The Greensboro patriot [April 14, 1885]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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M6, GREENSBORO, X. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1885. Vrr.i
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i our Public Htgkwaya
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mil ferries
nr appoint
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I li ill It air here
in- public roads ;.nil
[In justices of Hie
II.M n-lnp shall have
mil control of tin-in
I lull respective
.in- hereby iiiriir
.ivii nt' tiustees
.iji shall in* their our
I liey shall IIMVI' the
i| In sued, |ili-.iil anil
ii an) "I tin- conns
riii- iiu.iiii of tonu
Ullll |h« board of
. mi ps, .I- here ifter
chapter, shall have
l .intimity within
i ■ entities to appoint
iml in order the
repairing of public
. -- iry, to appoint
■ I idges anil fords
■ 11-IKIItiiiii«- such '
- a- shall In- found
. I .M'l- 80 a- to
ire useful.
board ol township
:i gome place
r tow aslups to he
hj themselves, or in
- ich in agreement,
. tin ir chairman, on
ol May ami Nov
Ii other times .is
ut ihiiii may deem ail
i shall keep a record
dings, ami shall an
May meeting elect
n- i nuinher chairman.
steed shall tie ex-lour
days' labor ou
Is. It shall he 'he
i i in- trustees to ex
i- r lition of the
.ml highway s ni their
-nips at leas', twice
i \ year, and make
: be eondii ion of said
ghways mid present
the apt m;; and fall
nd|{e ol t lie superior
.hall Ii ans nit said re
solicitor •* itii sueh in-lie
may deem proper.
- MI rii.ni man of
> i. iii-si-m-i-s. hoard of
imj ->:uiiei s, .|i»sl ice ol
ll.l.llll ol township
- 11..■ i v ism. u ho shall
.- In perform the
I'lljoilli'll li\ I his art.
permanently disabled in the mill
tarv service of this State, shall He
liable annually to do and perform
four days' labor ou the highways,
under the direction of 111 super
visor nf the mad district in which
he shall reside: Provided further,
that it any person, being named as
here natter provided, shall pay t..
the supervisor in whose district he
may reside the sum ol three <lo|-
la is. 11 a-same shall lie received iii lieu
ol tin- tour days' labor, ami shall lie
applied hj the supervisor receiving
tin- sann- to tin- improvement of Ibe
mails ot his district, and areonnti-il
tor as hereinafter provided.
SIT. <;. That it sbali be Uie duty
of every supervisor to older out
every such person, resident as
aforesaid, between the first day of
February and the first day of De
lemliei, annually, to do ami per-form
tin- work aforesaid on public
mads within the district, and if
any such resident being personally
warned by sueh supervisor, or by
leaving a written notice at his
usual aliode, shall refuse or neglect,
having had at least two days' no
i tice, to attend by himself or sub
I stitiite to the acceptance of the
supervisor, or having attended
shall refuse to obey the directions
of the supervisor, or shall spend
the time in idleness or any inatten-tion
to the duties assigned him,
even MII h delinquent Shall forfeit
and pay the sum of one dollar for
every such offense, and shall forth
IT lie liable in all cases of non-at-tendance
to the amount of four
■ lays' work, to In- recovered by ac
tiou before any justice of tin-peace
of the proper township at the suit
of the supervisor within whose ilia
t liit be may reside; and shall also
In- guilty of a misdemeanor and
tilled not exceeding live dollars or
said receipt with the township tms
tees. It shall lie lawful for any
supervisor to sue out executions on
any judgment that remains unpaid
within his proper district, at any-time
when in his opinion the same
can be collected; and the money
so lecei,-ed and collected shall lie
expended as provided in the fore
going section.
See. 13. That the supervisors of
ro,ids and highways within the
Slate be and are lu-reliy authoris-ed
to construct foot bridges over
streams of water Oil saiil high
»il)S
That each supervisor
district shall erect anil
at the expense of thi-nt
the forks of cross
IV State ami county
mil guide board or
shall forfeit for every such offence | for so obstructing such public road I,combe, Chatham. Hertford, Ala
not less tlinn ten dollars, nor more or highway. niance, Wilson, Uuilford, Kowan,
than fifty dollars, to be recovered i Bee 28. It shall be unlawful l'o» i Csuwell, Sorry, Wake, \aiikin,
by an action before any justice of I any railroad company to obstruct Lincoln, Polk, Person, Madison,
the peace of the proper county ; j the drainage of any public road or | Bdgeoomhe, Catawba, Frank in,
and it is hereby made the duty of ! highway by its road bed or other
the lownsliip trustees to prosecute j wise, or empty llid water from its
all offences against the provisions I flitches into any public road or
of this section : Provided, That if! highway; and if any railroad com
Sec. 14.
within Ins
keep Up,
township,
roails ot evi-i
road, a post
linger board, containing an ioscrip
tioo in legible letters,directing the
1 way and distance to the town or
1 towns, or public place or places,
, sitna-ed on each road respectively.
Sec. 15. That if any person shall
I wilfully demolish, thro i down,
j alter or deface any guide board,
every person so offending shall,
i upon conviction thereof before any
justice nt the peace of the proper
' county, be lined in any sum not
exceeding ten dollars and cost of
suit, and the money when collect-
; ed shall be, by the justice of the
. peace collecting the same, paid
' over to the supervisor in whose
district the offence was committed,
' and be by him applied to the re-pair
of the roails and highways
within his district.
Sec. Hi. That the township trus-tees
of the several townships with-in
this State be and they are here
by authorised to furnish plows,
scrapers or other tools for the use
ol the several districts within their
imprisoned not exceeding live days; township to be paid for out of any
and the money so collected shalfbc moneys in the township treasury
applied b\ said supervisor to the not otherwise appropriated. The
improvement of the roads in bis township trustees shall take a re-district,
and accounted for by him ceipt Iron eh supervisor for such
at the annual settlement with the implements as they may deliver to
township trustees : Provided, that him, showing the number, kind
no person shall he released from and condition thereof, ami such
the performance of labor on the | supervisor shall be liable for any
n ietiolt theieul shall In
; isoiied. or buth. iu the
" i; in- court, and it is here
a nle I liedilty of the solicitors to
u i offences.
I 'bat the tow uship trus
- veral townships of
I, mi the first Mon
next, in within lour
divide their re
townships into suitable
-. and annually there
such alterations
i- ; liej may deem proper,
a ii-t description there
ii on ilie tonnship re
i ilsu furnish each super-i
plot III his road ilis
flu- trustees of each town-il
their May meeting, ami
• liel eafter, shall elect one
toi for each road district.
-i, en isor who refuses
cets to qualify and serve.
• ami pay the sum of
dollars and costs, to be
: lie tow nship trustees
action Of debt. Money So
-h.ili go into the road
fund nl' the tow nship, ami be cn-il
to the proper mad district.
I hat when nil) vacancy shall occur
in the office ol supervisor by death,
II it urn or other* ise, the trus
il the township wherein such
vacancy occurs shall appoint some
i- | el-mi to till the vacancy.
See. I. The road-bed shall lie not
mine than sixteen feet wide, unless
I by the board of county
commissioners, ami in opening new
roads not more than live jurors shall
inmoiied or required. And it
shnll be the duty ol each ami even
: l isoi to open or cause to he
upelieil all public roads and high
ways which shall have been or may
In leafier be laid out ami establish
id in his road district, the same to
seep in repairs, ami remove or
in- reinovnl all ohstrue
turns that may from time to time
In- found thereon : for « hich pu.
siipei \ isms are hereby
il to enter upon any mi
cultivated lands, or improved lands
iiiiincumbercd by i-iops. near tulir
: such roads, to i-ut ami
carry away timber, except trees or
es on improved land planted
el i lor in nameiit or shade ; to
dig or cause to he dug and carried
sway any gravel,
u Inch may be nccea
improve m repair
tn elitei mi any hind
ly lug mar the road
i-s throug
as In- may deem lie*
benefit ol the road
injury to said land
incuts t hereou
the nature ol the case and the pub
i I w ill permit; and the drains
ami ditches so in ide shall be eon-
II :In- nearest watercourse,
ami shall be kept open by such
su|iervisiirs, and shall not be oh
Mulcted by the owner or occupier
ot such lands, or any other |iersou
|H i -mis hat illg the same iu
charge under the penalty ol lor-
I! a -i.in nut exceeding ten
public highway s b\ reason of the
neglect of any supervisor to order
out such pei-on ou or before the
first day ol December, as herein-after
pr iviib-d.
Sec 7. That in case any person
shall remove from one district to
another, w]m has prior to such re
moval performed the whole or any
part ot the labor aforesaid, or in
any other way has paid the whole
in any part of the amount afore-
Said iu lieu ol such labor, ami shall
produce a certificate of the same
i misdemeanor. I fr the sopervisni of the pioper
district, such certificate shall In- .1 ul
complete discharge for the amount St
therein specified.
Sec. 8. That any person called
upon to pciform any labor upon
ihe public roads and highways un-der
any provisions ot I his act, shall
by himself or substitute appear at
the place appointed by the super
visor at tin- hour of seven o'clock
iu the forenoon with such neccs
sary tools and implements as the
supervisor may direct.
Sec. 9. Thai for the purpose pro
vided for in the prcccediug Bectiolis
of this act, the residence of any
pe son who has a family shall la-held
to In- where his family resides,
and the residence of any other per
son shall be held to be when- he
boards, iu any road district iu this
State
Sec. H>. That the several super
visors, within their respective llis
tricts, shall collect by suit or other-wise
all lines, forfeitures and pen
allies arising and accruing under
the provisions of this act, unless
tin collection thereof is otherwise
herein provided for; and they arc
hereby authorised and required,
Before their settlement with the
township trustees, to prosecute to
filial judgment all persons ueglei 1
ing or refusing to comply with the
provisions ot this act from whom
sueh tines, forfeiture or penalty, in
the opinion of Ihe supervisor, can
be collected by execution ; and the
said judgments if not paid together
with the cost thereon shall remain
and be in force against tin.- judg
ment debtor as otlur judgments at
law.
Sec. 11 That the several super
visors shall expend all moneys by
1 hem collected for Ihe benefit of
the mad and highways in their re
.-peetivc districts: and every sup
ei visor is hereby required to ac
count to the township trustee-at
the annual Settlement For all
mleil under this art:
ill also return a full
money • exj
and I hey si
and true list
name.- of . 11
mil statement ol tl
persons within their : till in this act, at the
ii-.-peetiv.- districts who have been dollar per day mil
mill led mil to perform the f-mr mice per day fur
data1 labor as required by this act,
and of those who have refused or
neglected to perform the sun,.;
injury or damage that may result
to such implements, or to any of
Ibf-m, by improper use thereof, or
by unnecessary exposure to the
weather during the time the same
may lie ill his possession; anil he
shal', on the Mist Monday of May
annually, re urn the same to said
trustees. The amount for which
such supervisor may be liable lor
such improper use 01 neglect may
be recovered by action in the name
ol the township trustees.
Sec. 17. That the commissioners
and bnaiil of justices of the pence
the le.-pective counties in this
lie arc hereby authorised to levy
at the June session of their board
annually for road purposes not
less than seven tenths of a mill,
nor more than two mills on the
dollar, and the chairman of the
county commissioners shall place
the same on the tax list of the cur-rent
year, to be included iu and
collected in the annual taxes; that
if the trustees of any township
shall deem an additional road tax
necessai.', they shall determine the
per centum to be levied upon the
taxable properly ot their respec-tive
townships, and shall certify
the same in writing to the boards
of county commissioners and jus
tices of the peace at JttUe session,
who may levy a special tax, not
exceeding one mill on the dollar,
and tin- commissioners ami justices
may levy and assess the same ou
the taxable property of the town
ship, and the same shall be collect
ed as other taxes, and paid out as
herein provided.
Sec. IS. That the chairman ofl
county commissioners, immediately ,
after Ihe commissioners at their
annual session for that purpose j
have determined the amounts to j
be assessed for roao purposes in |
their respective counties, shall give
notice ill some newspaper in gen i
end circulation in the county of the i
per centum 011 each hundred dot- I
lars of the valuation so determined
to be assessed in such county and
township and t lat the said tax
may be discharged by labor on the
roads under the direction of the
supervisors of the several districts,
and shall make out a list of the
names of each tax payer, of the
amount of the road tax with which
each stands charged, ami transmit
the same to the supervisor of the
proper district.
Si C. 19. An) person charged with
a mad lax may discharge Ihe salin-ity
labor on the public highways
within the district where the same
, is charged within the time designs
rate of one
a ratable allow-
111V team, impl
n.i ii s ami maleiial furnished by
any pei.-nn uinler the direction ol
the supervisor of auch district, who
any supervisor conceives himself
aggrieved by (he judgment of sueh
justice • f the peace, he may on
giving siitiiciciit sec iiity to said
justice of the peace for 'he pay-ment
of the cost, appeal to Ihe
superior court, who shall make
such onler therein as to them may
appear just ami reasonable.
Sec. 21. That it shall be DUlaw
tul for any supervisor \t> perform,
or cause labor to be performed, ou
any road not regularly laid out and
established by law.
Bee. 33. That each and every su
pel visor who shall cut and take
any timber, stone or gravel for the
purpose of making, improving or
repairing any road or building, or
repairing any bridge or crossway
within hit district shall, on the de-mand
of the ouner ol the lands,
their agent or agents, or the guar
dian of any ward, or the executor
or administrator having lands iu
charge, from which timber, stone
or gravel were taken as aforesaid,
shall give a certificate showing the
quantity of such timber, stone or
gravel, with the value thereof re
spcctively, and the 'line and pur
pose for which the same were
taken.
Sec. 23- That any person or per-sons
who shall receive a certificate
as provided for iu the foregoing
section, shall present the same to
the county commissioners of the
proper county at any regular sea
skill of said commissioners within
six months alter the taking and
carryiug away of such timber,stone
or gravel, and ihe commissioners,
being satisfied that the amount as
aforesaid is just ami equitable,
shall cause the same to be paid
out of the county treasury ; but if
not so satisfied, they shall deter-mine
what sum in their opinion
would be just.
Sec. :M. That each supervisor
shall receive for his services olio
dollar and fifty cents per day for i
time actually employed on the !
roads, deducting the commutation
for his four days' labor. Supervi I
sors having charge of not more
in ni twenty five hands shall not
receive more than ten dollars in '
any one year, and no supervisorI
having II greater number shall re i
ceive more than twenty dollars iu
any one year, and be paid out of
the couniy treasury.
Sec. 35. That at any time during ,
the year when any public highway ,
shall be obstructed, It shall lie tin-duty
of the supervisor of the ilis
tnct in which the same may be,,
forthwith tocause such obstruction
to be removed, for which purpose
he shall immediately order out such
number ofpersona liable to do work
or pay lax upon the public hich
ways of his district as he may deem ;
necessary to remove said obstruc i
timis. If the person or persons
thus called out shall have perform- I
ed their four days' labor upon the
public highways, or paid thei< road
tU, the supervisor shall give to
such person or persons a certificate
for Ihe amount of labor performed,
and said certificate shall apply ou
the labor or tax that may he due
from such person or persons the
ensiling year.
Sec. L'li. That if any person or
persons, corporations, or any con
dilctor of any train ot railroad cars,
or any other agent or servant of
any railroad company, shall ob-struct
unnecessarily any public
road or highway authorized by nay
law of this State by permitting any
railroad car or cars or locomotive
to remain upon or across any pub
Ii-: road or highway tor a longer
period than five minutes, or shall
permit any timber, wood or other
obstructions to remain upon or
across any such road or highway
to the hindrance or inconvenience
of travellers, or any person or per
sons passing along or upon such
road or highway, every person or
corporation so offending shall for-
| feit and pay for every such offence
any sum not exceeding twenty nor
I less than five dollars, and shall lie
■ liable for all damages arising to
any person from such obstruction
j or injury to sueh road or highway,
to be recovered by an action at the
[ suit of ihe trustee* of the township
in which such offence shall have
! been Committed, or any person
suing for the same before any jus
tice of the peace within the county
when- such offence shall have been
| committed,or by Indictment in the
' superior court in tin-proper county.
And all hues so accruing under Ihe
provisions of this section, when
puny, being warned by the super
visor of the proper district by leav
iug a written notice with any agent,
or informing any station agent of
the said railroad company person
ally, shall refuse or neglect to
remedy the same to the acceptance
of the supervisor, shall forfeit and
pay any sum not exceeding fifty
nor less than twenty dollars, to be
recovered by an action at the suit
of the township trustees before any
justice of the peace of the proper
county, and every ten days such
railroad company,after being noti-fied,
shall neglect or refuse to
remedy such offence shall be deem
c-d an additional offence against the
provisions of this act; and the
money so collected shall be paid to
the supervisor of the district in
which the provisions of this section
were violated, anil tlu money so
paid over shall be used by said
supervisor lor the improvement of
the roads iu his district and ac-counted
for in his annual settle-ment.
Sec. 30. Whenever any persons
shall me- t each other on any bridge
or road travelling with carriages,
wagons, or other vehicles, each
person shall reasonably drive his
carriage or vehicle to the right of
the middle of the travelled part of
such bridge or road, so that the re-spective
carnages or other vehicles
aforesaid may pass each other
without interference; every per-son
wilfully offending against the
provisions of this secti iu shall for
each offence forfeit a sum not ex
needing five dollars, to be recover
ed ou complaint before any justice
of the peace iu the county where
the offence shall have been com-mitted;
anil he shall further be
liable to any party for all damages
sustained by reason of such of-fence
: Provided, That every such
complaint shall be made within one
month alter the ofieuce shall have
been committed, and that every
such action for damages shall be
commenced within two months
after the cause of action shall l-ave
accrued
Sec 30. It shall be the further
duty of each supervisor to causa
each railroad company to construct
and keep in good repair the road
bed of all public loads across I In-road
bed nl .- lal railroad company;
and if any railroad company, being
duly warned by the supervisor of
the proper district by leaving a
written notice with any station
agent, or liy iuforunui! any station
agent of saiil railroad company per
SOIially, shall neglect or refuse to
const met or repair said road bed
to the acceptance of the supervisor,
shall forfeit any stun not exceeding
lif.y nor less than thirty dollars, to
be recovered by an action at the
suit of the township trustees before
any justice of the peace in the
proper county, and the money so i
collected shall be paid to the super I
visor ol the district iu which the
provisions of this section were vio |
luted, and the money so paid over
shall be used by said supervisor
for the improvement of the roads
in hi-, district, and accounted for i
iu Ins annual settlement; ami;
every five days such railroad com i
pany, after being duly notified. :
shall neglect or refuse to construct I
or repair said road bed, shall be
deemed ill) iMlll 1 tlOII.11 offCOCC
against the provisions of this act.
See. 31. That it shnll he lawful
for the supervisors of road districts
bordering ou the Stfcte line be-tween
North Carolina and any ad
joining State where a public high
way has been located upon such
State line in accordance with ami
under the provisions of the laws of
the State of North Carolina, to
apply the labor of said district
upon said roads iu the same man
m-r as on other roads located with
in the boundaries ofthis State; and
i.i case any public mad is or shall
he established as a part of the line
or boundary of any township or in
corporated village or city, the trus
Davie. Henderson, Vance. Cumber
land. Ilariielt, Martin and Wi.sh
lugtou: Provided however, the
said act shall be first adopted by
resolution by the county cbmmi's
sinners and justices of the peace,
or a majority of them, in joint
meetii.g in said counties respec
tively.
Sec. 2 That it shall be the duty
of the county cominissiotiers of
said counties respectively to sub
"lit the question of adoption or re
nnoOot theOfleea.
One hundred and seventy four
mmiinatious to office have been
made by I i. dew -.". vclnml since
his inane One &33d*«d
and fifty three of them the s
coutirin-l. ■ it rejected alidlhir
teen it left uuaetBdrapwu; The na-tional
appointments are dislribuj
ed as follows:
Xnr Kiir/'aml—(New Hampshire.
Maine. Vermont, Massachusetts,
Connecticut ami Rhode Island)—
William C. Eudicott, (Massachu
setts). Secretary of War; Edward
.1. I'nelps. (Vermont), Minister to
Kngland; Isaac Bell, or., (Rhode
Island), Minister to the Nether
lands; Thomas M. Waller, (Con
.X,,r,l,c;Xled
D
,,"0'B0J'-
It is a proud day1T,!
psefessiou ol" North Cuf„» young
-i''.-tsiif all the.-.- 5W?lcal
■ OU
ession
jeetiou ol said act to the justices of,
the peace a ml county commissioners i nectiv-ut), Consul General at Lou
at their annual joint meeting in j don, ami Charles T. Russell, (Con
June next, and if a majority of the ] necticut). Consul at Liverpo.-I.
whole body of justices of 'he peace -Vrir York—Daniel Manning, Sec
and county commissioners of anv - retary of the Treasury ; William C
one of said counties, shall at said
meeting adopt saiil act for said
county then and i.i that event, the
said act shall take effect from and
after the date of said meeting.
Sec. .'!. Thai it shall be the duty
of the county commissioners of
said counties to notify the justices
of the peace of the couniy prior to
the said dune meeting, by adver
tiseineiit in one or more newspapers,
or by posted notices iu the county
or otherwise, as the said commis
sinners may determine, toat the
said question will on submitted to
them for their action at the said
annual meeting.
Sec. i. That the Secretary of
State shall furnish the county com
missioiiers of each of the counties
designated in section one of this
act with one hundred copies of the
said Mecklenburg road law for ilia
tribution among the justices of the
peace of the county before said
meeting iu .lime.
Sec. 5. That all taxes levied
under said act and this .-upplemeii
tary act, shall be levied in accord
ance with the provisions of the
constitution of this State, and this
requirement shall apply to all conn
ties where said act shall be in
force.
Sec. (i That the provisions of
said ;ict entitled "An act relating
to roiids and highways for Meek
lenhurg county "
to Durham..Orange and Grauville
counties, without submitting it to
th.-vote or adoption of the board
of county commissioners and jus
I ices of the peace ol said counties:
Provide i, no person or property,
real or personal, shall be taxed to
keep up said load, except thai
which is embraced iu said road ilis
triel in Hertford county ; but this
proviso slid, apply to Hertford
county only.
Sec. 7. Thai this act shall be in
force from and alter its ratification.
In the General Assembly- read
three tunes, and ratified this the
7th dav ol March, A. I). 1SS.>.
Whitney, Secretary of the Sav
•tie Legislature ;."" Iu?
i-w MMN il i!S£!nl-
■ we can see, a >"c never
saw before, hon greatly -eir cause
depends upon the 'dine upon line"
presentation of the subject. Com-mittees
had been appointed to wait
ou the Legislature at nearly every
meeting ot the Medical Society
since its formation, but with the
exception of the success achieved
inTSoS—'50, when the first license
law piisscd. nothing worthy of the
name had been done for us by the
State. It is true that a skeleton
law framing a State Hoard of
Health was grudgingly enacted in
18711, "thrown to the Medical Socic-
Samuel S. Cox, Minister toTurkev; ! ty as a bone thrown to a hungry
... . — ... .... . - ' I l . . M r> ■ i Charles S. Kairchild, Assistant
Secretary- of the Treasury ; Alex-ander
McCue, Solicitorof tueTreas
ury, and William R. Roberts, Min-ister
to Chili—6.
Middle S'n r»—{Delaware, New
Jersey ami Pennsylvania) Thus
I-\ Bayard, (IJelawaie), Secretary
of State; Kdward P C. Lewis,
(New Jersey), Minister to Porto
gal; Malcolm Hay,(Pennsylvania),
First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral; A. H. Gross, (Pennsylvania),
Consul at Athens, and John S. Mc
Cilmoiit, (Pennsylvania), Commis
sinner of Customs—5.
The tjoitth—(Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Texas)—Lucius Q. C. Lamar,
(Mississippi), Secretary of the In
terior; Augustus II. Garland, (Ar
Kansas), Attorney General ; Henry
L. Aluliliow. (Mississippi), Assis-tant
Secretary of the interior; J.
D. C. Atkins, (Tennessee), Com-missioner
of Indian Affairs; (.'has.
W. Ruck, (Kentucky), Minister to
Peru; Kichard B. Hnbbard, (Tex-as),
Minister to Japan; llenr^ It.
.lacksou and Alexander It. Lawton,
(Georgia), Ministers to Mexico and
Russia: Thomas J. Ja'rvis, (North
STATE OF NUKIH CABOLISA, I
Office Secretary of State. £
Raleigh, March 12th, 1885.)
I, W. L. Saiiinlcrs' Secretary of
Stale, hereby certify that the fore
going arc true copies of the origi-nal
acts on file iu this office.
W. L.SAUNDBKS,
Secretary of State.
Jeff, ii.ili- ut lit- Home Uptia Ihe GalG
Joaqnin Miller thus writes to
the Independent: "Perhaps the
most notable resilience along ibis
warm, sandy sea bank is that of
Jefferson Davis. They call him
President Davis here. Thev speak
of him with great respect. Jeffer
sou Davis is not deified at all, as
some writers foolishly say. Hut, 1
repeat, be is greatly respected.
And when you bear in mind that
there is not one of these ten mil-lion
people who did not put some
sort of sacrifice on the altar ol
Southern opinion, you will not be
surprised. This man stands as a
token to them. Personally, 1
think, they sec little of him ami
know little of him, these gray old
mothers whose sons went down in
battle, these beautiful girls of the
S-iutli whose fathers never came
back any more; but they have their
memories and their traditions.
They call him President Davis, and
will continue to do so while he
lives. A great many Northern
hall be applied Carolina), Minister to Iii ixil; An
thony M. Keiley. (Virginia), Minis
ter to Italy: A Leo Kmut, (Mary-land).
Second Assistant I'ostmas
ter General; Jus. S. Miller, ( Vest
\ irginia). Commissioner of Inter
mil Revenue; Robert M. Mi-Line,
(Maryland). Minister to Prance;
Frederick liaiue, (Maryland), Con
sul General at Berlin; Joseph K.
Johnston, (Virginia), Commissioner
of Railroads; James D. Porter,
(Tennessee), Assistant Secretary of
State; K. P. llowell, (Georgia),
Consul at Manchester; William
W. Lang. (Texas), Consul at Ham
burg, and Milton J. Durham, (Ken
tuck\). Comptroller of the Trans
ury—111.
7V HV-vf - Ohio, Indiana, llli
IIOJS, Michigan, Wisconsin, Aliinie
sota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas. Mis
souri, Nevada, Oregon, California,
and Colorado —William F. Vilas.
[Wisconsin], Postmaster General;
G ge II. Pendleton. [Ohio]. Mill
isier to Germany ; Rasmus 1>. An
iU rsoii. [ Wiscousin|. Consul lieu
eral at Copenhagen; John C. Black,
[Illinois], Commissioner of Pen
sions; William A. J. Sparks, .[Hi
nois]. Commissioner of the Land
Office; Norman J. Oilman, [Mis
souri]. Commissioner of Ayncul
tun-; Ivlmuiiil Jussen, [Illinois!,
Consul General at Vienna: Martin
V. Montgomery, | Michigan], Daniel
McCoiiville, [OhioJ, Sixth Auditor
of the Treasury; George W. Merrill,
[Nevada], Minister to the Hawaiian
Islands, and Hufus McGee, [Iu
diana], Minister to Norway ami
Sweeden—11.
New Kngland, 5
New York, <>
Middle States, 5
The Sotitl 19
The West 11
Total, •.«
The nominations Iclt uncoiitiriu
ed by the Senate is as billows:
Collectors Internal Revenue-
John (). Henderson, 11th district,
Indiana, and John F. Degraw.West
Virginia.
Consuls—William W. Lang, of
tees in such incorporated village or ,,,.,,,,1,, visit Mr. Davis, and not all j Texas, at Hamburg; Charles T
city, as the case may be, shall meet I ujli, ,|„. uoblest motives. 1 am
at some convenient, place as soon | tll|,| |„. |ia„ many more visitors
aftei the titst Monday in May iiscoii i,.,,,,, ,i1(. North than from the
veiiii-nt, aud apportion such road golll|
between the townships oi township j
and village or city as justice and
equity may require, and the trus
tees in the respective townships or
village or city council shal. cause
s„id road or roads to be opened ami
improved accordingly.
Sec.32. The Secretary of Slate
shall furnish Ihe chairman ol
county coinmiss.oiiers with a sufli
cient number ol printed copies of
this act for the use of the supervi
licauvoir" is not il part of this
long and roomy place, strictly
speaking, nor is it a watering place,
but an old plantation bequeathed
tolhegreat Mississippiau not many
years since. It is a beautiful spot
among Ihe pines and vines, but is
sadly dilapidated. Davis is a poor
man, I am told, and cannot afford
to keep I he place up. It is seta
little back from the sea, and
too close to the railroad
Russell, of Connecticut, at Lie. r
pool ; A. II. (iross, ot lVnnsylva
Ilia, at Athens; E. P. llowell, of
Georgia, at Manchester.
The nominations of Marion G.
Moore to oe postmaster at Plcasau
ton. Kan., and ot Lieut. James F.
Simpson to be a captain ill Ihe
Thud cavalry were rejected by the
Semite.
lilianr? of Our llu'-iic Miitiul«ictii|-ic>.
[Charlotte Observer.]
(apt. John \V ilkes. of the Meek
not lenhurg Iron Works, has IK-I-II do
iug il heavy business lately in mill
dog," as one of our leading mem-bers
truthfully remarked, but it
was plainly evident that the State
intended the law should die by in-anition.
Iu the light of present
affairs it is amusing to remember
with what amiability the Society
awarded to one of its members ex-emption
from dues for his life time,
aud to another exemption for four
years, for their success in getting
this same worthless law enacted.
Things have changed since those
days, and after weary years of
nursing and teaching, in face of
opposition without and timidity
within, our Society, we have the
satisfaction of recording that tbo
auxiliary bodies of our Society, the
State Board of Medical Examiners,
ami the North Carolina Hoard of
Health, are at last safely grounded
in the laws of the State
It will be seen bv examining the
license law, that the old law was
amended as foil iws: The clause
declaring that il Khali not be a ni$-
demeautir to prat -lice medicine irith'iiit
a license was repealed. Further
on a section was amended so as to
read that ou and after the date of
ratification (February 23) that any
person who shall practice medicine,
or surgery, or any ol the brmicues
thereof, for lee or reward, with ut
the license of the Board of Examin-ers,
shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, anil subject the of-fender
to tine and imprisonment,
at the discretion ol the court. The
law does not apply to women pur-suing
the avocation of iniilwivcs,
nor does it apply to regularly li-censed
physicians practising on
our border lines, or licensed physi-cians
called into this Stale from
snother State. Very properly the
new law has no retrospective ap-plication,
ami of course does not
alter the status of those physicians
now in practice. It must ■ be.re-membered,
though, that all of those
physicians wbocime into practice
since 1889, and have not been li
censed, are still debarred from the
collection of their claims by lugal
process.
As gratifying as our success has
been, so far, it will not become us
now- to sit idly by and expect the
new law to bike care of itself. The
State Medical Sociely would do
Well to appoint acommitlee iu each
Congressional, or Judicial, district,
to assist in its piosccution. Cases
will arise pretty soon, and if it is
Iclt to average grand juries to pre-sent
offenders, we need not look for
its vigorous enforcement. The
Sociely could well enough aid in
the expenses of legal action iu cer-tain
necessary cases.
The work of the Board Of Ex-aminers
will be largely Increased,
and we presume that the new
boi.rd, which holds its first session
in Durham, in May, will begin its
work on the day preceding the
illeetillg of the Society, and allow
themselves ample time.
The North Carolina Hoard of
Health will organise nmler the
amended law, at a meeting to be
held in Raleigh on the 20th of
March. At this meeting a new
member will be elected, a President,
elected to succeed the lamented
Whitehead, and the Governor will
scud in his appointments to fill
vacancies, three m Uamber. At
the Durham meeting of the State
.Medical Society there will be an
elec'ion to fill the then expired
terms ot two members.
It will be seen by these State-ments
that there will be quite a
change in the composition of the
Hoard of Health, and we trust that
it will be greatly for the better.
We are specially gratified to
state that in addition to the amount
appropriated for the maintenance
id the Hoard, and for printing, the
Legislature has appropriated *'-',
(Mill to be u.-e,1 only in case of the
invasion of the State by cholera in
other pestilential diseases. As
small as tnis sum is, if rightly- and
promptly applied, it will serve to
allay panic, and, we trust, limit or
moneys that remain in their band-at
the time of the settlement ; also
all judgments that remain unpaid,
and Ihe name of the judgment
debtor and the justice ol the peace
before whom such judgments were
obtained with the amount thereof ;
and the township trustees shall
make such order as to the prosecu
lion of the suits by the supervisor
the proper district against such
.lollais loi eael il every ■iffeuce, delinquents as in
to be collected by the siipervi.-iu
and paid o\ er by him to the tow n
■l" - and applied to Un-load
fund of t lie town.-hip.
Sec. 3. That ail able bodied male
pi i-mis. and all male persons able
to peilonn, or cause to be pel form
ed. the labor herein required, be
twei-u the ages ol eighteen and
bun live years, except persons
the trustees the interest of the
township nmy require.
Sec. 12. Th.it all thi-mi-uiey.sth.it
may remain in the bands of the
80pel visor at the time ot the animal
settlement with the trustees, shall
be paid over lo his successor iu
office a* soon as such successor
shall be elected and qualified, Ink
iiig a receipt therefor, and deposit
in determining Ihe division of this
fund shall be governed not by the
miles of road ill each district, but
by necessities of the roads, the con
venieticc of getting material, the
quantity of material necessary to
m ike substantial repairs, etc., and
thus make a just aud equitable
division of said tun.I between the
several districts.
Sec. I'D That each and every
the judgment of ; supervisor who shall neglect or re-fuse
to perform the several duties
enjoined on him by this act, or who
shall under any pretence whatever,
give or sign any receipt or certifi
cite purporting to be a receipt or
certificate for labor in
formed or money pain,
labor shall have been performed or
money paid prior to giviu^ or sign-ing
of such receipt or certificate,
person or persons going along or
upon such road or highway, shall
lie deemed all additional otl'ence
agaiust the provisions of this act.
Sec. 27. That every railroad com-pany
or other corporation, tin- ser
vant or servants, agent r agents,
employee or employees of which
shall in any manner obstruct any
public road or highway, shall be
liable to pay all fines which may-be
assessed against such servant or
servants, agent or agents, employee
or employees, for so obstructing
any such public road or highway,
and such liability as may lie.cn
work per- forced by execution issued against
unless the such railroad company or other
corporation on the judgment ran
derail against such servants, agent
or agents, employee or employees,
peace under this act shall be levied
iu accordance with the constitution
of the State, and shad apply to all
cities and towns.
Sec. 33. Thisact shall only apply
to the county of Mecklenburg.
Sec. 31. All laws or parts of laws
'n conflict with thi - act are hereby
repealed. This act shall be in
force from and after ratification.
Iu the General Assembly read
have seen and conversed with him ! extensive ''as this business become
is sweet to remember as the years tha« Oapt. Wilkes has found it
_, ,,„ i necessary to put on an extra force
-Mr. Davis is at this writing, in ! of skilled workmen to keep up with
poor health. I should say. from j his orders, and has employed a
what I have seen, and then from I mill wnght whose sole duty it is
the course of nature, too. with his \ to go about the JWUntry l'"t,".!.*t "''
three-score and ten vears behind i the machinery. Mr. Theodore Troy,
him. that he will not long be a sub ! the mill Wright who was mentioned
score
that I
jeet of either love or hale ; for, ill
spite of this kindest of climates, he.
three times, and ratified this the : |,.,s found the winter terrible, lie
25th day of February, A. D. ISSo. cannot survive another such:
* i i'|ili IIII-II'.II Art.
Section 1. That the provisions of
an act entitled "An act relating to
roads and highways for Mecklen-burg
county," passed at the Gen
eral Assembly, shall apply to the
following counties, namely : Hun
Rutherford B. Haves has writ
ten a poem called "The Lay of a
Statesman," according to a corres-pondent.
This would seem to ill
dicate that the ex President is en-tering
into competition With his
hens.
by us a few days ago, waa brought
here from .Minneapolis, by Capt.
Wilkes, especially for this line of
business. Capt. Wilkes keeps him
on the go all the time and pays him
a salary approximating ?TJ0 per
month. This is a good indication
of tin-growth of our home manu-facturing
interests,and shows that
Charlotte is in the lead of compel!
tors with the Northern manufac-turing
establishments.
doctors iu the Senate, and to Dr
McNeill in the House, for the broad
views thev were able to inculcate
in the Legislature, thus making
success possible. Other friend- *v •■
had iu both Houses, ot course, and
then n lines will be held in grate
ful remembrance by the profess
At last the North Carolina profes-sion
has made distinct progress; it
now rests with the individual mem
bers of the profession to sec that if
still pushes forward,
—A real Chinaman now takes
the part of ••Wa-ln-e Washee" in
The Da'iter Real drunksrds, con-fidence
men and murderers have a
line future before them if this rage
for realism continues, as no doubt
it will.