The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-02-24

put it under the care of fourteen direc-
tors.
Craven-To ratify the incorporation of
the Elizabeth College Company.
Aiken-To allow the Agricultural De-
partment to hold farmers institutes at
an expense Of not over 81 500.
Meares-To entitle the widows of all
Confederate soldiers to fourth-class
pensions.
Governor the appointment of the clerk
of the railroad commission; to repeal
the act giving the SO, 900 appropria-
ton to the geological survey; to repeal
the act of 1891 making an appropria-
ton to the University; to protect coal
miners.
Graham-To locate and settle the line
between North Carolina and Tennessee
between Graham and Cherokee and
Tennessee) and to pay therefor $500.
Bills passed: For encouragement OF
the Woman's exposition of the Caro-
linas at Charlotte; to allow the peni-
tentlary directors to pass upon the
value of stocks or bonds offered by |
counties as pay for convict labor.
The bill to reduce railroad fare and
telegraph and telephone rates and to
elect Railroad Commissioners by popu-
4 bill passed to subject to the quail
fed voters of Chatham county the ques- |
ton of road tax
At the night session bills passed re- |
q1liIing railroads to give free transpor-
tatiOn to railroad commissioners and |
their clerks, giving the commission
jurisdiction of street railways, If the |
latter haul freight; to require convicts
on the State farm in Anson to work
| roads not less than two nor more than
six days annually; to put stock law
| elections under the control of the
county commissioners they are now
controlled by State election supervis-
| ors, to incorporate Morven.
| THURSDAY. House met at 10 o'clock.
| There was an avalanche of new bills,
and among them were:
| Brown-To amend the act of 1891,
making suit for violation of the fer
tilizer tax tag law void unless notice is
not within 80 days given the Agricultu-
| ril department; Cunningham - To
impose SIC penalty for killing mock
ing birds or robbing their nests: Crary-
(resolution) on behalf of Sylvester
Scovel, an American citizen under
arrest in Cuba; Ward-To forbid eX-
Confederate soldiers from receiving
pensions while inmates of the Soldiers
Home; to require the attendance of all
children between the ages of s and IA
at school; to require IA lroads to carry
) bicycles as other baggage; Dockery-
to designate holidays (legan January 1,
January 10, February %, May 10, May
, 20, May so, July 4, lst Monday in Sep
tember, December %, and all Saturdays
from 12 noon until IL midnight; Cur
l RE To make misconduct at religious
worship misdemeanor, punishable by
| $50 fine or 80 days Imprisonment;
| TO allow Lumberton to vote on sewer
bonds; Hileman-to require cotton
a | mills to pay their employees the second
q Saturday night following their employ
e ment, and making it unlawful to longer
withhold their wages, the offence to be
. | misdemeanor, the penalty, fine OF i'm
, prisonment; the bill to appropriate
l. $1,000 to the Rolling Exposition,
l. known as ''North Carolina on Wheels,
: came up as special order. but was re
Il referred to committee.
Y The railroad commission bill wa:
# taken up and amended by striking on
5, the provision providing for their fret
II transportation by the, railroads ant
l. passed.
t. The fireman's appropriation bill wa
tabled by vote of 60 to 81.
Y The senatorial investigation commit
tee is allowed to March 2nd to report
v The ''clincher'' was put on the bill
le to give Fayetteville police board
4 after it passed third reading.
V. The bill requiring county commits
r sioners of each county to meet on th
first Monday in June and revise tn
to jury list passed.
n At the night session the followln
It bills passed: To prescribe short teri
S, of an agricultural lien in this State;
oy incorporate Figford Sanitarium {
Southern Pines for consumptive NJ
k. groes; to allow Rutherforiton to lev
d special tax this year Of 10 cents o
- the 800 worth of property, for bridge
oi and repairs; to amend the code so n
al insurance tax shall be levied On an
% fraternal benevolent organiZatio
e. which has insurance features. but n,
- - for profit.
~ ~ FRIDAE-House met at 10 o'clocl
GU Among the committee reports was on
~ unfavorable, on the bill to reduce sa
aries and fees. There were an avalancl
ne of new bills, mostly local ones, though
+y Bills passed amending the charter
Selma; to charter the Stone Mounta
=" Railroad this bill passed both Sena
~ and House without roll call, while
III roll call was necessarily; to keep Ill L
pair stock law fences in 6obeson;
=" incorporate Redmond, Madison count
~ resolution III favor Of Sylvester Scove
ID" an American newspaper correspondent
=" i'll prison in Cuba; for relief of sheri
,ey and tax collectors. allowing them
"i collect arrears OF taxes since rs
y" amendments poured in excepting SUI
70 counties. Alexander denounced
.o such bills He was told it was custo
W at each Legislative session to pass su
~ a bill
fo- The Senate bill to stimulate loc
10 taxation for schools by directing Il
", State Pcard Of Education to use
'oe much as $50, coo in ruraI dlstrlC
ON which for three successive years vote
tax themselves, the gifts TO be in
10 sums Of $50, SO and SlG0 year. II
ma on. Of Cumberland, said this was
90 excellent bill. and it passed its rea
'he ings
md Bills passed to take Vance cour
or out of the Eastern Criminal ircuit;
en-, give the local boards oi trustees OF c
n9: ofed State normal schools entire char
and of such schools. such boards to be ;
uointed bv the State Puard o. dri
nee ton: to extend the corporate llli.lts
seq MaXton.
Be The bill (by Bryan of Chathaml
the repeal the appropriation to the II
no. University was unfayorably relort
OF The House refused, upon vote, to t;
70 up on the third reading the resolut
oil 10 attend the Newbern fair
late Bills passed: To make the law fl
ac- ing with gill nets in Albemarle Sor
TIA operative March 3fst next; 10 incorI
and ate Roanoke Rapids, Halifax coun
oil appointing cotton weighers for Lii
olt Vile, Morven and Wadesboro; max
appropriations for the State insane 4
~ lums.
SATURDAY House met at 10 o'clo
ales cooI, nc cbairman made n report
no. follows: ''rhe special committee
-, whom the memorial herewith repoi
the and Senate resolution No. ia2, Ho
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