The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-28

$500
To restore burned, lost and de-
Istroyed records I'm Brunswick, Madi-
lson, Yancey and Haywood.
To amend the school law egarding
Friendship school I'm Alamance.
To allow road overseers to work ten
Idays in Curituck.
To amend the charter of the Win
Iston-Stewart Turnpike.
To prohibit hunting On lands of an
Iother without written permission on
Hand in Currituck.
To regulate the power of mayors
land commissioners to sell corporate
property.
TO give an additional term OF Supe-
|-ior court to Rockingham
To regulate time of holding Frank
Hin courts.
To provide q fund for school build
Iings in Guilford.
To prohibit public drunkenness at
THE Durham park and give deputy
Isheriffs police power there and at East
Durham.
To amend chapter $50 acts 1903 re-
lgardfng Durham county.
To allow Mecklenburg commission
ters to regulate speed OF automobiles,
tetc., this applying also to New Han
over. p
To repeal the law regulating to
holding Of inquest in Northampton.
To regulate pay of jurors In Har-
Inett.
To prevent the sale of meats of dis
leased animals.
To provide for drawing jurors in
IGuilford.
To amend the charter of Concord.
Allowing the chain gang Of Union
l%county to work on Monroe's streets.
To regulate hunting of Wild fowl in
certain parts of Currituck.
To amend the charter of Ellington
lalso hat of the Carolina Telegraph
its powers.
To abolish the auxiliary board of
ihealth OF ~Fdgecombe.
To regulate hunting Of Dossums in
Lincoln and JIarnett.
To re-incorporate the Chowan Bap-
fist Institute.
To prohibit hunting Of cartridges
in part of Randolph without written
permission.
To better protect travellers in Gates
To relieve the clerk of Rowan.
To relieve certain witnesses in Chat
ham AMI towan.
CONDITIONAL PARDONS.
The bill to regulate conditional par-
ldons. giving the governor authority
to issue them which had passed the
S"nat. came over with House ',e'.d-
Iments, in which the Senate refused
Ia 10000 @-1 49,
THE Senate member OF the committee
on conference.
GENERAL school LAW.
The Senate took up the bill to
tamend the general school law, which
increases the salary of the stenogra-
lpher of the State Superintendent from
$500 to $500 p year, the ala CT
Ichief clerk from $1,000 to $1,000 and
provides for the filling of vacancies
ION county boards of education, MAX
ling the terms of office 2, 4 and 6
>ea"s. 10 cCtive teacher to be e!iSi-
BILE to membership on these boards,
which are to b%iennially appropriate
mot less than $500 for the purpose of
conducting summer schools and insti-
tutas and the public schoo; teachers
are required to attend these. There
are numeOus minor changes in the
bill. Mason offered an amendment
proposing to strike out part of the
section about members of county
board. Scales opposed this. rs did
Pearson. Mason of Northampton,
made a strong speech against the
amendment. Bragaw said he favored
lit and t',xsnder said he favored the
I~-. DAT
ian would Insure perrlancncy tc nc
best school conditions in the county
lanI removed absolute dictatnrial
lpoWer from one man. Springfield IA
lvored the original section. Elier said
that in view Of many persons the Sec
ition das co:-ect but in practice it
would not work so we'll and that his
lcounty was not ready for the removal
Iof the authority it enjoyed 50 he could
mot vote. for thai section. Amend
ment was put and adopted by vote of
IS to IS, and Senate then adjourned
until tomorrow.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Speaker Guion called 1ne House 20
order at 10: 80 o'clock, prayer was offer
led by Representative powers Of Ruth
|erford county.
PETITIONS.
The wollowing petitions were present.
ed:
Feinster rom some Of the physicians
of CataWoa county asking for a repeal
Iof the tax on practising physicians.
|Graham, of Lincoln, to drain Indian
Greek in Lincoln county. Andrews,
from citizens OF Orange county against
bill authorizing tearing UP track Of
University railroad in the extent Of
building an electric railroad from Dur.
ham to Chapel Hill. Meekins, from Cit
liens of Tyrrell asking for a road be-
tween Kilkenny and Gum Neck. VIII
|liams, II amend the charter of Rose
Hill. Davidson, to regulate fees Of
doctors in Iredell. F~rizzell, to amend
the game law for 1908 for Greene coun-
lty. Britt, to amend the charter Of
ILumberton, to repair the streets OF
Lumberton and respecting a map OF