The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
THE ACTS
Summary Under Proper Heads of the Acts
Passed by the Last Legislature.

Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh, n. c.. March ID.
GENERAL LAWS.
| The following is a of the more
| important acts of the legislature:
| To require railway companies to redeem,
| unused mileage tickets.
To appropriate $50, 900 from general fund
to encourage local taxation by districts
or townships for public schools.
To fix fire insurance rates or risks mot
| to exceed those in Eirginia-)
To furnish $50 convicts and surveyors
to the W~inston-Salem Southbound rail-
| road.
public roads between July 18th and March
Forbidding adulteration of spirits tur-
| pentine with kerosene.
| To make authorized statement OF ac-
| count. properly verified evidence Of its
To give 1900 additional to negro or
| phan asylum at oxford. -,
To give $3.50 to Elizabeth City colored
| Normal and Industrial school.
| To amend the election law, aooiishing
| state supervisors
To require all county commissions to
| meet on the first Monday in June and
! revise the jury lists
| To give the governors council power to
make contract for the public printing.
| To fix the pay of registers OF deeds for
recording election returns.
To make embezzlerent Of funds by
guardians or administrators embezzle-
ment. =,
directors from jury duty.
To prevent public drunknesS.
To fix the time for the qualification or
justices of the peace.
To reduce fees on crop lien legislation.
To make land grants valid even when
not registered in newly created counties.
To repeal assignment act Of 1895.
To prohibit fire insurance companies
having agents here writing policies or
giving insurance IN COMPANIES not
Appropriating 5000 additional to the
and Industrial college: $4,000 more to the
colored Normal schools; 5000 to the agri-
cultural and Mechanical college at Raj
eigh and same amount to the one at
Greensboro.
To regulate procuring of bodies for dis
section.
To create a short form Of agricultural
To locate the line between North Caro-
lima and Tennessee.
To fix time for holding courts in 5th, 9Th,
18th. Sth. and 10th districts.
To increase and regulate revenue.
To increase power of railway commits
To exempt all fraternal benevolent as
sociations from tax.
mute school at Morganton: for school for
white blind at Raleigh. and for negro
deaf mutes and blind at Raleigh.
To provide for the maintenance of three
hospitals for the insane.
To give new charters to the hospitals
for the insane and to take control of them
and Of the penitentiary from the demo-
Gratis.
To protect school entertainments from
rowdieS.
To appropriate S., 900 for colored teach
ers' training school.
To require officers and directors of all
banks and railways. &c. chartered by the
legislature to take an official oath.
To create a separate board Of trustees
for the Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege at Raleigh.
To prevent the introduction Of the San
Jose fruit scale and other fruit and crop
pests.
see centennial.
To allow sheriffs to collect arrears of
taxes.
propriations quarterly or s~emi-annua1ly.
To appropriate $50. 600 Of state board Of
f;nD fnr sc fund y to to z Stimpl distri ictal taxa
Atlantic and North Carolina railroad.
To give, deputy clerks Of court power to
probate deeds and conveyanceS.
To allow express matter to be carried on
Sunday trains.
To promote the oyster industry.
The fellow servant act, making rail-
ways liable for employees injuries.
To amend the charter of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad.
To extend the time for settlement of the
state debt.
TO provide for additional county COM
To make changes in 7th and Sth Con-
gressiOnal districts.
To prescribe style of barbed wire fences
To forbid state banks having under $780,
900 capital from lending over one-tenth of
also to make stockholders liable.
To allow tramps and Migrants to be
sent to the roads.
To pay special venfres in capital cases
docs not apply to all counties).
To prevent minors from entering bar
ard billiard rooms and bowling alleys.
To prohibit working of female %convicts
on public roads or on ch%ain-gangs.
To prohibit the use of filters" in COM
mercial fertilizers.
Revenue and machine acts.
The Omnibus" LIQUOR bill; prohibition
near some 300 churches.
ground: also portrait Of Vance.
To protect coal miners and provide for
inspection of coal mines.
To allow county commissioners to elect
and fix salary of superintendent Of health. |
SCHOOL LAWS. |
To incorporate Hyatt Academy. 1
To establish graded schools at Monroe.
To incorporate Mt. Moriah Academy. /
To incorporate Hodges school in Davie; |
70 allow srsduates Of ksheville female /
normal school to teach in public schools
without examination. 1
To incorporate Homing Valley Institute. I
To incorporate trustees Of ST. Mary's |
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ington: Special tax in Wake Forest town. l
ship: Whitsett Institute; graded schools |
at Chapel Hill. ]
To allow Raleigh township to vote on |
$50. 600 school bonds. |
To amend charter of Kittrell colored
Normal school,: graded school at Hayes |
Vile: defining duties Of local boards Of |
the Colored Normal schools. |
To incorporate Elizabeth Female college |
at Charlotte. |
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LAWS. |
Amending the charter of the Wades- |
boro cotton mill. |
To allow Cashie and Chowan railroad !
to hold 100, 900 acres of land. I
Amending the charter Of the Roanoke |
Navigation and Water Power |
Incorporating James Baker Lumber |
|
To allow Charlotte to issue $3.50. O0 !
water works bonds.
To let the Raleigh and CASTOR railway |
straighten it's tracks.
To incorporate the North Carolina Land |
and Timber Company. |
To allow Monroe to issue water works |
bonds :
To allow Concord to vote on improve |
ment bonds.