The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-02-26
SENATE AGAIN PJSTPOseS ACTION ON
THE DIVORCE BILL
OYSTER INDUSTRY PROTECTION
This Bill Discussed In the House. Bue
Not Brought to a vote-The senate
PASSES II Homestead Lien Bill.
Public Printing In the Hands OF the
Counci of S~tate-Senate Adopts BIZ
TO Revise Corporation Laws
SENATE.
Especial to The Messenger.)

80 CA4sHS. ID sen
ator Morrison. TO lilo w. T. Currit;
clerk OF court Of Scotland. TO be absen:
from his office: Senator Foy, to repeal
n charter OF Point Caswell; by SEN
ator Morrison. to amend and consoli-
date Union d~ispensary laws; by SEN
ator Vann, to incorporate the Raleigh
and Virginia railroad: by Senator
Leak TO create q read commission for
Union county; by Senator Bray. to bet
ter protect WILD. fowls in Currituck
county; by Eenator Woodward. to in
corporate the Toisnot Banking Com
pany; by Senator Morton. to amend
chapter 213, private laws of 1899.
The senate bill regarding judgments
on homesteads came up on third read
ing; Senator Vann's substitute having
yesterday displaced the rigina bill.
nat Henderson claimed that
This Vann substitute. now on it's thir
reading, c~onficates every Judgment
! docketed before March ii. 1885, and
now alive against a homestead inter
terest."
| Senator Vann interrupted and said to
1ASAO NAN DiAi q Az "Oaio PIOROSS
the following amendment:
THE statute of limitation Shall be
suspended. not only as to judgments
under which the homestead is allotted,
but as to all other Judgments"
Senator Morrison SAID the substitute
would do no harm.
The amendment was adopted, and
the bill passed its third reading.
The rules were changed SO any SEN
atOr a call the previous question.
The bill passed incorporating the
New River Valley railroad.
The senate bill to regulate the state
printing, putting the letting of the con-
tract in the hands of the council Of
state passed it's second and third read
ings.
The senate bill to amend and consol-
idate Union county laws
passed its third reading.
The senate bill to revise the corpora
ton laws came up as a special order.
Senator Foushee explained the bill.
When a corporation fails to report &c
the secretary of state its officers, after
their election the attorney general may
, sue for 500. A penalty for not dis
playing a sign over the corporations
office was added. failure to comply fol
1 sixty days renders it liable to 800 pen
atty. Senator Foushee said this bill
gave North Carolina an enlightened
corporation law. 1t provides rules fol
covering all kinds of cases. 1t will
raise revenue by imposing graduated
tax on corporations.
On it's passage on second reading the
vote ~stood-ayes, "a: noes. s.
The divorce bill was postponed unit
Tuesday.
The senate adjourned in honor o.
George Washington.
IInITSE ON DEDD ECENT aTIuEC
Bill were introduced as follows: TIC
allow Duplin county to sell the home
for the aged and infirm: to proven
the use of profane language in the
presence of women; to amend the char
ter of MaXton; to prevent telling tim
Der in streams in Jones and Lemon
counties; to amend the charter of New
Bern; by Speaker Moore, to prohibit
the manufacture of whiskey in Clay
county; to incorporate the Raleigh AND
Virginia railroad.
Bills passed as follows: To incor-
porate the Marion and Northwestern
railroad; to allow towns on the line OF
the Great Eastern railway to sub
scribe stock; to incorporate the Thorn.
asville and Eldorado railroad; to in
corporate East Lumberton; for relief
CT certain citizens in Bladen county
to authorize county commissioners tC
allow INDECENT eX~-confederate soldier:
to peddle without license
The bill came up to promote and
protect the oyster industry of NORTH
Carolina.
Mr.. Nichols moved to amend SO a.
to allow a rebate of one cent per bush
ell instead Of a half cent.
Mr.. Mann opposed it and sal a hal
cent was agreed on in a spirit Of com
promise; that tanners and packers haC
already shirked taxation in ever,
conceivable way.
Mr.. Nicholson said the dredger real
ly pad the tax and 1t was the dreds
ers he sought to protect. 1t is no
right to double the tax on dredgers
because the officers have failed
lect the tax from Gamers, packers anC
ShuckerS.
Mr.. Thompson, of Onslow. said thi
is the best oyster law ever
"a if the house will just stand by tn
bill and not adopt any amendment
There are already over $4,000 unpai'
claims on the oyster board due to de
fects in the law and faulty admins
tration.
The amendment failed to pass.
Bills were passed as follows: T
amend the law relating to board c
health. (This changes the term @
office of county phys clan from one :
two years; creates a county sanitar
/ committee composed Of physicians an
county commissioners; chages tn
term of members of the board Z
health from o to six years.
to protect game birds in Cu--
tuck county: to amend the char
ter of Lumberton and Lumber R'v I
to exempt tramroads and narro'
gauge roads whose principal bushes
is transportation Of logs from the per
atty of carrying freight for farmers.
The bill to charter the Veterinar
Association Of North Carolina was "a
bed.
The bill to amend section 2, art'c
J 9 Of the constitution was made a spt
cial order for Thursday.