The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-03-21
TO greatly enlarge the powers OF
The corporation commission.
Miscellaneous Measures

10 restore dentists 10 their former
dignity as doctors.
To allow judges and magistrates TO
exclude all persons except those con-
cerned In trials for felonious assault.
to receive, buy, hold or sell real or
personal estate.
To regulate sales of leaf tobacco
on warehouse floors and require re-
ports to the agricultural department
To prevent usury and extortion.
To extend for two years the time
for settling the State debt.
TO promote public dsceney by pun
lshing people for using indecent
signs, writings and pictures in public.
TO allow the Governor to appoint
special police for water power, trans
| poTtation and construction compan-
ies.
To provide for the care of the men
tally deficient by providing special
institutions for them.
To prevent the sale Of adulterated
or misbranded foods, drugs, medi-
cines and liquors.
To increase the number of State
challenges in all cases less than cap
ital.
To allow the Governor travelling
expenses.
To allow judges to send criminal
boys under 16 to the reformatory or
county home.
To extend the crime Of vagrancy
so as to include keepers or inmates
Of disorderly houses.
To prevent and punish trusts and
combines.
To authorize the State Board OF
health to provide for preventive
treatment of tuberculosis by means
of hospital in Moore county.
To regulate the writing of prescrip-
tions by physicians.
To protect electrical power trans
mission lines.
To require the penitentiary to pay
IFS ebt bonds Of 1899, amounting to
$4,000 and to pay $4,000 of It's
earnings into the treasury to 60 to
the central fund.
TO separate tuberculosis prisoners.
To require TIE commissioners Of
agriculture and the board of agri-
culture to be practical farmers.
To require registration of trained
nurses.
To protect makers and dealers in
mineral waters.
To amend the law regarding remov-
al of cloud on titles.
To protect primary elections and
conventions and punish fraud there
at.
To pay half fees to officers and
witnesses where no true bill is found.
To extend time for obtaining land
grants.
To regulate osteopathy and create
State board Of examiners.
To protect hotel and boarding
house keepers.
To prescribe the hours of service
for railway employees operating
trains.
To establish State board Of equal
ization for the assessment of real
estate.
To regulate the hours Of the labor
Of children in factories.
To amend the landlord and tenant
law.
To so amend the general road law
that county commissioners can let the
working Of roads by contracts by
sections.
To enable the State to make proof
of the possession of whiskey licenses,
issued by the government in prosecut-
ing offenders.
To limit the poll tax to So in cities
and towns.
To provide for the display Of the
State flag on all court houses,
schools and other public buildings.
To exclude minors under Is from
pool rooEs,- bar rooms, etc.
To prohibit corporations from pre-
venting public improvements by other
corporations by preventing occupancy
Of land for right-of-way.
To place all telephone lines under
the coropration commission.
To promote the oyster industry.
To punish fraud in giving worth
less checks, drafts and orders.
To create the office of fish commits
sioner.
To require express companies to
pay claim for loss or damage to
property.
To secure immigration in North
Carolina; appropriating $4,000,
half from the State, half from the
agricultural department.
To secure statue of Zeb Vance
to be placed in statuary hall at the
Capitol at Washington.
To fix the salaries of State officers
and to require fees to be turned into
the State Treasury.
To make general election day a
legal holiday
To make the pension appropriation
100000, an increase of $125,000.
There were bills of course, carry
ing increased appropriations for all
the State institutions, some forty in
number.
F., Insurance Legislation.
A great many insurance bills were
introduced but only a small pereent-
age of these passed. These which
did pass are as follows:
To amend the ReyisaI by allowing
companies having over 100000 cap
ital to invest the excess in such man.
naF as the insurance commissioner
approves.