The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-06
Especial to The Messeneer.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, N c., March I'm the SEN
ate today bills were introduced to pro-
-hiblt killing deer in Cumberland, Bla-
Zen and Robson
srder for tomorrow.
I02 bills were ratified.
Bills passed as follows:
To incorporate the Oxford Savings
hank
To establish stock law in Belleyoir
township, Pitt county.
To incorporate the Southport and
Northwestern railway.
To allow LenOir, Jones and OnsloW
counties TO build a road from Kinston
TO Jacksonville.
TO establish graded schools at Ply
mouth.
To allow the voters of Richmond
GOunty to vote on the Issue of road
bonds.
To establish stock law in parts of
Beaufort.
To prohibit the manufa. and i'm
portation of liquor in c aveiand, Gas
ton, Catawba and Mitchell counties.
LAC SCildIc eItl inJ' tOiIiIflllCeH OIL
che whole on the reve- ue bill Section
I. requiring the inheritance tax to be
paid two years after the death of the
deceased, with 6 per "ent. interest was
amended by adding unless the pay
ment is prevented ~ litigation of the
said estate"
The House.
In the house bills were introduced as
follows:
To IncnrDoroto ,bo .Jho-~..,a ;nh+
and Water Company.
To incorporate the Lenoir and Yad-
Kin valley Turnpike.
To provide for working Sampson
roads.
To provide Tor election of stock law
IN Northam con.
To repeal he laws relating TO the de-
fence Of Oficers a1d persons on fed
eral court.
To ameni Pamlico's fish law.
To provide for separate indexing of
dDnVeyaEccS.
works under the supervision of the
board of internal improvements.
To incorporate the Baptist Ministers
Annuity Association.
Bills passed as follows
To protect oysters, clans and ter
rdpins in Brunswick.
To amend the rules governing the
demurrage, in the matter of placing of
cars by railways for shippers. Nor
tons mendmen to insert the word
Hseasonable' before the word rules
wherever it occurred in the bill was
lost.
Nearly all the session was devoted to
! discussion of the divorce bill, rela-
tive to the time limit for the m
riaSe OF divorced persons, by providing
that abandonment for two years shall
be cause for divorce. neither party TO
marry in five years. Davidson said
such q departure from the laws of a
Is years standing was dangerous. Bill
passed second reading IS To A. and
third reading. 81 to ~.
Parker of Wayne. sent up an amend
ment TO his bill to establish the North
Carolina Industrial School. by substi-
tuting the word training for word
industrial" The amendment was
adopted. rs was also an amendment
making the amount to be paid annually
by the county for the maintenance of
each child sent there So instead of 800.
This was rdopted md the bill was re-
ferred to the appropriations commit
tee.
Bills passed as follows:
Providing for the registration of
trained nurses.
To give electric light and power COM
Einies the same powers and rights of
condemnation IL telephone and tele-
graph companies, this not to apply to
existing action.
To prohibit the shooting OF wild fowl
in CuTIituCk and the hedging of fish in
Carterntt.
Senator Boey's Bill
Today the senate committe on cleo
tons met and took up Hoey's bill.
which it will favOrably report tomor-
row.
The bill fixes the time for county
commissioners to grant poll tax eN-
emption: this having TO be done prior
to May list, to entitle UGH n person
30 vote. The present law did not make
this matter plain, and this fact cuts
quite a figure in the contested election
case of Moody against Gudger in 10th
congressional district.
Revenue Bill.
When the revenue bill was before the
senate today and it reached section 90
requiring tax payers to show his in
some or list, Henderson offered the
following substitute: Section %. tax
payer shall list his income for the year
ending June 1st from any and all
sources in excess of one thousand dol
lars"
Section %. That question blank shall
continue in regard TO income. The
blank for listing taxes shall contain
the following questions. WAS your
gross income from salary, fees, trade.
profession and property not taxed any
or all of them for the year ending June
list in excess of one thousand dollars"
If so what was the excess" Both these
substitute sections were adopted.
Extension OF Raleigh Limits.
There was a hearing before the sem