The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-26

ayers OF G~OldsDOrO graQeO scnOOl.
To incorporate Lucama, Wilson
county. ,
Bill to appropriate 81, 900 to the col
ored normal schools, to be divided be
between the six schools, pro rata.
To regulate work on public roads III
Jones and other counties.
To incorporate Jupiter, in Buncombe
county.
To amend charter of Thomasville
Banking and Trust Company.
To create a new township in Hay.
wood county.
To regulate working of public roaGs
in Pennsylvania and jackson counties,
To incorporate Hodges Business Col
lege in Dare county.
To incorporate the North Carolina
Teachers Association.
A bill appropriating $35, 900 to sustain
the penitentiary was amended to read,
1925, 600" and passed it's several read
ings.
ELECTION OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
The committee on Justices of the
peace submitted a list of names as
nominations for justices of the peace
IN various townships of the State to
fill vacancies as we'll as for the three
new townships, and &c votes we're cast
for the report of the committee and
four votes were cast against the list.
Bill making J. A. Newell a justice of
the Peace in Crab Orchard township
in Mecklenburg county.
A bill amending the charter of tho
town of Tarboro, Edgecombe county.
To protect fish in Cape Fear river;
passed third reading.
A large number Of bill failed to pass
their second reading, and many others
were laid upon the table.
Moody, of Haywood, offered a joint
resolution that this General Assembly
adjourn sine die Wednesday, March
13, 1895, at 10 o'clock a.. NJ.
HOUSE.
Prayer by Rev. N. B. Cobb.
Ewart sent up resO. ,tlOnsfrOm Neck
lenburg county, which were read as
follows:
At a meeting Of the executive com
mittee of the Peoples party for Neck
lenburg county, held this day, it was
unanimously
Resolved, That this committee urge
the present Legislature to at once adopt
the bill entitled an act to amend the
charter of the city of Charlotte as con
in the bills and amend
ments offered for that purpose by the
Hon. FL. G. Ewart,
Resolved, that a copy of these reso-
lutlons be forwarded to the Hon. A. f.
Hileman who is urgently asked to pass
the same.
cicnoa J. A. LoFT1N, Chm'n
~o000' j. 2. SOSsAMAN, Sec'y.
The calendar was the taken up and
the following bills were put through
without much delay:
PASSED THIRD READING.
Act to allow commissioners Of Samp
son to levy a special tax.
To allow commissioners of Mcdowell
to levy q tax.
To authorize Greensboro to issue
bonds for electric lights and motor
power.
To allow Nash county to levy a
special tax for county Indebtedness.
To allow commissioners of Leaksville
to issue town bonds.
To incorporate Clinton graded
Bill to incorporate Bonneville; Spring
Creek Free Will Baptist church.
STATE LIBRARIAN.
The bill to amend section 3. 6O4 in re-
ference to election of State librarian.
Mr.. PEBBLES moved to postpone indefi-
Ray moved to table, and then
on Hileman's motion to call
the ayes and noes. Motion to table
Motion to indefinitely
postpone lost by a vote of % ayes. 81
noes. Ewart moved the previous ques-
ton. Demand sustained. PEBBLES
called for the ayes and noe Ray de.
manded tellers. The chair appointed
Ray and Speas as tellers. Burnham
the attention of the chair to the
fact that gentlemen were leaving the
hall to prevent a quorum. The bill
by a vote of 81 to 8. Some
gentlemen present not voting being
counted to make quorum Exception
was taken by q Democratic member TO
the ruling. A motion to suspend the
and put upon it's third reading
was passed by a vote of ayes Ga, noes
%. The bill then passed its third read
This bill provides for the election
of the State librarian by the legislature
instead of by the Governor, the Secre-
tary of State and the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, as heretofore.
The bill to recharter Raleigh passed
third reading. This is the bill intro
duced into the Senate by Senator Nor
ris.
Bill authorizing the chairman and
board of directors of the penitentiary
to purchase Caledonia farm in Halifax
and the Narrows in Stanly and Mont
gomery with 5000 acres of land was
defeated.
THE REVENUE BILL
came back from the Senate and was
laid before the House. Amendments
made by the Senate to increase the
school tax from Is to Is cents and the
poll tax from 81 "a to 1 .29 to observe
the constitutional equation, we're dis
cussed and concurred in.