The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-03-28

or personal property Of their respective
societies.
The act designed to exclude minors
from pool rooms. bar-rooms, dispensar-
les snd other places of like character
makes it unlawful for any proprietor
manager, clerk Or person in charge OF
such business to allow any minor under
eighteen years of age to loiter in said
places, or to carry therefrom any intoxi-
eating liquors, or to engage in any game
of whatsoever kind, without the written
consent of the parent or guardian of
such minor under the age herein pres
cribed: Provided, this act shall not APP
ply to pool rooms, owned and operated
by associations, societies and fraternal
orders, social clubs, ETC., where such
pool and billiard tables are kept for the
use of the members of said associations,
or societies. This act makes it unlaw-
full for such minors under the @ of
eighteen years to enter the places nam
ed above, ''except upon business other
than carrying away any intoxicating
liquors or engaging in any game or
lettering or remaining IN such places
"longer than is necessary to transact
the business herein excepted. Any one
violating the provisions of this act may
be punished in the discretion of the
court. The law is now in full force and
effect, having been enrolled and ratified
on March IL, 1907.
Another very interesting hey law is
the act limiting poll tax in municipali-
ties to two dollars. This will be good
news to all "the horny-handed sons of
toll" in the various towns and cities
throughout the State. Under this law
no city or town is allowed to levy n poll
tax in excess of two dollars and all pro
visions in the charters of any town to
the contrary are repealed. Under the
equation of taxation described in the
constitution applying only to taxation
levied for ordinary purposes of the state
and county, no poll shall be levied or
collected by any city or town, except for
special appropriations to educational
propositions, and street Improvements
in municipalities where said subserip-
tons have been voted prior to the
passage of this C The counties of
Halifax, Beaufort, Cleveland, New
Hanover, Burke, Catawba, Union, Ran
dolph, Orange, Edgecombe, Pasquotank
and Rowan are excluded from the pro-
visions of this act, so that the municap-
al authorities of towns and cities in
those counties may levy poll tax in Sx-
cess of two dollars if they SO decide.
The legislature took q shot at what it
was pleased to call ''the shyster lawyer"
by the passage of an act "for the dis
barmOnt and suspension Of attorneys at
law" and ~reciting the reasons aud
causes for which they ''may be disbarr-
cd or suspended in the discretion of the
court" THAT he has by himself or
another solicited professional business;
Upon its being found bya jury that he
has been guilty Of any conduct in the
practice of his profession involving will
full deceit OF fraud" The act provides
that they must be disbarred and remov-
cd by the superior court for these causes:
Upon his conviction of crime punish
able by imprisonment in the penitenti-
ary; When any judgement is rendered
against him for money collected by him
as an attorney and retained by him
without any bona fde claim thereto or
to any part thereof" The execution of
this act 10 placed in the care of the
COMMITTEE on grievances" of the North
Carolina Bar Association, the precedent
of which has NO parallel in the proceed
inGs OF any previous Legislature during
recent years, if ever.
Then comes the act relating to ms
truction in scientific temperance. which
went into effect on March 18th. This
relates to q new feature of public school
work and provides: that in addition to
the branches in which instruction is
now required by law to be given in all
public schools supported wholly or in
part by the public money, instruction
shall also be given as to the nature of
alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and
their effect upon the hnman system, In
connection with the various divisions of
physiology and hygiene, and such sub
ject shall be taught in each school year
no thoroughly 40 arithmetic and geogra-
ply are taught in said schools. Previd-
ed, that the minimum amount of such
instruction shall be two lessons each
week for ten weeks, or the equivalent
OF the same, in schools employing one