The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-03-17
A SUMMARY OF THE NEW LAWS.
An Outline of What was Done by the
1903 General Assembly.

valuable outline of the work done
by the recent General Assembly:
Public Laws.-To issue 100000
of bonds to run ten years at not owe
4 per cent interest: to borrow $780,
900 for the literary fund, payable
January 1, 1906, at 4 per cent inter
est: to appropriate 100000 to the
public schools: to loan the literary
fund $2O3,OO0 to the counties for
improvement of public school
houses: to appropriate $4,000 for
the celebration of the settlement of
Roanoke Island, provided $25O,OO0
is otherwise raised: to provide for
the payment of the deficit in fnan-
ces during 19O1lO2: to provide for
sale of property in which there is
a contingent remainder: to amend
The Code so as to give divorce for
two years abandonment and allow
~remarriage five years after the di-
vorce (applies to ~19O12O2) to short
en- time of notices of sale: to pre-
scribe fees for registering agricul-
tural liens: to protect water sup
plies: to provide for a code COM
mission: to register the sale of adul-
terated commercial feeding stufs:
to regulate sale, inspection and
branding of cotton-seed meal: to
provide for registration of trained
nurses: to prevent the abduction
and elopement of married women: to
regulate labor of children in facto-
ries (none to be allowed to work I'M
der u years of age): to incorporate
the North Carolina Veterinary Med
zeal Association: to validate irregu-
lar probates: to allow railways to
file petitions as to rate of speed
through towns: to appropriate $1O,-
900 for the exhibit at the St. Louis
Exposition, provided a like amount
is raised otherwise: to define owner
ship of land bounded by water: for
the better protection of persons
where corporations act as trustees,
guardians, etc.: to prevent more than
one trustee or director of a State
institution being from one county:
to define the duties and liabilities of
hotel keepers: to create a historical
commission: to protect telephone
messages, also to protect telephone
and electric light wires: to regulate
procuring of dead bodies for dissec-
ton: to require text book contract
ors to have sufficient repositories to
define the practice of medicine and
surgery: to allow the Secretary of
State to charter banks: to allow
Judges to regulate and limit argu-
ments of counsel in the Superior
Courts: to amend the law regarding
arson.
Incorporating Banks.-Windsor,
Winston, Spring Hope, Kerners-
vile, Selma, Washington, Whiteville,
Taylorsville, Warsaw, Bank of Mar
tin County, Bank of Franklin; Pitts
boro, Hamlet, Columbia, Bank of
Burlington, High Point, Wilson, Ay-
den, Stoneville, Gastonia, Oxford,
Raeford, Whitakers, two Raleigh,
two Durham, Harnett, Bellhaven,
Spencer, Ellington, Aurora, Nash
vile, Concord, China Grove.
Insurance Companies.-Southern
Life, Union Benevolent, Peoples
Mutual, Accident and Sick Benefit
Association, Guaranty Life and In
demnity, High Point Fire, Perpet-
ual, Southern Underwriters, South
ern Surety and Casualty, Protection.
Insurance Laws Amended Sec.
68, of law of 1899 so brokers can
place insurance in companies not
doing business in this State, upon
paying license fees, etc.; to amend