The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-03-04
NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
Some of the Bills Introduced and
Passed on Saturday.

some OF Tic anu
Passed on Saturday.
In the House Saturday the follow
ing bills aud resolutions were intro
duced To adjourn sine die March
9Th: to regulate fire insurance com
panies; to make the salary OF the At
torney Generals clerk 5000; to repeal
the tax on practicing physicians; to
require the State Medical Board Of
Examiners to grant license to physi-
clans who have practiced ten years;
to prevent carrying concealed weap-
ems by employees OF detective agen-
cies; to amend the charter of Warsaw;
to allow Wilson county to issue bonds;
to incorporate Wake County Live
stock Association, legaliziDg cock
fighting.
BY Murphy, to amend the insurance
laws OF the State by providing that no
fire insurance company shall do busi-
ness in the State unless 1t has $780,
900 Of act ual cash capital paid up or
assets invested in bonds or stocks or
IN mortgages with double the amount
fer which property is mortRaged, aud
all fire companies shall deposit with
the State Treasurer $40, COO OF United
States, North Carolina, county or
JULIUS "AlCu 'aAiNi
ind whenever any loss by fire occurs
the loser, to secure recovery Of insur-
ance, to notify the State Auditor
pending settlement of said loss and
the amount claimed, and II there Is
not prompt settlement Of the loss he
may ask for receiver tn take charge
{ enough bonds to satisfy the judg
ment after suit; to regulate payment
Of wages to employees OF mauufaci uT-
- inE CT
in connection with their business 1t
requires such corporations which Car
~ on any store or mercantile business
owned by itself, or in which any til er
of said corporation is interested, to
pay the laborers and employees OF said
corporation at least once week all
sums due such laborers and employees
in such actual work.
Bills passed to make stockholders
of every bank chartered by the State
Individually liable and responsible,
equally and rata bly,, and one for an
other, for all contracts, debts and
agreements to the extent OF the
amount Of their stock therein at par
value thereof, in addition to the
amount invested in such bank, aud
all exceptions in any bank charter are
repealed, and to forbid any bank
from lending any one person over one
tenth OF its capital; to make 1T dis
cretionary with the State Treasurer
as to making State deposits in certain
banks: to require all bankers or Off
GERS and directors of railways and
State banks, or other corporations,
created or chartered by the Legisla-
ture, to take an official oath; certain
territory coed to Clay county by the
last Legislature was restored to CherO-
kee.
The bill giving to Asheville a dis
pensaIy system passed all readings
Bills introduced: By Clark, to pro-
vide for a Code Commission to codify
the laws of the State; to pay mileage
to assistant enrolling clerks; tC amend
chapter 355, Laws of 1887. relative to
working convicts on public roads; to
authorize an election in Duplin on
rem Val OF the court house; to regu-
late pay of mechanics. laoOrers and
other hired help; to change the name
of the Normal and Industrial School
| to Normal and Industrial College; to
prohibit persons from building dams
to injure other persons by backwater;
to employ two physicians for colored
deaf, dumb and blind institution.
The bill to prohibition the use of free
passes by public officers, being the
special order, was taken up. Ray Of
fered the following amendment:
THAT all roads in the State furnish
| free passes to all State officers during
their term Of office, and to make pas
senger rates two cents for tirst-class
and one and half cents for second
class" Lost-Yeas 10, nays o The
| original bill failed to pass. Yeas %,
nays %. There being tie the Lieu
tenant Governor voted no.