The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-02-15
Bill Requires Every County to
Levy Special Tax.
SPECIAL ORDER FOR TUESDAY.
Petitions Presented In House for Re-
formatory-Bils Introduced to Re
peal Newspaper Libel law of 1908
N to Fine Railroads and Telegraph
Companies iu Certain Cases.
Especial 20 The NeSsenger.)

Neeley DuBose Offering prayer.
Bills were introduced as follows: BY
Aycock. To give Wayne the good road
law. BY Graham. 10 promote safety OF
travellers on railways and prohibit the
running of ordinary freight rains on
Sunday.
The bill. was taken up to authorize
and require every county to levy {,
special tax for the support OF one or
public schools in every school
district for four months in each year
and 10 amend the reyisal regarding the
special appropriation to equaliZe school
terms. On motion OF McLene an the
bill was made a special order for next
Iueday at moor and on Pharr'S mo-
tion, a thousand copies were ordered
printed.
Reinhardt moved reconsideration o
the vote by which the bill regulating
the tolls of ferries passed final reading
yesterday. The motion prevailed ant
amendments were offered by Rein
hardt, Mason, and Carter exempting
Catawba, Castor, Iredell, Surry anG
Lincoln, which were adopted, and the
bill thus amended passed third reau-
ing.
Bills passed third reading amending
section 1912 revisal by adding betwee:,
the word public" and the word re
signing" in line ). the following words,
'Or clerk of a court of records, the act
not to apply 10 any pending action
The bin then passed its reading.
Other bills which passed We're rs
follows: Allowing the solicitor tw
challenges for each defendant. To Ic-
lieve prisoners in Jail awaiting trial by
allowing them to be put at work on the
roads in the same m as persons
convicted and that If they were con-
Victed the time Sc we'd vas TO De taken
from their sentence while If they ar
acquitted they are - he paid for their
labor, this bill applying on.y 10 Pitt
county. To prevent delay III s',tl =
ment of cases on appeal from rte o.
periOr to the supreme court. by allowing
the appellant 10 days. The bill d,fn-
ing the meaning of the word imme-
diately as Is days. To establish a
criminal court in ~PasquOtank. 10 re-
quire railways TO install and operate
additional trans and make connection
with other trains, this bill giving en-
largement Of the power of the corpora
ton commission.
Pharr's bill Il cOnstrue certain pena,
statutes and declare where the burden
of proof lies, relating to delays in de-
livery of freight and making the dereu-
dant show where the delays occurred,
passed second reading with an amend
ment hat it shall not apply to cause-
of action which arose prior to the
of the act.
THE HOUSE.
The house met at 1920, and PresI-
dent R. T Vann of the Baptist univer-
sity for women offered prayer.
A number petions were presented,
among them the following: By Pickevr,
memorial from the North Carolina
and Virginia Christian conference for
a refOrmatory, and one from citi. MS
Of Alamance for compulsory education.
Weaver, from citizens Of Asheville
for a ~reformatory. By Buchan, from
1850 citizens of Moore county against
the establishment Of Lee county.
Bills introduced: By WinbOrne, TO-
compel railways and telegraph COM
panies TO obey the lawful orders OF the
corporation commissions; also to COM
pei them to keep their passengers cars
clean and decent. BY Register, 10
amend the revisal regarding the state
militia and national guards. This Dill
being the n prepared by the board or
recently in session here. It IS
Of very considerable length and oOm /
.prehensive. By McRae to provide addi-
pensions for confederate soldiers.
By allowing purchase OF artificial legs
replace old or defective ones. BY
Jackson, to fix the pay Of commission
Of Beaufort county. BY Mclean 10
regulate the time Of holding courts IN
BladenS. BY McRas. 10 incorporate
Methodist college. BY Wells
to give the MDOre's Creek Monument
association power To preserve order !
Koonce, To repeal the sections Of
the revisal regarding libel and Islander !
BY Brewer to protect game in Craven
By Pitts, to prohibit the giving of liens
grown OF crops on lands Of another.
Among the most important bills in |
troduced this morning were those Of
regarding salaries. 1t does
not increase any salaries except in
where higher paid clerks are
reduced and lower paid ones for the
class Of work are given increases,
an effort to equalize salaries.
koonce's bill relating TO libel acd
repeats the newspaper libel
law Of 1903, absolving a publisher from
responsibility upon the publication OF
An apology.
Winborne's two bills relate TO rail-
way one making a railway or tSle-