Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-02-16

d1stlller1es by a vote of the citizens
under the Watts law. Among them
were Sheriff Clark, the treasurer of the
county, principal of the Advance High
school, a Wake Forest graduate, and
others equally prominent. Ten wit
nesses were sworn and examined, and
gave similar testimony.
Rev. w. G. Curtis, of Advance, and
Representative McNinch, Of the COM
mittee conducted the prosecution for
the bill and made elaborate speeches.
Osborne spoke only five minutes. He
took the position that the Watts law
had been accepted in good faith by the
people of the State, and this radical
departure was breaking the plighted
pledge of the Democratic party to the
people. The bill had passed the Sen
ate unanimously. McNinch gave no.
tice Of minority report.
Passed Final Reading.
The following bills passed final read
ing:
To amend public laws of 1888 rela-
tive to the protection of crops in GER
tain localities.
To protect landlords. and tenants.
To regulate the fees of surveyors In
Wayne county.
To abolish the dispensary at Sea-
board, Northampton county.
To amend the charter of WadeS-
boro.
For a resolution clerk to keep post
ed schedule of all special orders
To restore the name of Bruce town
ship, in Guilford county
To increase the number of commits
sioners for Cartaret county.
To amend laws of 1899 relative to
wide tires in Edgecombe county.
To allow Jackson county to estab-
lish water works in Webster.
To regulate the renting of land by
the year for agricultural purposes.
To give sheriffs and tax collectors
power to collect taxes from persons
who have removed from counties or
cities where same is listed, to other
counties.
To amend the law of 1899 so as to
consolidate the wreck district.
To allow married men, when wife
is confined in the insane asylum, to
dispose of her real estate without her
signature, excepting the homestead.
To protect streams of Davidson
county from felled timber and from
| sawdust.
To prevent dumping saw dust in
| streams in Anson, Montgomery, Macon
| Rockingham, Swain and Warren coun-
| ties
| To prohibit the sale of cigarettes
within two miles of Sharp Institute
in Rockingham county.
| To prevent hunting on lands without
written consent Of owners in CurritucA
and Halifax counties.
To protect game in Halifax and War
ren counties.
To regulate the sale of seed cottor
in Mecklenburg county.
To amend the law providing inspec
tion of lumber in Pamlico county.
To prevent obstruction by saw dus
in South Creek in Burke county.
To amend the law of 1887 relating te
public schools in Durham county.
Wednesdays Work.
The Legislature got down to bust
ness Wednesday and lot of busines
was dispatched.
The following bills passed their fin
al reading; to authorize the city o
Durham to issue school bonds; to AT
thoriZe the board of aldermen of tn
town of Waynesville to submit to it
voters a contract for electric lights
to amend public laws, 1899, relative t.
the public roads of Forsyth county
to amend the charter of the town O
Concord; to cause railway companie
to deliver freight to consignees wit
reasonable promptness. 1t makes
unlawful for any transportation con
pany to delay shipment beyond rea:
cradle time, and for every violatio
the company shall forfeit $25 for tn
first Gay and SIS for every subsequen
day, in carload lots, and in less tha
carload lots, $3.50 for the first da.
end $3.50 for each succeeding da,
; Mason, Of CASTOR. offered an ament
ment, which inserted leach succeed
ing day. in the bill. The following
providing there should be forfeits, b
made no longer than 80 days. Maso
7 said railroads do not ship freight a
bltrarily, and it is their desire to max
2 shipments with as much promptnes
as possible, but companies have I
= employ men, and it is impossible
' have absolutely no errors, and it
;, a hardship to impose a penalty witt
Y out limit, and those penalties shou]
t not be recorded for a period of MOI
0 than thirty days. It is nothing bl
}, reasonable that this penalty should /
a limited, and no one would vote to in
4 pose penalty like this one upo
r eny cne or anything except railroa