The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-03-26
ARTICLE sUPPLEMENT1NG "a RE.
VIEW OF LEGISLATIVE WORK"

mary of important laws passed by
the General Assembly, this article
having been prepared by Col. F. A
OIds some days before the adjourn
ment of the Legislature. Since the
departure of the legislators, Col
Olds has written the Charlotte OBJ,
server a supplementary article bring
ing the review up to date. He says
Your correspondent sent you last
Monday a summary of all the acts
ratified up to that date. Yesterday
another summary was made, cover,
ing up to adjournment. Here it is
Towns chartered: Dover, Staley,
Rutherford College.
Insurance companies: Farmers
Mutual.
Special tax, county, Wilkes.
Special tax, town, Tarboro.
Railways: Wayne & Sampson
Asheville Aberdeen & Gibson.
Banks: Randleman.
Town bonds: Goldsboro.
Dispensaries: Lucama.
General laws: For State banking
system; to prevent depreciation by
domestic fowls placing the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College under
the Agricultural Department, so the
latter "a give it money the road
law the school law the election
law the appointment of county
boards of education to incorporate
the North Carolina Poultry Associa-
ton to prevent cutting of timber
trees pending action to try title
thereto to encourage establishment
Of libraries in public schools to pro-
vide for reasonable Communication of
sentence of persons in the peniten-
tiary to provide a short form of
agricultural lien and Chattel mort
gage to regulate insurance of pub
lie buildings the oyster law to pro-
tect bOttlors of milk, beer, mineral
authority to appoint directors of
penal and charitable institutions to
prevent kidnapping to authorize
warehOusemen to give bonds and
issue warehouse receipts secured
thereby and regulating their powers
and duties to regulate the employ
ment of labor (in a number of oun
ties) ; to pay the Senate 81 a day as
a court, the House Impeachment
managers 81 a day and the attorneys
for the managers for their services
Ono sum namely to create the office
Of chief Of the fire department and
prevent fire waste to facilitate the
incorporation of savings banks to
allow caveatOrs of wills to prosecute
in certain cases without giving bond :;
to allow sheriffs to collect back taxes :;
to regulate employment of counsel
for the State institutions to forbid
State institutions from mourning
debts without legislative authority i;
to protect owners of boilers. engines
and other machinery to require
street railway cars to have vesti-
bules and tenders to provide o
city and town elections and for sDe-
cial elections in counties and town
ships; to make appropriations for
State institutions to prohibit I'M
lawful interference with gas or cleo
trio motors or steam valves to ap-
point justices of the peace to regu-
late primary elections applied to 26
countles) to prevent disOrderly con-
duct in the presence of religious con-
gregations the machinery act, with
provision making the corporation
commission the State Board of Tax
Assessors to place the dangerous
(criminaD insane under the control
of the penitentiary officials, their
quarters to be divided from those Of
the c~onvicts, and their grounds to be
likewise divided to provide for the
sale Of property for taxes.
Also the following are now laws:
For graded schools at Sanford bank
at Clayton dispensary at Kenly,
and allowing Union county to vote
whether the d~ispensary shall stay or
go; incorporating towns of Maccle-
field, Dover and Staley giving Ire
dell and Guilford road laws ; regulat-
ing quo warranto proceedings re-
quiring complaints therein be served