The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-04
THE LEGISLATURE.
THE NEWBERN FAIR BREAKS IN
UPON THE DAYS WORK.

SOuTts III Lie AP-
ply the "Doyle Measurement" of Logs
to New Hanover County.
Especial to The Messenger.)
SENATE.
Raleigh, N. c., February 24.-Bills
and resolutions were introduced as fol-
lows:
BY Senator Hardison, supplemental
to a bill already passed, relating to the
oyster industry.
By Senator Person, to supply public
laws to all justices of the peace.
By enatO Wakefield, to incorporate
the North Carolina Land and Timber
Company.
By Senator Moye, to require a license
to carry concealed weapons.
Senator Scales lodged a motion to re-
consider the vote by which the bill re-
lating to fishing with nets and seines in
Neuse river passed.
The following bills passed:
10 make water courses twenty feet
wide and eight feet deep, lawful fence.
To incorporate the Hope Fire Com
pany in the town of Gr%eenville.
To extend the time to compromise,
commute and settle the state debt.
For relief Of the Croatan normal
school in Robson.
To amend the charter of Pollocks-
willie. =
To amend the act Of 1895, relating to
commissioners of Jones county
To repeal the charter OF Margaretts-
willie, Northampton county.
To regulate official bonds in Edge
combe county.
To place the registers of deeds bond
at $1,000.
To amend the charter OF Selma, al
lowing the town to tax druggists for
selling liquor.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The senate re-assembled Of 4 o,clocL
p. m. Bills passed as follows:
TO amend the charter Of Rocky
Mount.
To abolish the circuit criminal court
To amend The Code. by adding that
any justice Of the peace failing to keep
a record Of his criminal and civil trials
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
To amend the act ratified yesterday,
striking out Onslow and Pender coun-
ties.
BY leave Senator Person introduced
a bill to assist in the maintenance Of
PigfOrd sanitarium for the treatment
OF negro cOnsumptives.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
There were only forty-fve members
present, others being at the Newbern
fair.
The following bills were introduced:
BY Mr.. Ward, to reduce the pay Of
~ 90 pei udS.
BY Mr.. Young, to make a 81, 900 ap-
preparation (additiOnaD out of the gen.
eral fund for seven colored state nor
NAL schools.
Bills passed as follows:
To provide cotton seed weighers for
Goldsboro.
To allow Cumberland county to fund
it's bonded debt.
To provide cotton weigher for FIRE.
mont and Mt. Olive.
~ rn Iyi thnf N a nrt o111
bus and Lemon counties the commits
Sioners may instead of shall" pub
lish county financial statements.
To change the court house of Castor
county from Dallas to Gastonia.
To amend the charter of the Dennis
Simmons Lumber Company.
To prohibit Instructions in Beaver
creek, Jones county.
To amend the charter of the Moore
County Railway by allowing townships
which vote aid to the road to issue 8
per cent. bonds, running thirty years,
the county commissioners to levy a
tax to meet the interest.
To prohibit taking of CLAIMS from
the waters of Brunswick county be-
tween April 18th and November 18th.
To work NOrthampton's roads by
taxation.
To amend the charter of Laurin-
burg.
TIC allow Lumberton to issue $40, 900
In DO1QS 1Or water WOTkS, street I'LL
prOVementS, etc.
To work Bladen cOunty'S roads by
taxation.
To allow the administrators of the
late Sheriff Murrill, of Onslow, to col
leCt arrears OF taxes.
To allow the treasurer Of Bladen
county to pay registrars and judges OF
election at the last election $3.50 per
day and messengers 81 per day and 5
cents mileage one way.
A resolution, that no bills be intro
duced on or after March 1st.
To add Beaufort, New Hanover,
Bladen, Henderson, Sampson, Perqui-
mans, BERTHE and Washington to chap
ter 173, act OF 1895, this being the law
which requires is known as ne
Doyle measurement" OF logs.
To amend the law regarding issuses
Of fact in trials.
To provide for inspection of coal
mines and the safety Of miners therein.
To create a board Of control Of con-
victs and roads in M~ecklenburg county.
To allow the Wilmington street rail-
way to consolidate with any railway
entering that city.
Mr.. Sutton, Of Cumberland, offered
a substitute to Mr.. Dockery's bill
changing the time Of holding the Sew
enth district courts. and said 1t was
satisfactory to Mr.. Dockery. The act
goes into effect July LIST next. A sub
stitute was adopted with an amend
ment separating the civil terms in An
son.
Mr.. Cook, by leave, introduced a bill
to require the constitutions of the
United States and North Carolina to
be read in all public schools.
The bill to turn stock loose in Nose
ley Hall township, Lenior county, was
tabled, Mr.. Hauser alone voting against
the motion tabling it.
NIGHT SESSION.
The house met at 100 O'Clock.
Mr.. Dockery introduced a resolu-
ton TO allow laborers of the house so
cents a day extra, saying there were
his session only eleven. while two
years ago there were eighteen. 1t was
adopted.
Bills passed as follows:
To make it unlawful for any person,
not a citizen of this state. to hunt or
shoot any wild fowl in Currituck