The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-28

DB follows: To abolish
circuit of Madison, Hen
wood, Buncombe and Nc
regulate public printing.
he charter of Kinston.
to increase the permanent
ind Of the state came up on
reading. 1t provides that $136, $50
De held in trust by the state treasurer
for the benefit of the state board of
education.
Senator Hicks opposed the passage of
the bill on account Of the act that
'Aese bonds were part Of the sinking
nd AND were intended to pay part Of
the 4 per cent. bonds falling due in 1910.
rhe chair thereupon appointed Sen
ators Hicks, Daniels and Travis as a
committee to examine the bonds and re-
port to the senate.
Seven directors of the blind institutio
at Raleigh we're elected as follows:B.
r. Montague, 1. M. Proctor, c.. B. Ed
wards, Hugh Morson, w. N. Jones,
James A. Briggs and c. Nick Allen,
The following bills passed final read
ing: To confer upon internal improve
ment board the power to appoint a
swamp agent. To provide for a dis
pensary at Bethel, Pitt county. To pre-
scribe certain books to be used at the
university and all state colleges of the
state. providing that 1.-The Rise and
Fail OF the Confederacy" by Jefferson
Davis be used as a text book.) To estab-
lish a bureau Of printing and labor
statistics.
A message from Governor Russell vas
read, nominating the following directors
of the state normal college at Green's
boro and they were confirmed: Fifth
district, S. M. Gattis; Sixth, J. F. Pot
ter; Seventh, W. D. Turner; Eighth, r..
D. Gilmer.
The governor also nominated for di-
rectors of the Eastern hospital at
Goldsboro: DR.. Elisha Porter, of Pen
der; DR.. W.. D. Bullock. of New Han
over; DIR. J. E. Grimsley, Of Greene.
for six years beginning March 1897, and
Albert Anderson, of Wilson; Shade l.
w OOL6n, Ol LGilOlI, III w. - Ouh
tree, of Craven. for six years begin
ming March 1899. These were con-
firmed.
The joint committee on appropriations
reported f~avorably the bill giving the
deaf-mute school at Morganton 4 O,OOO
for support n $1,000 for improve
ments; the blind institution and the
negro deaf-mute and blind institute at
Raleigh $50, 900 for support n $4,000
for improvements.
NIGHT SESSION.
The senate passed bills as follows:
To establish a dispensary at LeXing-
ton. To amend the charter of Whining
ton. To incorporate the Savings a
at Goldsboro and the Bank of Cumber-'
land at Fayetteville. To amend the
charter of Elizabethtown. To incorpo-
rate Buie's academy.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Bills were introduced as follows: By
Mr.. Nichols, of Pitt, to establish a
board of immigration for the state. ct
provides for three commissioners, the
pASSluSul W NC hllO"A d. AhC SlaSC Su-
perintendent of immigration, and is to
receive a 81 1000 salary, the others &C.
tual expenses.) By Mr.. Noble, to ex-
tend the limits of Trenton.
Bills passed as follows: To amend
the charter of the Seamen's Fund So
.ciety of Wilmington. To amend the
law of 1891 regarding the sale of baled
cotton, so that it shall not prevent a
reduction or rebate on the price agreed
for fraudulent baling or packing, or to
prevent indictment for false pretense.
The house went into committee of
the whole on the revenue bill.
Mr.. Winston offered the. following
as a substitute for part of section "a:
Each ~dispensary in the state shall
pay annually into the state treasury
the following franchise taxes: Each
dispensary for a town of less than
1000 people, $50; for township in any
county, $500; for town of over LOCO and
not exceeding 5000, $500; for town not
exceeding 5000, $500; for town or city
over 5000 and for each dispensary for
county, $500; and that it shall be the
duty of all managers or officers of dis
pensaries in the state to remit uch tax
to state treasurer on the first day of
January of each year. 1t shall be the
duty of the state treasurer to place all
amount received for said -dispensaries
unde this act to the credit of h per-
manent school fund of the state, to
be disbursed by the state board of edu-
cation in a manner provided by law"
Mr.. Mauney offered an amendment
to provide that half of the liquor Ii
cense tax shall go to the public schools
of the county and the other half to
the state public school fund.
Mr.. Holman said Mr.. Winston's
amendment Disseminated against dis
p%ensaries.