Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-25
of the General Assembly from January

of the General Assembly from January
to April.
The bill to authorize courts to con.
slider the title CT an act a part there.
Of passed. This is q substitute for a
bill that was introduced imposing a
heavy penalty for smuggling a de.
ceptively entitled bill through the Leg.
islature.
Mr.. Cox, Of Perquimans, introduced
a bill to provide local self-government
for Perquimans county. MI. Murphy
one to authorize street railway com
panies in North Carolina to give free
transportation to policemen and mem.
hers of fire companies.
The House committee on expendi.
lures made a report recommending
that the number of pages be reduced
from fourteen to twelve and other en-
ployes from twenty-six to twenty-five.
A bill passed the House to regulate
vehicles on the highways of Mecklen-
burg by requiring that all vehicles
shall go to the right and that when
a driver of a team raises the right
hand, automobiles, etc., shall stop until
the teams are driven past. Mr.. Free
man was the introducer Of this bill.
A bill passed fixing the punishment
for carrying; concealed weapons at $40
fine for the first offense, and $50 and
10 days for the second.
Mondays Proceedings.
Both the Senate and House had a
very short session. Bills were introduce
ed in the Senate amending the nego-
table instrument law; to reduce pas
senger fares to three cents per mile and
abolish se%cond-class fares; to cure de-
fective orders on registration of deeds;
regulating manufacture and sales of
liquor in the State; amending the
Watts law by striking out the words
manufacture" in the first section, and
by adding to that section the following
words: "It shall be unlawful for any
person or persons, firm, or corporation,
splritucus, vinous Or malt liquors, or
intoxicating bitters within this State
except in incorporated cities having
more than 1900 population, wherein
TIE manufacture is not Or may not
hereafter be prohibited by law or regu-
lated by special statute. 1t further pro-
poses to amend the Watts law by al
lowing liquor to be furnished by drug
gjsts upon written certificates Of head
Of family that it is needed for use by
some member of the family for medi-
cinal purposes.
Bills passed incorporating Troutman;
authorizing a bond issue and poll-tax
reduction at Mocgesville; to authorize
townships in Forsyth county to issue
bonds fer electric railway from High
Point to Winston-Salem.
A memorial was presented to the
House from the North Carolina and
Virginia Christian Conference asking
for the repeal Of the present divorce
laws. Bills were introduced to prohib-
it. bucket shops; to regulate the sale
Of patent medicines containing alcohol,
cocaine and opium; to regulate the sale
Of cider in the State; to encourage
purity in art; to apply the Watts law
TO Jackson county.
Bills passed amending the charter Of
the Statesville and Air Line Railway
and increasing the pay Of. jurors in
magistrates courts from twenty-five
cents to fifty cents per day. Chairman
Mitchell, of the House committee on
expenditures, called attention to the
law requiring all State officers and
heads OF institutions to furnish the
Legislature detailed lists of all en-
ployes, names and salaries, saying that
it ought to be enforced or repealed;
that the institutions asked for half a
million dollars additional appropria-
ton and this information was desired.
The bill regarding purity in art is in
troduced at the instance Of the ladies
of the State, who want purity in news
paper advertisements.