The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-23
H~OUsE-F1FrY FOURTH DAY.

HOUSE-FIFrY FOURTH DAY.
This being the last day for the intro
duction of bills, there was a pile of
them, as follows:
Babbitt, to prohibit fishing with nets
in certain parts of Beaufort county.
Hodges. to amend chapter 81, public
laws Of 1868
Person, to prevent Instructions in
Moccasin river.
Craven, to provide for bridge across
the Catawba, between Mecklenburg
and CASTOR,
Lusk, to incorporate the Asheville
Electric Company.
Lusk, to amend chapter 247, private
laws of 1873.
Young, to allow the school committee
Of Raleigh Township to issue bonds.
Duffy, to construct a road through
the public lands of Onslow.
Lusk, to incorporate the bank Of
Asheville.
Lusk, to provide for the representa-,
ton of this State at the Tennessee Cen
tennial, creating q board OF managers
with the Governor as chairman; to au-
thorizs the Board of Agriculture to
make an exhibit, the expenses to be
paid out of the general fund in the
treasury.
Mr.. McPeeters, to charter the Ashe-
vile and Bristol Railway Company.
Peace, to allow the trustees Of the
instit ution for colored deaf mutes and
blind to employ two OF more physi-
clans.
Sutton, OF New Hanover, to incOrpo-
rate the Hanover Land Company.
Sutton, of New II anover, to change
the name of Mulberry street, in vii.
mington, to Greece street.
Hauser, to regulate stock in certain
districts In Lenoir; also, to require in
surance companies to pay face value of
their policies.
Lusk, to provide for the payment of
all attorneys fees for cases that are
frivolous and malicious; that there
shall be taxed as part of the costs, to
be paid by such prosecutor, reasonable
sum, not less than S., to be fixed by
the judge or justice, which shall be
paid to the counsel defending the de-
PENDANT in such prosecution. Schulz
ken, to incorporate the Excelsior Arte
sian Well and Sewerage Company.
Lyle, to incorporate the Highlands
Turnpike IN Macon county.
Cunningham, to prevent the taxing
property twice in one Y ear.
Leak, for relief of ex Confederate
soldiers in the State.
McCrary, for relief of certain citi
zens of Davidson county; also, to pre-
vent obstruction Of cartridges in this
State.
White, to provide for working Ala
nance county roads; also to establish a
time meridian in Alamance.
Sutton, of Cumberland, to establish
an electric light plant in Fayetteville.
Ward, to change certain Sixth dis
trict courts.
Alexander, to regulate road working
In Tyrrell; also, the keeping of stock
there.
Alexander, to regulate road working
in Tyrrell; also, the keeping of stock
there.
Pagan to protect fishing machines in
the Roanoke River in Martin county.
Weymss, to allow Cumberland to
provide all sewerage.
Whitner, to create an additional term
of court in Catawba.
Nc Peeters, to establish a criminal
court in Mcdowell, Watauga, Mitchell,
and Yancey.
The calender was taken up, and the
following bills passed:
To incorporate the bank of Enfield.
To regulate management OF convicts
in Cabarrus.
To amend the charter of Durham and
allow it to issue bonds.
TIC amend the charter of Enfield.
To allow Haywood county to levy
special tax
To allow Alexander county to levy
special tax.
To allow Jackson county to levy tax
and build>bridge.
To provide for working roads in
Washington county by taxation.
(ResoIution) to exclude all lobbyists
from the lobby and office of the House.
To make it unlawful for one person
to hunt or the lands of another with.
out permission, this to apply to the
counties of Mecklenburg, Beaufort,
Rockingham, Union, Currituck and
Haywood; penalty not less than IS Of
over $40
To amend charter of Lilesville and
allow it to levy special tax.
Toestablish a graded school at Chap
ell Hill.
To allow Halifax county to levy spe,
cial tax.
To allow Northampton county to ap-
point tax collectors.
To allow Madison county to issue $685.
900 i'm bonds, and levy special tax upon
q vote Of the people therefor.