The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-12

Laws Made by The Present
General Assembly.

To elect CASTOR Battle justice of the
peace in Edgecombe county.
TO amend chapter 314. Public Laws Of
1897, chartering the Duplin and Wayne
Railway Company.
To enable the Trinity Lapd Company,
| of Durham, to exhume and fe-inter dead
bodies.
To amend chapter 426, Public Laws Of
1883, as to working of convicts on public
grounds in Graham county.
TO appoint additional justices of the
peace in Hyde county.
TO correct land grant No. 3.641, in
Henderson county.
To amend chapter ia, Public Laws of
1885, as to tax collectors of Northamp-
ton and Robson counties.
To amend the charter of franklin
ton.
To repeal chapter 217 Public Laws of
1895, and chapter 119, Public Laws of
1897, appointing local board of trus-
tees for the colored Normal school at
Goldsboro.
To erase certain names from the corn
err stone of the white Deaf and Dumb
and Blind Institution.
To establish the stock law in CaIver's
Creek township, Cumberland county.
To prohibit hunting in Alamance and
Moore counties, except at certain sea-
sons.
TO prohibit hunting in BuncOmbe, Lin
coin and Iredell counties without writ
ten consent of the land owners.
A resolution TO elect directors Of the
penitentiary.
As to bankrupts.
For the relief of sheriffs.
To amend section 2.155 of the Code as
to probate of wills.
10 prohibit hunting on lands in HaliS
fax county without written permission
of owners.
To incorporate the Winston-Salem
Trust and Deposit Company.
To authorize the town of Lexington TO
issue bonds.
To amend the charter Of the town of
Graham.
TO authorize the town of Edenton to
issue bonds for school purposes.
TO provide for the domestication of
foreign corporations.
To authorize the commissioners of Nash
county to levy a special tax in certain
stock law territory.
To incorporate the Beaufort and Pam
leo Railroad Company.
To amend the act governing the board
of Internal Improvement.
To increase the number of commission
ers of Jones county.
To appoint a cotton weigher at Dunn.
To amend the charter of st. Mary's
school at Raleigh.
To repeal charter asa. Laws of 1897,
regulating public printing.
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Issue bonds for public improvement.
For the relief of w. NJ. Watson, clerk
of the court of Craven county.
To amend chapter 1853, Private Laws
Of 1895, enabling the Bark of Fayette-
willie TO reduce its capital stock from
100000 to 100000.
To enable the tax collector of Salem
to collect town taxes anywhere in For
syth comfy.
TO authorize an investigation as to the
dismissal of the Wilson's from the Rail-
road Commission.
To extend a vote of thanks to DR..
James Battle Averitt for his lecture on
General II. Il. Lee.
To authorize the public printing to be
done temporarily.
To authorize the town of Reidsville TO
issue bonds to the amount of S25, 900 to
put in waterworks.
To repeal chapter 504, Laws Of 1897,
relating to the protection of fish in the
streams in Allegheny county.
To incorporate st. Luke's Circle of
Kings Daughters.
To provide for working the roads in
Washington county.
To appoint on joint committee with
plenary powere to investigate the affairs
of the penitentiary
To amend the charter of Bingham
school.
TO authorize the Bagley Monument
Association to place the monument to
Ensign Worth Bagley in capitol square.
To protect fish in No. ii township in
Madison county.
To repeal section ], 1873 of the Code as
to buying and selling pretended rights
and titles.
To provide for the appointment of
justices of the peace in Beaverdam
township, in Washington county.
To appoint additional justices of the
peace in No township, Madison county.
TO appoint G. l.. Taylor justice of the
peace.
TO repeal chapter 81, Public Laws of
1897 as to fishing gill nets in Abe
marie Sound
To amend section 2.941 Of the Code as
to restoration of the rights of citizen
ship under certain circumstances.
To repeal the charter of Newbern.
To incorporate the Citizens Bank of
Elizabeth City.
To confer police powers on deputy
sheriffs at Haw river.
To amend section 2.079 of the Code,
compelling sheriffs to return processes
issued by a justice of the peace.
To extend the charter"o of the Fairfield
Canal and Turnpike Company.
To amend chapter 4S4, Public Laws
of 1897, protecting wild fowl in Hyde
county.
Resolutions in favor of A. Canon ex-
penses in election contest.
To incorporate the African Aid Burial
Society of North Carolina.
To provide permanent system of
government for Craven county.
To relieve Maggie Hewey, of Wilkes
county.
To authorize the publication of
sketches of the North Carolina regi-