The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-16

The following are the most import
ant general laws of the Legislature
Of 1899. There are also given the
railroad, banking and other char
tiers:
GENERAL LAWS.
To make Labor Day (Septem Der
llth) a legal holiday.
The pension bill. The Soldiers
Home ($lO, 600 regular and s. 900
specially
To establish the Eastern and West
ern Criminal Courts, ten counties in
each.
To restore white county govern
ment magistrates elected for the
counties.)
The antitrust bill for the punt sh-
ment of pools, trusts and nbina-
tons.
To appropriate 800, 900 to the pub
lie schools.
To compel Migrants to work on
public roads.
To ab ,lish the railroad commis-
sion.
To create the corporation commls-
sion.
To create the Bureau of Labor and
Printing.
To issue $4,000 bonds to pay
penitentiary debt and $4,000 20 buy
farms.
TO protect water supply.
To make it misdemeanor to beat
ones way on a train.
To regulate the time of drawing
jurors.
To appropriate $50, 900 to the pen
itentiary for each of the years 1899
1900.
Do codify the laws relative to ne
gOtiable instruments.
To allow the penitentiary to hire
able bodied convicts to nine counties,
Mecklenburg, Alamance, Rowan,
| etc.
The revenue act (taxes same as
levied in 1897. Forty-three cents on
property, $1.29 on the poll.
Making appropriations to State
Hospitals, regular and special.
The machinery act.
To encourage the use of wide-tired
vehicles by renting half the road
tax CIR labor.
To give the University water
works, the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College at Raleigh, sew erage,
and the Normal and Indus}ria Col
lege at Greensboro gym nasium
and library.
To validate deeds or mortgages
conveying land where a notary fails
to attach seal to certificate.
To give power TO tax and regulate
telephone companies.
To repeal act giving dead bodies
to medical schools.
To regulate transfer of will con-
tests to Superior Court.
To reduce price of Supreme Court
Reports to ST. so.
To give the United States title tt
= fish hatchery.
| To regulate duties and powers Of
town constables.
| To regulate sales in partition pro-
ceedings.
To repeal act of 1897 requiring
oaths to be fled by officers Of cor
porations.
| TIC regulate service of process b,
sheriffs.
To incorporate the States prison
abolish Office of superintendent AM
, put full power in hand of executive
board, which alone can receive an,
disburse money, no matter whethe
the courts hold that the Office o
superintendent yet exists
: To authorize publication of sketch
es of North Carolina regiments i,
the civil war.
To provide that defendant IN gu
warrant proceeding shall hold offic
3 until the matter be determined.
> To take from the Governor an
, give to the board of internal i'm
provements appointment of Stat
proxy and directors of Atlantic (
, North Carolina Railroad.
. To repeal section 1888, of tn
f Code, relative to buying or sellin
pretended right or titles.
; To abolish State board of ia
: equalization.
= To validate oaths made with up
lifted hands.
To allow sheriffs to collect arrear
" of taxes.
: To remove corner stones of ne,
q buildings for blind and deaf-mnte
here. (these stones bear the name c
James Il. Young, colored).
To amend the law regarding lin
tied partnerships
h To remove the disabilities of NAL
9 ried women regarding titles to lane
r To provide that money appropr
,, ated for needy children shall be 81
3, trusted to their guardian.
Ell To punish sale of adulterated {
y misbranded food (the pure food bill
To provide for improving the pull
. lie roads (the Holmes road law.
To allow the chairman OF til
boards of education and count
commissioners to administer oaths.
d To require applicants for phys
l. clans license to exhibit certificate
K three years attendance at a reput
l. BILE medical college.
q To permit removal of trials fro
- one county to another when affidav
n is made that fair and imparti!
n trial cannot be secured in a certal
te county.
Ie To allow townships to vote lev
8. of special taxes.
l. 70 provide separate election la
y for counties, townships, cites al
10 towns.
i. To revise and amend and conso
"a date the insanity laws.
g. To appropriate $4,000 for Il
Ne State Guard, $3.50 to each compan
" with provision for encampment. !
lg negroes to be enlisted as long
!: there are white troops.