The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-27
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senate bills were introduced:
To protect landlords against aban-
donment of crops by tenants.
Changing the time of holding the
court of the Third district.
Authorizing Mt. Olive to vote on
school bonds.
were appointed senate members of the
joint committee on code commission.
Bills passed as follows:
Regulating fishing in Tar and Pamli-
CO rivers.
Making public drunkenness a rnisde-
meanor
Appointing Frank Carr a commission
er of Green county.
Extending time for committing the
state debt to January 1st, 1905.
Prohibiting the shipment, manufac-
ture and sale of liquor in Scotland
county.
The House.
In the house bills were introduced
as follows:
Giving electric light and power COM
panies the same right Of condemnation
as that possessed by railways and tele-
graph companies.
Changing the time of holding Onslow
courts.
Requiring music teachers In public
institutions to be examined by the
state board.
Requiring the cancellation Of mort
cages to be noted on index book and on
mortgage itself.
Bills passed as follows:
Amending the charter of the South
ern States Trust Company.
Incorporating Spring Hope bank.
Allowing Hyde to issue bonds.
The bill to prohibit the sale of cannon
crackers and toy pistols, created a live
ly discussion, finally being sent back
to the committee. One member said
the best feature of eliminating toy pis-
tolls from boys catalogue Of playthings
was that 1t would remove the constant
training school for desperadoes.
Bills passed as follows.
Extending the limits Of stock law in
Pitt.
Allowing Sampson to use surplus
special Jail funds.
Requesting members of congress to
obtain appropriations for dredging
Shallotte river.
Amending the charter Of Beaufort.
Authorizing Bladen and Washington
to levy special tax.
Withdrawing appropriation from in
dustrlal school at Elizabeth City.
Joint session of house and senate to
elect a, senate was as always barren of
result, votes, except by republicans,
being complimentary for about ninety
public men.
a Proposed Amendment.
In the house today Mr.. King, of Pitt,
introduced bill to amend the consti-
tuition, the people to vote on the ques-
ton at the next general election. The
proposed amendment is as follows:
Section l. That section 2 Of article 9
Of the constitution Of North Carolina
be and is hereby amended by striking
out the last clause Of said section which
reads as follows: But there shall be no
discrimination In favor of or TO the pre-
judice OF either race"
Section . That it shall be lawful for
either race to be taxed separately and
solely for the education Of it's children;
but in all cases there must be some
public school facilities offered the chill
dren OF each race.
Amending the School Law.
In the house today a bill was intro
duced so amending the school law as
to enable the legislature TO elect county
boards of education in counties where
it may be deemed advisab bic. Another
bill was introduced relating to the can
collation. of mortgages and deeds OF
trust, provides that entry Of cancella-
ton be made an index on mortgages as
well as on the margin OF instrument