Peninsula Enterprise, February 10, 1894
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : LegislationSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Planting
Dr. Charles Smith introduced a bill in the Legislature Wednesday to change the code in relation to the rental of oyster grounds. It provides that on the ocean side of Accomac and Northampton the rental shall be 25 cents per acre and on the western or Chesapeake side of Northampton county it shall be 50 cents per acre. This reduces the rental in both cases to half the present rate.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Banks
A copy of the charter of the First National Bank of Onancock will be found in another column of this paper, and that having been obtained, the bank it now open for business. Its success is assured. The stockholders and officers have the confidence of the people of the Eastern Shore and they will, of course, deposit their money in it and use it as a medium for the transaction of business.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideTransportation -- Water - FreightForests -- Shipping : WaterInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Postal service
Chincoteague.
Our oyster business is "moving slow." About 200 barrels only are being sent to market daily.
Schooner J. G. Conner arrived here this week from Norfolk, with a load of building material for William Conant, of this place.
Schooner R. F. Hasting, William Reed captain, bound from here last week with a cargo of wood for New York, while off Fenwick Island was run into by a "three master," which carried off her fore-rigging and main topmast, and she had to put back here for repairs.
Improved mail facilities are being asked for here. An extra train arrives at Franklin every other day and the mail which arrives on it for this place could be brought to us without extra charge, and we can see no reason why a lock pouch cannot be furnished our carrier, so that we can have it without delay.
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Transportation -- Road - MaintenanceFields -- Livestock - Dog problemInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsMoral -- AlcoholMoral -- Property crime
Hallwood.
The public roads in this section are in a terrible condition and a disgrace to any civilized community.
The dog law recently passed by our Legislature is generally approved by the people in this section, but they would have liked it better, if the revenue to be derived therefrom, could be applied to the improvement of our county roads.
A petition circulated in this school district has been signed by every patron of the school, asking the School Board to give us a larger house and a graded school. The seating capacity of our house at present is 24 and the scholars enrolled number 50 and upwards. Several other children too, who would attend the school, on account of its crowded condition, are sent elsewhere. Our teacher, one of the best in the county, for want of room, has to keep one or more classes "out on recess" all the time. The location of schoolhouse too is very bad and should be changed to Hallwood, where a site can be secured free of charge.
A squad of men, it is reported, spend their days loafing around the rum shops that are stuck down at the very gates of our local option times, and during the night raid people's chicken roosts, carrying off their fowl, to be cooked at certain hours in the neighborhood.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideTransportation -- Water - SailboatsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders
Sanford.
Our oysters are very fine this year, but sales for them very far from being satisfactory.
The sloop Champion, sold at public auction last Saturday at Mearsville, by S. and A. B. Somers, was bought by Capt. Samuel Somers at $500.
A tent of the I. O. Rechabites, with 30 members, was instituted on Tuesday, of last week, by George W. Glenn, D. H. C. R., at Sanford. The following officers were elected: Horace Bundick, shepherd; Walter J. Hall, P. C. R.; J. F. Terry, C. R.; Joseph Taylor, D. R.; T. O. Kilmon, levite; J. T. Anderton, R. S.; John S. Gaskins, F. S.; James Marks, treasurer; C. Corbin, I. G.; A. C. Corbin, O. G.; -- , chaplain.
Charter of the First National Bank of Onancock.
Infrastructure -- Commercial - Banks
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, WASHINGTON, February 6th, 1894.
Whereas by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned it has been made to appear that "The First National Bank of Onancock," in the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomack, and State of Virginia, has complied with all the provisions of the Statutes of the United States, required to be complied with before an association shall be authorized to commence the business of Banking;
Now therefore I, James H. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that "The First National Bank of Onancock," in the town of Onancock, in the county of Accomack, and State of Virginia, is authorized to commence the business of Banking as provided in section fifty-one hundred and sixty-nine of the Revised Statues of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and seal of office this 6th day of February, 1894.
{Seal.}
JAMES H. ECKELS,
Comptroller of the Currency.
No 4940.
Road Law Dead.
Transportation -- Road - MaintenanceTransportation -- Road - Legislation
Compulsory labor is unconstitutional. According to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal Accomac has no road law. What are we going to do about it? Look at our roads! Mud, mud, mud! Something must be done. If we cannot have compulsory labor we must have paid labor which is probably incomparably better. I suggest the Board of Supervisors be authorized to borrow money enough on long time bonds to make our roads good and then levy a sufficient tax to keep them in good condition. That each magisterial district on the main constitute two road districts -- the railroad forming the dividing line and Chincoteague to form one district. I hope others will offer suggestions. Let our legislators have all the light we can give them, but I hope in this discussion we shall have no bitterness or abuse. We can honestly differ but let us act. Possibly the new Supreme Court may reverse the late decision but I don't think it probable. I have long thought compulsory road labor unconstitutional. We cannot afford to wait until January 1895, for the new judges to take their seats and then perhaps another year to make a decision. We must have roads this year. The Legislature may pass a general road law, but let us act, and if they fail we will not be helpless.
J. D. PARSONS.
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Transportation -- Road - MaintenanceTransportation -- Road - Legislation
The decision of the Supreme Court, declaring the road law of Virginia unconstitutional, will be very gratifying to the great bulk of the people of the State. The old system was generally regarded as unjust by those who worked the roads and the results were never satisfactory to anyone. The bottom fortunately is knocked from under it while the Legislature is in session and that body should go to work at once and give us a road law that will ensure better roads. The thought is a consoling one, that it will be almost impossible for them, to frame a road law that will not be better than the old one.