Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-01-21
THE.sBILL ALL RIGHT
Senator BaFham Explains In Detail
The Purpose OF The Pending
Bill Referfsd To.


/ note in your paper Of date January
Is, 1909, that your correspondent from
Walter has the following articles viz:
1.-THE bills introduced to raise sal
aries Of State officers and register fees
for recording mortgages in Wayne
county, is meeting with disapproval
here. The people think II an inoppo-
tune time to increase expenses in the
face of an exceedingly short crop, and
the prevailing stringeney in financial
matters" I cannot speak as TO "biils"
as know OF only one that has been
introduced, but as to the billintroduced
by me in the Senate at the request Of
our efficient Register Of Deeds, II you
will permit me space in your valued
paper, desire herewith to give you a
to explain the effect Of the bill, which
take was unknown ITO your Walter
correspondent. The bill is as follows:
An act to amend section two thou
sand seven hundred sand seventy six
of the Revisal Of nineteen hundred and
five, relative to Fees for registering
short-form mortgages, and to re-enact
Chapter Seventeen of the pupblic laws
Of North Carolina, Session eighteen
hundred and ninety mine, in SO far as
it effected Wayne county.
The General Assembly OF North Car
olina Do Enact:
Section l. That section two thou
sand seven hundred and seventy-six OF
the Revisal of Nineteen hundred and
five be amended by adding in line
word wayne" and by striking out
in line twenty three of said section the
word wayne
Section 2 That chapter seventeen
of the Public Laws of North Carolina,
session eighteen hundred and ninety
nine, be and the same is hereby re-
enacted in so far as 1t effected Wayne
county.
Section 8. That this act shall be en-
forced from and after its ratification.
This bill if enacted into law will
not increase the fees of the Register of
u
duce them.
The bill applies only to short form
agricultural lienes and chattel mort
cages combined. The tees allowed the
Register of Deeds and Clerk OF Court
under the exciting law for the two
forms in general use in our county is
thirty cents to the Register of Deeds
and ten cents to the Clerk of Court for
one form and eighty cents to the Reg
lister of Deeds and twenty five cents to
the Clerk of the Court tor the other
form.
The bill introduced by me provides
that the fees on the particular forms o
mortgages shall be thirty cents TO the
Register of Deeds and ten cents to the
Clerk Of the Court for the one form,
and fifty cents to the Register of Deeds
and ten cents to the Clerk of the Court
for the other form. will say further,
that 1 am advised that the form OF
agricultural lien and .chattel mort
gage com mbined used by nine-bentha OF
our people Is the form which under the
present law the Register of Deeds
could charge eighty cents annd Clerk
of the Court twenty five cents; but this
form was not brought forward in the
Revisal and the purpose OF the bill to Q
enact Chapter Seventeen of the Public
Laws of 1899, which enbodtes the form
used by the great majority of our peo-
pie and provides that fees on same be
thirty cents for the Register OF Deeds
and ten cents to the Clerk of the Clerk. |
Respectfully,
,LANGHORN BARHAM
~ ARS