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Acts Relating to Commission.

CHAPTER 384, LAWS 1899,

An act to promote the comfort of travelers on railroad trains and for other purposes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That all railroad companies and steamboat companies engaged as common carriers in the transportation of passengers for hire in the state of North Carolina other than street railways shall provide separate but equal accommodations for the white and colored races on all passenger trains and steamboats carrying passengers. Such accommodations may be furnished by railroad companies either by separate passenger cars or by compartments in passenger cars, which shall be provided by the railroads under the supervision and direction of the Board of Railroad Commissioners or the officers succeeding to their powers: Provided, that this shall not apply to relief trains in cases of accident, to Pullman or sleeping-cars or through express trains that do not stop at all stations and are not used ordinarily for traveling from station to station, to negro servants in attendance on their employers, to officers or guards transporting prisoners, nor to prisoners so transported.

SEC. 2. The Railroad Commissioners of this state, or the officers succeeding to their powers, are hereby authorized to exempt from the provisions of this act branch lines and narrow-guage railways, if in their judgment the enforcement of this act be unnecessary to secure the comfort of passengers by reason of the light volume of passenger traffic or the small number of colored passenger travelers on such narrowguage or branch lines.

SEC. 3. That when any coach or compartment of a car for either race shall be completely filled at a station where no extra coach or car can be had and the increased number of passengers could not be foreseen, the conductor in charge of such train is hereby authorized to assign and set apart a portion of a car or compartment assigned for passengers of one race to passengers of the other race.

SEC 4. That all railroad companies shall furnish first and second-class passenger accommodations.

SEC. 5. That any railroad company failing to comply in good faith with the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of $100.00 per day, to be recovered in an action brought against such company by any passenger on any train or boat of any railroad or steamboat company which is required by this act to furnish separate accommodations to the races. who has been furnished accommodations on such railroad train or steamboat in only a car or compartment with a person of a different race in violation of the provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 4th day of March, A. D. 1899.

An act to amend chapter forty-nine of The Code.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina are hereby empowered, whenever it shall appear wise and proper so to do, to authorize, allow and permit any railroad company operating in this state to run one or more fast mail trains over its road which shall only stop at such stations on the line of the road as may be designated by the company: Provided, that in addition to such fast mail train said railroad shall run at least one passenger train in each direction over its road on every day except Sunday, which shall stop at every station on the road at which passengers may wish to be taken up or put off: Provided, nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize any company, persons or corporations to run any trains over the Petersburg Railroad between Weldon and the state line after the expiration of the extension of the charter granted to that company by this state in one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, unless and until the charter of said Petersburg Railroad shall be renewed by this General Assembly: Provided further, that nothing in this act shall be construed as preventing the running of local passenger trains on Sunday.

SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 9th day of February, A. D. 1893.

An act in regard to the delivery of freight.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. That whenever any goods, articles of freight of any kind shall be received by any common carrier in this state to be delivered to any consignee in this state, and a portion of the same shall not have been received at the place of destination, it shall not be lawful for the carrier to demand any part of the charges for freight or transportation due for such portion of the shipment as shall not have reached the place of destination. The carrier shall be required to deliver to the consignee such portion of the consignment as shall have been received upon the payment or tender of the freight charges due upon such portion. But nothing in this act shall be construed as interfering with or depriving a consignor, or other person having authority, to his rights of stoppage in transitu.

SEC. 2. The Railroad Commissioners shall enforce the enforcement of the provisions of this act by appropriate regulations, and this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1893.

An act to amend section one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine of The Code, requiring railroad companies to render annual reports to the governor of the operations for the year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

SECTION 1. That section one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine of The Code be and the same is hereby amended by adding the following at the end of said sec

tion: 64 Provided, that if the report herein mentioned shall be made to the Board of Railroad Commissioners instead of to the governor, it shall be deemed a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section."

SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 14th day of February, A. D. 1893.

CHAPTER 155, LAWS 1891, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 478, LAWS 1893.

An act to require banks, banking institutions and bankers within the state of North Carolina to make stated reports to the state treasurer.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

SECTION 1. That all joint companies now organized, or that may hereafter be organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of conducting a banking business, whether savings or general, and all private banks and bankers that solicit or receive deposits, shall be required to make to the state treasurer statements of their financial condition at such times identically as the national banks organized under the laws of the United States are required to make their statement to the comptroller of the currency, and also to publish such statements in condensed form, as published by said national banks, in some newspaper printed in the city or town where such banking business may be carried on, and if none there, then in a newspaper published in a town nearest thereto. Said statement shall be made in accordance with the form to be prescribed by the state treasurer and shall be certified under oath by the president or cashier of the bank and attested by at least three of the directors of the bank. And in the case of private banks and bankers as herein set forth. shall be certified under oath by the president, manager or individual conducting said private bank, or the owner. manager or individual banker aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the state treasurer to call upon the banks, banking institution and bankers aforesaid for the statement hereinbefore mentioned, and at the times prescribed, and to have prepared such blank forms as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. Whenever calls for statements are made by the state treasurer he shall forward to each bank, banking institution and banker in the state two blank statements, one copy of which, after being properly filled out and certified to by the bank, banking institution or banker to which it is sent, shall be returned to the state treasurer within ten days next succeeding the date of such call, and the other copy, filled up in like manner, shall be filed in the office of said bank, banking institution or banker as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the state treasurer to appoint some one to make special examination in person into the condition, affairs and business of such banks, banking institutions and bankers as aforesaid, and in doing so to examine any of the officers, managers, individuals or agents thereof, and inspect all books and papers; who shall make a full and detailed report of the condition of said bank, banking institution or banker to the state treasurer, "And if upon such report it shall appear that the condition of any bank, banking institution or banker is precarious, or in any way unsatisfactory, it shall be the duty of the said treasurer to give notice to such bank, banking institution or banker to correct any errors or irregularities, and make good any deficiencies or losses shown in such reports or otherwise, within thirty, sixty or ninety days, in his discretion, and at the end of such period the said treasurer shall order a special examination to be conducted, paid for and reported in like manner as regular examinations"; and if upon said report it shall appear to the state treasurer

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