The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-01-27

ton in the interests of temperance.
BY Senator Pollock: Petition asking
for the enactment Of temperance legisla-
tion.
HOUSE BILLS FIRST READING.
The following bills were received from
the House and disposed of as follows:
H. b. 80, S. B. 141-By Nissen: TO
continue in force two years the charter
Of the Winston-Salem Southbound Rail
way Company, authorized in 1897. To
Committee on Railroads.
H. b. 81, S. B. 142-By Guion: To elect
a commissioner in Craven county. On
Calendar.
H. B.. 127, S. B. 143-By Davidson: To
authorize the city of Asheville to issue
bonds to refund its Indebtedness. On
Calendar.
II. B. 219, S. B. 1f4-By Ray: To re-
peal chapter 286, Laws of 1901, relating
TO the capture of certain wild animals
in Yancey. To Committee on Judiciary.
The message from the House also noti-
fed the Senate that on the committee to
investigate the matter of the daily print
ing Of the calendars, reports and Journals
the House appointees were Representa-
tives King, Dowtin and Graham. The
IFcSl1eDI Oh Tie Stldlf duIt as lIit
Senate members Senators Blow and
Cathey.
BILLS ON FIRST READING,
S. B. 145-By Reinhardt. of Lincoln:
to abolish the office of Standard keeper
IN Lincoln county. To Committee on
Counties. Cities and Towns.
S. 3. 146-By Henderson,. of Rowan:
To erect a building for a Hall of Records,
State Arsenal, offices Commissioner Of
Labor and Printing and Legislative Com
mittee rooms, cost not to exceed $50, 900.
To Committee on Public Buildings.
S. B. 147-By London, OF Chatham: A
bill making the insuring of the lives of
infants under ten unlawful. If over ten
then only after examination by a physi-
clan. To Committee on Insurance.
S. B.. 14S-By Pollock, of Lenoir: To
appropriate 81, 600 for the repairing, re-
storation and preserving of the Caswell
monument at Kinston. To Committee on
Appropriations.
S. B. 149-By Wellborn, of Ashe: To
repeal chapter ia. Laws of 1901, and
restore the boundaries between Ashe and
Wilkes as they existed on January l,
1901. To Committee on Counties, Cities
and Towns.
S. B. 15O-By Mcmillan, of Pasquotank:
To incorporate the Elizabeth City Fire
Company. To Committee on Insurance.
S. B. 151-By Webb, by request: To
provide for the marriage of husbands
and wives who nave lived separate and
apart for five years. To Committee on
Judiciary.
S. B. 152-By Justice, of Mcdowell:
To provide for the care and treatment
of certain insane persons, idiots, %Iunatics
and inebriates. This makes all private
institutions founded under section 60,
chapter /, Laws of 1899, a part of the
public charities of North Carolina. Regu-
lates admission to them, and the legal
control of the patients. To Committee
on Asylums.
S. B. 153-By Glenn. of Guilford: To
amend chapter 50, Laws of 1895, by
making the provisions of the sale of
and bonds of public corporations
SO clear as to remove a~pprehensions of
of the usury law. To Judiciary
Committee.
S. B. 154-By Hoey, of Cleveland: For
the better working and improving of the
public roads of Cleveland county. On
S. B. 155-By Allison. of Cabarrus: To
increase the number of County Commits
sionerS in Caharrus from three to five
naming E. Franklin Faggart and w. n.
Misenheimer as commissioners To
on Counties, Cities and
S. B. 156-By Walker, of CaswelI: To
fix a penalty for carrying concealed
This puts $50 IN place of i'm
prisonment, one half TO go to the in
To Committee on Counties,
Cities and Towns.
S. B. 157-By Gillian, of Ed~gecombe:
To regulate child labor. The act pro-
vides that no child under fourteen shall
work in a factory except during the day,
and then not during the public school
term. Children under twelve only to
work when necessary to support a widow
ed mother Or a totally disabled father,
no children under ten to work at all in
TO Committee on Manufacture
ing.
S. B. 158-By Gillian, by request: To
incorporate the town of Foster, in
county. To Committee on
Counties, Cities and Towns.
ADDITIONAL HOUSE BILLS.
a message from the House brought the
following, which were disposed of:
H. B. 12S, S. B. 159-By Davidson: To
amend the charter of Asheville. To
Committee on Counties, Cities and
Towns.
H. B. $50. S. b.. 160-By Murphy: TX
appoint Rufus P. Peeler a Justice of the
Peace in Providence township, Rowan
county. On Calendar.
II. B. 152, S. B. 161-By Mcneil: To
prohibit sale, manufacture and ship
ment of liquor into Scotland county. To
township. Rowan county; a petition from
Davie, asking for the election of a
board of education for that county by
the Legislature; a petition for the pro-
OF the manufacture and sale Of
liquor within three miles OF Third Creek
Church, in Rowan; a similar petition for
within three miles of Piney
Grove School house, Scotch township.
Rowan county; another for prohibition
within three miles of KnoX's Chapel
Church, Rowan county; another for pro-
within three miles of white Dub
lie school house No. 4, Mt. lila town
ship, Rowan county.
BY Senator Glenn, of Cuilford: From
county, for a State Reform
school; also one to forbid distilling in
territory in North Carolina.
By Senator Hicks, OF GranviIle: From