The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-03-15
WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE
CONTINUED from Pa one.)

fix the maximum passenger rate to
z IA penis per mile, : regulate
freight rates and prevent unjust dis
elimination, TO prevent public drink
ing in passenger cars, to require rail-
: ways to keep passenger cars clean;
to allow conductors and station agents
to arrest drunken disOrderly or bOis-
CtNOus persons, to allow railways to
WJ1ldUct belt lines at towns, to re-
quire one director and one incorpOra-
tor Of all railways to be a citizen and
resident Of the state, to allow the cor
pOratiOn commission to require union
depcts in towns of 1000 persons. to
require union depots in towns of
1000 persons to require street 1ail-
ways to provide separate accommodate
tOns for negroes and whites. to pre-
vent stealing of brasses and other
railway property, TO greatly enlarge
the powers Of the corporation commits
sion.
Other important bills Of a miscella-
character are as follows, to res
tore dentists to their former dignity
as doctors, TO allow JUICES and magis-
trates to exclude all persons except
those concerned in trials for felon-
iOus assault, to allow benevolent as
sOciatiOns to receive, buy hold or sell
real IL personal property, tO regulate
sales of leaf tobacco on warehouse
floors and require reports to the ag-
ricultural department, to prevent US
ury and eXtOrtiOn, to extend for two
years tie time for settling the safe
debt, to promote public decEncy by
Furnishing people for using indecent
signs, writings and pictures in public,
to allow the governor to appoint spec
ia1 police for water power, Transport
tatiGn and construction companies, tt
provide for the car Of the mentally
deficient by providing special institu-
lions for them, to prevent the sale Of
adulterated on m~isbranded foods, drugs
medicines and liquors, to increase the
number of state challenges in all
cases less than capital. to allow judi
ges 10 send criminal boys under 16
to the reformatOry or county home,
to extend. the crime Of vagTancy so
as to include Keepers or inmates OF
disoraerly houses, to prevent and pun
ish trusts and combines, to authorize
the state board of health to provide
TO- preventive treatment Of tubereu-
lr~W by lean of a hospital in Moore
FQnnIV tn nrNtprt nlaaf1,ia9l nnUnC
transmission lines. to regulate the
writing of prescriptions by physicians,
10 require the p~enitentiary to pay it's
4 debt bonds of 1899, amounting to
$4,000 and to pay $4,000 of its
earnings into the treasury to go to
the general fund, to separate tubecu-
lOSi& patients, to require the commits
siOners OF agriculture and The board
TO require registration OF trained
nurses, to protect makers and dealers
in mineral waters; to amend the law
regarding removal of cloud on title;
to protect primary elections and con-
ventiOns and punish frauds thereat;
to pay half fees to officers and witness
where no true bill is found; to extend
time for obtaining land grants; to
regulate o~SteOpathy and create a
state board OF examiners: to protect
hotel and boarding house keepers: to
m@cibe the hours of service for rail
waN employees operating trains: to
establish a state board OF equalization
for the assessment of real estate; 10
regulate the hours Of the labor Of chill
dren in factories to amend the land
general road law that county COMMITS
[~siOners can let the working OF the
roads by contracts by sectlons; to
enable the state to make proof OF
the possession Of whiskey licenses, is
sued by the government, in ~prosecut-
ing offenders: to limit the poll tax to
$500 in cities and towns; to provide
for the display of the state Tag on
all court houses, schools n 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 right-of-way; TO place all
telephone lines under the corporation
commissions; to promote the oyster
industry; TO punish fraud in giving
checks, drafts n orders;
Yeate the Office of fish commission
r~to require express companies to
pay claim for loss or damage to prop
-erty; to secure immigration in North
Carolina; appropriation $4,000, half
from the state, half from the agricul-
1lral department; to secure a statue
"a 2. B. Vance to be placed in statuary
nam at the capitol at Washington; TO
NIX the salaries of state officers and to