The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-14
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
SENATE.
TwFNrY E1GHTH DAY-FEB 4.

passed as follows: To authorize the
citizens Of Fayetteville to receive %
per Cent.Iof the 1898 taxes in full settle.
ment; to amend the charter Of Eden
ton; to provide for the refundinR OF
the current indebtedness Of Union
county, and for the payment Of the
same; to regulate cotton Weighing at
Wake Forest; to establish q graded
school at Albemarle; to charge the
name OF the South Atlantic Life and
Endowment Company; to repeal shop
ter $40, creating a State board OF equal
IL alton; to amend chapter $40, laws OF
1895 "a substitute for Senate bull No.
359), with reference to surety Comps'
MES; to increase the number OF COM
missIoners for Northampton; to pro-
vide for two additional commissioners
for Warren county /; to amend chapter
- of the Code OF 1883, by giving tele-
phone and telegraph companies greater
rights in the condemnation for rights OF
way.
A bill to authorize the town OF Lex
ington issue bonds, passed final read
ing. as did bills to change the charter
OF Chadbourn, in Columbus county 80
authorize the building Of a bridge
across joys Ford Madison county /; to
amend section 2 3O1 of the Code, rela
tive to the keeper of the capitol.
This bill to ''oust" Rev. J. L. Burns
80 - 49, &kn hV7SlAin0 GIRR
with pneumonia was at the point
of death. Where, oh where, sls the
ooasted decencyI
At IL o'clock Senator Ward took the
chair az temporary Speaker and the
asylum bill was again taken up. The
amendments Of the subcommittee,
composed Of Senators Daniels, Speight,
Hicks and Travis we're unanimously
endorsed. They provide that the dan
Rerous insane shall be cared for IN
wards heretofore assigned for that puF
pose: that said wards shall be I'D
az the hospital for the dangerous and
criminal insane, and the board OF d
~rectors Of the State Hospital at r leigh
shall have full control and manage
ment OF said hospital; that said board
shall, by partitions and walls, separate
the said hospital from the peuitentlaFy'
and the hospital shall not be considered
q part OF the ~penitentiRFy, but az en-
t5pely4Beparate therefrom. The board
Of Director Of the p~enitentiary shall
furnish the labor free Of charge and 81
material at cost necessary tor building
saidswalIaand Particles and for placire
; theaMards and apartments herein re
ferred toineuCh condition ga the board
Lof directors of the State Hospital a
: R Aleigh may, in their discretion, re
Q ouire. The sexes and races shall o.
, kept In separate wards and apartment
and patients to be under the care O
Z ohysicians selected by the board. TIT
8 inebriatesr to be confined in any hos
l pital must be such as are prescribed II
section 167l Of the Code and the &c
amendatory thereof. Chapters 20
. and $50 of the Code and the publicIaR
of 1897. are rep 9aled and all laws re
pardine the SUI ects referred to IN sai'
acts are also repealed.
HOUSE.
The Sneaker announced the follow
ing as the committee on election o
justices Of the peace. Noble, chair
y man; Eller, Allen of Columbus. Brya1
( of Granville. Crumpler and Marlboro
b The calendar was taken up. Bill t
abolish the Bureau Of Labor Statistic
q was tabled. .
E. The DILL to reduce fees Of county of
Ie GERS was made the special order fo
a Monday. (Chis is the one which RI
n duct 8 on an average about % per cen
y Il is Winston's bill
II Bill passed to incorporate the Mort
% Carolina Railroad; to incorporate I'll
D Golden Rule Benevolent Association
Greensboro; to incorporate the p
Dee News Transit Company Of Wade
-, boro. (This is a telephone company
" An unfavorable committee repo
was made on the bill to tax the Earn
ers' Mutual Insurance Company.
Bills passed to change certai
: courts in the Sixth district (OupL
= county alone); to amend the Ansc
- county road law, 80 as to include Il
!: town of Wadesboro and other town
TO incorporate Sylvia, Jackson county
to incorporate the Raleigh Storat
" Warehouse Company; to allow fun'
to be paid to minor children witho'
guardians by clerks Of court upon &c
tain petitions, the amount not to e