Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-03-23

support them.
(2) Persons leading an idle, imomral
or profigate life, who have no pro-
perty to support them, and who are
able to work, and who do not work.
60 All persons able to work, having
no property to support them, and who
have not some visible and known
means of a fair, honest and reputable
livelihood.
(4) Persons having a fixed abode,
who have no visible property to sup
port them, and who live by stealing,
or by trading in, bartering for, or buy
ing stolen property.
idleness.
(6) All able-bodied men who have
no other visible means of support, who
shall live in idleness upon the wages
or earnings of their mother, wife, or
minor child or children.
Sec. 4. That the punishment for vag-
rancy as defined in this act shall not
exceed $50 fine or 80 days imprison-
ment for the first offense, and for the
second and subsequent offenses the JUS
tice of the peace shall bind the defen-
dant over to the superior court in the
sum of two hundred dollars ($200), and
upon conviction for said Onense In the
superior court the defendant shall be
sentenced to the public roads or to the
workhouse for term not less than six
months nor exceeding one year.
PENSIONS.
The pension law for Confederate SOL
diers, sailors and widows is amended
by increasing the annual appropriation
from 100000 to $275 900. The classes
and amounts to each are now as fol-
| lows:
1. To such as have received a wound
| that renders them totally incompetent
to perform manual labor in the ordi-
nary vOcatiOns of life, $50.
2. To such as have lost leg above
| the knee or an arm above the elbow,
$45.
| 5. To such as have lost foot or
leg below the knee, or a hand or arm
below the elbow, or have a leg or arm
utterly useless, s35.
A. To such as have lost an eye and
the widows and all other soldiers who
are now three-fourths disabled from
any cause, 500.
Moreover, the county boards of pen
sions are empowered to place upon the
pension roll any Confederate veteran
/ or widow disqualified by the $500 prop
erty clause, who may appear to be un-
able to earn living from property
valued as much as $500 or more.
LANDLORD AND TENANT. J,
Two acts were passed relative to con
tracts between landlords and tenant for
land and crops.
One makes it I1isdemeanOr for any
tenant or cropper who procures ad-
vances from his landlord to abandon
the land rented by him without good
cause and before paying for such ad-
vances; for any landlord who may
contract with tenant to furnish ad-
vances so he can make a crop to re-
fuse to furnish the advances. And
any person who employees tenant who
to his knowledge has violated this act
shall be liable to the landlord for the
amount of the advances made and also
be guilty of midemeanor. Whenever
] any tenant shall contract for the rental
I Of land for the current year and fail to
perform the terms of his contract he
shall forfeit his right Of possession and
the landlord may recover possession.
This law apples to the following
counties: Wayne. Lenoir, Greene, John
ston, Jones. Onslow Craven Cleveland,
Sampson Pitt, Dup1in, Gates, Cumber-
lduO, CuOWdu. ItoU0SOu,
Bladen, Nash, Harnett, Edgecombe,
Hertford, Wilson, Rockingham, Pender,
Currituck. CASTOR, Northampton, Beau
fort. Chatham. Tyrrell, Mecklenburg,
Guilford. Halifax, Caswell, Camden,
Cabarrus, Columbus, Martin and Mont
gOmery.
The other act is practically the same
except that in addition it makes it un-
lawru1 Tor anyone TO enrlce or procure
| tenant or cropper to abandon or fail
to cultivate the land, or after receiv-
ing notice to harbor on his own prem
ises or on the premises of another, any
such tenant This applies to the coun-
ties of Wake, Hyde, Arson, Hertford
Sampson, Franklin and Union.
In order to aid farmers desiring to
hold their cotton for higher prices an
act was passed amending the act OF
1901, chapter 678. by reducing the bond
required of warehousemen from $25, ,00C
to $4,000 and by providing also that
if any warehouse company has mapi-
tai stock of not less than $5,000 it shall
not be required to give the bond The
act also makes all warehouse receipts
issued by warehousmen complying
with the law valid and binding in the
hands of all bona fide holders for value
without registration. This of course
means that farmers can obtain money
on their worehouse receipts as if they
were checks, Or use them in trading a:
money.