The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-03-23
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Clark, (by request), for the appoint
ment- Of O Code Commissioners.
Rollins, Coy Tequest), to allow mile
age to assistant enrolling clerks.
Anthony, to place Mrs. Lucinda
Hayle on the pension list.
Ray, for the payment Of laborers.
Person, to incorporate the Normal
Industrial School of Kittrell.
Ashburn, to amend chapter S55, laws
of 1887, in regard to working cOnvicts
on public roads.
Ramsay, to amend the charter of
Salisbury also to amend section 274 of
the Code; also to cheaper and expedite
proceedings in the Superior and Grim
inal courts.
Patterson to regulate the sale of in.
toxicating liquors in Union county.
Lyon, to provide for working the
public roads of Durham county.
Grant, to establish graded schools in
Chapel Hill school district. Orange
county; also to authorize an election in
Duplin county upon the question Of re
moving the court house.
Yeager, to extend the corporate linn
its of the town Of Benson.
Walker, to authorize the collection
of back taxes in Rockingham county;
also, asking the legislature of Virginia
to pass certain laws In regard to dams
in Dan River.
Butler, by request, in relation to the
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Mitchell, to regulate the pay Of me
chanics and laborers.
Scales to change the name OF the
Normal and Industrial School.
Alexander, by request, to establish a
Normal and Industrial School for the
colored race at Charlotte.
NeWsome, to allow ChoWan Baptist
Female Institute to confer degrees.
Barker, to repeal section 1895 of the
Code; also, by request, to prohibit
building mill dams so as to injUre
other property by back water.
AtwRter, to place certain territory in
Chatham county in the stock law dis
trict. Passed under the suspension of
the rules.
McNeilI, to amend the charter of
North Wilkesboro. Passed under sus-
pension of the rules.
Person, to authorize the trustees of
the Colored Deaf and Dumb Institu
ton to employ two OF more physi-
clans.
Bills upon the calendar were taken
up and disposed of as follows:
To authorize ChoWan Baptist Female
Institute 20 confer honorary degrees.
Passed second and third readings.
To amend the charter of Edenton.
Tabled.
The bill to prohibit State officers to
receive or use free passes was taken up
as the special order. Mr.. Maultsby
moved to table. Lost.
Mr.. Ray offered q substitute to com
- 81 -~y,@ 100000 n Ck~L-
officers and to reduce passenger fares
to 2 cents a mile for frstc lass and II
cents q mile for second class.
Mr.. Butler moved to amend by max
ing the rates 81 and 2 cents. Accepted.
Upon the adoption of the substitute
the ayes and noes were called and the
substitute was lost by the following
vote:
Ayes-Abell, Anthony, Barringer,
Dickson, Lyon, Ray
Noes Alexander, Anderson, Ash
burn, AtWater, Barker, Butler, Geddie,
Grant, Hardison, Henderson, Maults
by, Maxwell, Mitchell, Moye, Merritt,
Mccarthy, Parker of Alamance, Par
ker of Randolph, Patterson, Person,
Mamsay, Robertson, r OIling, Scales,
Slarp of IredelI, Snathers, Shore,
Usley, Walker, Y9ager-34
A motion vas then made to table,
which resulted in a tie as follows:
Ayes Abel, Anderson, Ash0urn,
Barker, Cannon, Dickson, Grant,
Henderson, Hyatt, Maultsby, McCar.
thy, Mcneil, Odum, Parker of Ala
nance, Person, Ramsay, Rollins,
Sharpe of Wilson, Sharpe of Iredell,
Smathers, Shore, Yeager-22
Noes Alexander. Anthony, At
water, Barringer, Butler, E9rnhRrdt,
Geddie, Hardison, Lyon, Maxwell,
Mitchell, Moye, Merritt, McCaskey,
NewsomP, Parker of r .ndolph, Pat
terson, Ray, Robertson, Scales, UGley,
Walker-22.
The chair gave the casting vote in
the aft: native, and the bill was
tabled.
Scales, for the Committee on Propo-
sitions and Grievances, reported the
omnibus bill.
Consideration of bills was resumed,
and the following passed second and
third readings:
To change the word school to college
wherever it occurs in the name of the
State Normal and Industrial School.
To create q board of finance for New
Hanover county.
To allow Green D. Palmer to peddle
without license.
To establish q public ferry across
Broad River.
To extend the time for organizing
Columbus Drainage Company.
Relating to fences in Columbus
county.
To incorporate Lumber River Rail
road Company.
Torepeal the charter of the town of
Rufn.
To pay the Raleigh Stationary Com
pany $38 60. &
To permit graduates Of AshviIle Nor
NAL and Collegiate Institute to teach in
the public schools without the usual ex.
for certificates.