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NORTH CAROLINA. 



NnliTll DAKOTA. 



I or otherwise dealing in them are to make 

 at l< -i 11 " ' |>J. an *l 



the like, ami par tax of 2 cents a bushel. 

 Tlw MbUcHScfH* 1 fund was increased from 16 



- cents on $:"" -Tth of property. 

 Two new rriuunal courts were created. 

 Tbt legal rale of interest was made percent 

 A law against price t 



luiion in UM House to adjourn, 

 to Frederick Douglass at the ann 

 of bis death, was passed by a rote of 84 to 

 ken in 



to. This. Ukm in connection with the report 

 thai resolutions to adjourn on the birthdays of 

 Washington and Robert K. Lee had been voted 



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the senate, caused a _ 

 ing. ant) indignation meetings were held in sev 



..' Senate, caused a great deal of feel- 



rid counties. Senator Huil.-r gives the follow- 

 ing version of the incident: -As a matter of 

 fart, there is on the record of the House journal 

 a resolution providing that when they adjourn 

 on a certain day it be as a mark of respect to 

 Fred Douglam. The Senate took no notice of 

 the matter at all. The resolution was offered l.y 

 a colored representative in a rush of business anil 

 was voted for by all parties. Democrats in. -hided. 



of whom ever expected to hear of it again ; 

 and while the regular hour of adjournm* 

 the House was 2 o'clock p. M.. the House was in 

 session that particular day till thirty-seven min- 

 utes past 8 oYlock. i te and Home ad- 

 * promptly in honor of both Washington 



A resolution instructing Representatives in 

 to vote for free coinage of silver was 

 itelv postponed. 

 The following appropriations were increased 

 beyond those of the preceding Legislature: In- 

 sane asylums, increase of $29.52!r !uml>. 



blind, and orphans. $84,850; educational insti- 

 tutions, $10900; Penitentiary, $49,15* 71. The 

 following were diminished : State (Juard, $20.- 



- - : $*jOOO; Normal and In- 



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A measure entitled - An Act to regulate as- 

 stgnments and other conveyances of like nat un , 

 provided that - all conditional sales, assign 



or deeds in trust which are executed 

 any debt, obligation note or bond 

 which gives preferences to any creditor of the 

 maker shall be absolutely void as to ex 



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This art. which was said to be equivalent to a 

 of business, and the manner of its 

 made a disturbance that continued 

 the year. The apparent purpose of t he 

 to prevent preference* only in case of 

 i for benefit of creditors; but in its 

 efecu the act was held to extend much fir 

 aod until thr courts should have oontn. 

 M** association*, and others were afraid to 

 * ?* ***nfM- H was brought be- 

 tkt SSJOIMM Court, which decided that the 

 I the right to execute assign- 

 and deeds of trust or make 

 debts. It 



a* not passed properly, 

 of iu validity was brought be- 

 Court in an application for an 

 ' I*** 101 V*8ecreUry of StAte from 



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not the power to go back of the 



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record of the Legislature, which -howcd 



cation of the act, and that the remedy mi. 

 with the lep>lati\i- Itraiich of the Govern 

 in<l Clark wrote di entiii- 

 An iiidietiiu-nt was aH.ruurd : 

 against the clerks of the two houses, an 

 in 1896 they were convicted. One wa- 

 to pay $250 fine and costs and ih. 

 same with the addition of t \\.-l\i- nioi 



.NOKlll l\knT\. I KorthwtBtern 

 udmitted to the I'm 



7W square miles. Tlie population in 1890 was 

 , ::. Capital. I'.isiiuirek. 



<.o\miiiient. The foil re the^^^l 



officers during the year: Govern. T 

 Lieutenant (J..vernr.r. .li.hu 11. \V 

 tary of State. 0. M. I 'aid: Audi; 

 Brigps: 1 



missioner of In-iiranci . l'i- d P. : 

 mi innrr of Agriculture. A. II. Lau.ulilii 

 torney-General, John !'. Cowan : Sup. 

 of Public Instruction. Mm ma I 4 '. Ilato 

 road Conn: 

 Keyes, John J. Wamber^: Sup. rii 



on, \V. \V. I'.anvtl ; Chief ,Iusl 

 Supreme Court, Alfred Wnllin : A- 



. .1. M. I'.arth- 



t>licanti 



Finances. The Treasurer's report for 1 



shows receipts and expenditures as ! 

 ance Dec. 81, 1894, $61,568. 

 the year from taxes for counties. $:\'.l-\. 

 receipts from other stim-e>. iiidin!;' 

 $826,060.22; total receipt^ $!.! 

 disl.ursements xl.lo:{.(;7(;.-JO; l.alance : 



Lmong th- 



$80,000 from sale of funding warrai, 

 lature and incidental expenses, and - v 

 fn.m sjile of funding warrants to p. 

 ini; indel.tedness. The taxes from ra;. 

 amounted to $97,223.90, an<l tin- insurnnce taxes 

 to $18,760.95. The warrants for le^. 

 penses were redeemed, as well as a small ; 

 the debt incurred to pay 

 at the beginning of the year. I lea' 

 not assessed this year. The total personal 

 tionof the State is $19,809,492. The tax levy 

 was fixed at 4 mills for general taxes, an 

 tenths of a mill for interest. 



Ld n< at ion. The enumeration of pupils 

 the last apportionment was 6^.">i'.7: th. 

 was $115.691, or $1.82 per capita. The em> 



n had increa- 



The average cost of tuition per pupil had been 1 

 $2.09, and the average daily atten-i. 

 f enrollment. The value of s< 

 erty is $1.6-i- :ail f.r teachers' salaries, . 



$547,408.04 



The Vall-y City Normal S.-hool h 

 dents at tli- -nn. of wh-.m al 



in the normal proper, and the M 

 117, about 102 in the normal p lass of 



11 was KHMluatoo! at Valley City, and 

 > those schools ha: 



priation for payment of salaries, it wa~ 

 posed that they would be closed for t 

 two it subscriptions were taken f 



amounts suflicient to keep them open f' 

 present year. 



The Agricultural College had 82 el 



