The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-24

To amend the charter of Hamlet.
To authorize Sampson county to is
sue bonds and levy special tax.
To permit commissioners of Beau
fort town to issue bonds to buy a site
for a hotel. .
To amend charter Of Crow Il Beau
fort county.
To amend the banking laws.
To increase the pay of jurors I'm
Halifax and Northampton.
For the better support of New Han
over public shools.
To ratify, confirm and amend the
harter OF h Asheville Auditorium
Company.
To amend the charter of Green
vile.
To better protect clans in New
Hanover, the Senate concurring in the
House amendment.
To better regulate fishing in Curri-
tuck sound.
To authorize Currituck county to
use surplus taxes for county pur
poses.
To regulate the pay of surveyors
in Rowan.
To authorize Mitchell county to re-
build bridge across Ace river.
To authorize Waynesville to pay out
certain funds.
Relating to the Charlotte Carnegie
Library.
To prevent fire waste by providing
building laws. applying only to towns
of over 1000 people and then upon
the consent of the aldermen. the bill
being largely educational.
To amend the charter of Louisburg
by allowing the establishment Of q
burying ground.
To provide a burial ground atCul-
lowhee.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS
Speaker Gufon called the Housa TO
order at II o'clock, Rev. DIR. Bu1npass
reading lin prayer.
PETITIONS.
The following petitions We're offered:
From citizens of lincoln, asking for
justices of the peace.
Feinster-FTtom citizens of Catawba
from Austin Wilkes and II. Bumgard-
e1er asking pensions.
Dayidson-From citizens of Iledell,
asking for repeal of charter of Advance
and for THE passage of the bin prohibit
Wig Sdlo OF IhdululdCIuT6 OI uQUOT d.
Williams and Shore.
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS.
The following bills were introduced:
Biggs-Joint resolution inviting Gen
eral FitZhugh Lee, ex-governor of Vir-
ginia and president of 1.-THE jamestown
Exposition Company to address the
General Assembly his afternoon at
three O'Clock.
RedWine-TO create a. special tax
schGol district in Unity township, Row
an county.
PinniX-To allow v. A. Martin to
collect arrear of taxes ait FATS Bend.
Feinster-To authorize a right of way
for electric railway from Hickory to
Catawba Springs.
Cunningham-To provide for further
employment OF ccnvticts ON THE public
roads.
Sledge-To amend THE laws relating
to Pelham Graded Schools.
Warren-TO amend the charter of
Maysville i'm Jones county.
McQueen-To prevent sale of liquor
near B~eghesdo church,.
To amend the charter of Southern
Pines.
To amend the Charter of Carthage.
Allowing Southern Pines to issue
bonds.
To incorporate certain churches and
school houses in Moore county.
RedWine-TO protect public monus
ments; To prdhlibit the sale and manu-
facture of liquor i'm Union county, and
submit h question to a. vote of the
people.
Winborne-To r~e-incbrporate the
Chow1a Female Baptist Institute.
Joyner-To repaal THE ~dispensary law
i'm Jackson.
Woodard-To allow THE commission-
ers of Pamlico to levy "a special tax.
Rives-To place a portion of Chatham
county under the stock law.
WtibDams-To amend the code relative
Ito exchanges of court by judges.
Henry-To protect theater goers.
Herdry-To amend 1.-THE code Relating
to mills.
Macon.
Branch-To repeal thu law>of 1909,
establishing a dispensary ait Edwards.
Joyner-To incorporate Garysburg.
RedtorATo consolidate the office sof
treasurer and sheriff of Henderson,
county.
McFarland-To allow Sallda Ito issue
bonds for waterworks.
Etheridg-To allow r. w. Simpson
to peddle in Dare county without a Ii
ceIGSe.
"Ci prov ISpSdt Uuc CIbdIISI VI
the Linville Falls and Marion turn
pike.
Ehring haus-To allow FtasIuo ,ank to
tissue bonds and levy a special tax.
StokeS-To amend THE road law of
Rockingham; and to amend THE law al
lowing Leaksville to subscribe ito the
capital stock of "a railway.
Glayle-To amend the general pension
saw
Graham-To allclw Granville county
to refund its bonded debt.
BILLS RATIFIED.
The following bills were ratified:
To extend the time for rebuilding a
mill en- Bear Greek, Moore county.
To amend the public laws of 1903,
relative to depredataons of domestic
fowls.
To amend chapter sol, section I, of
the public laws of 1899, relative to the
public a of ForSyfIhe county.