The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-02-07
TAR HEEL LAWMAKERS
What Our State Lawmakers are Do
ing Raleigh.

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Bills passed third reading provid-
ing for payment of special venire-
men in Columbus and Onslow and
Arson.
Regulating pay of jurors in Nash.
/. Extending stock law in Montgom-
cry.
Increasing pay of jurors in Gull
ford and Beaufort.
Repeating Chapter %, Acts 1905,
relative to Sampson county.
To allow half fees in Lincoln,
Wautauga and Ashe where true bills
are not found.
Amending charter of graded schools
at Albemarle.
The House.
The following bills passed their
third and final reading.
To perfect titles to certain lands
belonging to the State board of ed
ucation.
To allow the corporation commits
sion to permit the Carolina & Glen
mamma & Pee Dee Railway & Devel-
opment Co. to suspend operations at
certain times as a common carrier.
To repay the $500 loan for sew
erage of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College at Raleigh.
To amend the vagrancy law by re-
quiring police officers to make dill
! gent search and inquiry for persons
|, living in idleness with no known
means of honest support and to make
a report every three months as to
whether there are any such in their
jurisdiction. Douglass, the author of
the bill, saying it was drawn and
| passed under suggestion from the
Raleigh Chamber of commerce.
To establish the bank of Macon
county.
To authorize payment of deposits
in the name of a minor in savings
banks directly to the minor.
To allow Pitt county to employ
convicts elsewhere than on public
roads when the latter work is not
practicable.
To allow bridges costing Over$500
to be built by counties without re-
quiring a bond issue.
To increase jurors pay in Jones.
J To prohibit the diversion of insur-
anec funds for political purposes;
Stevens speaking against the bill and
moving to amend by including all
corporations. But all amendments
were voted down and the house ad-
journed.
The subcommittee of the House
and Senate committees on penal in
stitutions to draft a refOrmatory bill,
after considering all such bills as IN
troduced is composed of Senators
Ormond and Mclaughlin, and Repre-
sentatives Preston, Wood and Yount.
A Variety of Changes.
Bills passed amending the revisal
by allowing notices of sales of prop
erty for taxes to be published In only
one paper instead of two and allow
ing such notice to be published in
such paper in an adjoining county.
To change the mode of selecting
jurors in Johnston.
To permit counties to dispose of
or lease county or township property,
providing that this act shall not APP
ply to county trustees holding prop
erty In trust.
Permitting the commissioners of
county to sell bonds and other prop
erty and where there Is no proper
township authority, giving authority
to the county commissioners.
To increase the powers of the State
Board of Pharmacy by allowing it to
pass upon domestic remedies.
New Bills.
Among the new bills introduced in
the Senate were the following of gen
eral interest:
Authorizing the running and mark
ing of the North Carolina and Vir-
ginia State lines.
To assess real estate of railways
in stock law territory for local bene-
fits.
Repeating chapter %, acts 1905,
regarding Sampson county.
Extending for two years the time
for settling the State debt.
To prevent manufacture and sale
of adulterated paint.
To provide for uniform stamping
of gold and silver articles of ,mer-
chandise.
Holt: To require every county to
levy a special tax to support one or
more public schools.
Mclean: Regarding the Croatan
Normal Schools in Robson.
Buxton: To promote and encour-
age immigration of trained farmers
and laborers from Saxony in Ger
many to North Carolina.
Turner: To pay the Normal &
Industrial Institute of Elizabeth City
an unpaid appropriation.
The following general bills were
introduced in the House on Thursday:
Blount: For the support of the
Agricultural & Mechanical College at
Raleigh; also to stimulate high school
instructions in the high schools of
the State. The bill for the college
gives $4,000 annually for support;
$4,000 for a mechanical and enei-