The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
ACTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
Some of the Acts of the Legislature
Which Adjourned Yesterday.
Especial to The Messenger.)

ing are some of the acts of the legiS-
lature which are of public interest:
Public Laws-To issue $500, 900 of
bonds to run ten years at not over 4
per cent. interest: to borrow $1,000 900 for
the literary fund. payable January 1st,
1906, at 4 per cent. interest: to appro-
priated 5000, 900 to the public schools:
to loan the literary fund $203, 900 to the
counties for improvement of public
school houses: to appropriate $4,000 for
the celebration of the settlement of
Roanoke Island, provided $780, 900 is
otherwise raised: to provide for the
payment of the deficit in finances dur
ing 19O1-'02: to provide for sale of prop
erty in which there is a contingent re-
mainder: to amend the code so as to
give divorce for two years abandon
ment and allow remarriage five years
after the divorce (applieS to 19O1-'O2):
to shorten time of notices Of sale: to
prescribe fees for registering agricul-
tural liens: to protect water supplies:
to provide for a code commission: to
register the sale of adulterated COM
mercial feeding Stuffs: to regulate sale,
inspection and branding of cotton seed
meal: to provide for registration of
trained nurses; to prevent the abduc-
ton and elopement of married m
to regulate labor Of children in fac
tories (none to be allowed to work I'M
der II years of age): to incorporate the
North Carolina Veterinary Medical
Association: to validate irregular pro-
bates: to allow railways to file petitions
as to rate of speed through towns: to
appropriate $40, 900 for the exhibit at
the st. Louis exposition, provided a like
amount is raised otherwise: to define
ownership of land bounded by water:
for tho hpttar nrNt6oti0n of narSOnS
where corporations act as trustees,
guardians, ETC.: to permit more than
one trustee or director Of a state in
stitution being from one county: to de-
fine the duties and liabilities of hotel
keepers: to create a historical commits
sion: to project telephone messages,
also to protect telephone and electric
light wires; to regulate procuring of
dead bodies for dissection: to require
text book contractors to have sufficient
repositories: to define the practice of
medicine and surgery: to allow the sec
rotary of state to charter banks: to
allow judges to regulate n limit argu-
ments of counsel in the superior courts:
to amend the law regarding arson.
incorporating Banks-Windsor, Win
ton, Spring Hope. Kernersville. Selma,
Washington, Whiteville, TaylOrSVille,
Warsaw, Bank of Martin county, Bank
of Franklin: PittsbOro, Hamlet, Column
bia, Bank of Burlington, High Point
Wilson, Ayden, Stoneville, Gastonia,
leigh, two Durham, Harnett, Bellhaven,
Spencer, Ellington, Aurora, Nashville.
Concord, China Grove.
Insurance Companies-Southern Life.
Union Benevolent, Peoples Mutual,
Accident and Sick Benefit Association,
Guaranty Life and Indemnity, High
Point Fire, Perpetual. Southern Under
writer's. Southern Surety and Casulty.
Protection.
Insurance Laws Amended-Sec. 6S, Of
law Of 1899 SO brokers car place insur-
anc in companies not doing business
in this state, upon paying license fees,
ETC.; to amend law regarding investi-
cation of fires, to require the insurance
commission to pass on all insurance on
state property; to amend charters of
underwriters and home companies of
Greensboro; to regulate insurance COM
panies and their government: to regu-
late insurance and increase the public
revenue.
MISUNDERSTANDING, Caney River,
Raleigh Light and Traction; Chapel
Hill Trolley; Hiswassee Valley; RAJ
leigh and Eastern; WinStOn-Salem
Southbound: Currituck County; Vir-
ginia and Carolina; Washington and
Vandeere: Salisbury; Virginia, Warren
ton and CarOlina: Salem and Black
Rock: Southport and Northwestern;
Carolina Coast: Cumberland; Tennes-
see and North Carolina; Lumberton and
Raleigh: North Carolina and Ohio;
Elizabeth City and Carolina Through
Line.
Road Laws-For counties OF Cleve-
and, Johnson, Jackson, Columbus. Per-
son, Halifax, Madison. Burke, Hender-
son, Chowan, Rutherford, Hyde, Chat
ham, Robson, Beaufort, Pennsylvania,
Haywood, Granville, Clay, Durham,
Forsyth, Rockingham, Macon, Samp-
nance, Orange, Yancy, Mcdowell,
Gates. Stokes, Lincoln. Northampton,
Swain.
Towns Observation-Disclosures, Stokes,
S~helmandine. Bladensboro, West FAR
boro, Dudley. Hassell, South Wades-
boro, Lawndale. Fountain, Overman,
Chocowinity Pinetops. Oakley, Teach
eys, Abbotsburg, Williamsburg. Shore,
Old Sparta, Scotland, Swan Quarter,
Myrtle, Casar, South Mills. Cokely,
Faith.
Graded Schools Established-Madi-
son West Field. Swain Quarter. Ros-
boro, Graham, Tryon, Fremont, La
Grange. Greenville, Lenoir. Alamance
Weldon. Oxford, Plymouth. Fayette-
vile. Edenton, Spring Hope. Forest
City. Raeford, Pelham, Roper, Ivy,
Scotland Neck. M~organton. Clinton,
Elizabeth City. Columbia, Copeland.
Mt. Prospect.
Training school for teachers for
Watauga, and six other counties in
Western North Carolina.
Number of County Commissioners In
creased-Rockingham, Guilford, Cum
berland. Carteret, Wayne, Lenoir, Rich
mond, Buncombe, Cabarrus, CASTOR;