The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-23
Affects PamIiCo and AL
bemarIe Sound.
SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX
Judge Winbornes Bill Providing For
Special School Tax For Either
Race, Approved BY Gov. Glenn,
Causes Long Discus
sion.

SIOIIs
The Vann bill, regulating fishing on
the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds,
and their tributaries, passed its final
readings in the House yesterday, and
became a law. The representative
from Dare county offered an amend
ment which would have rendered the
law ineffective until April 18th, but
upon roll-call vote the amendment
was defeated Overwhelmingly. A
momentous fight was made on the
bill before both the House and Sem
ate Committees on Fish and Fisher
les, but after the opposition had failed
in the Senate little difnculty TO its
passage was experienced in the House.
This is said to be one of the most i'm
portant acts affecting the fisheries OF
this State that ever passed the North
Carolina Legislature.
Judge Winborne's bill providing
that the Board of County Commission
ers of any county upon the petition
of the citizens OF any school district
| may order an election for special
school tax for either race was warmly
discussed. The bill came from the
Judiciary Committee without preJu-
dice, and Judge Winborne and others
urged its immediate passage declar-
ing that the only objection TO the bill
was that some old state court decis-
ions rendered the bill incapable of
accomplishing its purposes il those
decisions were followed, but there
were recent decisions from the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, he said,
! that made the law constitutional.
| Governor. Glenn and the Supreme
/ Court, he said, favored the bill.
Several gentlemen opposed the bill,
saying they doubted it's constitutional
! ity, and after considerable debate, on
motion the bill was referred to the
Committee on Education.
| Few other bills of Importance
were considered by either body OF
the Legislature. AS the close of the
session is drawing nearer, there is an
| increased number of local bills, and
| the consideration of these consumes
GREAT deal of the time of the ses-
| sions.
The larger bills of those already in
trOduced, providing for appropria-
tions. bond issues constitutional
amendments, ETC., are now being
worked on by the committees and ex-
ira long meetings are being held so
as to enable them to be passed upon
at this session of the General Assem-
| bly,.
| AT the conclusion of the business
of the day both the House and Sen-
/ dlc ctuJOuIIlGu III lloiiOI u lilt litGHiOly
of George Washington, yesterday be-
| ing his birthday.
| ROUSE PROCEEDINGS-F
THIRD DAY.
The House was called to order at
1920 o'clock by Speaker Guion. Rep
resentative Powers, of Rutherford, Of
fered prayer
Petitions.
Lo,1, of JipnoIp Tn oct a I,licI,
school district in Catawba Springs
township, Lincoln county; to prohibit
sale and manufacture of liquor within
three miles of Macedonia Baptist
church in Lincoln county.
Andrews. From citizens of Chapel
Hill asking that University railroad be
taken up when electric line from Dur
ham to Chapel Hill is completed
Graham of Granville. From citizens
OF Granville for Incorporating the town
OF Creedmore.
Special Order.
The Scales Reformatory bill having
been reported favorably was made the
special order for Friday at II o'clock,
and 200 copies of that and the Red
wine reformatory bill, a special order
for Thursday were ordered printed.
Bills Ratified.
To provide for and regulate the
holding of primary elections in the
city of Asheville and in the county of
Buncombe.
To prevent obstructing of Peachtree
Creek, Cherokee county, by Telling
trees or brush therein.
To ratify all acts and proceedings
relative to the authorization of the
issuance of bonds of the town of Lex
ington to the amount of sixty thousand
dollars under the provisions of chap
ter three hundred and four, Private
Laws. session of nineteen hundred
and three; and to authorize the Board
of Commissioners of the town of Lex
ington to levy and collect a special
tax for the payment of the bonds and
interest thereon issued under the pro-
visions of the said act.
To prevent the telling of timber trees
and the depositing of dead bodies in
the streams of Ashe and Buncombe
counties.
To prevent fishing in the waters of
Cecil and Cataloochee townships in
Haywood county.
To amend chapter 1928 of the Pri-
vate Laws of 1903
To repeal chapter 81. Public Laws of
1897 and chapter 121, Public Laws OF
1899 relating 10 the hunting of deer
in Hyde county.
To amend chapter 276, Public Laws
of 1903, to define the location Of cer-
tain church in Catawba county.
For the relief of a. u. Borders,
school teacher.
Supplemental to an act ratified the
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