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present and forbidding, and against the statute 

 and They were acquitted 



A new revenue law was pawed, (her 



. it makes a failure t<> ; .i\ p 



inish- 

 able i iii $500 or imp 



.orv th.-,!, MX mouth-. \\\ an error, 

 the law placed the State tax i the 



iH.ll tax at $1.2tt. Tins conflict* with the Con-titu- 

 -.vhich provides that the poll tax shall b, 

 the pr.-jH the 1 100, It was d. 



-irt that the poll tax iiiii-t be increased to $1.88. 

 -., Supreme Court the law was de- 

 clare*! void, and the levy of 1895, which was 48 



M; - ' - .,. ;. from it." property ta\. 



general State pur|M>ses and 2 f-r 

 for the general fund 21* 



B, and for pen-ions ilfc cents, 

 - 1 from the law of 1895. 

 us aggregated $1,028,890.86. 

 Tbeestimated revenue was $801,359.25. The '1 

 un-r notified the heads of the \arious institutions 

 that he would not pay special appropriations until 

 uld lind that he had a surplus after paying 

 the running expenses of the government ami tin- 

 interest on the b 



tw was made for regulating the appointment 

 .nty commissioners, providing that, 

 on the affidavit of 12 of any county, half of whom 

 shall be fn-eh.-id.-r-. that the elected board of com- 

 missioners have mismanaged the affairs of the 

 . t he judge of the district shall examine, and 

 if he find the charges true, it shall be his duty to 

 apjN.int two honest and discreet electors and citi- 

 zens of -aid county, who shall be of a political party 

 different from that of a majority of the said board 

 rs, to be members of the board until 



uccessors. 



Some changes were made in the election law. A 



ugh revision of the school laws provides for 



State examinations of teachers, and by uniting weak 



- is intended to make possible a four-mont h-' 



term all over the State. 



Among the acts affect ing railroads were : To allow 

 express matter to be earned on Sunday trains; re- 

 peal ing the fellow-servant act. making railroad com- 

 paniesliable for employees' injuries: requiring com- 

 panies to redeem unused mileage tickets; amending 

 rth Carolina and Atlantic Rail- 

 road, and subjecting it to State control; increasing 

 th- iHiwer of the Railway Commissi 



The fishery laws were so amended as to make the 



license fee $2,500 for foreigners who use seines in 



mda, The use of certain kinds of nets was 



i in Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, 



and the .f hutch or pond net- in NYu-- r 



- prohibit the working of 



women on public roads or in chain gangs, allow 



tramps to be sent to the roads, provide for furni-h- 



\V,n-ton-Salcm Railroad, 



and allow convicts to be worked on public roads 

 between July 15 and Man h 1. 



Dispensaries for liouors, after the South Carolina 

 plan. l.-d for in five local r 



An act was passed to fix fire insurance rates on 



;ksnot to exceed those in Virginia. 

 Among other general laws w< 

 To locate the line between Tennessee and North 

 Carolina, appropriating $800. 



pt all fraternal benevolent associations 

 from taxation. 



To buy a portrait of 2-l.ul..n B. Vance, appro- 

 priating* 



To prohibit adulteration ..f turpentine with 

 kero- 

 Prohibiting liquor selling near churches. 



:uake land grants valid . 



tored by created 



;>re\ent minors from 

 rooms and |N.\\: 



nid pro\ii- tioii 



of coal mi 



: rohibit the use of fillers in commercial f . i - 

 tili/.ers. 



To purchase IT. -k l-atile ground for 



To ! he proeuring "f l.o<in'> foi 



:.-p-al the assignment ad 

 roinote 1 : 



Political. ommittM of t! 



part\ M address in August, from which are 



i the following . 



" We have secured to the <iii /en tin- right t< 

 one vote at all public elect I..M-. and to ha\e that 

 .muted as cast. \N"e h.-. I he public 



schools out of the hands of parti-an politicim 



'-.-d them to the people. \\ . n the 



right of local self-government to each count \ in the 

 Mate. We have removed the judiciary of the Mate 

 to a safe distance from the arena of patti-an poli- 

 tics. Fora more effective and equitable control 

 and reduction of the encroachm.nN ..f railroad eor- 

 ions we suggest that the Kailroad Commis- 

 sioners should IKJ elected by a direct, vote of the 

 people." 



A ma-- eon vent ion of negroes wa* held at K';. 

 Nov. 4. and the " Lincoln Republican L- 

 formed. The conTention was called in protest ;._ 

 the giving of all offices, save 10, to the ::o.nno white 

 Republicans, and it is said this insulted the 1 

 negro voter-. Resolutions were adopted call 

 all negro Republicans hen after to v.-te for n<. man 

 opposed to giving the negro full recognition; that 

 4ii future before any man is nominated n. 

 should exact a written pledge that he will give half 

 of his clerical force to the colored Kcptibli< -an- : 

 that all nominees shall give a pledge in fa 

 education, and that colored men wh 

 willing to trade their race off for office shall not be 

 nomin 



NORTH DAKOTA, a Northwestern State, ad- 

 mitted to the Union Nov. 8, 1889; area, 70,795 

 square miles. The population in isjiO v 

 Capital, lii-marck. 



Government. The following were the 

 officers during the year: Governor, I Yank A. 

 Briggs; Lieutenant Governor. .1. M. l>e\in, 

 rotary of > i I-'alley : , 



Nichi-ls; Auditor. N. I'., flannum: Alt 

 era). .1. !'. ('..wan : Soperintondenl of Education, 

 Halland; Adjutant C.-neral. Kllioit S. Miller 

 all Republicans. Commissioner of Agriculture 

 and Labor. H. I*. Thomas ; Land Co M inii-<io M er, 

 d. 11. Winters, succeed e,l by H.. I. Watt in An 



Kxnminer. H. A. Langlie; oil Inspe.-ior. Wil- 

 liam Badger: Railroad Coinmi--iom-r-. ' 



L. Walton, and .John R. (Jib-on: Super- 

 intendent of Irrigation and Fon-Mry. W. W. har- 

 p-It : In-iirance Commissioner. 1'. I',. Faneher; 

 Wafden. < '. I < liief .lu-t ice (.f the 



Sup!- : Associate .Iu-- 



tices, Alfred Wallin'and .1. M. Bartholomew; Clerk. 

 R. I>. Hoskins all Republicans. 



I inaiicc*. 'i ruent for tl 



months ending June 30 shows that the balance at 

 the I f the year was $182.:!7.1 7: the n- 



r, jpts brought the total to $998,579.66; the di-- 

 bursements were $<'.: leaving a balance of 



$369.H1 :,.7f5. of which $213,181.23 was in the per- 

 manent school fund. 



The total real-property valuation, as equalized by 



