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CAPTIONS OF LAWS PASSED BY THE General Assembly of N. Carolina, AT ITS SESSION OF 1856--'7. REVENUE. 1. An Act to Amend the 09th chapter of the Revised Code, entitled Revenue. We give only the alterations made in the Rev enue Act of 1j54-'55 the parts not altered being still in force. On every $100 worth of land, including improvements thereon and entries of laud, a tax of 1.3 cents. On all taxable polls, 50 cents. Discontinues the tax heretofore levied for the Insane Asy lum. On turn. ike tollnratcs. .$15 ; on other pates permitted to he erected across roads. $5 ; on public ferries a tax equal to seven times the largest toll demanded ; on toll bridge, $15. On studs and jacks, G. unless the price for a season be more than that sum, and then the tax to be the highest reason price. Owners of such animals, liv ing out of the State, and standinjr them in it, lo pay the tax forthwith to the sheriff. On every dollar of Deli interest, over ', a a tax of four cents. L'pon every dollar more than $G of mlt dividend or profit, upon money iu voted in steam ves.-els of twenty tons burden and upwards, or in stocks of any kind, or in shares of a.iy in corporated or trading company, whether in or out of the State, and including lwuik div idend. J.ii3- and certificate, of debt of j any other State, a tax of four cents. On every $100 employed in negro trading 1 cents in any other species f trade, wheth er carried on with ca.-h or upon credit, "JO cents. Upon each Milky, gig. buggy, ba rouche, carriage and other pleasure vehicle, of the value of $50 and upwards, one per cent, on the value thereof. Upon ;dd and silver plate and ornamental jewelry, except that worn by females, of as great value as $25, a tax of 1 j per cent, on the value there of. On each gold wutch in use, $1 25; on each silver or other watch, 3D cents : on each harp, $2 50 ; on each piano-forte, 50; on each pictol and bo vie knife, $1 25; on dirks and sword canes, 05 cents. On licensed retailers of wines, spiiituous li quors, Arc.. $30. On gold headed walking canes, 50 cents; on silver headed canes, 25 cents. On all keepers of bouses f pub lic entertainment, whether in town or coun try, whose receipts amount to $900 or more, a tax of one-fourth of one per cent. Oil every public billiard table, $125, unless there be more than one kept in the same room, and in that case a tax of $05 on each additional one. On private billiard tables, $25 each. On each bowling allev, $50; and on each additional one kept bv the same peron, $15. On each livery stable, $25. On each pack of playing cards old, 35 cents, to be Mod by the seller. On all peddlers of patent soaps, patent medicines razors, razor strops, toochache remedies, &c, a tax of $10 for each county in which they peddle. On persons putting up light ning rods, $3J for each county, pa da guerreotypists, amhrotj pits and photo grr.phi?ts, $10 fur each county in which they take likenesses. On each mortsatre deed, marriage contract and deed in trust, $1. On marriage licenses, $1 each. Tax es imposed on retailers, ordinaries and inns, and tavern keepers, peddlers, billiard ta bles, bowling alleys and livery stables to be paid in advance to the sheritl. On everv merchant, merchant tailor or jeweler, one laird of one per cent, on all goods, wares. &c, except readv-made clothing; and on : , 1 . " the amount of purchases of readv-made , ... , , - eioiuing, wneiner lor males or temales, one per cent. On every merchant, apothecarv, j . , -, uruggisi or inner dealer, consignee ur ... , , ,& : agent, selhng at wholesale or retail, spiritu- ous liquors, wines or cordials, five per cent ... on the capital employed. Agents wiling patent medicines to pay 33J per cent, on the value. On commission merchants, two per cent, on their commissions. Auction ed to pay fie per ceut. on the value of goods sold by l.iin wln-n such goods are brought into the State by non-residents. Merchants to pay their tax to sheriffs on the 1st of April. On peddlers of riding ve hicles manufactured out of the State. $ 10 for eueh county ; on all horses and mules brought into the State for sale, $12 50 in each county. Both these items to be paid in advance to the sheriff". Every person, whether bv ngencv or otherwise, encased in buying and selling riding vehicles, not of the manufacture of this Stute, to pav a tax of one per cent on the sum of their pur chases. On amount of purchases of parts of such vehicles brought from abroad, one half of one per cent. All manufactures, of whatsoever chilling, to pay a tax of one half of one per cent, upon the sums of their purchases made out of the State. On den tists, physicians, lawyers. State and county officers, persons in the employ of corporate and private companies, and all persons, ministers of the Gospel excepted, whose practice, salaries or fees, or all of them to gether, shall yield an annual gross income of $500, a tax of $5 ; and for all sums so j received over $500, a tax of one per cent. On each attorney's license granted. $15. On all insurance companies in the State, $100 ; and on all agencies of such compa nies incorporated out of the State, $100 for eacli county in which an agency may be established. Ou all agencies of banks in corporated out of the State, a tax of $500. On express companies. $10 for every coun ty in which they may deliver packages. On circus and menageries, $75 for each county in which they exhibit. On stage and theatrical companies, rope dancers, slight of hand performers, tumblers, &c., $40 for each county. On exhibitors of na tural curio-ities not already mentioned. $20 for each county. On singers, dancers, lec turers. See., for reward. $10 for each coun ty. Tho comptroller to have printed forms of tax Ksts sent to each county court clerk. Ch rks to return au abstract to the comp troller on or before the 1st day of June. Sheriff's and other receivers of public money to settle with the comptroller between the ast day of June and the first day of Octo ber. Tho sheriff to return, upon oath, to the court of pleas and quarter sessious of his county, at the term next preceding the time at which he may settle with the comp troller, a list of all moneys which ha may have received from the clerks of court, or as double taxes, from taxes imposed on un listed property, or on merchants, merchant tailors, jewelers, licensed retailers by small measure, houses of public entertainment, ordinary or inn keepers, billiard tables, bowling alleys, stage players, sleight of hand performers, rope dancers, tumblers, wire dancers, circus riders, equestrian per formers, exhibitors of natural or artificial curiosities, apothecaries, druggist, non-resident owners of studhorses and jackasses, horses and mules brought into the State for sale, sellers of carriages, buggies and other riding vehicles, manufacturers of riding ve hicles on the sums of the purchases brought out of the State of any pieces or parts of such riding vehicles, and on all other man ufacturers. uj- -n the sums or amount of their purchases made out of the State, ped dlers, brokers, insurance companies, agen cies of biuks incorporated out of the State, exhibitors of menageries, singers, dancers, ethiopian screnaders, performers for reward on musical instruments, and other exhibi tors for public amusement or reward, deal ers in spirituous liquors, livery stables, county registers, auctioneers, commission merchants, and nn any and all other sub jects for which he ought to account. 2. An act to extend the provisions of an act passed hy the General Assembly at its session of 1834 '5, entitled "An act to ex tend the time for perfecting titles to land heretofore entered." Extends the provi sions of said act to January 1, 1859. 3. An act to authorize tho inspectors of naval stores in the tewn of Wilmington to guage the article of spirits of turpentine. Allows inspectors five cents for each and every cask or barrel guaged. No other person to guage under a penalty of $100. j 4. An act for the benefit of the Insane Asylum. Appropriating $35,000 for erect ing enclosures, supplying water, &.c. 5. An act concerning tho coupon bonds of the State. Authorizes the public treas urer to issue coupon bonds of the denomi nation of $500. 0. An act to provide for the better secur ing costs in actions of ejectment. Defend ant to give bond for payment of costs, in case of failure, to successfully defend the action. . .vn net to declare the meaning ot that portion of the Revised Code which relates to fire-hunt ins by nisrht. ITrue intent and meaning of the act is to prevent fire-hunting for deer with a gun or guns in the night time. 8. An act to secure the holders of the coupon bonds of this State against loss by accident, dec. The public treasurer to register such bonds, with amount, number, date. Szc, in a book to be kept by him, and such registry to be evidence when the bonds are lost or destroyed. Such regis tered bonus to be transferable only at the office of the public treasurer. 0. A supplementary act to take the sense of the people of the Ttate relative to the proposed amendment to the Constitution. People to vote for or against Free Suffrage on the first Thursday in Vugust. 1857. 10. An act concerning registration of Sheriff's bonds. Arc. Sheriff's and Con stable's bonds tu be registered in the regis ter's office, and certified copies from the register's book to be read in evidence when the original bond is lost or destroved. 11. An act to amend the 8th section of the 45th chapter of the Revised Code. rkl, ., . , . Mnkes out the word M , , , line and inserts "sale. seizure' in the 0th 12. An act to repeal in part the 17th sec tion of the 85th chapter of the Revised Code ran. . ... e , L"lien a master of a vessel, on the Cape nr . . ..... . T, ti, n.t M imu.-! u luvii, nuti; iiuui M!Ull puot, sunn p be entitled to the full pilotage, as though he bad performed the service. Repeals the law to tho contrary. 13. An act to amend an act. entitled "An act supplemental to an act, entiled an act . to lay off and establish a county bv the name of Polk,-' passed at the session of 1854 -'55. Courts to be held and records kept at the town of Columbus, in said county. 14. An act to amend the Constitution of the State of North Carolina. The Free Suffrago act. 15. An act concerning gaming. Playing at a Faro bank or table a misdemeanor line not to be less than $25. 10. An act to extend the time for regis tration of grants, deeds and other convey ances. Allows a further time of two years from the passage of this act. Does not ap ply to mortgages and conveyances in trust, nor to marriage settlements. 17. An act to amend section G and re peal section 7 of chapter 30 of the Revised Code, entitled currency. Repeals the clause making it penal to pass or receive one and two dollar bill. 18. An act to amend section 7, chapter 17, of Revised Code, concerning cattle and other stock. Makes the killing of cattle, fee-, on railroads prima facie evidence of nerliirciice. The benefit of the net not to apply, unless suit is brought within six mouths. 19. An act concerning the Clerks of the Supreme Court. Declares that 25th sec tion, 102d chapter of Revised Code is ap plicable to each of the clerks of said court. 20. An act concerning the Com. Schools of X. Carolina. Chairman to be elected on I the 3d Monday in April their official bonds to be good aud valid against them and their j securities until renewed, or until final set tlesaent sheriffs to pay over taxes collect- ' ed for school purposes to chairmen on the first Monday in October of each year. General superintendent to furnish printed blauk notices of the election of committees, ' &:c. Sheriffs to post such notices. Board of Superintendents to allow reasonable com pensation to examining committees. Gen eral superintendent to collect and consoli date the common school laws, Arc. Azc. Gc . erner to have printed 1,000 copies of the general superintendent's annual report. 21. An act to provide for the distribution of the proceeds of the Literary Fund. Pro vides for the distribution of said fund to the counties recently erected, or which may j tie hereafter be erected j J 22. An act assenting to the purchase, by the United States, of a certain parcel of land on the Cape Fear river, as a site for a marine hospital and pest house. 23. An act to create a sinking fund. Hons.Thos. Buffin, W. N. Edwards and D. L. Swain, commissioners of said fund. All revenues derived from the State's stock in railroads, plankroad, ice, to constitute the sinking fund. 24. An act to prevent the felline of tim- ber m Eno river, in the countv of Orange, and Fisher's river in the county .f Surry, Jenniug's creek in the county of Davidson, and McAlpin's creek and Big Sugar creek and its four principal tributaries of the same name in the county of Mecklenburg. 25. An act concerning trials before justi ces of the peace. Extends the provisions of the act concerning the places of trial to Brunswick county. 20. An act to authorize the examination of the wife in certain cases. Makes the wife competent to give evidence against the husband in prosecutions for assault and battery by him on the person of the wife. 27. An act to establish standard weights of grains, Arc. Does not prohibit the buy ing and selling by measure. Penalty $20 for taking more weight- per bushel, than fixed. 28. An act to amend the 60th and 73d sections of the 99th chapter of the Revised Code, entitled Revenue. Real estateto be listed in the county in which it is situated. If lying partly in oue county and partly in another, it is to be listed in the county in which the owner resides, if he resides in either. If he resides in neither county, the hind is to be listed in the county in which the greater portion lies. 29. An act to provide for the maintain ance of the Insane Asylum. 30. An act concerning the institution of the deaf and dumb and the blind. 31. An act to alter the time of holding the superior courts in Davio and Alexander. 32. An act to repeal the 12th section of chapter 44 of the revised code, relating to evidence. 33. An act further prescribing the duties of the public treasurer. 34. An act to correct a mistake in the laws of 1854-'55, chap. 131, sec. 4. PRIVATE LAWS. 1. An act to give additional authority to the commissioners of tho town of Tarboro'. Authorizes them to sell burial lots in the Tarboro' cemetery ; also to sell a portion of the town commons, and to extend the corporate limits. 2. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Trustees of D.xvidson College," passed in the year 1838. The amount of real and personal estate belong ing to said corporation not to extend $500, 000. Vests all title or interest of the State and the University iu the estate or effects of the late Maxwell Cambers in the above corporation. 3. An act to authorize the securities of John P. Bridges, deceased, late sheriff of Hertford county, to collect arrears of taxes due for the year 1853 and 1854. 4. An act to incorporate the X. Carolina and New-York Steamship Company. 5. An act to repeal the 11th section of the act passed in 1854-'55, entitled "an act to empower the commissioners of the town of Wilmington to establish streets in said town, and for other purposes." G. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Cherokee Turnpike Company, "passed at the session of 1854-'55. 7. Au act to amend and consolidate the acts incorporating the Jonathan's Creek and Tennessee Mountain Turnpike Com pany, in the county of Haywood. 8. An act to incorporate the town of Rockingham, in the county of Richmond. 9. An act to incorporate the town of Yadkinville, in Yadkiu county. 10. An act to amend the charter of the Fayette ville and Western Plankroad Com pany, and for other purposes. 11. An act to amend the charter of the Western Plankroad Company, passed at the session of 1850-'51. 12. An act to incorporate the town of Troy, in Montgomery county. 13. An act to incorporate the town of Thomasville, in Davidson county. 14. An act to authorize Plankroad and Turnpike companies to use stone and grav el in the construction aud repair of their roads. 15. An act to protect the citizens of the town of Wilson. 10. An act to incorporate the Macon County Turnpike Company. 17. An act to authorize and empower the sureties of James A. Brown, late sheriff of Pitt county, to collect arrears of taxes due for the years 1852 and 1853. 18. An act to incorporate the town of Salem, in Forsythe county. 19. An act to amend the act incorpor ateing the Wilmington Savings Bank, pass ed Feb. 24, 1855. 20. Au act to revive and amend an act incorporating the Camden and Pasquotank New Cut Canal Company. 21. An act to change the name of "New Institute," iu Iredell county, to "Olin." 22. An act to change the time of holding the Court- i Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Chowan county. Changes the time to 4th Monday in March and September, and 3d Monday in June and December. 23. An act to incorporate the town of Waynesville, in Haywood county. 24. An act to alter an act to incorporate the Trusteos of the New Institute, in Ire dell couuty. Changes the name to Olin High School. Increases the number of the Trustees to fifteen ; and grants the privi lege of erecting the school into a college when $40,000 shall have been subscribed as a permanent fund for the endowment of the institution. 25. An act to authorize Sam jel S. Biddle to build a bridge across Neuse river, in Craveu county. 26. An act concerning the militia in Union county. 27. An act to increase the pay of witnes ses in Duplin. Rowan and Robeson couu- 28. Ad act to allow the clerk of the coun- s. ty court of Craven more time to make out his tax list. 29. An act tu incorporate the town of Marion, in McDowell county 3(k An act to abolish jury trials in the county courts of Polk county. 31, An act enlarging the powers of Green Hill Academy, in Haywood county. 32. An act to regulate the fishing with seines in North river. Prohibits fishing with seines from 7 o'clock, p. m. on Satur- day until sunrise on Monday morning of eacn and every week. Penalty Jf 1UU.J 33. An act to extend the time of pay ment of the bonds due from the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company to the State. Gives five years from 1st January 1857, interest to be paid semi-annually. 34. An act to incorporate the Albemarle aud Suffolk Railroad Company. 35. An act to incorporate the American Exchange Mining and Smelting Company. 3G. An act to amend an act incorporat ing the town of Stricklandsville, in Duplin county ; and to incorporate the commission ers of said town. 37. An act to amend the charter of the Atlantic aud North-Carolina Railroad Com pany. 38. An act extending the powers of the Roanoke Valley Railroad Company. 39. An act to incorporate the Salem Cemetery Company. 40. An act to amend an act incorporat ing the Quallatown and Oconalufta Turn pike Company, in Jackson county. 41. An act to incorporate the trustees of Mount Olivet Academy in Randolph county. 42. An act to revise and consolidate the charter of the City of Raleigh. Extends its limits. 43. An act to authorize the wardens of the poor of Rutherford county to sell and convey the lands on which the poor-houses are situated. 44. An act to amend the charter of Caro lina Female College, in Anson county. Allows the trustees to holdproporty to the amount of $150,000. 45. An act to incorporate York Collegi ate Institute, in Alexander county 4G. An act concerning the courts of Granville county. 47. An act to amend an act incorporat ing the town of Graham, in Alamance county. 48. An act to incorporate the Warren ton Female Academy. 49. An act to amend an act for the bet ter regulation of the town of Clinton. 50. Au act to provent the sale of spirit uous liquors within two miles of Western Carolina Male Academy in Cabarrus coun ty- 51. An act to incorporate the town of Albemarle, in Stanly county. 52. An act to incorporate the Garysburg aud Windsor Railroad Company. 53. An act for the better government of the town of Gatesville, iu Gates county. 54. An act to restore jury trials in the County Courts of Robeson county. 55. An act to amend an act incorporat ing the Western N. C. Railroad Company. Authorizes the directors to open books of subscription for $200,000 or 300,000, or some intermediate sum, and when five per cent, on such subscriptions is paid in the State to subscribe double the amount sub scribed by individuals. First section of the road to extend to Morganton. Road to be located within two miles of Newton, or a branch built to that village. Directors authorized to open books of subscription to an amount sufficient to meet one-third of the expense of second section (which sec ond section shall extend from Morganton to a point not more than ten miles east of the western portal of the Swananoa tunnel) and the State's subscription of two thirds, not to be called for until the first section is completed and equipped. Subscriptions by counties to bo made by a vote of the people, after the amount is determined on by a majority of the magistrates. 56. An act concerning the bank of Cape Fear. Repeals the 17th, 18th and 22d sections of the charter granted last session. Gives authority to issue bills not less than $3. General Assembly, within five years, may increase the capital stock to $3,000,- 000 the State to be allowed to take as much stock in it as in the bank of the State. 57. An act to incorporate the town of lownsville, in Granville county. 58. An act to establish a Superior Court in Harnett county. 59. An act to incorporate the town of Burnsville, in Yancy county. 60. An act to revive the charter of the Neuse river manufacturing company and for other purposes. 61. An act to re-charter the Bank of the State of North-Carolina. Extends the corporate existence of the bank to 1885. Increases the capital stock, from $1,500, OOt), to $3,000,000 ; the State to take a half a million, to be paid in annual instal ments of $125,000, in State bonds ; and in dividuals may within twelve months, take $1,000,000; and whatever amount of the latter sum may remain unsubscribed at the end of tho twelve months, may be taken by the State, in bonds. New subscribers to have the preference over the present stockholders in taking stock. The tax is thirty cents per hare, but may be increas ed to $1. Dividends may be taxed to the same extent ( but no further) as interest on money loaned. Bank required to loan $200,000 to the State on sixty days notice. A certain amount of one and two dollar notes may be issued. The other provis ions are similar to those in other bank char ters. 62 An act to incorporate the Mountain Railroad Company. Road to extend from some point on the Western N. C. Railroad, in Catawba county, to or near the town of Lenoir. 63 An act to incorporate the North Caro lina Gas, Coal and Transportation compa- nv. 64 An act to incorporate the town of Columbus, in Polk county. 65 An act to extend the charter of New Garden boarding school, and for other pur poses. 66 An act to amend the charter of the town of Hillsboro'. 67 An act to amend the charter of the In- j dian Grave Gap turnpike road- bo An act to incorporate tne Hyde coun ty steamboat joint stock company. 69 An act to incorporate the Male and Female academy in Greensboro'. 70 An act concerning the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal. The company to sur render the bonds guaranteed by the State, and tho State to take stock to the amount of $250,000, payable in six per cent, coup on bonds running 30 years. When $200, 000 shall have been subscribed and paid by individuals, the State to pay $100,000 more. Company authorized to increase its capital stock to a sum not exceeding $1,500,000. 71 An act concerning a public road in Yancy and Burke counties. (Road from some point on New Road to Piedmont Springs, and by way of Cranberry Iron w Wins tu iub J. euuessL-L- hug. 72 An act concerning pilots at Ocracoke and Hatteras Inlets. 73 An act concerning Greenville and French Broad Railroad. (Authorizes the company to construct the northern portion of the road, with such guage as they choose Directors may call for instalments of ten per cent.) 74 An act to incorporate the Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad Company. (Capital stock not more than $2,000,000. No aid from the State.,) 75 An act for the completion of the At lantic and North-Carolina Railroad. (Pub lic Treasurer to loan the Company a sum not exceeding $400,000, and the road to set aside its profits as a sinking fund to pay the debt and interest. State to take a mort erafre on the road. J 76 An act to authorize the North-Caro lina Railroad Company to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding $350,000, running ten vears. and to bear eierht per cent, in- terest. 77 An act to amend the charter of the Wilmington and Rutherford Railroad Com pany. (Takes off certain restrictions. 78 An act to repeal an act to fix and set tie the dividing line between Chatham and Alamance comities. 79 An act to incorporate the trustees of the Female College of the Methodist Pro testant Conference of North-Carolina. 80 An act to incorporate the trustees of Warsaw High School, in Duplin county. 81 An act to incorporate the town of Germanton, in the counties or Stokes and Forsythe. 82 An act to amend the charter of Pitts borough. 83 An act relating to the Fayetteville and Albemarle Plankroad Company. (May use other materials than plank in the con struction of the road from Little's Mills to Albemarle. Dividends to be made 1st of February and August. 84 An act to exempt from taxation and to fix the rate of interest on the bonds of the North Carolina Railroad Company. 85 An act to incorporate the Yadkin Manufacturing Company in Montgomery county. 86 An act to authorize certain free per sons of color to reside in Northampton county for the space of eighteen months. 8? An act to incorporate the town of Jackson. 88 An act to incorporate the Male and Female Academy in Swansboro', N. C. 89 An act to incorporate the Sheperd's Point Land Company. 90 An act to alter the line between Wilkes and Caldwell counties. 91 An act to amend the 6th section of the 120th chapter of the Revised Code, con cerning wreck sales. 02 An act to incorporate the Oak City Guards of Raleigh. 93 An act concerning the public road in Wilkes and Caldwell counties. 94 An act to lay oil' and establish a pub lic road iu the counties of Davie and David son, and to establish a public ferry across the Yadkin river. 95 An act to incorporate the Currituck Hotel Company. 96 An act to incorporate the Currituck Steamboat company. 97. An act to amend various acts incorpor ating the town of Salisbury. 98. An act to provide for the appoint ment of inspectors of wood and fish for the town of Wilmington. 99. An act requiring the weighing of all cotton sold in the town of Wilmington. 100. An act to repeal, in part, the act preventing the felling of timber in Big and Little Ivy. 101 . An act concerning fishing in Salmon creek, Bertie county. 102. An act to amend an act incorporat ing the bank of Clarendon. 103. An act to amend an act of 1852-'53 to improve a road in Ashe county. 104. An act to alter the time of holding the county courts of Davie county. RESOLUTIONS. 1 A Resolution concerning the distribu tion of the Geological report. ('Giving copies to clerks and reporters.) 2 Resolution in favor of James Blevins. (Secretary of State to issue a grant to him.,) 3 Resolution in favor of J. H. DeCarter et 6c Son. 4 Resolution in favor of Mrs. Martha Speers. 5 Resolution in favor of W R Baird. 6 Resolution in favor of Bedford Sherrell. 7 Resolution in favor of John Foster. 8 Resolution in favor of Saiah Avery. 9 Resolution in favor of Joseph Ramsay. 10 Resolution in favor of Quentin Busbee. 11 Resolution in favor of Thomas Diggs. 12 Resolution in favor of Francis L. Hawks, D. D., allowing him access to the records and library of the State. 13 Resolution concerning the Cape Fear and Deep rivers. 14 Resolution for tho relief of William M Phea, County Court Clerk of Haywood. 15 Resolution in favor of the agent ap pointed under the resolution of the last Gen. oral Assembly, to procure documentary evidence in relation to the history of North Carolina. 16 Resolution remitting a fine imposed on William M. Daniel, Clerk of the County Court of Halifax. 17 Resolution concerning wood. 18 Resolution in favor of a Naval Depot at Beaufort, N. C. 19 Resolution in favor of Mrs- Eliza Hemphill. 20 Resolution in favor of James Morri son. 21 Resolution in favor of Elizabeth Kis sam, administratrix of Samuel Kissam. 22 Resolution concerning the coupons in the Comptroller's office. (Goxernor, Treas urer and Comptroller to procure some suita ble instrument to cancel said coupons.) 23 Resolution in favor of James Melvin. sheriff of Bladen county. 24 Resolution in favor of E. D. Davis, sheriff of Jackson county. HAoAInt mn i,-. ftivn. A 1 T .. 1 sheriff of Cumberland county. " .. n 1 1 v ? . j 11 iaui uk m.A. tiounson. zo Itesolution in favor of the Geological report to the Engrossing Clerks and Door- aeepers. 27 Resolution in favor of Joseph Clarke. 28 Resolution in favor of Thos H Willie. 29 Resolution in favor of J M Lovejoy. 3?) Resolution in favor of P. H. Dozier. 31 Resolution concerning the Executive mansion. 32 Resolution authorizine' the Lite- Board to chance the debt due them bv th State into State bonds. 33 Resolution authorizing the Oovprnor to furnish the Departments of the Oeneral Government with the Acts of Assembly. T e n , y xvcsuiuuoc m iavor or aarah Charlton. 35 Resolution in favor of Samuel Wil liams ic Son. 36 Resolution in favor of Henry Trout- man. 37 Resolution concerning the Geological Cabinet. (To be kept by the State 'libra rian, who is allowed therefor $50 a year.) 38 Resolution giving the principal clerkB of the two Houses $125 extra. 39 Resolution concerning the statute of Washington. Governor to contract with Mr. Hubard for the bronze statute of Wash ington.) 40 Resolution in faror of Lemuel Wilker- son, A. C. Murdock and Hurdle Ac Hurdle. 41 Resolution authorizing the Public Treasurer to borrow money. 42. Resolution in favor of Frank N. Rob erts and R. M. Orrell. 43. Resolution requiring the Secretary of State to furnish the clerks and sheriffs with copies of the Revenue law. 44. Resolution concerning the Secretary of State. (Authorizes Mr Page, deputy, to countersign grants in the name of his prin cipal.) 45. Resolution in favor of James Roberts. 46. Resolution requesting the assistant clerks to collect and arrange the records of their respective Houses. 47. Resolution increasing the fees of the Governor's private secretary. 48. Resolution in favor of the Doorkeep ers. 49. Resolution in favor of B. H. Stan mi re. 50. Resolution in favor of B. Henliue. 51. Resolution in favor of Jas. Blount. 52. Resolution in favor of W. Watson. 53. Resolution in favor of W. J. Savage. BANK OF THE STATE AND BANK OP CAPE FEAR. The bill to re-charter the Bank of the State of North-Carolina, introduced into the Senate by Mr "Wilder, having been amended iii that body so as to render it nearly, if not entirely the same as the charter granted two years ago, finally passed, and was transmitted to the Commons. On the third reading, in the latter body, on motion of Mr Bledsoe, the Senate bill was stricken out, and a bill to re-charter the same Bank, introduced by him some weeks since, was substituted; and this bill, after being amend ed in several particulars, received the sanction of the Commons, and went to the Senate, where it was passed to enrolment by a large majority. This bill extends the corporate existence of the Bank of the State of North-Carolina to 1885. It increases the capital stock, now $1,500,000, to $3,000,000 the State to take a half million, to be paid in annual instalments of $125,000, in State bonds; and individuals may, within twelve months, take $1,000,000; and whatever amount of the latter sum which may remain un subscribed at the end of twelve months, may be taken by the State. New sub scribers are to have preference over the present stockholders in taking stock. The tax is at present thirty cents per share, and the limit, beyond which the Legislature cannot go, one dollar; but the dividends may be taxed to the same extent (and no further) as interest on money loaned. The Bank is required to loan the State $200,000 on sixtv days notice. There is nkn n provision for issuing to a certain amount, one and two dollar notes. a bill, also introduced by Mr Bledsoe, to establish a Sinking Fund, has passed into a law. The Commissioners named in the law are Judge Ruffin, Hon. D. L. Swain, aud Hon. Weldon N. Edwards. The Fund is to be composed of dividends on the preferred stock in the North-Carolina Road, the tax on the stock of the Bank of Cape Fear and the Bank of the State, and of dividends derived from the State's stock of $500,000 in the Bank of tho State, and $500,000 in the Bank of Cape Fear provision having been made for subscribing the same amount, to be paid in bonds, to the latter as to the former Bank. These stocks are to be held in the name of the Sinking Fund, and that Fund is pledged to redeem the bonds on which they are based, at par value. If the Banks make ten per cent, the difference, per annum, in tavor of the Sinking Fund, after paying to the Banks the interest on the bonds, will be $40,000. The objectionable restrictions imposed by the last Legislature, which granted the charter, on the Bank of Cape Fear, have also been removed; and the two Banks have, we learn, been placed on the same footing in every respect, with the exception of the power conferred on the Bank of the fttate to issue small notes. Any future Legislature may, however and it is so provided in the charter restrict the State Bank to not less than three dollar notes. These are important and valuable measures and their author, Mr Bledsoe, is entitled to much credit for the zeal and ability with which he has pressed them on the attention of the House of Commons. It is impossible to meet every objection, or to secure every desirable feature in Bank charters. The charter of the Bank of the State is believed to be a just and liberal one ; and the stockholders, it is thought, will promptly accept it. Raleigh Standard. Election. On Saturday last a vote was taken on the five gallon law, which was negatived by a very decided majority in favor of License. The vote stood thus : For License, 86 Against License, is We learn that there will be several applications made for License to sell spirits by the drink. This result was occasioned principally from the fact that the law had not the beneficial effects as was anticipated by its friends ; many, very many who voted for it one and two years ago, voted against it this year. Salisbury Banner. Shocking Death. The last Weekly News, published in Madison, N. C. says "A body, supposed to be that of Mr Arthur McDonald, a Scotchman, who lived in the neighborhood of Leakville, was found frozen about nine miles north of Madison. The body was in rather a strange condition lying in the snow with shoes, socks, coat and vest off, having a bottle of liquor in one pocket. WThen drinking, McDonald was accustomed to such strange habits, and the presumption is. that he undressed himself while drunk, on Thursday night, as if going to bed, and being chilled with the severe cold died in that condition.1' RACE WITH A LOCOMOttW Under this head Mr. Chas. A. Mei the firm of Meigs & Grenleaf, writes Brooklyn (K. Y.) Eagle a graphic acco . of a race that came off on Saturday iti? tween himself and a light one-horse cutw on one side, and a locomotive on the Lo Island Railroad on the other side, jj Meigs was on his way to church with h son and daughter, and Mrs. Pardessas. Franklin avenue they met the locomotir which came upon them at a fast rate, ith out any previous notice whatever, Meigs' horse was very much frighten and started off along a narrow side path u a furious pace. He says : "Along this sidepath we dashed, with the locomotive keeping pace, neck and neck with my horse, and within six feet of u8, f0f the distance of about one hundred twenty-five yards, when on seeing som stone steps ahead, I saw that the only chanCe for our lives was to get down from this side path on to the track, ahead of the locomo tive, and then to outrun it ! With this Tie I urged my horse on and gradually down on to the track ; reached it, crossed the track within six feet of the wheels of th tender, and was about to turn my horse parallel with the track and in it, to continu this fearful race for our lives, which wai our only chance, when the cutter upset! Mrs. Jfardessus was thrown between th rails! my daughter Sue just outside the rails, and myself and my son were landed in the snow thirty to forty feet further alone the track, outside the rails. "Mrs. Pardessus, by great presence of mind, rolled over three or four times, and by this means saved her life as the engine passed between herself and Sue! within twelve inches of both their heads! one on each side of it. "At this point, the engineer stopped hie locomotive, and it appears to have been the earliest moment at which he made any at tempt to do so. By a most merciful inter position of Divine Providence, wo all escap ed with our lives, with some very severa bruises, aud the horse and cutter escaped utter destruction, although both are very much damaged. m Beautiful. A genius whose name we are inadequate to mention, has renowned himself eternally by the following beauti ful interrogatory and response. Queschin. What article of jewelry does a donkey's mouth resemble. Answer. A bray slit (bracelet.) Mr Snip's wife wrote to her husband in California, and commenced her letter thus: 'Oh, tell me not that absence conquers love! the longer you stay away the better I like you Gardiner, Me., June 22, 1851. Wm. H. Dver UearSii: I have used two bou ties ot Prof. VVooo'b Hair Restorative, and con tru. ly say it is the greatest discovery of the age lor restoring and changing the Hair. Defoie ueinu it I was as gray as a man of seventy. My hair K as now attained its original color. You can recoui. mend it to tht world without the Icaat tear, aa inv case was one ol the woist kii.d. , K. M. MUKCHISOX. A. J. HOWELL. MURCHISON &. HOWELL, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, JWo. 104 Willi Street, JT. 1. F. b. 3d, 1857. y Notice. HAVING returned to Charlotte, I am again at the disposal of those who may require my servi ces in the practice of Medicine and Surgery. ROBERT GIBBON, If, D. Feb. 3d, 1857. 31-tf Notice. HAVING obtained Letters of Administration upon the estate of W. P. Trotter, deceased, 1 give notice to all persons indebted to the late firm of T. Trotter & Son, by note or book account for the last four or five years, to come forward and pay the same without delay, and thereby save cost, as the concern uiuht be set tled up. THOS. TROTTER, Adm'r . and Surviving Partner. Feb. 3d, 1857. 31-tf The "Watch and Jewelry business will in th future be conducted by the subscriber, who will spare no pains or expense to give general satis faction. Watch repairing done in a superior man ner, and at the shortest notice. THOS. TROTTER. IN pursuance of a Resolution parsed bv tie Board of Directors of the Western Plank Road Company, at a meeting of said Board held at Charlotte this day, (the 2ilh Januaiy.) I do hereby reqnes. the Stockholders of said Company to meet at the house ol Mr. R. A. Rozzell, in Mecklenburg county, on the 3d day of Maich next, on business of importance. C. C. HENDERSON. President. Feb. 3d, 1857. :$!- m N. B. The securities to the Bonds of said Company are also requested to attend at tb same tim a and place, or to be represented by proxy as securities. C, C. H, THE MOUNTAIN HOTEL, MORGANTON, No. Ca. THE most eligible and desirable Hotel in the Town of Morganton, N. C, or in the wei -m part of the State, is offered for rent with its furni ture, on low and accommodating terms- It has had, and still continues to have the largest share of patronage. Any person desirous of engaging in the business, would do well to call immediate-, ly and examine the premises. Further particu lars can be obtained on application to J. M. HAPPOLDT. Feb. 3d, 1857. 31-5t NOTICE. THE Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Com pany have made arrangements for fnrwardin? all goods consigned to the care of the Companv , and .1 A- 1 C .1 V jL ui iu ior any point on tne line ot the ronn Carolina Road, free of commissions. If landed on the Company's wharf, there will be no charge for wbarfasre or dravaee : but these expenses will be incurred if landed on any other wharf, and will be added to the freight on the way-bills, to be collected on delivery, by the North Carolina Railroad Company. N. B. To avoid detention at Wilmington, a is essential that the amount of freieht bv vessels shall, in all east, be distinctly stated, in dollars and cents, on eacn but ot lading, and if goods tor more than one person are included in the same bill of lading, the amountof freight for each con signee must be separately stated. The foregoing notice has been received with direction to publish for the information of all con cerned. By order of the Board of Director!. S. L. FREMONT, Eng. & Sup't Office of Engineer & Superintendent, M tt Wilmington, N. C. Jan. 38th, J857. Notes of Hand, JUST PRINTED and for sale at the Offi of the "Western Democrat."
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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