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STEPHEN Bo WEEKS CLASS OF 1886; PH.D. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY C353.1 N87s 1908/10 Full c,2 UNIVERSITY OF W r A-r ^ FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Ensuring Democracy through Digital Access (NC-LSTA) http://www.archive.org/details/biennialreporto190810nort BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1910 RALEIGH Edwards & Bbouohton Printing Co., State Printers 1910 STEPHEN Bo WEEKS CLASS OF 1886: PH.D. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF THE THE WEEKS COLILECTION 2Li /S^U^U^^ftc^U^^^ BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1910 RALEIGH EDWARDS & BROUGHTON PRINTING CO,, STATE PRINTERS 1910 CONTENTS I. Public Lands. II. Grants Indexed. III. SuPBEME Court Reports. IV. Permanent Poll of Registered Voters. V. Need of an Administration Building. VI. Corporations. VII. Trade Marks. VIII. Banks. IX. Railroads. X. Foreign Corporations. XI. Automobiles. XII. Side Noting and Indexing. XIII. Enrollment of Bills. XIV. Laws and Documents. XV. Legislative Reference Librarian. XVI. Payments to Treasurer. BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE TWO FISCAL YEARS ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1910 State of JSTorth Carolina, Department of State, Kaleigh, December 1, 1910. To His Excellency, William W. Kitchin, Governor. Sir:—I have the honor to submit herewith to j^ou a report concerning the Department of State for the two years ending November 30, 1910, and to request you to transmit the same to the Greneral Assembly. PUBLIC LANDS. Within the last two fiscal years there have been issued from this office 317 grants of public lands, on which account there has been paid to the Treasurer $9,695.85. These grants were as follows, for the year ending: Regular grants Cherokee grants Road grants Shell fish Oyster 180 137 In addition to the above amount $300 was paid into the Treasury by Attorney-General Bickett, proceeds from a com-promise judgment of State ex rel. Attorney-General v. W. J. Owen et al. The Code of 1883, section 2764, fixed the price of public lauds at twenty-five (25) cents an acre for amounts less than one hundred (100) acres, and fifty (50) cents an acre for each, acre where more than one hundred acres was entered. This law was changed in 1885 (chapter 185) when section 2764 of The Code was amended by striking out the word ''twenty-five" wherever it occurred and inserting "twelve and a half" and striking out the word ''fifty" wherever it occurred and in-serting "fifteen," thus the price was reduced to twelve and a half and fifteen cents an acre. In 1903 (chapter 272) the Nov. 30, 1909. 6 Biennial REPour entry law was again amended, and a price fixed at not Icrfs than fifty cents an acre. There is much confusion in the State as to what lands are subject to entry and what land belongs to the State Board of Education. Many grantees have subsequently purchased their lands from the State Board of Education to clear their titles and quiet any claim the State Board might have to their lands. To cure this trouble the General Assembly of 1909 passed an act (chapter 447) which repealed section 1733 of the Revisal of 1905, and fixed a price of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for each acre entered. Section 3 of the act provided "That all lands entered under this act, for which a grant has been ob-tained at the price of one dollar and fifty cents an acre, shall be free from all claims, title or interest that is now vested in the State of North Carolina or the State Board of Education." This law became effective April 1, 1909. If for any cause the Secretary of State has reason to believe that the State Board of Education has title or claims to land entered, the matter is called to the attention of the Superintendent of Public Instruc-tion, and is handled in such way as seems proper and to the best interest of the State. The attention of the Secretary of State is occasionally called to the fact that a grant of land contains in reality many more acres than the grantee paid for. This is sometimes due to an erroneous computation of area by the surveyor, but more fre-quently from an improper or indefinite survey. It does not seem to be the contemplation of the law that the Secretary of State should review the work of the surveyor, and it has never been done. It seems that surveyors should be under bond and their bonds held responsible for any loss occasioned to the State by their errors or incompetency. The lands granted for the past two years have been generally distributed over the State. Grants were issued for lands in the following counties: Total Counties. 1909. Alexander 2 Alleghany Ashe 5 Beaufort 1 Bladen 3 Brunswick 13 Burke 6 Caldwell 5 Camden 2 Carteret 1 Catawba Total 1910. 2 Secretary of State. Total Counties. 190;). Cherokee 1 Chowan 1 Clay 2 Cleveland 1 Columbus 6 Craven , 1 Cumberland 1 Currituck 1 Dare t> J)avidson Duplin Gaston 2 Graham <' Henderson 1 Hyde . . . .• 1 Jackson -^ Jones Lee 1 Macon 18 Madison 1 McDowell 10 Mitchell 1 ^Montgomery 4 Moore 2 New Hanover 1 Onslow 2 Pamlico Pender 5 Perquimans 1 Polk 2 Rockingham Rutherford 5 Sampson Scotland . Stanly 2 Surry 4 Swain 1 Transylvania 5 Union 1 W ashington 1 \\'atauga 6 Wilkes 15 Yancey 10 Total 169 8 Biennial Repoet In addition to the above there were issued as follows : Cherokee grants during fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1909 : For Macon County 1 For Graham County 3 For Cherokee County 4 Total 8 Cherokee grants for fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1910: For Cherokee County 3 Road grants issued in Jackson County during 1909 2 There was one shell fish grant issued under Acts of 1889 during fiscal year ending November 30, 1909. This grant was in Onslow County. . Oj^ster grants, on account of which money was paid to the Treasurer under the new law, are included in the number in above statement. • LAND GRANTS. The following is a table of grants issued since 1882 : Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1882, 1,189; amounts paid Treasurer $10,912.87 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1884, 1,329 ; amounts paid Treasurer 13,18(i.73 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1880, 990; amovmts paid Treasurer 5,975.09 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1888, 893 ; amounts paid Treasurer 9,493.49 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1890, 1,453; amounts jjaid Treasurer 15,570.43 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1892, 1,358 ; amounts paid Treasurer 10,831.11 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1894, 703 : amounts paid Treasurer 5,200.73 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1890, 547 ; amounts paid Treasurer 9,234.40 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1898, 599; amounts paid Treasurer 0,337.13 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1900, 005 ; amounts paid Treasurer 0,384.09 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1902, 732 ; amounts paid Treasurer 0,91 1.88 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1904, 789 ; amounts paid Treasurer 1 1,230.00 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1900, 488 : amounts paid Treasurer 10,551.47 Secretary of State. 9 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, IDOS, 529 ; amounts paid Treasurer 16,025.49 Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1910, 317 : amounts paid Treasurer 9,605.85 GRANTS INDEXED. The General Assembly cf 1909, chapter 505, passed "An act to establish a card-index system for grants, and to rearrange and change the method of filing warrants, plats and surveys in the Secretary of State's office." For this purpose $1,500 a year for two years was appropriated. This sum has been ex-pended as follows : 1909. 1910. W. P. Batchelor $800.00 $1,000.00 Mrs. M. B. Syme. .' 120.00 224.32 Mrs. E. H. Winfree 80.00 Miss A. C. Bledsoe 250.00 267.67 Miss Sophy M. Grimes 100.00 8.00 N. P. Parker 150.00 $1,500.00 $1,500.00 The work has been done by Mr. W. P. Batchelor with sev-eral lady assistants. It has been tedious, vexatious and much slower than I had anticipated. Searches for many lost and misplaced papers have consumed much time. A detailed report of this work is found in the following letter from Mr. Batchelor : "With reference to the work of rearranging and filing the papers relating to land grants and preparing a card index to these papers and the records of grants, I beg to report that the work of rearranging and filing the papers has been completed down to and including the year 1795, except as to the lands located in what is now Tennessee. The card index to the records, -giving the file number of the papers, has been com-pleted to Granville County, inclusive, except as to Craven County. "In undertaking this work I was prepared to believe that while it would be slow and laborious it was absolutely neces-sary. But no one could realize how necessary, how laborious, how tedious it was without actual experience. I have had per-sonal knowledge of the working of the office of the Secretary of State since 1881. During none of that time has it ever been allowed enough of clerical force to carry on its daily work unless at many times within the year the whole force works long hours over time. Up to 1882 the papers on which the old land grants were issued were kept without systematic arrange- 10 BiEi^KiAL Report ment in bundles stored in nooks and crevices in the Secretary's office and in a little closet around the corner. On the com-pletion of the Supreme Court building the Secretary of State was given two rooms, and Col. Saunders, the then Secretary of State, braced his already overworked force to the attempt of producing order out of chaos. Finally such of the papers as could be found were arranged by counties and placed in filing boxes. The work was as well done as the circumstances allowed, but was far from perfect. "In doing this present work I found that during 3^our admin-istration the system had been improved by arranging counties alphabetically and filing the papers by dates. This, while a great improvement, was inadequate, because it afforded no guidance as to where the papers should be returned. Almost every box I have opened presented evidence that the papers in it had been disarranged, and in the papers of almost every county were found papers belonging to other counties. It was this disarrangement which prevented the index for Craven being made in the regular order. For various reasons the papers for that county have been more in research than any of the others. In consequence of this it has required arrange-ment and rearrangement, and again rearrangement, to bring them to even a semblance of order. The giving of each paper a file number and the arrangement of these file numbers seri-atim will obviate this difficulty. Persons examining these old papers can see where each belongs, and it will be little trouble to restore each to its proper place. Then, as the file number of each paper is entered on the margin of the record book, the finding of the record of the grant locates the papers on which such grant was issued Mathout the necessity of the rummaging through the whole file, by which so many of these papefs have been destroyed, so many others lost, and so many others mis-placed. And this destruction, loss and misarrangement of papers has, more than all other causes, made the work tedious and slow. When a paper exists and is filed in its proper place the work of comparing it with the record, filing it and com-pleting the endorsement can be done certainly, easily and quickly. It is the search for lost or misplaced papers which consumes time and gives trouble. I recall, especially, that the unsuccessful search for one paper, the finding of which circum-stances made vitally important to the interests of the State, consumed more than a week. This condition will be testified to by the Grant Clerk, who is often called upon to spend many hours in search of a paper which may not exist. When the work now in process is complete any paper in existence can be found within three minutes, and if any paper is lost the fact is shown by a memorandum filed where such paper should be. Secretary of State. 11 "I was very much annoyed and troubled in the beginning of this work to discover the almost entire absence of papers re-lating to grants issued before 1740. Your explanation that under the Lords Proprietors, and probably for some time after, such papers were most likely sent to the home offices in London, relieved this complication. "In outlining a system for the work I had a belief that the card index could well wait the completion of the rest of the undertaking. I was soon to find, however, two good reasons for a change of this opinion. The old index had been worked so hard and had responded so well that I had grown to think it infallible. I still regard it as a wonderfully good piece of work, but the cold criticism of comparison with the books, page by page, shows enough of omission and discrepancy to make the new index a pressing necessity. And further, the present index gives no mention of the many papers discovered of which no record has been made. Of these papers there are some thou-sands, and the index will locate each of them. "The work done is very nearly half what has to be done ; and I can not too earnestly recommend its completion. The State owes to its citizens the duty of so keeping the records of the titles to their homes and farms as that they can be ascertained quickly, certainly and at moderate expense. These records cover the titles to all the lands of the State. The work of ar-ranging them so as to be easy of reference and identification should have begun with the beginning of the records. The fact that it was neglected for more than two hundred years has made it a tedious and expensive labor. Each further day of delay will add to the labor and cost. Even now, while the records are in such condition that, given plenty of time and work they can be identified, many of the papers on which these records are based have been so worn by handling as to be illegible, and many have been lost. As to whether this work shall be con-tinued is a matter for the General Assembly to determine. I will be glad to have a committee examine the work. "Allow me to say one word of thanks to you for the assistants you selected for me in the work. Certainly no man ever had a corps of more faithful, cheerful, prompt and efficient co-work-ers than you gave me. If there be any ground to complain of the amount accomplished, the complaint must be against me; for, realizing that perfect accuracy was the first consideration, I did more to restrain than to stimulate their ardor. If any mistake in the work should develop I am responsible. I re-viewed all their work, and found so few errors that I am ready to vouch for its accuracy." 12 Biennial Eepoet supreme court reports. During the last tAvo fiscal years there has been paid into the State Treasury from sale of Supreme Court Reports — For year ending November 30, 1909 $9,100.39 For year ending November 30, 1910 8,375.61 $17,482.00 Old reports out of print, or nearly so, have been annotated by Judge Walter Clark, and reprinted as follows : Volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 45, 88, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136. Many of these volumes should have been reprinted years ago, but the congested condition of the public printing did not per-mit it. Several years ago of each volume reprinted five hun-dred copies were published ; this number was then increased to seven hundred copies, and now one thousand copies are made. Of the current volumes one thousand copies were printed ; this was soon found to be insufiicient, and the number was increased to twelve hundred, and recently the number has been increased to sixteen hundred and eighty copies of each volume piiblished. Now, for the first time in many years, a complete set of Supreme Court Reports is obtainable, and reprinting will be discontinued. The sales of Reports for the past few years have been as follows : Two years ending December 1. 1882 $3,352.40 Two years ending December 1, 1884 4,626.90 Two years ending December 1, 1880 3,253.00 Two years ending December 1. 1888 3.762.49 Two years ending December 1, 1890 4,002.02 Two years ending December 1, 1892 2,618.01 Two years ending December 1, 1894 621.12 Two years ending December 1, 1896 6,026.89 Two years ending December 1, 1898 5,759.55 Two years ending December 1, 1900 7,692.59 Two years ending December 1, 1902 7,026.89 Two years ending December 1, 1904 9,842.25 Two years ending December 1, 1906 15,034.54 Two years ending December 1, 1908 14,661.74 Two years ending December 1. 1910 17,482.00 The Reports have been moved from various rooms and ware-houses in the city and are now on the fourth floor of the TJzzell building, for which storage place the Secretary of State is now Secretary of State. 13 paying $20 per montli, and on the second floor of the Commer-cial Printing Company building, for which floor the Secretary of State is now paying $25 a month. PERMANENT ROLL OF REGISTERED VOTERS. The permanent roll of registered voters, as required by the Constitution, Art. VI, sec. 4, and provided for in chapter 550, section 4, Public Laws of 1901, and chapter 178, Public Laws of 1903, is now finished, as the last registrations thereunder were made in 1908. For each county there is a well-bound, sub-stantial book for each of the years 1902, 1904, 1906, and two for 1908—the special and general elections of that year. The names of the counties are on the backs of the books, and the lists are reported by tOA^niships alphabetically arranged. There are nearly five hundred of these books, and it is probable that the time will come when the call for information from them will require the arrangement of a full index of the names reg-istered therein. It was intended by the law that these rolls should be consolidated, but no clerical assistance was provided by the General Assembly for this work. The assistance now given is insufficient to do the regular work of the office as promptly as I Avould wish to have it done. NEED OF AN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. In the report of the Secretary of State two years ago I said : 'Tor more than a quarter of a century each Secretary of State has called attention to the need of a proper place for the storage of the many thousands of dollars worth of books belong-ing to the State. The books have been corded in piles in various rooms about the city, and subject to damage and dangers of many kinds. The Laws and Supreme Court Keports are now stored on the fourth floor of the Uzzell building, in a hall 60 X 100 feet, for which the State is paying a rental of $240 a year. The number of books is annually increasing, and the State should make provisions for properly caring for the same. "The Board of Public Buildings added the large room on the third floor of the northeast side of the Capitol, formerly occu-pied by the Insurance Commissioner, to the rooms of the State Department, but this is now more than full of old manuscript journals, laws and valuable documents of many kinds. The Secretary of State now shares that room with the Historical Commission. "The large room on the southwest side of the third floor of the Capitol was, some years ago, made a part of the offices al-lotted to the Department of State. This room is filled with offi-cial records, maps, manuscripts, priceless documents, old bills arid acts of the General Assembly, etc. During sessions of the 14 Biennial, Report General Assembly it is used as an enrolling office. In the old closets of the Capitol there are many thousands of valuable papers that should he properly filed if space permitted. "There is no space in the Capitol to arrange for the books and documents that are now overflowing every department, and a fireproof Hall of Records should be built to care for the highly perishable property that the State has now on hand. Many manuscripts, papers, books and historical relics would be do-nated to the State if a proper repository was provided for their safe-keeping." Conditions are now worse, and we are "even more crowded than then. In addition to the Uzzell building I have rented the second floor of the Commercial Printing Company's building for storage purposes, at a cost to the State of $25 a month. In the cramped surroundings of the various offices the State can not secure as satisfactory and efficient service as would be pos-sible with better facilities and more room, and more up-to-date conveniences. In my opinion it would be to the advantage of our people and an economy for our State to acquire the two blocks bounded by Edenton and Jones, Wilmington and Salis-bury streets, and erect thereon a modern, up-to-date, fireproof administration building that Avould meet the needs of the State for fifty years. These two blocks conjoined would then form a public square 420 x 516 feet, the same width as Union Square, on which the Capitol stands. CORPORATIONS. There have been 2,108 certificates for domestic corporations filed in the office of the Secretary of State for the past two years, on which $45,371.96 as organization, amendment and dissolu-tion taxes have been paid. The dissolutions have been as follows : 265 dissolutions, November 30, 1908, to November 30, 1909 364 dissolutions, November 30, 1909, to November 30, 1910 The great increase of dissolutions in 1909 and 1910 is mainly due to an act of the General Assembly of 1909, chapter 730, re-quiring corporations out of business to legally dissolve, and is also in part due to the corporation tax of the Federal govern-ment. Many of these corporations have been out of business for some time, and we have heretofore been unable to prevail upon them to comply with the law and dissolve properly. The following table shows the corporation certificates filed : For the year ending November 30, 1893 21 For the year ending November 30, 1894 115 For the year ending November 30, 1895 133 For the year ending November 30, 1896 151 Seceetaey of State. 15 For the year ending November 30, 1897 147 For the year ending November 30, 1898 156 For the year ending November 30, 1899 . 207 For the year ending November 30, 1900 306 For the year ending November 30, 1901 327 For the year ending November 30, 1902 395 For the year ending November 30, 1903 554 For the year ending November 30, 1904 540 For the year ending November 30, 1905 697 For the year ending November 30, 190G 821 For the year ending November 30, 1907 839 For the year ending November 30, 1908 763 For the year ending November 30, 1909 1050 For the year ending November 30, 1910 1058 The present method of collecting the various taxes and sta-tistics required by law from the corporations of the State is confusing and burdensome to the corporations, and requires fully twice as much clerical labor in the various departments as is necessary. Keports for obtaining the amount of excess tax due by corporations are made to the Corporation Commis-sion. That body, after making out a statement of the amount due, certifies a list thereof to the State Auditor, who notifies the corporations of the amount and asks a remittance to the State Treasurer, who is required to collect such tax and also a franchise tax from the same corporations, to which he sends blanks for that purpose. In addition the Secretary of State is required to cause each corporation to file in his office a state-ment giving amount of capital stock authorized, the amount issued and the names and addresses of the officers and directors. All these reports, statements and calls for taxes of different kinds should be covered by one report to be filed in one office, and all taxes should be paid into that office. This plan would relieve the corporations of the necessity of making reports to all these officers, and at the same time save a considerable amount of money to the State in the way of postage and clerical work. The work necessary in any one of these departments to handle all these matters would not be considerably greater than it is at present, when handling only one kind of tax or one kind of re-port or statement. The corporations of the State will some day insist upon the modernizing of present cumbrous and vexatious methods, and ask that their reports be simplified and consoli-dated. In addition to reports to the State, Federal reports and taxes are now required. Another matter to which the attention of the General As-sembly might be called is the present inadequate law for the in-corporation and management of trust companies. The banking law has been so amended by a recent, but very imperfect act. 16 Biennial Report that tliey may be established in connection with banks, but there is no law by which a trust company can be incorporated inde-pendently. A modern, conservative law which will encourage the organization of such corporations and, at the same time, safeguard the interests of the public by proper State super-vision, should be enacted. TRADE-MARKS. For the two years ending November 30, 1910, twenty-nine trade-marks have been registered. A list of these will be ap-pended to this rej)ort. For the year ending November 30, 1909 19 For the year ending November 30, 1910 10 29 BANKS. Under chapter 7, Revisal of 1905, sixty-two banks have been incorporated, a list of which appears elsewhere in this report. For the year ending November 30, 1909 26 For the year ending November 30, 1910 36 62 RAILROADS. The following seventeen railroad companies have filed certifi-cates in this office according to chapter 61 of the Revisal of 1905: For the year ending November 30, 1909 : Sanford and Glendon Railroad Company. Piedmont Railway Company. Reorganization. (Name chailged from Carolina Valley Railroad Company.) Northampton and Hertford Railway Company. Reorganization. Sanford and Glendon Railroad Company. Amendment. Ashe County Railroad Company. Carthage and Pinehurst Railroad Company. Amendment. For the year ending November 30, 1910: Lumberton and Elizabethtown Railroad Company. North and South Carolina Railway Company. Jackson Railroad Company. Black Mountain Railway Company. Rockingham Railroad Company. Hemlock Railroad Company. Roanoke Railway Company. Mica Belt Railway Company. North Carolina-Virginia Railway Company. Madison Covmty Railway Company. Micaville Southern Railwav. Secketary of State. 17 FOREIGN CORPORATIONS. Under section 1194, chapter 21, of the Revisal of 1905, 84 foreign corporations filed statements and copies of charters, and. paid entrance taxes for two years ending Xovember 30, 1910: For year ending November 30, 1909 33 For year ending November 30, 1910 51 84 AUTOMOBILES. The General Assembly of 1909 enacted chapter 445, "An act to provide for the registration and identification of motor vehicles, and to regulate the use of public highways by such vehicles and persons passing such vehicles, and to provide pen-alties for the violation thereof." Under this law 2,018 auto-mobiles have been registered, and on this account, and on ac-count of renewals and transfers, $11,900.10 has been paid into the State Treasury. The chief purpose of this act was an at-tempt to abate the nuisance of dangerous and reckless driving by vicious or inconsiderate motormen. From many sources in-formation comes of the nonperformance of duty by officers of the law, and there is much complaint at the heedless fast driv-ing by unknown or irresponsible people. The law should be made stronger, penalties should be more severe, and the law offi-cers should be more alert. There should be a personal and criminal liability for accidents caused by indifferent or heed-less driving or speeding in violation of the law. This would be* welcomed by law-abiding owners of automobiles, and is a pro-tection that the public is entitled to. SIDE-NOTING AND INDEXING. In reference to side-noting and indexing, I beg leave to quote from my report two years ago : "Section 2733 of the Revisal of 1905 requires an assistant of the Secretary of State to index the laws and prepare the laws and captions for publication, and provides for the payment of $500 for this work. This is insufficient pay for the work to be done. The laAvs are more than twice the volume that they were a few years ago, and the pay is less. The following table will illustrate : Amount No. of Pages Public Year. Paid. and Private Laws. 1891 .$()10 1,-509 1893 tiOO 1,140 189.5 fiOO 1,18.5 1897 400 1,239 1899 400 2,109 1901 400 2,204 1903 .500 2,190 190.5 500 2,238 1907 .500 2.895 18 BiENXiAL Report "The captions, from being a small pamphlet, has grown into a considerable volume of nearly 400 pages, and under the caption of each act a full sjaiopsis of it is given. With the greatly in-creased number of laws passed, and the largely increased bulk of the captions, it has been found necessary to index the cap-tions. The side-noting is also a very considerable work, re-quiring much time and considerable skill. "Almost half of the laws are passed at the close of the session, requiring much rush and night work, and in the closing weeks the Committee on Enrolled Bills can not leave their duties in the House to examine and correct the enrolled bills Avith the care that should be given them; so, notwithstanding the fact that there are competent proof-readers in the Enrolling Office in the closing weeks of the General Assembly, many errors creep into the ratified copies. "I recommend that the pay of this assistant be increased from $500 to $750, and that it also be made a part of his duties to carefully read, edit and prepare for the printer each act passed. This would insure much greater accuracy in the laws and would be an economy to the State. The work of preparing captions, making a synopsis of and indexing the same, and side-noting and indexing the laws, is now being done for less than it is worth." ENROLLMENT OF BILLS. In reference to the enrollment of bills I will quote from my report in 1908 : "The present method of the enrcllment of bills is a great im-provement over the old system. They are now typewritten and a carbon copy made at the same time for the printers. These typewritten copies are bound in volumes, which are much handier than the old bulky volumes of handwritten bills. In my last report (December, 1906) I called attention to the fact that more than half the bills passed in 1905 were sent to the Enrolling Office in the last ten days of the session. This in-cluded many of the longest and most important bills, which caused an undue rush, much all night work, and prevented to some extent the pains taking time that should have been given these bills to insure their accuracy. In 1907 this congestion at the close of the session was even more marked than in 1905. At that session the General Assembly passed 1,535 acts; 1,245, or over 80 per cent of these, were ratified during the last twenty days of the session; 901 of them in the last ten days, and 237 on the last day. In such rush work it is almost impossible to have it properly done. "The Committee on Enrolled Bills can not devote time to ex-amining such a congested mass of bills without neglecting their duties on the floor of the General Assembly, and find it a physi- Secretary of State. 19 cal impossibility to read over these laws in the limited time they have. Tliis congestion cansed much crude legislation and inany inaccuracies. This should be avoided. "The Secretary of State should be authorized to have a clerk or assistant carefully proof read a second time every act passed by the General Assembly, and prepare a correct copy for the printer, making such purely clerical corrections as do not change the law. This would be to the interest of the State and greatly facilitate the printing of the laws." "I will here take the liberty to repeat a recommendation made two years ago (1906), and will quote directly from my last report : "All bills should be printed daily as introduced, but this seems impracticable for want of adequate printing facilities. However, all important bills should be printed in large type, triple-spaced, with wide margins for notes and amendments. In amending, reference should be made to the words before and after the place where insertion is to be made, and especially is this true of supplemental acts. In engrossing a bill the numbers and relative positions of the lines are changed ; again the lines are changed in enrolling, and again changed in printing; so reference to the number of line is meaningless, and often leads to confusion and errors. "As the handwriting of the members is not always so clear and legible as to prevent misreading, all bills should be type-written when introduced—the public bills at State expense and private bills at cost of interested parties. "Typewritten bills and resolutions passing without amend-ment should be enrolled without being engrossed, as such a course will save the State considerable unnecessary expense. This was done to a large extent last session, but it should be-come the invariable rule. "As I said in my last report, if the Engrossing Departments of the House and Senate were combined and made into one de-partment, and the copjdng therein done with typewriters, it would be in the interest of accuracy and economy. The Chief Engrossing Clerk and assistants could be appointed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate." "The Journals should be printed daily and a copy placed on the desks of the members of the Legislature every morning. The State Printers inform me that they are now sufficiently equipped to meet this requirement." LAW§ AND DOCUMENTS. Heretofore more copies of the Public Laws have been printed than were necessary, as the number of justices of the peace have been very much reduced. This has caused an accumulation of 20 Biennial Eepokt old laws. The number printed should be very materially re-duced. It may be advisable to make some change as to the publication of public documents as the present method was adopted when the number and volume of reports was small, and not the bulky, voluminous documents we now have. The General Assembly of 1909 provided that hereafter the laws shall be divided into three classes—"public, public local, and private laws." The laws of 1909, public and private, embraced 2,391 pages. Only 262 pages of these were strictly public. This change will save several thousand dollars in the cost of printing alone. It is probably safe to say that two-thirds of the laws en-acted by the General Assembly relate to matters which the at-tention of the Legislature should not be distracted with, and much valuable time is consumed that should be devoted to im-portant public questions. These private acts should be governed by general laws, and most of the legislation now demanding the time of the General Assembly could be passed upon, as in some of the other States, by departments authorized to attend to such matters, or by the Clerks of the Superior Court, County Com-missioners or some local authority, safeguarded by a referendum. Besides the time of the General Assembly, many, many thou-sands of dollars would be saved to this State. ' In the General Assembly of 1909, as incredible as it may seem, the records show that more than 66 per cent of the laws of the session were enrolled and ratified in the last ten days of the session. This was an injustice to the State and a menace to safe legislation. Many of these bills were never read by com-mitteemen. It was an impossibility for the members of tlie Com-mittee on Enrolled Bills to read them, even if they had entirely abandoned or resigned their seats in the General Assembly and given their time up to this work. It seems imperative that some plan should be devised to correct this congestion at the close of the sessions. Of the 1,319 laws, comprising 2,391 pages, enacted by the General Assembly of 1909, 174 were strictly public laws, making 262 pages of necessary legislation that perhaps could not be attended to except by legislative enactment. Of the laws passed 14 were relative to local courts. 26 referred to the number and pay of county commissioners. 22 to jurors drawing pay. 28 appointing justices of the peace, additional to the omni-bus justice of the ])eace bill and to those elected by the people. 8 to primaries. 9 to prohibition. 94 to roads. 11 to stock laAvs. Secretary of State. 21 7 to automobile laws. 9 to court stenographers. 27 arrears of taxes. 6 to deer. 7 to hunting. 79 to game laws. 29 to fishing. 11 to drainage. 120 laAvs referring to graded schools, school districts, teacher?, etc. 4 to depredations of domestic fowls. 26 to corporations. 8 to banks. 27 to railroads. 122 to cities and towns (embracing 548 pages). Besides many acts, such as leaves of absence for clerks of the court, providing for appointment of cotton Aveighers, giving police powers, etc. The Constitution should be amended so as to require more than three-fourths of our legislation to be done under general laws. The Recorder's or local courts might be established when needed by joint action of County Commissioners and justices of the peace, with a referendum to the voters. The pay of jurors. County Treasurers, the pay and number of County Commissioners, standard keepers, cotton weighers, etc., should be provided for under general laws. A general road law presenting alternative systems, all under control of a State highway engineer, and allowing County Com-missioners and magistrates to put in operation such system as best suited their counties, subject to a referendum to their voters, should be adopted. Police powers, game laws, stock laws and such matters should be under general laws giving powers to local authorities upon the vote of the people. Drainage should be provided for under general laws. It would somewhat restrain the flood of private laws passed at the close of the session if the mandate of the Constitution (Article II, section 12) was enforced, requiring that the thirty days' notice of application to pass such a law shall have been given. ''The Constitution now provides (Article VIII, section 1) that corporations shall not be created by special act, except in cases where in the judgment of the Legislature the object of the corporation can not be attained under general laws." This in-hibition is frequently overlooked, and many charters are granted which should be created under the general law. The chartering of corporations with special privileges is con-trary to the spirit of our Constitution, and should be jealously watched by the General Assembly. The present Worth Carolina 22 Biennial Eepobt Corporation Laws are extremely liberal, and every reasonable power and privilege can be obtained under them. Municipal corporations should not be created by special laws, but the Legislature, by general laws, should provide for the incorpora-tion and organization of cities and towns and the classification of same in proportion to population. This is the case in many States of the Union, and works for uniformity and the best in-terests of the people. LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN. Pigeon-holed and inaccessible in rooms and closets of the CajDitol are the bills and resolutions introduced into the Gen-eral Assembly, and reports and petitions to that body since our eai4iest history. Many of these bills became laws and many failed to pass. All should be chronologically arranged and in-dexed as they shed much light on public questions and give much information as to the legislative history of the State. These scattered papers are known as "The Document Library," and are in the custody of the State Librarian, who is Legislative Document Librarian. The State Librarian noAV has more duties than he can properly attend to, and his work is growing every year. A Legislative Reference Librarian Avould be a most useful and economical officer to the State. It could be made his duty to collect, tabulate and annotate information for the use of mem-bers and committees of the General Assembly upon all questions of legislation coining before that body. He should make refer-ences and analytical comparisons of legislation upon similar questions in other States, and have at hand the laws- of other States, papers, magazine articles and discussions of the ques-tion, both pro and con. Such indexing, tabulation and general information would be invaluable to the busy legislator. It could be made this officer's duty to edit all laws for the State Printer, annotating the' laws as passed and keeping the Revisal of 1905 revised to date. He should also assist in the preparation of bills for current legislation, thereby avoiding much duplication and much unnecessary printing. PAYMENTS TO TREASURER. 1909. 1910. Automobiles : $5,530.00 $0,370.10' Corporations (organization tax) 24,514.00 20,857.96 Corporations (statements) 3,387.50 3,575.00 Corporations (foreign) 683.30 1,332.00 Corporations (seals) 537.50 646.50 Corporations ( fees ) 2,626.80 2,949.25 Fees 1,309.47 718.02 Secretary of State. 23 Seals Supreme Court Reports 9,106.39 Laws and Journals Miscellaneous (and i)enalty) Trade-marks Postage Land grant fees Land grants NoTE^The amounts of money received by this department (except for entries of vacant lands) bie paid to the Treasurer on the first of the month following the month in which they are collected, and so appear in his accounts. For instance, money received by the Secretary of State for November, and entered in the November accounts of this office, appears in the December accounts of the Treasurer, and so for the other months of the year. My assistants in the regular work of the office for the past two years have been Messrs. George W. Norwood, W. S. Wil-son, J. E. Sawyer and Miss Minnie Bagwell. I wish to pub-licly thank them for their high efficiency and loyal help. $.522.16 Seceetaky of State. 25 26 Biennial Repokt JO pOU3(J CO CO CO CO ^W 00 C^ iO (M ,-H C^ ^^ paquosqng pazijoqiny ^ .-I o 2:; iz: Op CI .2 o o V ^ J Q O O O ^ hJ W S O M -< ^ 03 P a Secketaey of State. 27 o < ^ < z z 2 < Pi < m < J3 J3 JS < < <j <; <i; tf El, OM SO oa t o ^ ffi w O ii ci £ S o o o E'5 c fl fc._3 o'o 0.2 <;<:-<<<: iJ_d o'o o 2 •o^ 9O c) o n-3 w II ^ 0) ^1 c .J. a o o a o So o 2 "fe -g Ph_2 Ph IB 03 Q) O oj gj ^ j2 J= J= J= a s, I I <!<!;-<-«: ^ m a £ 3 o 0) a CQ g 2 ^ ^ < < ^ 28 Biennial Repokt •90U9?SIxa JO pouaj Oi a Oi oi Oi OS 03 03 o^ a ^ CO Q 6 S paquasqng pazuomnv SQ ? c5 ^ ^ o -5 M o « 03 95 go 03O KB ^ -^ o a o 1 " •^o JO "o 2 "r .2 ^ < 2 55 3 ^ So Secretaky of State. 29 Ci CiCSC^CiCi' Ci C5 O Ci Ci c X j:;' si 30 Biennial Eepoet JO pouac[ OO ^H CO T-H CO <M s s paqijosqng •J'BiTdBQ pazuoq^nv CI — ^ PQ « S O i "^ O M o CO ° 2 3 c3 o 03 5 3 g IS m >, O m 3 ?.2 W W PQ P3 « c :5 S 3 m ha el's o g |P O pa US Secketaey of State. 31 -^ t^ ^ OS i-t P o Q S 6,850 3,000 5.000 10,000 3,000 1,000 5,000 32 Biennial, Repokt Secretaey of State. 33 o ^ -H CO — I o t^ -H <M T-l ^ ^ ^' S [^ s «; s o o o o S I-) 34 Biennial Repokt SeCRETAKY of StATE. 35 o 36 Biennial Report o I 02 O H Ow oH 2( O JO pOU9(J paquosqng paziaoq^ny •^ ^ _H -H „ O rt O^ O^ 03 Oi —• — -^ o ^ ^ CI ^ O «! <; <! >M VJ UJ ^ b 13 (u o M0.2 a o Secretary of State. 37 o 38 Biennial Repokt JO pouaj -H — O O — -H -H Q o o « l2 /Sj o f^ S P paquosqng pazuomnv PS « _-. 0) _- « O ^§ o O -6 .2 (5 fl .2 cQ .9 d d ca o Q i Q O hr-S i: -Ti S Si o o o o - d Secketaey of State. 39 0> ^:> Oi <^ O^ <^ Oi <^ .-I ^^ CO -^ .-• C^l — < fl J^ X: 5: w — s ;5 s ^ <i Q <t s -< o s 40 Biennial Repokt •aaua^sixg JO pOU3(£ paquosqng •|B'J]Cl'BQ pazuoq^ny ^ — eo ^^ O o o ca S 02 pq O o Secretary of State. 41 ^ ^ O ^ ^^ CO -H Q ^ 3 « 3 •-5 fJn 1-5 f^ i; Q pS E E •3 ffi ffi g S E Q Q O O 3 o C.2 ft . 42 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 43 o ^ <-< O '— -- c<i oo -^ 44 Biennial Repoet JO pouaj^ 05 Oi OS Ol '^ ^H 1-) ^H ^ CSl § s paquosqng "IB-JldBQ pazuoij'jny ^ H S 02 O fe U ^ o E'-g J O •a .2 :5Q o o. ^^ is fa So c W o CI C3 o o3 o S >> J3 S MS (2 T3 ,2 ~ o _ o 5 rt's « o 5£ ?J U a o « o t, o OS o Secretary of State, 45 o — *-" cs ^^ i-« o s 6,500 1,200 2,000 815 150 1,000 4,000 1,000 4,000 20,000 1,000 15,000 300 ,55,500 46 Biennial Repoet •aoua^STxg }0 pouaj CO CO CO CO C^ 1-1 ^ ^H (M r-t < a bi S paqijosqng ^H W3 <£5 lO ]'E:HdB3 p97iJ0H';nv J a rt -< a o QJ O c3 o sa a a 'bi) j3 £ 2 5 -^ S ^ ?= 2 C3 S 2 3 p^ 2 o ^ ^ w Q S 3 Q c^-s S?Q (i| (i< (in (i< > 3 5 ° 3.2 02 "T M — c« O S tn — c« T3 O iJ O 02_=3 Secretary of State. 47 «0 OS »0 CD (M OO to CO f^ <; o S S S O O Q 3s gS^:2^'So ^JSS-S - C3 48 Biennial Repokt Secretary of State. 40 1-H C4 CQ «o CO <r> CD ^H cs Ph S Q <J <: ^ —.—CO a :Z :S -^ -5 - -ajino^oo oofeHOn § s O Q 3 ^ •§ ^ ii fl 50 Biennial Report* JO poiaaj ^H ^H CCl <J S S ^ fo o i-H C^ OO Ci 2; ^ S 2; paqijosqng pazuoq^ny -? ^ o m t- t-eJ 03 3 &: W Q Woo ta K K K ^6 o Secketaky of State. 51 o 52 Biennial Report •aoua^sixg JO poijgj -H rt O •-1 —1 rt rt O — 1 1-^ <3 ^H ^ <M CD ^ Q <; Q < paquoeqng pazuoq^ny ^ a tH S H M ^ w ^ St n c 363 K iii Ui 03 Secketary of State. 53 I. t t t t t t t t t C i/ i. E £ 54 Biennial Report Secketaky of State. 55 o 56 Biennial, Kepobt JO pouaj Secretary of JState. 57 W3 O lO r^ ^H :o ^ fa 11.000 15,000 500 25 10, 000 10,000 5,000 8,000 550 58 Biennial Kepobt !Se(jretaky of State. 59 CM —. ^ ^ a „ <1 s < Q O 2,000 50, 000 3,500 4,700 5,000 1,200 40, 000 GO Biennial Heport JO pouaj paquosqng pgzijomnv P^ s ^ ^ lO CI -- -1 (S Pi ^ U C5 -< ^ 3 i-i H^ >1 Secketaky of State. 61 <o r^ CO CO CD CD O i-H 1-3 62 Biennial Report •90n9:)six5j JO pOU3(£ —1 O rt O -H -H rt -H O o < £ S O rt « Q S < paquosqng pazuoq^ny OS > 2 s o o ^ o § W -5 2 I i-H a -i^ B C3 ^ S . fe (In .S .2 d CI : — < 0) SP o 03 d P? C3.2 -SP =3.2 •SP — ^ a IB fQ iz; S S pq S o 2 o O H H =3 S iJ.2 M 3 ^ sn = S S S S Secretary of State. 63 < Pn Q <; Q S Q <j o 'z, O S S H « S S S S S a» o fcQ fed CO 5tf >. 5- 6 s-2 o o HO i^ 2 ^ CJ 5 O m o o 3g Jo o o o O .2 W ^ .2 '2. o .2 3 O£ OS gm O O ^ :s . Q Sg g sg O O m 60 MV O O 0.2 o ms O O O O 64 Biennial Report JO pouaj O ,-, _H -H .^ ^ — I — — .Q Q fe S O !^ < paquosqng •IB^ldBQ pazuoq^ny -^ O O SSS SrtWo WoS :2 o o ;o o o (-> ^ •-'^ OJ Oi SP S S g ^P o o c d >>.2 o Ji —. — 0.2 ^P — 03 « ^ ^ g; Secketary of State. 65 O _j _,_,_, ^ _. o* O, ^ % ^ O. 3 Q < S fe S <) <; n « 66 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 67 .-. CO CD O ^ f^ a ^ & = ^ a z 2: 2: &: p: ^ « ij o -^ si &Q & TO ^^ CI "Bo S2 c .2 -c "° ^Q W" « z z ;?; o o 0.2 P^ Zq i Ji ;:: S a O O O O O a :2Q o o .2 c O ° 9 0.2 sl s o ft o o 2 fl -go C3 3 &:o O ro §5 (58 BiBNiSfiAL Report Seceetary of State. 69 -^ < s 6,000 3,620 500 400 150,000 4.000 500 2, 300 Biennial Report •aou8}sixg JO pouaj paquosqng CD u:> CO 03 O^ C3 02 ^ o pazTJOq^ny rt -H O ^ M ii ^ 1 E o w S O O P &: rt CL, hJ 0.2 ^ — Q. O ;S Ph Ph Ms H £p a a Hq a O a, 0° o.s 03 f^ Pl,PhPhI^(1,PhP4I^ Secketary of State. 71 CO CO CO CO o 72 Biennial Report •aoua'jsixg; p pouaj paquosqng pazuoij^nv S S OJ U^ OJ ^ B Ji *> i 2 tf la O &: <^ O s Secketaky of State. Y3 CD CO CO o 74 Biennial Report JO pouaj — < —< o ^ CO < Q S 4 paquosqng pazuoq^ny im »0 <M tH :z; . b oj ? oj « H f^O^t^P^JSJS tf rt Secretary of State. Y5 C5 c; ~- co — ' p a fe CO Q Q S S S O -^ -H S3 o o a » t- ra p^ <; ^ rt H O CO CB rt tf rt rt O P § tf o o o o Pi Pi ^ Q p; Pi Pi r:) 76 Biennial Repokt JO pOU3(J 2; s paquofcqng p3zuoninv o — — H O O M O ^ CD [i, fe O fl C_3 PMih"_3 r-'_3 — 2 SQ -SQ ^ 5 =3 ^ a <5 tf c» £9 o ~=^ -2r;0^ t; •51.2 o1 20 m m m ui m m Seceetaey of State. 17 -H O •< s f^ s 60, 000 6,200 300 1,000 2,000 3,000 78 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 79 — o ^ ?0 CO iC CO 6 P p p P <^ § P 5,200 1,000 2, 040 5,000 500 1,000 500 6, 000 24 500 10, 600 29, 300 20, 000 100 80 Biennial Report JO poiJ8j CO CO CO CO O^ O^ Od o> z < z s CO CO ^ ^ 'S << <c paquosqng •J'B'JldBQ pazuoqijny S.2 gP ffi ffi HS cQ CO ^ fe «; Pi O O M Q S Ph 6a 5< so S ^ B cS 9 j-o O S 13 6g"'o° :S 13 Q ^ ^ ^ O a :« o ox) oi m m m m m m m m Secretary of State. 81 CO CO CO CO ^ rt O — O rt 00 c^ c; ^H C<I a o Pi <i s < -5 fa ol Q Q OC O O o — i-H lO (M »0 <M o o o > 82 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 83 CO CO CO CO Oi Oi Oi Oi O -H rt -! O o •-< « -< CO ^ 9, a X: a Q Q Q Q Q P < «.j § S ^ ^ a H a s H H tH S :2 i.jXctxeiS^3-.g3-iau^ooo foetoe 03 S O O H Is C3 O O ^ri 84 Biennial Report Secketaky of State. 85 — o — -J= o Q M O O s <. z < O fe 500 10, 000 10, 000 12, 500 3,000 3,000 1,200 400 550 15, 100 5,000 1,000 7,500 15, 000 5,000 86 Biennial Report JO pouaj: paquosqng (M ^ QO r-( Q S pszuoqiny —; -3 t= PQ ^&: Pi a ^ ^ '^ ^ ^ ^ o o us ^ o .10 ;3H J. So ^ ^ I o M fQ pq "5 t. la O >.9 SQ <; Q ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 3 . P o 0.2 2P & &: Secretary of State. 87 CO C<l CD ^O oooooo^^ is^ -^o 3 < 88 Biennial Report Secketaey of State. 89 i=> 90 Biennial Repokt Secketaey of State. 91 LIST OF CORPORATIONS. The Secretary of State shall annually compile from the BECORDS of his OFFICE, AND PUBLISH A COMPLETE LIST, IN ALPHABETI-CAL ORDER, OF EXISTING DOMESTIC CORPORATIONS AND OF THE ORIGINAL AND AMENDED CERTIFICATES OF INCORPORATION FILED DURING THE PRE-CEDING YEAR, TOGETHER WITH THE LOCATION OF THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE OF EACH IN THIS STATE, THE NAME OF THE AGENT IN CHARGE THEREOF, THE AMOUNT OF AUTHORIZED CAPITAL STOCK, THE AMOUNT WITH WHICH BUSINESS IS TO BE COMMENCED, THE AMOUNT ISSUED, THE DATE OF FILING THE CERTIFICATE, AND THE PERIOD FOR WHICH THE CORPORATION IS TO CONTINUE. — Revisal of 1905, sec. 1244- 92 Biennial Report Pn Secketaky of State. 93 94 Biennial Report JO pouaj OS 03 OS OS OO CO C» OO GO '-I Q < paquosqng pazuoq^ny <j <; <j <j <j -nj << <;<;<; S <j O 3 JH O D< O 2 o -73 oj 2 eg O O O O ea o .2 o .2 -• £ Q J2 Q B O «i <i < -< o O Secketaey of State. 95 !^ Ci Oi C5 CO CO CO «0 CD Oi CO CO o^ 1^ i:yi Oi a s 02 OD <1 O O '-' '^ OO lO OO CO rt U5 — ^ ^ -5 .2 O ij ^z; <; pa Pi ^ m ^ <t\ ^ o ^ m m o 96 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 97 <M ^* CD .S — bC 3 ^ < m < « ^ « o Z. ^ C.2 H5 S 3 03 O M P3 m a S ^ o ^2 (51 a-i II ^1 o 3 o 3 p (3 ;0 1- M II .2 o oa o 0)^ —'^ ;3 M.2 6g U a a mS .5 11 ca o o •J O V^ it! j3 _. . ifQ 98 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 99 ,-. ^^ -^t* ^ ^ C^ T- ^ IM ^ S -< S o 100 Biennial, Repoet JO pouaj C^ O O^ CT> Cs OS T-l 00 ^ <; M o ii( M c^ ^ 02 — < [B^ldBQ paquosqng I'B'JidBQ p9ZUoq'}ny ^ -2 -S '^ O ^ S ^ O JB « tf rt O Secretary of State. 101 Oi OO C^ Cs OC C-3 OO cc --^ ^ cc ^ ^ s z >^. s < ;3 la S c3 ~ " 'S H ^ •a ^ ^5 "3 "o "oQ o 6 d H d OS o p o &: ^ z so •^ ^ ^ n m o « o o 5 T3 o 7=^ 102 Biennial Report Secretaey of State. 103 ^ ^H c^ s < s ^ s ;z; < •z < < a < 5 ^ " - « o o Pi w o o o a 2 ^ 2 o 'u c3 (- ;: O 0) OS » ^ ^ ^ 2 -5 03 cS ci c ja j= j= ^ O U O U C 3 5 o - Pi O W >. 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'Z -Z. m m m "^ 214 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 215 o 216 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 217 Z; M Z ^; ^ Z 2 O O OQ CO OQ CC CC d 2; tE Q Z o z Q O rt fe ^ ^=H =U^ o ^ o »o »-'^ ^H T-H e^ ^ a a S c^ ^ -2 j3 j3 ^ ^ -« = £ 218 Biennial Repokt O -J ^ CO *^ Ol S^'zS'^ZQdx'ZoSS'^ Q tg ^: 2: 02 (^ (^ O fe 3 ta cu 3 3 Et5S <<5" 1^ CO CSI CO ^ »o ^ ^ ^ CC T-l O .3 '^ O .2 - HfePQ&:pQPQO(iHi-:ipqi-:iPiHffi<;«mrt O O O S O M =* '3 !^ "^ lirf c~* .s s w a Ssclh:? a p. fib s a fi|[i,|iife(iHp^&HfjH&Hp!Hp!H la 03 ;S S (in S PR fe f=H Seceetary of State. 219 o o ^ o :Z:/ in C:> '^^ ^ — c: z P « ^ P ^: K z !» ;i; K fe ^ « w H^ ^ d S a I I I' S Z Z 'J z 1 220 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 221 Ci c: c; w o o = =00 o z O 2 z Q ^ 6 > -^ a o ^ T^ O P Z M Z 03 OQ " o c ^ ^ S hJ fo ;g 292 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 223 o; oo iO 1—I <:£. Oi C^ ^ T^ H, oj Qj jt "^ X. r\ *-^ >-^ y^r '^ ^ QJ 1^1^ o 224 Biennial Report o ^ o 1 a Secketaky of State. 225 Oi cr. ^. ^ ^ i-i CO o ^ c- ^ cr c z ;- - c — a c Q Z x 03 GO "-s 32 02 cc as tO rr IT o 02 Z Z ^ K -; S: S ca S < 5: — X o o = o o o g o = = o O iO — coco X ^ jC ^ J J :: ^ ^ S o .M ooaoooaaaooaosss-<KoiaQ U -' .2 O >^ a £, g|s§|=iSo -c _ -s C3 O :S "o "_3^ 5^ ^-n 2h S^ W "3 o Q Q tf < O o o o c 16 ^ '^ ^ 226 Biennial Report Seceetaey of State. 22Y O O O — ' o ^ o ^ o o 2. o Z Z M 2 Z c Z 2 2: o ffi O 2 H « H' h-; -pi 02 ^ 'S 73 ^ "- K i: O S S w o o o ^ p^ Ji cj a O O < O ^ Ji Ji bci S pq ^ Q s 228 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 229 o ^ o o ^i Oi a O^ t-* >—' «0 00 Oi iz; z o Q Q iz; z z VI in m in m m —. y^ —���5; aa 230 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 231 o o o o o o — o o CO 00 C5 OQZOaJOOCQPt-l a a as 02 «} M 32 •z z z: a 232 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 233 O CTi C5 --< CO '-' z Q ^ 2; Z 2; m m m m 2; ^ s s o 234 Biennial Report Oi Oi 05 Ci Q 2: P !2; 2; Z 2; o iJ w ^ Seceetary of State. 235 a o^ c^. ^. oo c-f cc c^i c a a Z Q Z OCDOJajZiccorcD 'n m \i2 a b rs -- "^ K Pi tJ K < O H oo 236 BiENisriAL Report Secretary of State. 237 o o o o o = 2. c. a X M M a 238 EiEWNiAL Report Secretary of State. 239 Ci 240 BiENXiAL Report Seceetaey of State. 241 CC 00 Cl jr* ^ o o O cc O ^ P 12: 'O 242 Biennial Repokt Seceetary of State. 243 a-j oi 1^ m Q o o c3 - r- r Z ^: S cc K !» CB OQ Z Z 00 03 w 244 Biennial Eepokt Secretary of State. 245 o o o 35 O Ci CI O —' c 2; z z Q Z Z Tji m HI Q P ° ^ H ^ Km 6 a} ^ ^ a > 246 Biennial Eepoet Secretary of State. 247 Oi CO QO O ^H QvcBto c^ZcaoGOQt^Z^ZrajoZo^QQo ZXaQyZ.Maofa<aiOo) Ja^I'iIZ^^JZX. l^zt ;^^;H O O t> O K « W =^ — ** •-; "r! 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S o S S i. i a 6 S 6 d H O fc. -^ 252 Biennial Eepoet r3 d O V O^ 05 05 Oi CO ?o O ^H S o :;:; ^ Qtg2;Mj^^£gz;2;Q:z;2o ^ P o Secretary of State. 253 ro *c>l ^H t-l (M r-t <M ^H C^ g-cooooog 02 05 CO CO O ^ O 2 z z c a o ii ^ O 3 Oi Q 254 BiENis^iAL Report Secretary of State. 255 OwOOOOOwOOOO^^oO^O m m m a a a a a Z ^ ^, c c _; s 256 Biennial Report Seceetaey of State. 257 O -- O — ' Q ^; o z ^: Q S E 258 Biennial Report OiO^OiOsOiOiOiOiC^ Z Q Z 'Z ta z Z OZZmmmm'Jimitim > I I • I I »- I I I r4 I I I > O M O O woi-;<<www<i: s sa pi d S C3 dJ O 3 3 B o to ^5 3 s w s s sso^ssoooos Q 3 W CL, Pi tf s s s s <^ "-- D. 3 h 3 U C O ^ ^ S S S O O cj 2; Secretary of State. 259 O —' — • iz; !2; ^ 2; s z Q 6 iz; z z fS s 3 260 Biennial EEroRT •72 Secretary of State. 261 o 262 Biennial Repoet Secretary of State, 263 Oi d 05 OS •^O CO Oi CO Z a: •z 2; Q Z VI m m Oh Q l^ 264 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 265 Q z 6 ^^ d Q Z § Z 6 Q S!; Q c3 rr -ij o o s C3 266 Biennial Report bi Secretary of State. 267 0OOOO0(3OOOOOOO0Ci*-H0OO^O 268 Biennial Eepoet Secbetaky of State. 269 o cS z^ X ^ •^ ^ ^ " °-'>^'^0 Q Z M O S Q O 2 I - £ ^ ^ J S s § < fe g: d Z d a 03 .3 & S fc: o CI o £ :^ ^ ^ S a a H d < S t: fc. = o - " 1 «' I "S M .2 6 fe fa «!; > c * o C! O CO ^ 270 Biennial Eepoet Secretary of State. 271 cJ o TjT -J o" «2 '- 'jf ^-^ cT o" h-^ JO -£ ^" <^i gj^ «5 t-^ 2 JT; 2 S" > <^ > > > *^ -^ 6 -^ li ^ ^ > 6 > -^ -^ -^ > > > H W P ^ J3 03 272 Biennial Report at 13 • Seceetaey of State. 273 o 274 Biennial Repoet Secretary of State. 275 O! 2T6 Biennial Report Seceetary of State. 277 03 C^ OS C2 z; Z p 2: o z o o z z z M BiEifNiAi Report Secretary of State. 279 Z Q Q c c r 9 Z Z 5C — r- O K « ^ O Q O X S 2 M Z Z ; ^ c3 ^cs S g : ^' = ? 5 S 6 6 , , t. fl 2- ^ tt s ^1 o o g £ g g 8 Lt' o cT tff o o o o o o o iC «^ o 280 Biennial Keport Secretary of State. 281 o 282 Biennial Report C^ C2 o ^ »-( 00 CO CO Q I^ CC CO CC 6 oi '—< ci r- r-i ^ CD o:2;o2Z^0tgo Bo M Secretary of State, 283 oa 284 Biennial Report -75 Secretary of State. 285 I •- 2 s 286 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 287 Ci CT! cr: »0 -- ^ Ci Oi Oi Oi M 1-H r-. O Q O 2 S Z Z <; W O « « S Oh rt <i d (^ Q H Q ^ S ^ ^: 2 ^: i^gomcomZ^Z;;^ S ^ « s w "== — -^ -5 C3 >> 288 Biennial Report fm to o Secretary of State. 289 Oi (^ Oi Oi Oi 05 Oi Oi 03 ^ ^H (M ^ Z Z Z \z, Z Q '^ 'Z ^ ^ yj y^ rr y^ Z Q Q w P m m m ^ >; (g g K H s <^ f.; d g: ^ d <^ Q C3 290 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 291 o 292 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 293 o 294 Biennial Report o Secretary of State. 295 ^ o o c o o ^oo^ooooo Q Q s ^ =— _=: 3 O O a: < Q < •z z o 6 'I CO S '- < ^ ^ A > '-^ ^ :ii i^ rji 6 6 ^ d CO -H .^ O W 3 ^ P9 S 3 O o3 1-1 iJ Z Z 3 :s fi b 02 o ii ^ < O O O K z 2; !» ^ s ^ CQ CO 03 ?3 n ^ S o § a z K J S CO S tammmmmramxr^ajmuumaimmmm "3 ^^ ffiU<rtcccoa2CO i a >> 296 Biennial Report Secretary of State. 297 CO C^ '— t 2; 6 -H C^ n Z 2: 12; z m m -ji m Z Z Q Q a a ft a a; 0) (D o •-n xn m m ; : ; a : ; - i ; : ; ' ' : . . . o ; ! I , ; ; t u?? - a ,i v. •^ '^ o '^ o €. 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' , •> S ^ c 2 ° OK^S^OPiKO O Q t3 Q .S •f 1 S ^' ^ & Pi « ^ S: ^ ^ 340 Biennial Report W fc* Secketary of State. 341 o o O o c; — ' z z c^ (g iz; Q Q S S 6 Q Q 2 o Q a; 2 rt IS''' 342 Biennial Eeport Secretaky of State. ;43 o 344 BiEjs^is^iAL Report Secretary of State, 345 J >. \ =: 4 ^ 346 BiENNix\.L Report Secketaby of State. 347 ^ — CO —< -H r^ 00 1— QO to a a a -e ^^^QOcgcgQQ;g^^;5^^^^.^C§ § g i ^ ; i i i g £ =5 .S 5 ^ ^ ^5 w 348 BiEXjfiAL Report iling nt. Secretary of State. 349 o: 350 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, FOR THE YEAR ENDING NO-VEMBER 30, 1910, AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 1152 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 944 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1907, ARRANGED BY COUNTIES. (Reported to Attorney General under Chapter 730 of the Public Laws or 1909.) Name. Location. Alamance: Swannanoa Club, Inc Triple City Realty Co.... Anson: Ansonville Manufacturing Co Brick and Lumber Co Hill Ginning Co -.- Wadesboro Commercial Club, Inc Wadesboro Marble and Granite Finishing Co.. Beaufort: Albemarle Development Co Atlantic Manufacturing and Stave Co Home Building and Realty Co .- Imperial Mattress Co Mallison Hardware Co North State Piano Co.-.- Pamlico Iron Works, Inc Peoples Investment and Protective Co Washington Amueement Co Washington Investment Co— Washington Messenger Co— Bladen: Carolina Truckers Colony, Inc Elizabethtown Manufacturing Co Buncombe: Arko Building and Contracting Co Asheville Amusement Co AsheviUe Masonic Building Co Asheville Mid-summer Horse Show Co Asheville Mill and Building Co Asheville Office and Building Co Asheville Quilt Mill?, Inc Asheville Steam Laundry Co Burlington. BurHngton. Ansonville. Wadesboro. Wadesboro. Wadesboro. Wadesboro. Belhaven. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Washington. Abbottsburg. Elizabethtown. Candler. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Secretary of State. 351 LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Biltmore Veneer Co Black Mountain Realty Improvement Co.. Bonanza Wine and Liquor Co... Cherryfield Mica Co Craggy Lumber Co Creo-Balsamic Co Fry-Buchanan Lumber Co Kersbrook Lumber Co Law Library Association Mountain City Distillery, Inc Biltmore. Black Mountain. Asheville. Asheville. Swannanoa. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Asheville. Ohio Manufacturing Co , .\sheville. Southern Club, Inc Asheville. Standard Motor Car Co Asheville. Sternburg Foundry and Supply Co Asheville. Stevens-Kirkland Co Asheville. West Pulverizing Machine Co Asheville. Burke: Catawba Valley Canning Co Morganton. Drexel Hosiery Co Drexel. Table Rock Lumber Co J.. Morganton. Cabarrus: I Cabarrus Social Club Co ' Concord. Concord Farmers Club, Inc Concord. Concord Ice and Fuel Co... I Concord. Concord Realty and Railway Co j Concord. Concord Traction Co .__: Concord. Excelsior Home Club Co I Concord. Miller Machine Co Concord. Piedmont Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co Concord. Sills Lumber Co Concord. Social Club of Concord, Inc Concord. Standard Book Co Concord. Cvldwell: Blue Ridge Mining and Milling Co Hobart. Lenoir Chair Co.. Lenoir. Lenoir Gorcery Co ! Lenoir. 352 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Camden; Shiloh Brick and Lumber Co Carteret: Beaufort Grocery Co Moreiiead City Canning and Preserving Co Catawba: Campbell Bottling and Supply Co Hickory Bottling Works, Inc Cherokee: Hiwassee Lumber Co --- Waynesville Skating Rink Co Chowan: Edenton Investment, Benevolent and Co-operative Association, Inc Cleveland: Corner Drug Co.. -_ John Manufacturing Co Columbus: Artesia Agricultural Co Bogue Trading Co Brown Lumber Co Chadbourn Iron Works, Inc Union Vehicle and Trading Co Vineland Bargain House Co Craven: Craven Grocery Co Farmers Consolidated Gin Co Neuse Realty Co — North Carolina Co __ -- North Carolina Pine Co --- Cumberland: Algodon Knitting Mills Cumberland Realty Co Dixie Scale Co Electric Cleaning Co Fayetteville Base Ball Co — Fayetteville Development Co - Fayetteville Livery and Sales Co Shiloh. Beaufort. Morehead City- Hickory. Hickory. Murphy. Murphy. Edenton. Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain. Artesia. Hallsboro. Chadbourn. Chadboiu'n. Newberlin. Whiteville. New Bern. Vanceboro. New Bern. New Bern. New Bern. Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Secketaey of State. 353 LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Fayetteville Mattress and Broom Co Russell Lumber Co Davidson: Amalgamated Construction and Supply Co.. Eagle Lumber Co Fayetteville. Fayetteville. Lexington. Lexington. Eureka Trouser Co I Lexington. Hub Land Co Lexington. Johnson Manufacturing Co Thomasville. Lexington Live Stock Co Lexington. Snider Lumber Co Snider. Southern and Norfolk Junction Planing Mill Co Thomasville. Springs Hardware Co. Lexington. Thomasville Drug Co Thomasville. Victor Brick Co Lexington. Welch Broom Co Lexington. Young's Grocery Co Lexington. Davie: Cooleemee Brick Co Cooleemee. Duplin: Duplin Manufacturing Co Kenansville. Greenfield Park Improvement Co Wallace. Warsaw Tobacco Warehouse Co Warsaw. Durham: Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co i Durham. Bull City Transit Co Durham. Bull Durham Tobacco Co Durham. Durham Hardware Co Durham. North Carolina Pine Co Durham. Real Estate Exchange and Trust Co Durham. Southern Commercial Co Durham. Edgecombe: Rocky Mount Manufacturing and Mercantile Co Rocky Mount. Forsyth: j Bailey .lewelry Co Winston. Forsyth Marble Co i Winston. Kernersville Improvement Co I Kernersville. K. Howard Fitch Furniture Co ' Winston. 24 354 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con . Name. Location. Forsyth:—Con. North Winston Development Co Southern Produce Co Winston Cigarette Machine Co Winston Mercantile Co... Winston Mill Supply Co.. Gaston: Banner Harness Co Bessemer City Cotton Mills, Inc Bottlers Re-Shaping Machine Co Crescent Mills, Inc Lowell Livery and Live Stock Co Public Storage Warehouse Co Smith Cotton Mill Co.__ Spot Cash Store Co Stanley Creek Cotton Mills Wells Mining Co Western North Carolina Power Co Granville: C. A. Stacy Co Parham Ginning Co Stovall Brick Co Tar Valley Manufacturing Co T. W. Stovall Co . Villiford Club, Inc Guilford: American Motor Co.. Arrow Co __- Atlantic Motor Co Atlantic Southern Kemical Co Brockett & Son Co Burglar Proof Ventilating Sash Lock Co Carolina Motor Car Co Carolina Sanatorium Co., Inc Central Securities Co _- Continental Development Co... Daily News Co Winston. Winston. Winston. Winston. Winston. Gastonia. Bessemer City. Gastonia. Bessemer City. Lowell. Bessemer City. Bessemer City. Bessemer City. Stanley Creek. Bessemer City. Gastonia. Oxford. Oxford. Stovall. - Hargrove. Stovall. Oxford. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greeensboro. High Point. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Secretary of State. 355 LIST OF CORPOR.\TIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Da\is-Woodson-Bushnell Co Delta Land and Lumber Co Dixie Motor Car Co Elastic Leather Garter Co Fairfield Shooting Club Co Gate City Lumber Co Greensboro Elks Lodge Co Guilford Real Estate Co Hall Lumber Co High Point Aerial Wheel Co High Point Machine Co Ichthyolated Emulsion Co. Inter-State Construction Co Jamestown Concrete Works, Inc — Leisel Color Co Love-Cochran Manufacturing Co.- Marler Hub Device Co - Pennysburg Manufacturing Co Perfect Liquor Cure Co Piedmont Sanatorium for the Treatment and Cure of Tuberculosis, Inc. Shaw-Clapp Lumber Co Southern Star Wood Filler Co --- Halifax: Bowers-White Lumber Co Panacea Springs Auto and Electric Transfer Co. Greensboro. Greensboro. High Point. Greensboro. High Point. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. High Point. High Point. High Point. Greensboro. Greensboro. High Point. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. High Point. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Scotland Neck. Littleton. Harnett: Cumberland Brick Co Harnett. Harnett News Pubhshing Co Lillington. Lillington. Lillington. Morgan Grocery Co Salmon Live Stock Co Hayt^'OOd: Canton Printing Co... Canton. Mcintosh Co --- --- ' Waynesville. Oconalufty Flume Co --- Waynesville. Richland Lumber Co Waynesville. Tuckaseigee Development Co.. Waynesville. 25 356 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Henderson: Appalachian Construction Co Hart Knitting Mill Co KLrkwood Sanatorium Co Realty and Securities Co Ibbdell: Bad Debt Collection Agency, Inc. Capitol Producing Co Implement and Supply Co Mooresville Enterprise Co Morrison Live Stock Co Munday-Teague Co Jackson: Carolina Graphite Co Dimension Lumber Co Hanson Mill Co Southern Talc Co Johnston: Austin-Stephenson Co... Brooklyn Manufacturing Co Clayton Manufacturing Co J. H. Edgerton Co Johnston County Trust Co _.. Selma News Co Will H. Lassiter Dry Goods Co Jones: Maysville Gin and Mill Co Lee: Golden Rod Bottling Co Lee County Publishing Co Lee Realty and Guaranty Co Lenoir: Kinston Athletic Association, Inc. McDowell: Penn Lumber Co _ Southern Agency Co Hendersonville. Flat Rock. Hendersonville. Hendersonville. Statesville. Statesville. Statesville. Mooresville. Statesville. Statesville. Beta. Willetts. Dillsboro. Addie. Smithfield. Smithfield. Clayton. Smithfield. Smithfield. Selma. Smithfield. Maysville. Sanford. Sanford. Jonesboro. Kinston. Sherman. Marion. Secketary of State. 357 LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Macon: Franklin Press Publishing Co.. Martin: East Carolina Timber Co Francis-Enre Veneer Co Mecklenburg: Alamo Amusement Co Business Men's Club Co Carolina Asbestos Manufacturing Co Charlotte Builders Supply Co Charlotte Contract Co Charlotte Day Nursery Association, Inc Charlotte Hardwood Specialty Co Charlotte Lumber and Land Co Charlotte Motor Car Co Charlotte Music Co Charlotte Plaster Co.._ Charlotte Stock and Bond Co Charlotte Tube Co. Christian Home Publishing Co Cornelius News Publishing Co Farmers and Merchants Exchange and Bureau of Information, Cot-ton, Stocks, Grain and Provisions, Inc. Fuller Combing Gin Co Greater Charlotte Chautauqua, Inc Hannan-Toomey Commiasion Co _. Harriss Manufacturing Co Henrimore Investment Co Ideal Electric Co North Carolina Farmers Union Warehouse Co Peoples Progressive Mercantile Co Record Publishing Co Schnapps Bottling Co Shelor & Co Southern Concrete Machinery Co Southern Detective Bureau, Inc Southern Gas and Electric Machinery Co Franklin. Jamesville. Jamesville. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Cornelius. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. Charlotte. 358 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. Name. Location. Mecklenburg :—Con . Southern Republican Co Southern Securities and Trust Co Spurrier Grocery Co White Buggy and Fertilizer Co . Mitchell: Avery Farms, Inc Elk Park Planing Mill Co Montezuma Bobbin Co Montgomery: Biscoe Lumber Co Maness-Hix Co Wade Lumber and Supply Co Moohe: Campbell-Kelly Medicine Co Cornwall-Carolina Construction Co Moore County Agriculture and Development Co.. Southern Plantation Co Sunnyside Land Co Nash: Fenner-Avent Stock Improvement Co New Hanover: Afro-American Mercantile Co Clarendon Coal Fields Co Eastern Carolina Piscatorial Association Hubbard Co John R. Turrentine, Jr., & Co., Inc Newton & Williamson Lumber Co _. Oak Island Hunting and Fishing Club, Inc Onslow Land and Investment Co Riverside Pleasure Co..--. Charlotte. Charlotte. Sandifer. Charlotte. Plumtree. Elk Park. Montezuma. Biscoe. Biscoe. Troy. Carthage. Carthage. Aberdeen. Southern Pines. Southern Pines. Rocky Mount. Wilmington. Wilmington. Wilmington. Wilmington. Wilm Wilm Wilm Wilm: Wilm Royal Grand Bouncers Co ! Wilm Wilmington Fair Association, Inc Wilmington Motor Car Co Wilmington Provision Co Wilmington Veneer and Basket Co.- W. J. Reaves Manufacturing Co Wilm Wilm Wilm: Wilm Wilm ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. ngton. Secketaey of State. 359 LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. 360 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Qon. Name. Secretary of State. 361 LIST OF CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS—Con. 362 Biennial Report LIST OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATEMENTS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1910, AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 1152 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 944 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1907. (Reported to Attobney-Genebal Under Chapteb 730 of the Public Laws of 1909. ) Name. Carolina Paper Pulp Co. (D. C.) Carolina Timber Co. (Mich.) Carolina Tin Co., Inc. (Va.) Catawba Gold Co. (N. J.) Corundum Mining and Manufacturing Co. (Del.)-.. Cumberland Lumber Co. (W. Va.) Draughon's Practical Business College (Tenn.) Enterprise Mica Co. (Me.) ._ Falls City Construction Co. (N. J.) Industrial Lumber Co. (N. Y.) Insurance Audit and Inspection Co. (Ind.) Miami Mining Co. (W. Va.) Old North State Mining and Milling Co. (Del.) Palachian Mining Co. (Del.) Parker-Thompson-Veeder Lumber Co. (N. Y.) Piedmont Tin Mining Co. (Ga.)... Soeo Creek Flume Co. (N. J.) Southern Bobbin Co. (W. Va.) Southern Engineering Co. (Ariz.).. Southern Mineral and Timber Co. (Va.) Sturm & Dillard Co. (W. Va.) Three M. Lumber Co. (Wis.) Tipp City Lumber Co. (Ohio) Troy and North Carolina Gold Mining Co. (N. Y.)_ Underwood Typewriter Co. (N. Y.) Union Development Co. (Ga.) Union Mining and Development Co. (Ariz.) West Lumber Co. (Va.) Wilson Shook and Lumber Co. (Va.) Location. New Bern. Mt. Sterling. Kings Mountain. Asheville. Hayesville. Wade. Raleigh. Franklin. Shelby. Mocksville. Greensboro. Concord. Gladstone. Greensboro. Morganton. Lincolnton. Waynesville. Greensboro. Newton. Murphy. Lake. Smokemont. Altapass. New London. Wilmington. Asheville. Waxhaw. Raleigh. Wilson. Secretary of State. 363 LIST OF NON-STOCK CORPORATIONS FAILING TO FILE ANNUAL STATE-MENTS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1010, AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 1152 OF THE RE-VISAL OF 1905, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 944 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1907. (Reohted to Attorney-General Under Chapter 730 of the Public Caws of 1909.) Name. Location. Asheville Hospital Co ; British-Amerinan Club, Inc Brothers Aid Society of Steele Creek No. 6 Commercial Club, Inc Commercial Club, Inc Commercial Club of Charlotte, Inc Eagle Club, Inc Grand Lodge of United Brotherhood of America, Inc Greensboro Centennial Association, Inc Greensboro Tobacco Association Greenville Lodge, No. 84, A. F. and A. M Humane Society of Washington, N. C Independent A. M. E. Denomination of the United States of America, Inc. Industrial Club, Inc. _ Industrial Club of Raleigh, Inc Iroquois Club , Inc Jackson Club, Inc Knights Commanders Co Lincoln Hospital Merchants Club of Gastonia, Inc Monroe Hospital Association, Inc Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, Inc Mount Olivet Presbyterian Church, Inc National Afro-American Civic League, Inc North Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc. Orphan Children's Home Co Pittman Hospital Association, Inc Tuscarora Club Young Men's Business Association, Inc Young Men's Industrial Co - Asheville. Asheville. Shopton. Kinston. Mt. Airy. Charlotte. Charlotte. Wilkesboro, R. 1. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greenville. Washington. Winston-Salem. Rockingham. Raleigh. Monroe. Monroe. Washington. Durham. Gastonia. Monroe. Mt. Airy. Burlington. Wadesboro. Greensboro. Winston. Tarboro. Wilson. Reidsville. Lincolnton. 364 Biennial Report THE FOLLOWING CORPORATIONS ARE REPORTED TO BE IN RECEIVERS' HANDS OR IN BANKRUPTCY AND WILL BE WOUND UP UNDER SECTION 1211 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905 UNLESS REORGANIZED. Name. Acme Drug Co Alamance Furniture Co _. Alton Manufacturing Co American Box and Veneer Co Appalachian Inter-Urban Railroad Co Appalachia Land and Lumber Co Arcade Shoe and Hat Store Co Asheville Music Co Asheville Rapid Transit Co Auditorium Skating Rink Co Automatic Bed Co Avent Live Stock Co Ayden Milling and Manufacturing Co Balfron Knitting Co Bank of Benson Bank of Dunn Barnes-Edgerton Co Bat Cave Railway Co Benson-Weathersby Co Bethune Drug Co Boney Co Brown Furniture Co '. Buffalo Manufacturing Co BuTgaw Buggy, Harness, Furniture and Casket Co Burlington House Furnishing Co _ Cameron Cotton Mills Co _.- Candor Sales Co... -_ Caney River Railway Co Cape Fear Fisheries Co Carolina Bakery Co Carolina Casket Co Castle Manufacturing Co Carolina Ice Machine Co... Carthage Buggy Co Centaur Knitting Co Principal Office. Raleigh. Mebane. Mebane. Raleigh. Hendersonville . Murphy. Durham. Asheville. Asheville. Greensboro. Greensboro. Rocky Mount. Ayden. Weldon. Benson. Dunn. Smithfield. Hendersonville. Nashville. Aberdeen. Wallace. - Salisbury. Stubbs. Burgaw. Burlington. Cameron. Candor. Bald Mountain. Wilmington. Wilmington. Elkin. Castle Hayne. Charlotte. Carthage. High Point. Secretary of State. 365 LIST OF CORPORATIONS IN RECEIVERS' HANDS—Con. Name. Principal OflSce. Central Hardware and Mantel Co Central Manufacturing Co Central Mercantile Co Charlotte Auditorium Co Chestnut Hill Drug Co Chiles-McCall Furniture Co City Grocery Co _ Clark Manufacturing Co Clark Millinery Co Clark Shoe Co Clear Run Lumber Co Clinton Light and Power Co Colonial Screen, Venetian Blind and Door Co. Columbia Mercantile Co Combination Lock Co Commercial Knitting Mills, Inc Company Store, Inc Concord Wholesale Grocery Co Continental Chair Co Co-operative Supply Co Courier Publishing Co Crescent Hardware Co Crowders Mountain Cotton Mills Crowell Furniture Co Dallas Lumber Manufacturing Co Dixie Club Grocery Co D. J. Bost Co Duffy & Co Dunlap, Turner & Shankle Co Duplin Telephone Co Durham Iron Works Co Durham Typewriter Exchange, Inc Eagle Furniture Co Edgerton & Johnson Lumber Co Ed. N. Penny, Inc Elk Mountain Cotton Mill Co Empire Lumber Co Greensboro. Lexington. Greenville. Charlotte. Salisbury. Lenoir. Gastonia. Jonesboro. Wilson. High Point. Clear Run. Clinton. Laurinburg. Columbia. Durham. Greenville. Hope Mills. Concord. Mebane. Rocky Mount. Mocksville. Greensboro. Phillipsburg. Lexington. Dallas. Statesville. Concord. Greensboro. Norwood. Warsaw. Durham. Durham. High Point. Goldsboro. Wilmington. Asheville. Greensboro. 3G6 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS IN RECEIVERS' HANDS—Con. Name. Principal Office. Eugenia Manufacturing Co Eureka Grocery Co Eureka Mica Mining and Milling Co Farmers Alii ance Exchange Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co Farrington Mercantile Co Floyd Bros. & Mitchell, Inc.. Franklin Kaolin Co Fry-Walker Lumber Co Gay Lumber Co G. D. Phares Furniture Co Glen & Carroll Co Grand Theatre Co Greensboro Furniture Manufacturing Co. Greensboro Table Co Guilford Furniture Co Harris-Wilcox Co Hazelwood Manufacturing Co... Hewlett-Grantham Harness Co Higgins Drug Co High Point Clothing Co High Point Planing Mill Co Hillsboro Clay Manufacturing Co Holton Drug Co House Furnishing and Decorating Co H. Susman Co.- Independent Ice and Coal Co Industrial Publishing Co lola Mining Co J. B. Green Co J. Ed. Albright Co J. F. Davenport Co --- J. Henry Smith Co J. H. Malone Co Jonesboro Sash and Blind Co J. P. Scales Cigar Co Keen Co Jonesboro. Durham. Plumtree. Bear Creek. Wilkesboro. Chapel Hill, R.F.D. No. 1. Ashpole. Franklin. Rutherfordton. Kinston. Wilmington. Concord. Raleigh. Greensboro. Greensboro. Greensboro. Durham. Waynesville. Wilson. Goldsboro. High Point. High Point. Hillsboro.' Greensboro. Diu-ham. Washington. Greensboro. Greensboro. Candor. Raleigh. Greensboro. Greenville . Durham. Durham. Jonesboro. Greensboro. Four Oaks. Secretary of State. 367 LIST OF CORPORATIONS IN RECEIVERS' HANDS—Cov. Name. Principal Office. King Printing Co. Winston-Salem. Kinston Lumber Co Kinaton. Kirkpatrick Brick Co Greensboro. LaFayette Cigar Co Fayetteville. Lenoir Buggy Co Lenoir. Lewis Lumber Co / Wilmington. Lincoln Metal Roofing Co Lincolnton. Lindsay Chair Co High Point. Linville Bobbin Co Linville. Lucama Manufacturing Co . Lucama. McDiarmid-Williams Lumber Co Rennert. Maxton Sash and Door Co Maxton. Maxwell Drug Co Whiteville. Mayo Bros. Hardware Co ] Wilson. Mebane Brick Co.. Mebane. * Merchants and Farmers Bank Dunn. Miller Dry Goods Co Charlotte. M. Levi Co Rutherfordton. Montezuma Bobbin Co Montezuma. Mount Airy Cotton Mill Co Mt. Airy. Neuse Milling Co.. i Smithfield. New Bern Lighting and Fuel Co New Bern. North Carolina Land and Timber Co Putnam. North Carolina Mica, Mineral and Lumber Co. Marion. North State Agency Co Charlotte. North State Bobbin Co Mt. Airy. North State Fulford Hardware Co Washington. Odell Manufacturing Co Concord. Oriental Manufacturing Co Oriental. Penncardan Lumber and Manufacturing Co Lenoir. Peoples Dry Goods Co Monroe. Phoenix Hotel Co Winston-Salem. Piedmont Brick Co Lowell. Piedmont Marble and Granite Co Lexington. Piedmont Supply Co Durham. Pilot Mountain Cotton Mill Co Pilot Mountain. Pittman-Best Co Goldsboro. 368 Biennial Report LIST OF CORPORATIONS IN RECEIVERS' HANDS—Con. Name. Principal Office. Proctor Trouser Co Cornelius. Racoarda Lumber Co Payetteville. Raleigh Cafe, Inc Raleigh. Raleigh Construction Co Raleigh. Raleigh Milling Co._._ Raleigh. Ramos Typewriter Co Wilmington. R. D. Godwin, Inc Raleigh. Red Cross Chemical Co... Wilmington. Reidsville Lumber Co Reidsville. Rex Furniture Co ,._ Lexington. Rich-Baggett Co Wilmington. Riddle-Boling & Brown Co Siler City. Riverside Grocery Co New Bern. Rockingham Drug Co Madison. Rowan Hardware Co— Salisbury. Salem Excelsior Co Winston-Salem. Salisbury Drug Co ._ Salisbury. Seaside Drug Co Manteo. Simmons-Anderson Co.. Rutherfordton. Smith-Forrest Co Raleigh. Snow Hill Supply Co Snow Hill. Southern Brass Co... Lexington. Southern Collar and Bridle Co __ Greensboro. Southern Cotton Mills Bessemer City. Southern Jobbing Co... New Bern. Southern Pants Co .-: Charlotte. Southern Trading Stamp Co Greensboro. Spencer Supply Co Spencer. Standard Furniture Co High Point. Standard Grocery Co Selma. Standard Laundry Co i Durham. Stephens Construction Co i Wilmington. Tar Heel Co ' Greensboro. T. C. Williams Co ; Payetteville. i Thermal Belt Sanitarium, Inc. _ | Tryon. Thompson-Brannon Co Asheville. Tucker Drug Co Raleigh. Secretary of State. 369 LIST OF CORPORATIONS IN RECEIVERS' HANDS.—Con. Name. Principal OflScc. Vade Mecum Springs Co Vermont Mills, Inc Vertical Paper Cutter Co W. C. Coleman Piano Co Weldon Ice Co West Bros. Co Westcott-Trenchard Lumber Co W. H. Dunbar Co W. H. Taylor Co Williams & Weilt Furniture Supply and Manufacturing Co. Willson Paint and Wall Paper Co Wilmington Sash, Door and Lumber Co Wilson Marine Grocery Co Wilson Publishing Co Winston Bargain House, Inc W. J. Griffin Co W. T. Mercer Co W. T. Sears & Co., Inc... Yadkin Valley Fair Association, Inc Yeagar Manufacturing Co Zebulon Lumber Co Vade Mecum. Bessemer City. Raleigh. Charlotte. Weldon. Rockingham. Jackson. Greensboro. Wilson. Hendersonville. Wilmington. Wilmington. Wilmington. Wilson. Winston. Manteo. Wilmington. Wilmington. Salisbury. Gastonia. Raleigh. 370 BiENN^iAL Report COMMISSIONERS OF AFFIDAVITS FOR NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENT IN OTHER STATES. Name. Residence. Expiration of Term. Bagley, E. G Braman, Ella F Braman, Joseph B Burnett, H. E Cassell, Norman Collins, M.V Corey, Edwin F Corey, Geo. H Fisher, Abraham H._ Harrison, Joseph T Hesse, Henry , Home, Pearce Hosier, J. Walter Hunt, J. Thomas Jordan, W. P., Jr McCarthy, Charles E. A._ Manly, Geo. W Noell, Walter C Pusey, S. F Shannonhouse, Wm. T Stancell, S. F Worsfold, T. Cato Wurts, John S... Danville, Va 120 Broadway, New York City 120 Broadway, New York City 228 S. 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa Portsmouth, Va 430 California St., San Francisco, Cal. .. 56 Wall St., New York City 56 Wall St., New York City 18 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md 182 4th St., Cincinnati, Ohio...... 148 W. 101st St., New York City Mar. 11, 1912 May 27, 1912 June 27, 1913 May 19, 1912 May 9, 1912 Sept. 2, 1912 Oct. 27, 1911 Nov. 8, 1911 Dec. 3, 1912 Dec. 13, 1911 April 1, 1912 Feb. 25, 1912 Dec. 10, 1912 Dec. 1, 1911 Feb. 28, 1913 June 9, 1912 Oct. 13, 1912 April 18, 1912 June 29, 1912 Oct. 16, 1911 Nov. 25, 1912 Aug. 18, 1912 1109 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.- Aug. 8, 1912 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C. Suffolk, Va - 623 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa Norfolk, Va 30 Church St., New York City 100 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md._ Danville, Va Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa Norfolk, Va , Norfolk, Va 9 Staple Inn, London, Eng
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Title | Biennial report of the Secretary of State of North Carolina for the... |
Other Title | Biennial report of the Department of State of North Carolina... |
Creator | North Carolina. Secretary of State. |
Contributor | Barnes, Guy V. |
Date | 1908; 1909; 1910 |
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North Carolina. Secretary of State--Periodicals Corporations--North Carolina--Registers North Carolina--Politics and government--Periodicals |
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STEPHEN Bo WEEKS CLASS OF 1886; PH.D. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
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BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE
TWO FISCAL YEARS ENDING
NOVEMBER 30, 1910
RALEIGH
Edwards & Bbouohton Printing Co., State Printers
1910
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BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE
TWO FISCAL YEARS ENDING
NOVEMBER 30, 1910
RALEIGH
EDWARDS & BROUGHTON PRINTING CO,, STATE PRINTERS
1910
CONTENTS
I. Public Lands.
II. Grants Indexed.
III. SuPBEME Court Reports.
IV. Permanent Poll of Registered Voters.
V. Need of an Administration Building.
VI. Corporations.
VII. Trade Marks.
VIII. Banks.
IX. Railroads.
X. Foreign Corporations.
XI. Automobiles.
XII. Side Noting and Indexing.
XIII. Enrollment of Bills.
XIV. Laws and Documents.
XV. Legislative Reference Librarian.
XVI. Payments to Treasurer.
BIENNIAL REPORT
OF THE
SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR THE
TWO FISCAL YEARS ENDING NOVEMBER 30, 1910
State of JSTorth Carolina,
Department of State,
Kaleigh, December 1, 1910.
To His Excellency, William W. Kitchin,
Governor.
Sir:—I have the honor to submit herewith to j^ou a report
concerning the Department of State for the two years ending
November 30, 1910, and to request you to transmit the same to
the Greneral Assembly.
PUBLIC LANDS.
Within the last two fiscal years there have been issued from
this office 317 grants of public lands, on which account there
has been paid to the Treasurer $9,695.85. These grants were
as follows, for the year ending:
Regular grants
Cherokee grants
Road grants
Shell fish
Oyster
180 137
In addition to the above amount $300 was paid into the
Treasury by Attorney-General Bickett, proceeds from a com-promise
judgment of State ex rel. Attorney-General v. W. J.
Owen et al.
The Code of 1883, section 2764, fixed the price of public
lauds at twenty-five (25) cents an acre for amounts less than
one hundred (100) acres, and fifty (50) cents an acre for each,
acre where more than one hundred acres was entered. This
law was changed in 1885 (chapter 185) when section 2764 of
The Code was amended by striking out the word ''twenty-five"
wherever it occurred and inserting "twelve and a half" and
striking out the word ''fifty" wherever it occurred and in-serting
"fifteen," thus the price was reduced to twelve and a
half and fifteen cents an acre. In 1903 (chapter 272) the
Nov. 30,
1909.
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entry law was again amended, and a price fixed at not Icrfs
than fifty cents an acre.
There is much confusion in the State as to what lands are
subject to entry and what land belongs to the State Board of
Education. Many grantees have subsequently purchased their
lands from the State Board of Education to clear their titles
and quiet any claim the State Board might have to their lands.
To cure this trouble the General Assembly of 1909 passed an
act (chapter 447) which repealed section 1733 of the Revisal
of 1905, and fixed a price of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50)
for each acre entered. Section 3 of the act provided "That all
lands entered under this act, for which a grant has been ob-tained
at the price of one dollar and fifty cents an acre, shall
be free from all claims, title or interest that is now vested in
the State of North Carolina or the State Board of Education."
This law became effective April 1, 1909. If for any cause the
Secretary of State has reason to believe that the State Board
of Education has title or claims to land entered, the matter is
called to the attention of the Superintendent of Public Instruc-tion,
and is handled in such way as seems proper and to the
best interest of the State.
The attention of the Secretary of State is occasionally called
to the fact that a grant of land contains in reality many more
acres than the grantee paid for. This is sometimes due to an
erroneous computation of area by the surveyor, but more fre-quently
from an improper or indefinite survey. It does not
seem to be the contemplation of the law that the Secretary of
State should review the work of the surveyor, and it has never
been done. It seems that surveyors should be under bond and
their bonds held responsible for any loss occasioned to the State
by their errors or incompetency.
The lands granted for the past two years have been generally
distributed over the State. Grants were issued for lands in the
following counties:
Total
Counties. 1909.
Alexander 2
Alleghany
Ashe 5
Beaufort 1
Bladen 3
Brunswick 13
Burke 6
Caldwell 5
Camden 2
Carteret 1
Catawba
Total
1910.
2
Secretary of State.
Total
Counties. 190;).
Cherokee 1
Chowan 1
Clay 2
Cleveland 1
Columbus 6
Craven ,
1
Cumberland 1
Currituck 1
Dare t>
J)avidson
Duplin
Gaston 2
Graham <'
Henderson 1
Hyde . . . .• 1
Jackson -^
Jones
Lee 1
Macon 18
Madison 1
McDowell 10
Mitchell 1
^Montgomery 4
Moore 2
New Hanover 1
Onslow 2
Pamlico
Pender 5
Perquimans 1
Polk 2
Rockingham
Rutherford 5
Sampson
Scotland
. Stanly 2
Surry 4
Swain 1
Transylvania 5
Union 1
W ashington 1
\\'atauga 6
Wilkes 15
Yancey 10
Total 169
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In addition to the above there were issued as follows
:
Cherokee grants during fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1909
:
For Macon County 1
For Graham County 3
For Cherokee County 4
Total 8
Cherokee grants for fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1910:
For Cherokee County 3
Road grants issued in Jackson County during 1909 2
There was one shell fish grant issued under Acts of 1889
during fiscal year ending November 30, 1909. This grant was
in Onslow County. .
Oj^ster grants, on account of which money was paid to the
Treasurer under the new law, are included in the number in
above statement. •
LAND GRANTS.
The following is a table of grants issued since 1882
:
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1882,
1,189; amounts paid Treasurer $10,912.87
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1884,
1,329 ; amounts paid Treasurer 13,18(i.73
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1880,
990; amovmts paid Treasurer 5,975.09
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1888,
893 ; amounts paid Treasurer 9,493.49
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1890,
1,453; amounts jjaid Treasurer 15,570.43
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1892,
1,358 ; amounts paid Treasurer 10,831.11
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1894,
703 : amounts paid Treasurer 5,200.73
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1890,
547 ; amounts paid Treasurer 9,234.40
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1898,
599; amounts paid Treasurer 0,337.13
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1900,
005 ; amounts paid Treasurer 0,384.09
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1902,
732 ; amounts paid Treasurer 0,91 1.88
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1904,
789 ; amounts paid Treasurer 1 1,230.00
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1900,
488 : amounts paid Treasurer 10,551.47
Secretary of State. 9
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, IDOS,
529 ; amounts paid Treasurer 16,025.49
Number grants issued two years ending December 1, 1910,
317 : amounts paid Treasurer 9,605.85
GRANTS INDEXED.
The General Assembly cf 1909, chapter 505, passed "An act
to establish a card-index system for grants, and to rearrange
and change the method of filing warrants, plats and surveys
in the Secretary of State's office." For this purpose $1,500 a
year for two years was appropriated. This sum has been ex-pended
as follows
:
1909. 1910.
W. P. Batchelor $800.00 $1,000.00
Mrs. M. B. Syme. .' 120.00 224.32
Mrs. E. H. Winfree 80.00
Miss A. C. Bledsoe 250.00 267.67
Miss Sophy M. Grimes 100.00 8.00
N. P. Parker 150.00
$1,500.00 $1,500.00
The work has been done by Mr. W. P. Batchelor with sev-eral
lady assistants. It has been tedious, vexatious and much
slower than I had anticipated. Searches for many lost and
misplaced papers have consumed much time. A detailed report
of this work is found in the following letter from Mr.
Batchelor
:
"With reference to the work of rearranging and filing the
papers relating to land grants and preparing a card index to
these papers and the records of grants, I beg to report that the
work of rearranging and filing the papers has been completed
down to and including the year 1795, except as to the lands
located in what is now Tennessee. The card index to the
records, -giving the file number of the papers, has been com-pleted
to Granville County, inclusive, except as to Craven
County.
"In undertaking this work I was prepared to believe that
while it would be slow and laborious it was absolutely neces-sary.
But no one could realize how necessary, how laborious,
how tedious it was without actual experience. I have had per-sonal
knowledge of the working of the office of the Secretary
of State since 1881. During none of that time has it ever been
allowed enough of clerical force to carry on its daily work
unless at many times within the year the whole force works
long hours over time. Up to 1882 the papers on which the old
land grants were issued were kept without systematic arrange-
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ment in bundles stored in nooks and crevices in the Secretary's
office and in a little closet around the corner. On the com-pletion
of the Supreme Court building the Secretary of State
was given two rooms, and Col. Saunders, the then Secretary
of State, braced his already overworked force to the attempt
of producing order out of chaos. Finally such of the papers
as could be found were arranged by counties and placed in
filing boxes. The work was as well done as the circumstances
allowed, but was far from perfect.
"In doing this present work I found that during 3^our admin-istration
the system had been improved by arranging counties
alphabetically and filing the papers by dates. This, while a
great improvement, was inadequate, because it afforded no
guidance as to where the papers should be returned. Almost
every box I have opened presented evidence that the papers in
it had been disarranged, and in the papers of almost every
county were found papers belonging to other counties. It was
this disarrangement which prevented the index for Craven
being made in the regular order. For various reasons the
papers for that county have been more in research than any of
the others. In consequence of this it has required arrange-ment
and rearrangement, and again rearrangement, to bring
them to even a semblance of order. The giving of each paper
a file number and the arrangement of these file numbers seri-atim
will obviate this difficulty. Persons examining these old
papers can see where each belongs, and it will be little trouble
to restore each to its proper place. Then, as the file number
of each paper is entered on the margin of the record book, the
finding of the record of the grant locates the papers on which
such grant was issued Mathout the necessity of the rummaging
through the whole file, by which so many of these papefs have
been destroyed, so many others lost, and so many others mis-placed.
And this destruction, loss and misarrangement of
papers has, more than all other causes, made the work tedious
and slow. When a paper exists and is filed in its proper place
the work of comparing it with the record, filing it and com-pleting
the endorsement can be done certainly, easily and
quickly. It is the search for lost or misplaced papers which
consumes time and gives trouble. I recall, especially, that the
unsuccessful search for one paper, the finding of which circum-stances
made vitally important to the interests of the State,
consumed more than a week. This condition will be testified
to by the Grant Clerk, who is often called upon to spend many
hours in search of a paper which may not exist. When the
work now in process is complete any paper in existence can be
found within three minutes, and if any paper is lost the fact
is shown by a memorandum filed where such paper should be.
Secretary of State. 11
"I was very much annoyed and troubled in the beginning of
this work to discover the almost entire absence of papers re-lating
to grants issued before 1740. Your explanation that
under the Lords Proprietors, and probably for some time after,
such papers were most likely sent to the home offices in London,
relieved this complication.
"In outlining a system for the work I had a belief that the
card index could well wait the completion of the rest of the
undertaking. I was soon to find, however, two good reasons
for a change of this opinion. The old index had been worked
so hard and had responded so well that I had grown to think
it infallible. I still regard it as a wonderfully good piece of
work, but the cold criticism of comparison with the books, page
by page, shows enough of omission and discrepancy to make
the new index a pressing necessity. And further, the present
index gives no mention of the many papers discovered of which
no record has been made. Of these papers there are some thou-sands,
and the index will locate each of them.
"The work done is very nearly half what has to be done ; and
I can not too earnestly recommend its completion. The State
owes to its citizens the duty of so keeping the records of the
titles to their homes and farms as that they can be ascertained
quickly, certainly and at moderate expense. These records
cover the titles to all the lands of the State. The work of ar-ranging
them so as to be easy of reference and identification
should have begun with the beginning of the records. The fact
that it was neglected for more than two hundred years has made
it a tedious and expensive labor. Each further day of delay
will add to the labor and cost. Even now, while the records
are in such condition that, given plenty of time and work they
can be identified, many of the papers on which these records
are based have been so worn by handling as to be illegible, and
many have been lost. As to whether this work shall be con-tinued
is a matter for the General Assembly to determine. I
will be glad to have a committee examine the work.
"Allow me to say one word of thanks to you for the assistants
you selected for me in the work. Certainly no man ever had a
corps of more faithful, cheerful, prompt and efficient co-work-ers
than you gave me. If there be any ground to complain of
the amount accomplished, the complaint must be against me;
for, realizing that perfect accuracy was the first consideration,
I did more to restrain than to stimulate their ardor. If any
mistake in the work should develop I am responsible. I re-viewed
all their work, and found so few errors that I am ready
to vouch for its accuracy."
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supreme court reports.
During the last tAvo fiscal years there has been paid into the
State Treasury from sale of Supreme Court Reports
—
For year ending November 30, 1909 $9,100.39
For year ending November 30, 1910 8,375.61
$17,482.00
Old reports out of print, or nearly so, have been annotated
by Judge Walter Clark, and reprinted as follows : Volumes 5,
6, 7, 8, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 45, 88, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96,
97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110,
111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125,
127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136.
Many of these volumes should have been reprinted years ago,
but the congested condition of the public printing did not per-mit
it. Several years ago of each volume reprinted five hun-dred
copies were published ; this number was then increased to
seven hundred copies, and now one thousand copies are made.
Of the current volumes one thousand copies were printed ; this
was soon found to be insufiicient, and the number was increased
to twelve hundred, and recently the number has been increased
to sixteen hundred and eighty copies of each volume piiblished.
Now, for the first time in many years, a complete set of Supreme
Court Reports is obtainable, and reprinting will be discontinued.
The sales of Reports for the past few years have been as
follows
:
Two years ending December 1. 1882 $3,352.40
Two years ending December 1, 1884 4,626.90
Two years ending December 1, 1880 3,253.00
Two years ending December 1. 1888 3.762.49
Two years ending December 1, 1890 4,002.02
Two years ending December 1, 1892 2,618.01
Two years ending December 1, 1894 621.12
Two years ending December 1, 1896 6,026.89
Two years ending December 1, 1898 5,759.55
Two years ending December 1, 1900 7,692.59
Two years ending December 1, 1902 7,026.89
Two years ending December 1, 1904 9,842.25
Two years ending December 1, 1906 15,034.54
Two years ending December 1, 1908 14,661.74
Two years ending December 1. 1910 17,482.00
The Reports have been moved from various rooms and ware-houses
in the city and are now on the fourth floor of the TJzzell
building, for which storage place the Secretary of State is now
Secretary of State. 13
paying $20 per montli, and on the second floor of the Commer-cial
Printing Company building, for which floor the Secretary
of State is now paying $25 a month.
PERMANENT ROLL OF REGISTERED VOTERS.
The permanent roll of registered voters, as required by the
Constitution, Art. VI, sec. 4, and provided for in chapter 550,
section 4, Public Laws of 1901, and chapter 178, Public Laws
of 1903, is now finished, as the last registrations thereunder
were made in 1908. For each county there is a well-bound, sub-stantial
book for each of the years 1902, 1904, 1906, and two
for 1908—the special and general elections of that year. The
names of the counties are on the backs of the books, and the
lists are reported by tOA^niships alphabetically arranged. There
are nearly five hundred of these books, and it is probable that
the time will come when the call for information from them
will require the arrangement of a full index of the names reg-istered
therein. It was intended by the law that these rolls
should be consolidated, but no clerical assistance was provided
by the General Assembly for this work. The assistance now
given is insufficient to do the regular work of the office as
promptly as I Avould wish to have it done.
NEED OF AN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
In the report of the Secretary of State two years ago I said
:
'Tor more than a quarter of a century each Secretary of
State has called attention to the need of a proper place for the
storage of the many thousands of dollars worth of books belong-ing
to the State. The books have been corded in piles in various
rooms about the city, and subject to damage and dangers of
many kinds. The Laws and Supreme Court Keports are now
stored on the fourth floor of the Uzzell building, in a hall
60 X 100 feet, for which the State is paying a rental of $240 a
year. The number of books is annually increasing, and the
State should make provisions for properly caring for the same.
"The Board of Public Buildings added the large room on the
third floor of the northeast side of the Capitol, formerly occu-pied
by the Insurance Commissioner, to the rooms of the State
Department, but this is now more than full of old manuscript
journals, laws and valuable documents of many kinds. The
Secretary of State now shares that room with the Historical
Commission.
"The large room on the southwest side of the third floor of
the Capitol was, some years ago, made a part of the offices al-lotted
to the Department of State. This room is filled with offi-cial
records, maps, manuscripts, priceless documents, old bills
arid acts of the General Assembly, etc. During sessions of the
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General Assembly it is used as an enrolling office. In the old
closets of the Capitol there are many thousands of valuable
papers that should he properly filed if space permitted.
"There is no space in the Capitol to arrange for the books and
documents that are now overflowing every department, and a
fireproof Hall of Records should be built to care for the highly
perishable property that the State has now on hand. Many
manuscripts, papers, books and historical relics would be do-nated
to the State if a proper repository was provided for their
safe-keeping."
Conditions are now worse, and we are "even more crowded
than then. In addition to the Uzzell building I have rented the
second floor of the Commercial Printing Company's building
for storage purposes, at a cost to the State of $25 a month. In
the cramped surroundings of the various offices the State can
not secure as satisfactory and efficient service as would be pos-sible
with better facilities and more room, and more up-to-date
conveniences. In my opinion it would be to the advantage of
our people and an economy for our State to acquire the two
blocks bounded by Edenton and Jones, Wilmington and Salis-bury
streets, and erect thereon a modern, up-to-date, fireproof
administration building that Avould meet the needs of the State
for fifty years. These two blocks conjoined would then form a
public square 420 x 516 feet, the same width as Union Square,
on which the Capitol stands.
CORPORATIONS.
There have been 2,108 certificates for domestic corporations
filed in the office of the Secretary of State for the past two years,
on which $45,371.96 as organization, amendment and dissolu-tion
taxes have been paid.
The dissolutions have been as follows
:
265 dissolutions, November 30, 1908, to November 30, 1909
364 dissolutions, November 30, 1909, to November 30, 1910
The great increase of dissolutions in 1909 and 1910 is mainly
due to an act of the General Assembly of 1909, chapter 730, re-quiring
corporations out of business to legally dissolve, and is
also in part due to the corporation tax of the Federal govern-ment.
Many of these corporations have been out of business
for some time, and we have heretofore been unable to prevail
upon them to comply with the law and dissolve properly. The
following table shows the corporation certificates filed
:
For the year ending November 30, 1893 21
For the year ending November 30, 1894 115
For the year ending November 30, 1895 133
For the year ending November 30, 1896 151
Seceetaey of State. 15
For the year ending November 30, 1897 147
For the year ending November 30, 1898 156
For the year ending November 30, 1899 . 207
For the year ending November 30, 1900 306
For the year ending November 30, 1901 327
For the year ending November 30, 1902 395
For the year ending November 30, 1903 554
For the year ending November 30, 1904 540
For the year ending November 30, 1905 697
For the year ending November 30, 190G 821
For the year ending November 30, 1907 839
For the year ending November 30, 1908 763
For the year ending November 30, 1909 1050
For the year ending November 30, 1910 1058
The present method of collecting the various taxes and sta-tistics
required by law from the corporations of the State is
confusing and burdensome to the corporations, and requires
fully twice as much clerical labor in the various departments
as is necessary. Keports for obtaining the amount of excess
tax due by corporations are made to the Corporation Commis-sion.
That body, after making out a statement of the amount
due, certifies a list thereof to the State Auditor, who notifies
the corporations of the amount and asks a remittance to the
State Treasurer, who is required to collect such tax and also a
franchise tax from the same corporations, to which he sends
blanks for that purpose. In addition the Secretary of State is
required to cause each corporation to file in his office a state-ment
giving amount of capital stock authorized, the amount
issued and the names and addresses of the officers and directors.
All these reports, statements and calls for taxes of different
kinds should be covered by one report to be filed in one office,
and all taxes should be paid into that office. This plan would
relieve the corporations of the necessity of making reports to all
these officers, and at the same time save a considerable amount
of money to the State in the way of postage and clerical work.
The work necessary in any one of these departments to handle
all these matters would not be considerably greater than it is at
present, when handling only one kind of tax or one kind of re-port
or statement. The corporations of the State will some day
insist upon the modernizing of present cumbrous and vexatious
methods, and ask that their reports be simplified and consoli-dated.
In addition to reports to the State, Federal reports and
taxes are now required.
Another matter to which the attention of the General As-sembly
might be called is the present inadequate law for the in-corporation
and management of trust companies. The banking
law has been so amended by a recent, but very imperfect act.
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that tliey may be established in connection with banks, but there
is no law by which a trust company can be incorporated inde-pendently.
A modern, conservative law which will encourage
the organization of such corporations and, at the same time,
safeguard the interests of the public by proper State super-vision,
should be enacted.
TRADE-MARKS.
For the two years ending November 30, 1910, twenty-nine
trade-marks have been registered. A list of these will be ap-pended
to this rej)ort.
For the year ending November 30, 1909 19
For the year ending November 30, 1910 10
29
BANKS.
Under chapter 7, Revisal of 1905, sixty-two banks have been
incorporated, a list of which appears elsewhere in this report.
For the year ending November 30, 1909 26
For the year ending November 30, 1910 36
62
RAILROADS.
The following seventeen railroad companies have filed certifi-cates
in this office according to chapter 61 of the Revisal of
1905:
For the year ending November 30, 1909 :
Sanford and Glendon Railroad Company.
Piedmont Railway Company. Reorganization. (Name chailged from
Carolina Valley Railroad Company.)
Northampton and Hertford Railway Company. Reorganization.
Sanford and Glendon Railroad Company. Amendment.
Ashe County Railroad Company.
Carthage and Pinehurst Railroad Company. Amendment.
For the year ending November 30, 1910:
Lumberton and Elizabethtown Railroad Company.
North and South Carolina Railway Company.
Jackson Railroad Company.
Black Mountain Railway Company.
Rockingham Railroad Company.
Hemlock Railroad Company.
Roanoke Railway Company.
Mica Belt Railway Company.
North Carolina-Virginia Railway Company.
Madison Covmty Railway Company.
Micaville Southern Railwav.
Secketary of State. 17
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.
Under section 1194, chapter 21, of the Revisal of 1905, 84
foreign corporations filed statements and copies of charters, and.
paid entrance taxes for two years ending Xovember 30, 1910:
For year ending November 30, 1909 33
For year ending November 30, 1910 51
84 AUTOMOBILES.
The General Assembly of 1909 enacted chapter 445, "An act
to provide for the registration and identification of motor
vehicles, and to regulate the use of public highways by such
vehicles and persons passing such vehicles, and to provide pen-alties
for the violation thereof." Under this law 2,018 auto-mobiles
have been registered, and on this account, and on ac-count
of renewals and transfers, $11,900.10 has been paid into
the State Treasury. The chief purpose of this act was an at-tempt
to abate the nuisance of dangerous and reckless driving
by vicious or inconsiderate motormen. From many sources in-formation
comes of the nonperformance of duty by officers of
the law, and there is much complaint at the heedless fast driv-ing
by unknown or irresponsible people. The law should be
made stronger, penalties should be more severe, and the law offi-cers
should be more alert. There should be a personal and
criminal liability for accidents caused by indifferent or heed-less
driving or speeding in violation of the law. This would be*
welcomed by law-abiding owners of automobiles, and is a pro-tection
that the public is entitled to.
SIDE-NOTING AND INDEXING.
In reference to side-noting and indexing, I beg leave to quote
from my report two years ago
:
"Section 2733 of the Revisal of 1905 requires an assistant of
the Secretary of State to index the laws and prepare the laws
and captions for publication, and provides for the payment of
$500 for this work. This is insufficient pay for the work to be
done. The laAvs are more than twice the volume that they were
a few years ago, and the pay is less. The following table will
illustrate
:
Amount No. of Pages Public
Year. Paid. and Private Laws.
1891 .$()10 1,-509
1893 tiOO 1,140
189.5 fiOO 1,18.5
1897 400 1,239
1899 400 2,109
1901 400 2,204
1903 .500 2,190
190.5 500 2,238
1907 .500 2.895
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"The captions, from being a small pamphlet, has grown into a
considerable volume of nearly 400 pages, and under the caption
of each act a full sjaiopsis of it is given. With the greatly in-creased
number of laws passed, and the largely increased bulk
of the captions, it has been found necessary to index the cap-tions.
The side-noting is also a very considerable work, re-quiring
much time and considerable skill.
"Almost half of the laws are passed at the close of the session,
requiring much rush and night work, and in the closing weeks
the Committee on Enrolled Bills can not leave their duties in
the House to examine and correct the enrolled bills Avith the care
that should be given them; so, notwithstanding the fact that
there are competent proof-readers in the Enrolling Office in the
closing weeks of the General Assembly, many errors creep into
the ratified copies.
"I recommend that the pay of this assistant be increased from
$500 to $750, and that it also be made a part of his duties to
carefully read, edit and prepare for the printer each act passed.
This would insure much greater accuracy in the laws and would
be an economy to the State. The work of preparing captions,
making a synopsis of and indexing the same, and side-noting
and indexing the laws, is now being done for less than it is
worth."
ENROLLMENT OF BILLS.
In reference to the enrollment of bills I will quote from my
report in 1908 :
"The present method of the enrcllment of bills is a great im-provement
over the old system. They are now typewritten and
a carbon copy made at the same time for the printers. These
typewritten copies are bound in volumes, which are much
handier than the old bulky volumes of handwritten bills. In
my last report (December, 1906) I called attention to the fact
that more than half the bills passed in 1905 were sent to the
Enrolling Office in the last ten days of the session. This in-cluded
many of the longest and most important bills, which
caused an undue rush, much all night work, and prevented to
some extent the pains taking time that should have been given
these bills to insure their accuracy. In 1907 this congestion at
the close of the session was even more marked than in 1905. At
that session the General Assembly passed 1,535 acts; 1,245, or
over 80 per cent of these, were ratified during the last twenty
days of the session; 901 of them in the last ten days, and 237
on the last day. In such rush work it is almost impossible to
have it properly done.
"The Committee on Enrolled Bills can not devote time to ex-amining
such a congested mass of bills without neglecting their
duties on the floor of the General Assembly, and find it a physi-
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cal impossibility to read over these laws in the limited time they
have. Tliis congestion cansed much crude legislation and inany
inaccuracies. This should be avoided.
"The Secretary of State should be authorized to have a clerk
or assistant carefully proof read a second time every act passed
by the General Assembly, and prepare a correct copy for the
printer, making such purely clerical corrections as do not change
the law. This would be to the interest of the State and greatly
facilitate the printing of the laws."
"I will here take the liberty to repeat a recommendation made
two years ago (1906), and will quote directly from my last
report
:
"All bills should be printed daily as introduced, but this
seems impracticable for want of adequate printing facilities.
However, all important bills should be printed in large type,
triple-spaced, with wide margins for notes and amendments.
In amending, reference should be made to the words before and
after the place where insertion is to be made, and especially is
this true of supplemental acts. In engrossing a bill the numbers
and relative positions of the lines are changed ; again the lines
are changed in enrolling, and again changed in printing; so
reference to the number of line is meaningless, and often leads
to confusion and errors.
"As the handwriting of the members is not always so clear
and legible as to prevent misreading, all bills should be type-written
when introduced—the public bills at State expense and
private bills at cost of interested parties.
"Typewritten bills and resolutions passing without amend-ment
should be enrolled without being engrossed, as such a
course will save the State considerable unnecessary expense.
This was done to a large extent last session, but it should be-come
the invariable rule.
"As I said in my last report, if the Engrossing Departments
of the House and Senate were combined and made into one de-partment,
and the copjdng therein done with typewriters, it
would be in the interest of accuracy and economy. The Chief
Engrossing Clerk and assistants could be appointed by the
Speaker of the House and President of the Senate."
"The Journals should be printed daily and a copy placed on
the desks of the members of the Legislature every morning. The
State Printers inform me that they are now sufficiently equipped
to meet this requirement."
LAW§ AND DOCUMENTS.
Heretofore more copies of the Public Laws have been printed
than were necessary, as the number of justices of the peace have
been very much reduced. This has caused an accumulation of
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old laws. The number printed should be very materially re-duced.
It may be advisable to make some change as to the publication
of public documents as the present method was adopted when
the number and volume of reports was small, and not the bulky,
voluminous documents we now have.
The General Assembly of 1909 provided that hereafter the
laws shall be divided into three classes—"public, public local, and
private laws." The laws of 1909, public and private, embraced
2,391 pages. Only 262 pages of these were strictly public. This
change will save several thousand dollars in the cost of printing
alone. It is probably safe to say that two-thirds of the laws en-acted
by the General Assembly relate to matters which the at-tention
of the Legislature should not be distracted with, and
much valuable time is consumed that should be devoted to im-portant
public questions. These private acts should be governed
by general laws, and most of the legislation now demanding the
time of the General Assembly could be passed upon, as in some
of the other States, by departments authorized to attend to such
matters, or by the Clerks of the Superior Court, County Com-missioners
or some local authority, safeguarded by a referendum.
Besides the time of the General Assembly, many, many thou-sands
of dollars would be saved to this State.
' In the General Assembly of 1909, as incredible as it may
seem, the records show that more than 66 per cent of the laws
of the session were enrolled and ratified in the last ten days of
the session. This was an injustice to the State and a menace
to safe legislation. Many of these bills were never read by com-mitteemen.
It was an impossibility for the members of tlie Com-mittee
on Enrolled Bills to read them, even if they had entirely
abandoned or resigned their seats in the General Assembly and
given their time up to this work. It seems imperative that some
plan should be devised to correct this congestion at the close
of the sessions.
Of the 1,319 laws, comprising 2,391 pages, enacted by the
General Assembly of 1909, 174 were strictly public laws, making
262 pages of necessary legislation that perhaps could not be
attended to except by legislative enactment. Of the laws passed
14 were relative to local courts.
26 referred to the number and pay of county commissioners.
22 to jurors drawing pay.
28 appointing justices of the peace, additional to the omni-bus
justice of the ])eace bill and to those elected by the people.
8 to primaries.
9 to prohibition.
94 to roads.
11 to stock laAvs.
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7 to automobile laws.
9 to court stenographers.
27 arrears of taxes.
6 to deer.
7 to hunting.
79 to game laws.
29 to fishing.
11 to drainage.
120 laAvs referring to graded schools, school districts, teacher?,
etc.
4 to depredations of domestic fowls.
26 to corporations.
8 to banks.
27 to railroads.
122 to cities and towns (embracing 548 pages).
Besides many acts, such as leaves of absence for clerks of the
court, providing for appointment of cotton Aveighers, giving
police powers, etc.
The Constitution should be amended so as to require more
than three-fourths of our legislation to be done under general
laws. The Recorder's or local courts might be established when
needed by joint action of County Commissioners and justices of
the peace, with a referendum to the voters.
The pay of jurors. County Treasurers, the pay and number
of County Commissioners, standard keepers, cotton weighers,
etc., should be provided for under general laws.
A general road law presenting alternative systems, all under
control of a State highway engineer, and allowing County Com-missioners
and magistrates to put in operation such system as
best suited their counties, subject to a referendum to their voters,
should be adopted. Police powers, game laws, stock laws and
such matters should be under general laws giving powers to
local authorities upon the vote of the people.
Drainage should be provided for under general laws. It would
somewhat restrain the flood of private laws passed at the close
of the session if the mandate of the Constitution (Article II,
section 12) was enforced, requiring that the thirty days' notice
of application to pass such a law shall have been given.
''The Constitution now provides (Article VIII, section 1)
that corporations shall not be created by special act, except in
cases where in the judgment of the Legislature the object of the
corporation can not be attained under general laws." This in-hibition
is frequently overlooked, and many charters are granted
which should be created under the general law.
The chartering of corporations with special privileges is con-trary
to the spirit of our Constitution, and should be jealously
watched by the General Assembly. The present Worth Carolina
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Corporation Laws are extremely liberal, and every reasonable
power and privilege can be obtained under them. Municipal
corporations should not be created by special laws, but the
Legislature, by general laws, should provide for the incorpora-tion
and organization of cities and towns and the classification
of same in proportion to population. This is the case in many
States of the Union, and works for uniformity and the best in-terests
of the people.
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN.
Pigeon-holed and inaccessible in rooms and closets of the
CajDitol are the bills and resolutions introduced into the Gen-eral
Assembly, and reports and petitions to that body since our
eai4iest history. Many of these bills became laws and many
failed to pass. All should be chronologically arranged and in-dexed
as they shed much light on public questions and give
much information as to the legislative history of the State.
These scattered papers are known as "The Document Library,"
and are in the custody of the State Librarian, who is Legislative
Document Librarian. The State Librarian noAV has more duties
than he can properly attend to, and his work is growing every
year.
A Legislative Reference Librarian Avould be a most useful and
economical officer to the State. It could be made his duty to
collect, tabulate and annotate information for the use of mem-bers
and committees of the General Assembly upon all questions
of legislation coining before that body. He should make refer-ences
and analytical comparisons of legislation upon similar
questions in other States, and have at hand the laws- of other
States, papers, magazine articles and discussions of the ques-tion,
both pro and con. Such indexing, tabulation and general
information would be invaluable to the busy legislator. It could
be made this officer's duty to edit all laws for the State Printer,
annotating the' laws as passed and keeping the Revisal of 1905
revised to date. He should also assist in the preparation of bills
for current legislation, thereby avoiding much duplication and
much unnecessary printing.
PAYMENTS TO TREASURER.
1909. 1910.
Automobiles : $5,530.00 $0,370.10'
Corporations (organization tax) 24,514.00 20,857.96
Corporations (statements) 3,387.50 3,575.00
Corporations (foreign) 683.30 1,332.00
Corporations (seals) 537.50 646.50
Corporations ( fees ) 2,626.80 2,949.25
Fees 1,309.47 718.02
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Seals
Supreme Court Reports 9,106.39
Laws and Journals
Miscellaneous (and i)enalty)
Trade-marks
Postage
Land grant fees
Land grants
NoTE^The amounts of money received by this department (except for entries of vacant
lands) bie paid to the Treasurer on the first of the month following the month in which
they are collected, and so appear in his accounts. For instance, money received by the
Secretary of State for November, and entered in the November accounts of this office,
appears in the December accounts of the Treasurer, and so for the other months of the
year.
My assistants in the regular work of the office for the past
two years have been Messrs. George W. Norwood, W. S. Wil-son,
J. E. Sawyer and Miss Minnie Bagwell. I wish to pub-licly
thank them for their high efficiency and loyal help.
$.522.16
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