Propose Changes
In Conslitnlion
At Next Election
Third Change Provides For
Adequate Pay of State
legislators
Five amendtments to the Con- !
stitution of North Carolina will
be submitted to popular vote on
November 7. The adoption or re
jection of each amendment will
be determined by the majority of
the votes east for or against each
amendment. The legal signifi
cance of the proposed No. 3
amendment is briefly explained
as follows:
3. Compensation of Legislators
The General Assembly is with
out power to increase the salaries
of its members or that of its pre
siding officers, or to provide for
a subsistence allowance or other
expenses. The most it can do is
to submit to popular vote a con
stitutional amendment which,/ if
adopted, will provide for increas
ed compensation for legislators
who will serve in the future. The
1949 Legislature, by Chapter 1267,
asks the voters of the State to
change the rate of pay of future
legislators and their presiding of
ficers by rewriting Section 28 of
Article II of the Constitution. This
section which was last changed
bv popular vote twenty-two years
ago, now reads:
“28. Pay of members and offi- J
cers of the General Assembly.—;
The members of tne General As
sembly for the term of their office
shall receive a salary for their'
services of six hundred dollars*
each. The salaries of the presiding!
officers of the two houses shall |
be seven hundred dollars |
each: Provided, that in addition
to the salaries herein provided for, |
should an extra session of <he i
General Assembly be called, the
members shall receive eight dol- *
lars per day each, and the pre-1
siding officers of the two houses
ten dollars per day each for eve
ry day of such extra session not
exceeding twenty days: and
should an extra session continue
more than twenty days, the mem
bers and officers shall serve
thereafter without pay."
Between the Constitutional Con
vention of 1875 and the amend
ment of 1928, members of the
General Assembly had received
S4.00 per day for not more than
sixty days for a regular session,
plus mileage of ten cents per mile
for one round trip between home
and capital The presiding officers
—President of tne Senate and
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives—had received $8.00 per
day for not more than sixty days
plus mileage, for regular sessions,
and a “like rate of compensation"
was paid to members and presid
ing officers for not more than
twenty days of any extra sessions.
From 1875 to 1928, therefore,
members of the General Assembly
and their presiding officers receiv
cd $4.00 and $6 00 per day, re
speetively, for not more than sixty J
da\s for a regular ss^sion and not I
more than twenty days for a i
special session, plus one round I
trip mileage of ten cents1
for each session. From 1928 to
the present time, members and
presiding officers have received
for their entire terms of office
$(100.00 and $700.00. respectively, j
plus $8.00 pci’ day for members |
and $10.00 per day for presiding j
officers for not more than twenty i
days of extra sessions. (The Lieu- j
tenant Governor, who is ex official
presiding officer of the Senate, j
also received an annual salary
under an act of the 194.1 Legisla
ture.)
Chapter 1267 of the Session
Laws of 1947 will submit to popu
lar vote in November, 1950, the
question of changing the rate of
compensation of members of the
General Assembly and their pre
siding officers by rewriting Arti
cle II, Section 28. to read as fol
lows:
"Sec. 28. Pay of Members and
Presiding Officers of the General
Assembly.—The members of the
General Assembly for the term
for which they have been elected
shall receive as a compensation
for their services the sum of fif
teen dollars ($15.00) per day for
each day of their session, for a
period not exceeding ninety days;
and should they remain longer
in session they shall serve with
out compensation. The compensa
tion of the presiding officers of
the two houses shall be twenty
dollars ($20.00) per day for a per
iod not exceeding ninety days.
Everybody’s Invited
To Our
FAMILY PARTY
THURSDAY, Nov. 2nd, at 7:30 P. M.
. At The
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FREE — Bring the Whole Family
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. . . featuring . . .
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Hoar Arthur play his own grout composition, “Cuitar Itoogic"
ami other favorites. See Kalph Smith, “the man nith a million
laughs.*'
PHIS mw COM III MOVILS
Fducationui O 1 ravel O t.tunedy and Other Features
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Should an extra session of the
General Assembly be called, the
members and presiding officers
shall receive a like rate of com
pensation for period not exceed
mg twenty-five day's.”
Under the proposed amend
ment, a legislator would receive'
less compensation that at present
lif a regular session lasted less
I than 40 days, the same compensa
tion if it lasted 40 days, and more
I compensation if it lasted more
I than 40 days. In recent years.
| sessions have ranged from 04 to
1 132 days The maximum eompen
! sation legislators would receive
under the amendment would be
I $1,350 for a regular session and
I $375 for an extra session,
| At the present time, forty
states and four territories pay
; their legislators nufro than mem
| bees of North Carolina General
! Assembly receive, and even if the
| proposed amendment is adopted,
they will receive less than is paid
in twenty states and two torn
tories. North Carolina is, and witl
continue to be, the only state that
makes no provision for compensa
tion allowance to legislators for
transportation.
The proposed amendment rela
tive to the compensation for legis
lators will be submitted in the fol
lowing form:
“( ) For amendment allowing
limited necessary compensation of
members of the General Assem
bly.
( 1 Against amendment allow
ing limited necessary compensa
tion of the members of the Gen
eral Assemble"
| No One Hurt In
Accident Series
In This County
: (Continued frorr page one)
f The license was found to he valid
t and no charges were instituted.
[ As a result of a mechanical de
fect, David L. Carson, colored,
lost control of his 1 !(47 Oldsmo
i hile in front of the Hassell War
ren farm near Gold Point at tl MO
o’clock Saturday night. The car
turned over, hut no one was hurt
Damage to the machine was os
timated at $100 by Patrolman B
W Parker who made the investi
gation.
Sunday morning at 12:00 o’clock
William Boston, Jr, RPD 1, Wil
j liamston, crashed into Joe 1 ,ee
I Durham’s car on the Hassell
Council Store Hoad Durham said
he was parked in front of his
home. Boston said lie was blinded
by the lights. Damage to Boston’s
1908 Plymouth was estimated at
$29 and that to Durham’s 1909
Chevrolet at $50, it was learned
Migrant Worker
Is Deserted Here
Travoling to her home in Flori
da alter working in Virginia dur
ing the harvest season, a migrant
workei was deserted bv her com
panions here late last Saturday
afternoon.
According to the story told lo
cal police, the young woman said
she had paid $15 transportation
to a man whose name she did not i
know, that he and three other men
agreed to stop here and wait while j
she bought a pair of shoes After
making the purchase she returned
to the parking place to find the
men and ear gone with her clothes
and a small portable radio. • |
After spending the night here '
she was reported to have caught
a ride in a truck carrying other1
migrant workers to their homes
in Florida. "1 don't know the men.
but 1 know a friend who knows
them." the migrant said, intimat
ing there’d be hot time in Florida
when she got there.
Janiasvilli* i'asl To (>iva
Frogram it I'arm l.ifi■
The Christian Ladies Aid of
Jamesville will present a play,
"Sophronia's Wedding” in the
Farm Life School on Friday night
of this week at 7:li() o'clock. The
program is hemp sponsored hy the
Maple Grovi' Ladies Aid, and a
small admission fee will he ehat'p- j
ed Tile public is invited.
Antonp the characters are Mes
dames Mae Waters. Helen Own
ton, F.dna M. Stevenson, Myrtle
Barber, Hattie Lilley, Hon llolli
day, Grace Barbel, Selma llolli
day, W. C Kllis, Cottie Holliday,
Maude Mizelle, Maude Anpc,
Lave Davis, Marie Martin, Fran
ees Ange and Clara M. .Jennings,
and Chas. Holliday.
front Patrolmtin K. 1’ Narron who]
made the investigation.
Monday morninp about 8:00
o'clock, Bernard Kugene Williford
of Windsor lost control of lus pan
ic! truck loaded with biddies and
I turned it over on Highway (i-t
! within the Hobersonville city lint
its Williford, according to Patrol
man 11 W Parker and Robinson
ville police who made the investi
.nation, ran off the concrete to
avoid strikinp cars traveling slow
l.\ ahead of him The machinery
: skidded on the wet shoulder and
turned over, causing about $100
1 damage to the truck and killing
1 a number of biddies
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
! Under and bv virtue of the au
thority vi. ted in me bv Sections
1 Till, 4-15 Consolidated Statutes
of North Carolina I offer for pub
lic sale at the Courthouse door in
■ Williamston, Mi irt in_C onnty,
stmdcarfa'c tjchif! “,M
plus dtfuJT
xler Appointment from Pepsi-Tola f’o., N. V., Pppsi-Cola RiitlliiiK j
Us... j A Record
Amount Rubber
Manufacturers in the United
States used 113,421 Inn,!; tuns of
new rubbi r during August, to set
a new record. The previous high
was 111,941 tons in June. Of the
August total, (0.852 tons was nat
ural rubber and 35,6(15 tons syn
thetic
North Carolina, at 12 o'clock noon,
November 15, 1950, the following
articles of furniture, to-wit:'
One mattress, one three-piece
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INSI K WIT COMPANY
OF \ IKOIM \
WII,I,I \MKTON
N. ( .
bedroom suite, on>' spring, one
kitchen cupboard, one break last
suite, one ebrfforobe. one unfinish
ed table, one electric radio, one
kiddie coop, one what-not, one
coffee table, one floor lamp, one
throe-piece living room suite, one
table, one 9x12 felt rii-' and one
nriHua/.ifie racK.
This furniture ms; be si en at
15 S. Courtney and Son. It wil;
not be displayed at the sale.
R H. Cowen. Att; at Law
oc 2 I no 2-9
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