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- Public documents of the State of North Carolina [1903 v.1, pt.1]
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- 1903
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Public documents of the State of North Carolina [1903 v.1, pt.1]
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46
Document No. i.
[.Session
ted States, to enter upon any lands within the boundaries of
the State for the purpose of making the required surveys. X
am glad to make this recommendation. Similar acts have
been passed in many of the States of the Union in aid of the
valuable scientific and engineering work carried on by the
Geological Survey of the United States. The form of the
act requested is as follows: “For the purpose of making the
surveys required of the Federal Geological Survey, by acts
of the United States Congress, it shall be lawful for the per¬
sons employed in making the same to enter upon any lands
within the boundaries of this State, but this' act shall not be
construed as authorizing an unnecessary interference with
private rights.”
REFORMATORY FOR YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS.
There will be laid before you by the King’s Daughters and
Sons of this State, a petition asking you to make an appropri¬
ation for a reformatory for youthful criminals. This peti¬
tion states facts which make clear the great benefit to be de¬
rived by the State from such reformatory. There are not,
as a matter of fact, many youthful criminals in the jails or
the penitentiary, but this is due to the disinclination of the
Judges to confine them with older criminals. These boys
are, therefore, turned loose upon the community, to renew
their depredations and to grow up criminals. The work of
reformatories in other States has produced excellent results,
and I hope you may see your way clear to make a beginning
in the discharge of our duty to the young criminals, who by
your action may be saved and made useful men.
STATE INDEBTEDNESS.
The total deficit in the Treasury of the State on the first
of December, 1902, amounted to $919,41 9.41. It is re¬
grettable, of course, that this indebtedness should have come
about, but the State has had full value for it. The appropria¬
tions made by the last General Assembly exceeded the esti-
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