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VOL. 7 AHOSKIE, N.<C., NOVEMBER 3, 1916. ? NO. 42
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TO RESTRICT LOCAL LAVS
Firat, Third, and Fourth Amead
menta For tha purpoae of Reliev
iag Legislature ol tha Burden of
Enacting Local Lawa?Second Pro
vide# for ? Emergency Superior
Court Judges?Four Expraaaiont
ofOpinian.
Below will be found four pro
Dosed amendment* to the Consti
tution of North Carolina, which
are to be voted on at the General
Election next Tuesday; and just
after these there appears several
opinions by some of the leading
men of our State. We urge all
of our readers, and especially the
voter*, to carefully read these
amendments and opinions, and
make uo your minds to support
these changes at the polls next
Tuesday.
Section 1. That the Constitu
tion of the State of North Caro
lioa be and the same is hereby
amended in manner and form as
follows;
1. By adding at tbe end.of Ar
ticle U a new section, to wit:
"Sec. 29. Tbe General Assem
bly shall not pas* any local, pri
vate or srecial act or reaolution:
"Relatingto the establishment
of court* inferior to tbe Superior
rUinrfc?
,
"Relating to tbe appointment
pf justices of tbe Deace;
"Relating to health, sanitation
and tbe abatemei t of nuisances;
"Changing the names of cities,
towns and townships;
"Authorizing the laying* out,
opening, altering, maintaining or
discontinuing of highways, streets
or alleys;
''Relating to ferries or bridges;
"Relating to non-navigable
streams;
"Relating to cemeteries;
"Relating to the pay of jurors;
"Erecting .new townships, or
changing township lines, or estab
lishing or changing the lines of
school dietriets; %
,'Remitting fines, penalties and
forfeitures, or refunding .moneys
legally paid into tbe treasury;
"Regulating labor, trade, min
ing or manufactnring;
"Extending the time for the
assessment or collection of taxes
or otherwise relieving any collect
or of taxes from tfife due perform
auce of his ojEcial duties or bis
I securities from liability;
"Giving effect to infornal wills
and deeds;
"Nor shall the General Assem
bly enact ony such local, private
or special act by the partial re
peal of general law, buf the Gen
eral Assembly may at any time re
Deal local, private or special laws
' enacted bjr it.
"Any local, private or special
act or resolution passed in viola
tion of the provisions of this sec
' tion shall be void.
"The 'General Assembly shall
- have the power to pass general
laws regulating matters set out in
this section."
2. By adding at the end of sec
- tion eleven of Article IV the fol
lowing: "and the General As
sembly may by general laws pro ?
vide for the selection of special or
emergency judges to hold the Su
perior Courts of any county or
district when the judge assigned
thereto, by reason of sickness,
disability, or other cause, is un
able to attend and hold said court,
| and when no other judge is avail
I able to hold the same. Such spec
I ial or emergency judges shall bave
? the power and author ity of regu
lar judges of the Superior Courts,
in the court* which they are so
I appointed to hold; and the Gen
eral Assembly shall provide for
their reasonable compensation."
S. Bv atriking nut sactioa *n?
of Article Vllt and substitui^n^
therefore the following:
. "8ection h No corporation
shall be create! nor shall its char- j
ter be extended, altered, or tend
ed by special act, exeept corpora*
lions (or charitable, educational,
penal, or reformatory purposes
that are to be and remain under
the patronage and control of the
State; but the' General Assembly
shall provide by general laws for
the chartering and organisation of
nil corporations, and for amend
ing extending, and forfeiture of
all charters, except those above
permitted by special act. All
such general laws and special acts
may be altered from time to time
or repealed; and the General As
semblv may at any time by spec
ial act rei>eal the charter of any
corporation."
IV. By striking out section
four of Article VIII, and substi
tuting therefor the following:
"It shall be the duty of the
Legislature to provide by general
laws for the organisation of cities,
towns, and incorporated villages,
and to restrict their power of tax
ation, assessment, borrowing
money, contracting debts, and
loaning their credit, so as to pre
vent abuse in assessment and in
contracting debts by such munici
pal corporations."
1 beg to ml? that 1 am heartily
in favor of the four ameodmenta
which have been aubmitted to the
people and will be voted udoo at
the ensuing election. I ahall give
them my cordial support and rote
for them. This ia one of the re
forms that should have been ad
opted years ago. It will save
money and time and enable the
General Assembly to do its work
in a more satisfactory way and
give more time for deliberation.
I have not yet seen any reason
given why they should not be ad
opted,
Lee 8. Overman.
Salisbury, N. 0.
September 22, 1916.
Replying to youra of recent
da?e in which yon request & state
ment from me as respects the four
proposed constitutional amend
ments which are to be voted on
in November, I beg to say that I
am heartily in favor of these
amendments and trust that they
will meet with the approval of
our voters.
J, C. Pritchard.
Asheville. N. C.
October 4, 1916.
I heartily favor each of the four
constitutional amendments to be
voted on at the coming election.
If the people are well inform
ed, in my judgement, they abould
(Cont nued on page eight.)
MR. I. B. ID OP
m nw ui
l wiali to endorse the articles
written by Messrs. H. C. Brett
and L. Edwards in hut week's
ffarrroaD" GmjirrT H bkai.d,
against the iaaue for a stock law
to be voted on November 7th,
a matter. I fear, will bring trouble
to many if made a law at this time.
We do not need to have it now.
When we look over the Count.v
and see so many of our good citi
zens that own a few acres of land
upon which they live, but not
enough for them to make a lull
crop on, we can see no necessity
for this law. Many have to rent
land to make out the crop; others
have just a few acres upon which ,
they live, none to cultivate and
none to pasture on. Then comes
the renters and tenants with no
land to live on o/ their own, none
to cultivate and none to pasture. ,
What are there people goinz to ,
do with stock, for most of them
dislike to make fences around ,
their fields. If so, what will they
do with their stock. ,
? Hear me! go to the polls; again i
I /call upon all voters to go to '.he
polls on the 7th of November and
cast your votea against the issue
for Stock Law for this County.
Let us all get up a long netition
and send to oar Repiesentative.
and ask him to bear us. and vote ,
against, and do all he can against ,
the issue and tor cur good.
When we hear from those who
have lived arid are living in Vir- <
ginia. South Carol inn, and other
states, where the* have the stock
law, they tell ue of much trouble
and dissatisfaction growing out of
such a law. I saw a man last Sat
urday who said that he had lived
in a state 17 years where the stock
law was enforced, end much di?:
satisfaction and trouble existed.
He spoke against such a law. If
such a law is against their interest,
why not ourst While we have
the power, let us all go to the polls
ou the 7th of November aud vote
againat the issue. And let us re
member who voted this before
tbe people to4>e voted on the 7lb
of November.
If the bill should be brought
up and passod by the Legislature
and sent back to be voted on by
the people, vote it down! Let us
live and work for our good, es
pecially for those who sown no
land. Vote against the issue, one
and all!
A. B. Adkins.
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Dear Editor:
1 have seen some good discus
sions in your paper for and against J
a Stock Law tor Hertford Coon ;
ty, and I shall ask the privilege
of taxing you with another article ]
favoring such a law.
Some people have considered it '
as selfish for advocating each a law
but I can see no selfishness in it.
I do not call a nisn selfish because
he does not give me some of his
open land to farm on. so why
should I call him selfish for not giv
ing me some of his woods land to
raise stock onf It looks to me like ?
it would be selfish for a man to put
stock on his neighbors land and
not help him keep his fence up.
which he does when he lets his
stock use the free range. I have
reference to the tenant, and I am
one my self. There is not a land
swner in this County but what
would give his tenant some pas
ture advantages if the tenant
would help keep the fence up, and
sow winter crops for stock to graze
nn.
I saw an article in your
last paper saying a stock law
would be against us, but would
favor the west, as they would ship
us meat at their own prices. If
I am correctly informed the west
ern meat comes from a stock law
country to us, wljo are on free
range, which they have been do
ing fas* a lung time, this fact alooa ;
ought to make ua vote for a stock
law for Hertford County."
One writer in your paper said -
that if we had a stock law we
would have to sow clovers and 4
clover crops for our cattle to graze ;;
on. If the stock law within itself ;
was a bad thmg. and it would |
make us sow clover, I would vote !!
for it, for the benefit we would ! \
get by improving our lands with ,,
clovei. The land owner would 11
be glad for the improvement of I [
his 'and thereby. This is'one of i I
the good things of a stock law: it !
would make us pay more attention ?
to stock raising. Labor is scarce
now, and we shall have to begin ""
raising stock, for we can plant
crops and let the stock gather them ,
for us. thereby profit on tbe stock /
and improving the land at the /
name time. i
Some will s?y; "If they want /
to keep their btock up why can't f
they fence a place for them!" We j
don't mind fencing our stock up. j
but we do not think it is ritrfat to j
have to fence our neighbor's stock j
ud. too. And if we do stock ours f
up the free range stock will go to j
the edge of our pastures and give f
our hogs the cholera, and bring \
licks to them. But you say you \
have a remedy that will prevent /
cholera. If so, the State Depart- \
ment of Agriculture will pay you y
a handsome sum for it, as they 4
liavn't found anything to prevent j
it yet except vaccination, which is j
right expensive. t
If we raise cattle.to sell, we can
not ship them on account of the
quarantine line against ticks. The
writer asked Hon. John H. Small
about getting clear of ticks and he <
said a stock law was the only sue- <
cessful way to do it. -We might <
give them sulpher every day, but '
then we could not ship them out '
of the quarantine territory. ' ,
Another bad thing about a free '
range is, we can't have any im- '
proved stock, for they can't stand .
ticks, and we wili have ticks as
long as we have range. Ticks _
takeoff more from stock than they
get off free range any way. I bad {
rather have my hogs in a pen 20 ;
feet square than to have them run
ning up and down the road,
which was made for men to travel
! on. But some peope use it for a hog
' pen. or a place to feed hogs, which
I bothers men from getting along.
' I have been in several Stock Law
I Sections, but have never been in
| one where tbey wanted a free range
I back again.
I One 'writer said the stock law
I would t cause the woods to get so
(Continued on page eight.I
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