Powers of committee. Conflicting laws repealed. county, formerly used as the common jail lot; said committee is hereby authorized and empowered to design, contract and construct said jail to the best advantage, with full power to do any and all acts necessary to enable them to carry out the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 13th day of March, A. D. 1895. Sec. 3609 of Code amended. CHAPTER 464. An act to amend The Code, section three thousand six hundred and nine (3609) and three thousand six hundred and ten (3610). The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That section three thousand six hundred and nine (3609) of The Code is amended by striking out the words prior to 1790 to be "eighty-one" in line five, and inserting instead the word Documents, &c., printed. Sec. 3610 of Code amended. Additional documents, &c., authorized to be published. Index. "ninety." SEC. 2. That section three thousand six hundred and ten (3610) is amended by striking out the word "colonial" in line two and inserting after the word "state," in line three the "or copies of the same, or of other unpublished material illustrative of the history of the state down to January first, A. D. one thousand seven hundred and ninety (1790).” SEC. 3. The trustees of the public library will cause an index of these records, from the first volume of the Colonial Records down to January first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety (1790), to be prepared and printed in the volume which shall embrace the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine (1789). SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 11th day of March, A. D. 1895. CHAPTER 465. An act to amend the school law concerning the duties of county superintendent of public instruction of Macon county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: after Macon SECTION 1. That an act to amend the school law concerning Rutherford the duties of county superintendent of Macon county, enacted county added by the general assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, county. be amended as follows: in line three of section one after the words "Macon county" add the words "Rutherford county." SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 13th day of March, A. D. 1895. CHAPTER 466. An act to regulate assignments and other conveyances of like nature in North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SECTION 1. That all conditional sales, assignments, mortgages No preference to or deeds in trust, which are executed to secure any debt, obli- be made. gation, note or bond which gives preferences to any creditor of Void as to existthe maker, shall be absolutely void as to existing creditors. ing creditors. clause. SEC. 2. That all laws in conflict with this act are hereby Repealing repealed. SEC. 3. That this act shall be in force from and after its rati- Ratification fication. clause. Ratified the 13th day of March, A. D. 1895. RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SESSION 1895. Joint resolution on printing the governor's message. Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring : tribution of That five thousand copies of the governor's message be Printing and disprinted, twenty copies to be given to each member of the gen- governor's eral assembly, the remainder to be for the use of the state message. library, the different state institutions, and for such other disposition as his excellency, the governor, may think most advisable to make of the same. Ratified the 22d day of January, A. D. 1895. Joint resolution directing the secretary of state to endorse back and deliver to the bidders for the public printing and binding the checks deposited by them with him. WHEREAS, The secretary of state of North Carolina, pursuant Preamble. to the provisions of an "act to regulate and provide for the public printing," chapter three hundred and fifty-one of the public laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, did advertise for sealed proposals to do the public printing and binding for the state of North Carolina; and, WHEREAS, In response to said advertisement, divers persons did file with said secretary of state proposals to do said public printing and binding, and did deposit with said secretary of state the checks prescribed by said act; and, WHEREAS, Said act (chapter three hundred and fifty-one of Secretary of state directed to deliver said checks to said bidders. the public laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninetythree) has been repealed; therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring: SECTION 1. That said secretary of state be and he is hereby authorized and directed to endorse back and deliver to said bidders the checks so deposited by them with said secretary of state. SEC. 2. That a copy of this resolution be forwarded and delivered to said secretary of state. SEC. 3. That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 25th day of January, A. D. 1895. Blackboard provided for the senate. A resolution for blackboard. Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring: That a large blackboard be procured by the doorkeepers of the two bodies for use in the senate chamber, that the notices of the time of meeting of the different committees may be placed thereon by the clerk. Ratified the 25th day of January, A. D. 1895. Rent of postoffice box to be paid. Resolution instructing clerk to pay postoffice.box rent. Resolved, That the principal clerk of the senate be authorized to pay C. M. Busbee the sum of two dollars and forty-five cents, as rent for postoffice box for the use of the senate from January ninth to April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Ratified the 25th day of January, A. D. 1895. Committee on privileges and Resolution authorizing committee on privileges and elections to appoint sub-committee. Resolved by the House of Representatives: SECTION 1. That the committee on privileges and elections elections author- be authorized to appoint a sub-committee of two to whom shall ized to appoint a be referred the contested election cases of York Garrett and Lee Person against J. H. Baker, Jr., and William Howard from from Edgecombe the county of Edgecombe, and J. H. Collins and sub-committee to investigate contested cases and Halifax counties. against Grizzard and House from Halifax county. Rue |