The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. !:
Captions of Laws Enacted and Ratified ut
the Session just Closed.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,

Captions Of Laws Enacted and Ratified ut
the Session just Closed.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel,
Raleigh. N. c., March II.
From March Sth to 10th, both inclusive,
the following bills were ratified and are
now laws:
To provide for additional county com-
missioners.
To amend charter of St. Augustine's
school, Raleigh.
To repeal chapter $50, public laws 1895.
For relief Of commissioners of Surry.
To create a board to control Mecklen-
burg convicts.
To incorporate Callettsville.
To incorporate the New Hanover So
ciety for the Prevention Of Crime.
To incorporate Duplin and Wayne Rail-
road and Lumber Company.
To regulate sale of liquors in Union.
To protect fish and game in Rocking
ham.
To allow Duplin to levy a special tax.
To appropriate $4,000 additional to color
ed normal SCHOOLS.
To amend code as to appeal from as
signments of widows years support.
To create Beaver Dam township. Wash
ington county.
To renew chapter $50, acts 1891.
To open fish ways in Catawba river.
To create a public school district of the
town of Rockingham.
To give additional time of meeting to
Forsyth's commissioners.
To incorporate Tar River and Carolina
To amend charter of Matthews.
70 repeal chapter 5S5, acts 1891.
To repeal chapter 23S, acts 1889.
To amend charter of Carthage.
70 incorporate Excelsior Artesian Well
and Sewerage Company,
laws 1895.
To give charge of public printing to the
governors council.
To provide for the election of tax COL
iectOr for Meck1enburg.
To amend chapter 301, acts 1895.
TO protect cartridges and squirrels in
To incorporate Davie Educational Union.
10 protect deer in certain counties.
To exempt the Farmers Mutual Fire
Insurance Company from tax.
To establish a free school district ON
the line between Guilford, Forsyth and
To aid public schools in Tyrrell.
70 amend the Mecklenburg road law.
10 put Castor and Cleveland in the
Eighth congressional district.
TO amend law as to cotton and peanut
WeigherS in Edgecombe.
10 incorporate Red Springs seminary.
To allow Polk county to hold a local
For relief of ex-Sherif Beamon, of
Sampson.
To protect land owners in Chatham
To protect travellers on public roads
from barbed-wire fences.
To amend charter of Burlington.
To amend chatter Of Moore County and
Western Railroad Company.
TO amend charter of Monroe.
To reduce price for weighing cotton.
To indulge tax payers of Hyde.
TO amend charter of Columbus, Polk
TIC amend charter of Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians.
To reduce fees for impounding stock in
Edgecombe.
To amend section 2O62 of the code
Regarding special school tax in Person.
For relief of sheriff of Currituck.
To regulate liza bilitV of StOckhO16erS of
state banks and forbid lending by such
banks of over 10 per cent. of capital to
one person or corporation.
For relief OF commissioners of Pender.
To incorporate Savings Bank of Person.
70 extend charter of North Carolina
To incorporate Hanover Land and I'M
provement Company.
To amend charter of Salisbury.
TO protect fish and game in Cherokee.
To regulate hunting and fishing in Cur
To incorporate Chowan Educational AS
ISOLATION.
To amend section sos of the code.
institutions for deaf-mutes and blind.
To allow tramps and Migrants to be
sent to the roads.
To amend chapter 81. acts 1887.
To amend section 752 of the code.
TO change time of superior courts in
To pay special venire in capital cases.
To prevent obstruction of navigable
To prevent minors from entering bar
ard billiard rooms and bowling alleys.
70 Greats Greats e new os tow9 isl in A1a.ns.eghany.
To provide cotton weighers for Fremont
and Mt. Olive
To prohibit working of female convicts
To allow Buneombe commissioners to
elect county auditor.
To amend charter of nunda.
To amend law as to impOunding of stock
in Craven.
TO regulate setting of nets in parts of
| m rlQ sound
70 amend charter of wilkesboro.
To amend the code as to fertilizer
To repeal charter of West Asheville.
To protect turkeys and deer in Fender.
To permit obstruction of streams in
To amend game law of Vance.
TO charter Gladstone academy.
| To allow Currituck to issue bonds.
To repeal chapter sc. acts 1895.
To ALLOW Fayetteville to buy and operate
To protect fish in Trent river.
To amend charter of Lilesville.
70 allow vote on extension of limits of
| Davidson.
To drain Fourth creek in 1reden and
TO repal chapter 274. public laws 1895.
TO prevent careless rafting Of logs In
TO confirm charter of Oxford orphan
70 repeal chapter 2s7: acts 1895.
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$25, 600 to CASTOR county.
| To authorize pay of registrars and
judges of election.
TIC allow Swain, Clay and Macon to
work or hire out convicts on public roads.
To protect people of Swain from damage
by floating logs.
To repeal chapter 402, acts 1893.
To extend time for organization of Lum-
berton and Lumber River Railroad Com
pany.
To repeal chapter 297, acts 1895, so far
as Person county is concerned.
To protect deer and birds in Moore.
To create Roaring Creek township in
Mitchell.
To aid North Carolina Rolling EXPOSE
ton.
To establish school district out Of part
of Mitchell, Burke and Mcdowell.
To raise evenue. i
To keep Catawba river open as a high
way of floatage.
To add Nash and Wilson to the eastern
criminal circuit.
For relief of ex-Sherir Morrison, of
CabarruS.
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