The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-20
IMPORTANT TAX DECISION
OPINION By ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL IN A WILMINGTON CASE
OF acknowledgements for North
Carolina Day-TO Test Constitu
tiOnality of an Act.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Raleigh, y. c., November 1S.-At-
torney General Cilmer today gave an
opinion at the request OF State Treas
urer in an important case on the tax.
alton of property in transit. The
Standard Pole and Tie COMPANY
shipped up the Cape Fear river to
Wilmington certain poles and ties.
which We're deported there to await
the arrival of others before being
shipped to their final destination.
They were in Wilmington on June
lst and were listed for taxation. un-
der protest, the claim being that they
were In transit and hence were ex-
empt from taxation. The attorney
general holds that in as much as
they had not been delivered to the
common carrier for shipment to their
place Of final destination, but were
lat rest" at Wilmington waiting for
additional poles n ties to complete
the shipment, they were liable to
taxation.
Chief Clerk Faison, of the State
Labor Bureau, said the reports from
farmers on which this years report
will be based, have been received.
In every instance the reports show
oAA A>A>cO VI L Ii d
great scarcity of labor throughout
the state, only two counties report
ing a sufflciency of labor. Eighty
percent Of the farmers reporting say
they favor compulsory education.
The Thanksgiving day exercises at
the Centennial Public School here
will be in charge of the Junior Order
of American Mechanics. State Audi
ton, Dixon will present a Bible. At
torney General Gilmer a national
flag.
State Treasurer Lacy will be at
Wilmington On Thanksgiving day
and deliver an address before the
labor unions.
The corporation commission says
regarding the mOun of increase in
the assessed value of property this
year, that Buncombe county leads
with an increase of S2,615,131, Neck
%lenburg next with S2,461.623, Wake
third with $2,435.699, and Robson
fourth with $1,SS1,3O6.
North Carolina day in the public
schools will be December 18th. and
today the programme was prepared
by State superintendent JOyner. Pro
fessor f. G. Brooks and a committee
composed of Edward P. Moses. w. J.
Peele, r. H. Hill and Marshal De.
lancy Haywood for the State Liter
airy and Historical Association. The
! programme is as follows:
The Early Exploration and Settle
! ment of the Cape Fear Section.
adapted from an address by Alfred
NJ. Waddell: Poem, The American
Eagle" by Henry Jerome Stockard;
Life Among the Early Cape Fear
Settlers taken from the history OF
North Carolina by John Brickell:
"The Pride of the Cape Fear (Cor
nelius Harnett'), adapted from an
IL ,Jlracs nv C,anrra n y-7s. Doarp 1The
Lightwood Fire" by John Henry
Boner; Mark Slocumb's Ride
adapted from Mrs. Elliotts, Women
4 of the Revolutions" Reception OF
the Stamps on the Cape Fear" from
and address by George Davis; Poem
"Alamance,". by S.. w. Whiting: The
Men of the Cape Fear defamation
nor; Poem. "Poes Cottage at Ford
ham," by John Henry Boaer: Res
cue of Madame DeRossett," from al
article by James Sprunt; Block
= aiding off the Cape Fear" from ar
article by James Sprunt; Poem, r
gret." by Christian Reid; Resource:
Of the Lower Cape Fear" adapted
from North Carolina and its Re
Sources published by the State
Board Of Agriculture; Calvin II
Wiley" defamation, from aD ad
dress by R. D.. w. Common. Dues
tons and answers.
! The day will be devoted TO tn
i Cape Fear section and the poems arr
i all by we'll known North Caroiintans
w. D. McIver, of New Bern. is her
looking through the original jour
nails of the Legislature in order to SCI
whether the act authorizing the is
! sue of bonds in aid of the Whining
ton. New Bern and Onslow failwa,
was constitutionally passed; that
81 was read on three several days II
each House. He expects to n
was not so read and to bring sui
for one of the county's interest. Ii
Il order to nullifv the bonds, a an
nouncement of the institution of sucl
a suit probably will be made III
few days.