The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-21
TO greatly enlarge the powers of
the corporation commission.
Miscellaneous Measures

laneous character are as follows:
To restore dentists to their former
dignity as doctors.
To allow judges and magistrates to
exclude all persons except those ON
cerned IN trials for felonious assault,
to receive, buy, holdtor 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 deesncy by pun
ishing people for using indecent
signs, writings. and pictures in public.
To allow the Governor to appoint
special police fer water power, trans
~portaticn and construction compan-
les.
To provide for the care of the men
tally deficient by providing special
institutions for them.
To prevent the sale Of aduIterated
or misb1anded foods, drugs, medi-
zines 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 Is to the reformatory OK
county home.
70 extend the crime of vagrancy
SO as to include keepers or inmates
Of d~iSorderly 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 a hospital in, Moore county.
To regulate the writing of preserip-
tions by physicians.
To protect electrical power trans
mission lines.
To require the ~penitentiary to pay
its ebt bonds of 1899, amounting to
$4,000 and to pay $4,000 of its
earnings into the treasury to go to
the central fund.
To separate tuberculosis prisoners.
To require the 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
a 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 prescott
ing offenders.
To limit the poll tax to So IL 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 rooms, bar rooms, etc.
To prohibit corporations from pre-
venting public improvements by other
corporations by preventing occupancy
of land for r~ight-of-way.
To place all telephone lines under
the corporation commission.
To promote the oyster industry.
LIZ PUBLISH 1IduO Ill giving WOIIu-
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 a 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
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