public road of Lincoln, Orange
and Randolph counties on it's second.
reading, passed second and third read
ings.
For the relief the bondsmen of w.
w. Fleming, late sheriff of Graham
count for the wears 1891 and 1901