The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-02-28

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ad valorem on capital invested and a
tax on capital employed of $35 for
s1O 600 or less and 81 for each 81, 600 of
%canitel stock in excess Of $25 600; also
s25 for each county in which they have
an agency ; penalty for failure to com
DIV with the law, $4,000.
License on life insurance companies
ia $3.50, and on fire or accident insur-
ance companies 5000, surety companies
800, and a tax of 2 per cent. on gross
receipts in this State is to be paid, I'm
less one fourth of assets are invested in
the State, in which case the license
shall be one half the above and the tax
/ per cent.
The license tax on liquor dealers is
named as 800 annually, and the county
commissioners may issue license. Mr..
Winston offered an amendment saying
they shall issue license. He also Cfered
an amendment to tax dispensaries on
a graduated scale, $500 on each county
~dispensary; 500 on each in a town of
less than 500, 5000 on each In a town
of between 500 and 1000, and dispen-
saries in cities or towns having on
township dispensaries $500, and on dis
p~ensaries in cities or W having
over 4. 900 people 81. 600.
This went over sfter considerable
debate until to morrow.
The Jim Crow car bill passed all it's
readings unanimously. The only i'm
portant sections of the bill are as fol
lows:
Section 1. That all railway and
steamboat companies, as common car
riers in the transportation Of passen-
gers for hire in North Carolina, other
than street railways, shall provide sep
arate, but equal, accommodations for
the white and colored on all
passenger trains and steamboats, car
rying passengers Such accommoda
tions may be furnished by railway
companies either by separate passen
ger cars, or by compartments In pas
genger cars, which shall be provided
by the railways, under the supervision
and direction If the board OF railway
commissioners or the officers succeed
ing to their powers: Provided, that
this shall not apply to relief trains in
, cases of accident, to Pullman or sleep
ing cars, or through express trains that
do not stop at ell stations and are not
used ordinarily for travelling from sta
ton to station; to negro servants IN at
tendance on their employees; to officers
or guards transporting prisoners, nor
to prisoners so transported.
; 'Sec. 2 The railway commissioners,
or the eff ;ers succeeding to their pow
i, ers, are hereby authorized to excerpt
| from the provisions of this act branch
lines and narrow gauge railw 1ys, If IN
| their judgment the enforcement Of this
| act be unnecessary to secure the com
; fort of passengers, by reason Of the
light volume Of passenger trt fic or the
small number of negro passengers
travelling on such narrow gauge OF
l branch lines"
By unanimous vote the House de
cided to withdraw the charges Of i'm
parchment against Judge w L. Nor
wood, his resignation having been &C
cepted.
At the night session the bill to estab
t Iish a dispeneary at g Greensboro passed,
Also bills to amend charters Of the fol
J lowing towns: Apex, Durham, Wash
. V,~oho~EOn Pod QnyJ orc P1P
j Iington, KenansvillP, Clayton; to incor
n porate Waco, Pine Bluff, Hildebrend
8 Richlands, Columbia, Goldsboro, Wake
/ field, Cedar Falls, L e ,bville, Wallace
0 ShaIlotte; to allow the following coun
" ties to levy speci al tex: Beaufort, Nash
HvdP. Camden Allegheny. The fol
lowing town to levy special tax: High
lands, Pilot Mountain; to allow tn
b folio wing towns to issue bonds: High
Ie lands, Franklin. Raleigh, LincolnUon
y Shelby, High Point.
To ellow the following counties t
2 issue bonds: Beaufort, Swain, Ala
nance ($1OO coo for road improvement
,r Mecklenburg, 500, coo same purpose
Of Cabarrus.
,e To establish graded schools at MAJ
ton and Washington.
To revise and consolidate stock lay
IN for Robson county; to abolish th
tic criminal circuit composed OF Bur
er combe, Madison, Haywood, Henderso
re and Mcdowell.
SENATE.
Mt FORTY FOURTH DAY-Feb. %.
at. The calendar was taken up. Bill