Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-03-10
High Lights of 1927
General Assembly
Associated Press Reviews Activities
of Legislature Up to and Includ-
ing Last Saturday

follows:
The $30,000,000 maintenance ap-
preparation measure for the state de-
partments and institutions the next
two fiscal years, the $5,0OO,00O per-
manent improvements measure were
enacted, also provision for a $3,25G,-
600 school equalizing fund.
Passage of the Great Smoky Noun
tain National Park measure, provid-
ing for the issuance 5y the state of
81, 100000 in bonds to held estab-
lish the national park. The measure
provides definitely that at least
$4,000 acres in North Carolina and
Tennessee must have been accepted
by the secretary of the interior for
development as a national park un-
der terms of the act of congress.
The park law was welcomed by
western North Carolina as was the
Cape Fear bridge measure, appro-
priating $2,OOO,0OO for eastern
North Carolina. Asheville and Will
mlngton representatives Joined
hands while legislators from all over
the state backed the $3O,OOO,OOO road
bond issue for completing the sys-
tenn over the entire state, with the
state highway commissions jurisdic-
tlon of the total 115 million dollars
issue to date.
The assembly passed the bill spon-
sored by the State ParentTeacher
Association strengthening school at
tendance laws and the child labor
laws requiring all children under 16
except those who have completed the
fourth grade to abstain from eight
hours work.
Provisions of the present "bad
check" law were frightened.
The statewide game bill enacted
into law provides for protection and
conservation of wild birds and ami
mails; creates a state game commits
sion and the office of state game
warden; authorizes game reserves
and sanctuaries; levies license fees
provides open and closed seasons for
game birds, game animals and fur
bearing animals; abolishes the Audo-
bon Society of North Carolina and
transfers its property to the state
game commission.
A bill giving the state highway
commission power to lay out its own
roads, making it clear that the law
does not apply to pending litigation,
and that the section limiting suits
against the highway commission shall
apply 90 controversies relative to To-
cation.
The 1927 session took cognizance
Of the three North Carolina s;gners of
the Declaration of Independence and
unveiling of a bronze tab
let to their memory.
'The Old North State" unofficial
of the state for years, was
adopted by the assembly as
the state song.
Under another act it is obligatory
for drug stores to be registered.
Banks with less capital than $4,000
cannot be organized.
Enacted into law a measure by
which the hands of the states dele
cation to a national convention will
be united, as there will be no pri-
mary held in North Carolina for the
to express itself with re-
gard to the candidates for the presi-
lency.
The omnibus measure, passed, ap-
points members of the county boards
Of education in the several counties
Of the state. Some boards hold for
two years, others for six, with only
one member appointed at time and
others vary in between those two
methods.
Another new law productive of the
session providing for filling vacancies
in the office of United States senator
by vote of the people instead of by
appointment by the governor of the
state.
The North Carolina fisheries com
mission and department of conserva-
tion and development were consoli-
dated with the conservation depart
ment taking over the fisheries body,
under the game measure.
AS one of the aftermaths of the
enactment of the Great Smoky Ma
tonal Park measure, the purchase of
land and securing of options will be-
gin by the North Carolina park COM
appointed by the act ratified.
Mark Squires of Caldwell, is presi-
dent of the commission.
The assembly passed the senate