The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-12
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.


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!" fHidfee the peitce power OF the
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Relative y the use r. firearms n
beTIe county
Bills Passed.
I'll. ~foiIouln~ bills passed their final
reading:
Resolution providing for drawing
seatz for members at the first day u
the next session Of the House.
70 amend the Revisaf 50 as to ex-
tend the right Of eminent domain t.
electro light ana power
To change the rule Of evidence il
certain cases, (ScHat9r Longs bdN-
dy house bill)
To Incorporate town III Cerro Gordo.
For better working Duplin count.
-fstIS.
TO establish the Rocky Mount road
district in Tarts 81 IIdgec0mbe anG
Nash counties.
Relating 70 prohibition in Arson
county. CLoekhartts sUbstitute.)
To amend the charter OF
ton.
70 change the boundary Of Whittier
School district. i'm Jackson COUNTY
10 provide for building a new court
house at Rakcrsyila. in Mitchell coun-
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TO Incorporate the town Of Broad
way, in Moore county.
To incorporate the town of Bass, in
Moor" county.
To increase the special tax for
King Mountain GRADED school.
TO allow Mecklenburg commissions
ers to submit to voters question Of is
suing bonds for good Dads.
70 Incorporate PatetoWn, IL WAYNE
count
70 lilo Kings Mountain to issue
bonds.
TO allow Buncombe county com
m~issioners to issue township bonds to
build roads.
To incorporate the town of Pol
iocksville.
To amend charter Of the Mountain
Retreat Aseociafion
To allow the Tarboro school board
u issue bonds.
70 allow Favetteyiue 10 issua bonds
- survey dld ol1leI Purposes
TO incorporate the town of LinfeEl.
70 allow old Fort TO issue water and
sewerage bonds.
To allow certain townships in Hem
derson county to subscribe stock in
railroads..
To allow Carteret county to lew j
special tax for building ! home for the
poor.
TO incorporate the NJ. l.. Jones
Company.
For Tho ~aI;of IF NT,~ J-I,u1.,- II
Tucker.
payment of war claims.) CThere
was much discussion of this bill. Judge
Winborne fighting it. Messrs. Dough-
ton. Laughinghouse and Midyette ex-
planning and advocating it'd
The bill to protect the strawberry
growing industry. by providing a tax
of one cent 4 buShel on strawberries, |
to pay for an officer to inspect the
fruit and look after cars, was opposed
DN MI. Williams, Of Duplin. He said
the bill was gotten up by the truckers !
association. which did not represent
one-third Of the strawberry growers.
The object Of the bill was to make a
Democratic legislature endorse a tax
BY this association on which q Repub-
,Icdn had declared was I'M
istWiul
MI. LauShlnShouSe advocated the
OIL. dec'arlng that the Truckers As
soclatlon was q GoG-send to the farm
N' - I-o7tNiI MOI II {
Sdfo!ii. 1au 1t not been Tor this
aSSoclatlon the uckefS would have
lost S30o.oo0 by failure of the rail
ioI4S 70 Iurhlsn cars year before last.
MI met fackel, Of Columbus,
strongly urged the passage OF the bil.
ana Dr. McNelll, OF cumberland stat
e9 Ilat unless the Dill became q law,
ne reared the strawberry industry
would be killed.
MI. Morton explained the bill. say
ing II was padlN needed. and vas alb
SoiutelN necessary for a continuance
q the S~JfaNFDeffH oWi industry.
MI. NllllahnS, fufihef opposing the
olil Sldted us only OBJECT was 70 give
ounces 70 men VINO had been put ont
OF business ana had lost their Jobs
DN the passage OF the Hepburn bill ,
Not one strawberry grower in fifteen