The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-13
The Executive Committee
Has Retired.
PROPERTY TURNED OVER
THE ORDER OF THE SUPREME
COURT OBEYED.
MEETING or PEMTENTIARY BOARD CALLED
Members Of New Board Want to Find 0u'
Where They Are at, and the Old
Board Where The Money is
Coming From.

Coming From.
Captain Bill Day is again i'll COM
Eplete possession and full control of the
penitentiary, the possession being as com
plete and the control as full rs the
I Supreme court was able to make it.
The executive committee of the new
board. which has for the past month
Ibeen managing the institution, yesterday
afternoon went out with their attorneys
and turned things over, as directed by
the Supreme court to the re-instated SUI
Iperintendent.
On account of the revolution wrought
by the decision meeting of the direc-
i tors of the State penitentiary is called
for Saturday.
! Both old and new directors are in
icluded in the call, which is made by
the executive committee of the new
board and by Captain Day, the rein
stated superintendent.
This meeting is rendered necessary by
the recent decision of the Supreme court.
1t will be more in the nature of confer
ence than anything else. The new direc-
tors want to find out just where they
are at since the cyclone struck them.
The old directors want to know just
what the new ones are going to do about
letting the institution have money to
pay its debts and run on.
Somewhat the predicament things are
in, if the new board cares to take adj
vantage of the law as it stands may be
seen from the following acts passed by
the last Legislature:
An Act Supplementary to an act rati-
fled the 18th day Of March, 1899, entitled
an act to authorize and direct the issuing
of State bonds to pay off the debts of
the States prison, and for other pur-
lposes.
Whereas litigation has arisen involv-
ing the constitutional power of the Cen
eral Assembly TO abolish the office of
Superintendent of the States Prison.
created under the act of 1897; and
whereas. the action to test the same IS
pending in the Supreme court:
\ The General Assembly OF North Carolina
do enact: sEK
Section /. That if the act of the Gen-
eral Assembly, ratified January 26. 1884,
States Prison of North Carolina and
Provide for the Government thereof. =
shall lie decided unconstitutional in
whole or in part by the Supreme Court,
whereby the Executive Board of said
Estates Prison of North Carolina shall oe
disabled from executing the provisions of
1.-THE act ratified March Z, 1899 entitled
IAN act to authorize the issuing of
0ff .+s,st, ifa1a fnI
ness arising from the conduct of the
States Prison. and for other purposes, !"
then and in that event. the powers
vested by said act in Edward l.. Travis,
W. II. Osborn and w. G. Newland.
Executive Board OF said States Prison
Of North Carolina shall be vested in said
Edward T. Travis, w. II. Osborn and
w G. Newland, or any two of them as
individuals, and in the event of their in
ability to act, the said powers may be
executed by any three members of the
Board of Directors of the State' Prison
Of North Carolina whom the said Board
OF Directors may designate, or by Il
majority of said three members.
Section 3 That this act shall be in
force from and after its ratification.
An act for the maintenance of the
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The General Assembly Of North Carolina
do enact:
Section L. That the sum OF fifty thou
J sand dollars be and the same is hereby
appropriated for the maintenance and
support of the States Prison of North
Carolina for each of the years 1899,
and 1900. to be paid by the State Treas
urer upon the order of Edward l..
Travis. w. III. Osborn and William c.
Newland, or any two of them, or in case
of their inability to act, upon the writ
ten order OF any three OF the directors
, of the States Prison of North Carolina
designated by the Board OF Directors
thereof.
Section .. That the said money shall
be paid out in the method above pointed
out. AND NOT OTHERWISE.
Section 8. That this act shall be in
force from and after its T1FICA-
TION.
, From the above laws it will he oh
served that no bonds can be issued to
pay the penitentiary's Indebtedness nor
J money paid out of the State Treasury
for support of the institution. except
upon the order of the executive com
mittee of the new board.
=. | 1A'Aitf tiit lifttcHlls VI
Day and his Republican board making
! such terms as they can.
And those terms said a member oi
the executive committee yesterday. III
} discussing the matter, must he an abso-
lutte and entire surrender of the manage
ment of the institution. We will have no
} divided responsibility. That is why
!. We've called a meeting of the board. II
we don't find things as we want them
} as they ought to be for the proper man
agement of the institution, We'll resign
and leave the Captain to run the thing
D as best he can without bonds or money.
That seems to be about the sentiment
! of all the members of the new board
| $50 far as has been ascertained.
FL Yesterday the News and Observer re-
b ceived several letters, two from able and
/ prominent lawyers, endorsing such a
! course and saying that nothing is left
the Democratic members of the board
/ except To resign, thereby maintaining
, their self-respect and washing theil