The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-03-21
THE LEGI STATURE.
Some of the Most Important Bills that
Passed

The following are the most import
ant general acts of the Legislature:
To repeal the county government
law; to provide for the election by the
people of three additional justices in
each county; to repeal the election
law and provide for a new election
system; to provide for the adoption
OF school text books by county
boards of education instead of by
the State board; to prevent prize
lighting, by fine and imprisonment;
to extend for two years the time for
changing old State bonds for 4 per
cents; to provide Tor aid of public
schools by Local assessments; to re-
store per cent as the legal rate of
interest; to fix minimum rate of
charges for selling leaf tobacco in
warehouses; to create a Western
Criminal court circuit composed Cf
Buncombe, Madison, Haywood and
henderson counties; to create an
Eastern Criminal court circuit, COM
posed of New Hanover, Meek enburg.
Halifax, Vance, Warren, Edgecombe
| and sever al other counties; To require
railways to redeem unused tickets: to
appropriate $4,000 TO complete the
Confederate monument at Raleigh;
to define butter and regulate its sale;
to prevent adulteration and mis-
branding of food and TODD products;
to restore Mitchell county to the
Ninth congressional district; to regu-
| late building and loan associations
| and provide for examination of their
| affairs by the State; to require the
| payment in cash on demand of all
| scrip, checks, due bills or other eyi-
dences of debt issued by any corpor
alton; for the Improvement of the
| public roads of the State; to amend
| section B, ,O62 of The Code, regarding
| insurance; to define train robbery
and fix its punishment; to regulate
| the business of building and loan
| associations; to incorporate the
| North Carolina Prison Association.
Among the local acts were the FOL
| lowing:
Charters amended Wilmington,
Raleigh, Winston, Morgantcn, Nit
Airy, Edenton, Greensboro, East
| Bend, Weldon, Southern Pines,
Elizabeth City, kinston, Chapel Hill,
Margaretsville, Grlfton, Rocking
ham, Gastonia, Durham, Warrenton,
Lumberton, Bessemer City. States
vile, Newbern
Railways hartered-Morganto
and Shelby, Norfolk and Camden;
Intramontane, French Broad; South
port and Western; Roanoke Railway
and Bridge company, CoDgdOn,
Broaddus Tramway company, West
Carolina, Currituck & Carolina,
| French Broad, Southport x Western,
Mariennad Springs, Plymouth, Wash
| ington 4 kInston, Carolina Railway
and Electric, Sanford, Ellington &
| Eastern; Carolina & Northwestern H.
Appropriations annually to insti-
tutions-To the university, $40, 900;
to the White Agricultural and
Mechanical college, SIS 700 regular
and $500 SPECIAL; To the colored
| Agricultural and Mechanical college,
So 900; to six colored normal scno OILS,
81 500 each; to cnlored normal
schoo, at Winston. $1,000; to The
| MorgantOn asy lum Tor Insane 800
900; to the Guld-boro asylum ST.
500 regular and $4,000 special, TO
the Soldiers Home So, 800; 70 the
normal end industrial school $13,-
$50 regular aud So 600 special; TO
the institution tor the blind $50 900
regular and 50 900 special.
Insurance companies chartered
| Peoples Mutual FIRE of Nori b Caro-
Ina, Stock Mutual Fire of North
arolina. Stock Nh ual, of Green's
boro; Farmers Mutual Fire Insur
ance Assucia ton OF North Carolina;
| southern Manufacturers Mutual
| Fire; North Carolina Mutual Fire;
also TO admit the FarmerY AlIiance
TO the same privileges las other
benevolent associations in the mat
ter of insurance; also to protect
| holders of fire insurance pol ci..s; also
to allow unincorporated insurance
companies to do business III this
| State upon d-positing $4,000 in
cash or State bonds with the Secre
tary of State.