1873/74 Private Laws Ch. 75 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER LXXV. AN ACT EMPOWERING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR DAVIDSON COUNTY TO ESTABLISH A TEACHERS INSTITUTE OR NORMAL SCHOOL. Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the board of education for Davidson county shall appoint the board of examiners of said county to open and establish on the second Monday in August in each and every year at the court honse, in the town of Lexington, a teachers institute or normal school for the term of twenty-five school days, for the purpose of instructing the public school teachers, and all those who expect to engage, for the next ensuing year, in teaching, free of all charge or tuition: Provided, That teachers representing different colors shall be instructed in different departments, and at the end of said term after a careful and thorough examination it shall be the duty of said board of examiners to give a certificate by grade as is now provided by law to all those who have attended said school and are possessed of a good moral character and mentally qualified to teach in any of the public schools of said county for the next ensuing year from the end of the term aforesaid: Provided, further, The board of examiners in conjunction with the board of education as aforesaid shall prescribe all rules and regulations to govern the said school not repugnant to the now existing school law; and it shall be the duty of the examiners to invite suitable and efficient persons to address the said school free of charge at least twice a week, during the same upon the subject of education and other mental and moral training; and at the close of the term it shall be the duty of the chairman of the board ot examiners to read out publicly the certificates granted to successful applicants and their grades. 1873/74 Private Laws Ch. 84 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER LXXXIV. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE SANDY CROSS COLORED FARMERS MUTUAL AID SOCIEYY, OF GATES COUNTY. x Sec. 3 That there shall be annually elected five directors to be called the board of directors of the Sandy Cross Colored Farmers Mutual Aid Society, who shall hold their positions for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. 1873/74 Private Laws Ch. 118 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER CXVIII. AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIX OF THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED AT ITS SESSION OF | ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT AND ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Sec. 3 That the school committee of township number six, in Cleaveland county, and their successors in office be, and are hereby authorized and required to pay over to the said commissioners and their successors in office annually, by order on the county treasurer or otherwise, a proportion of the public school fund belonging to said township equal to the per capita per centage ehereok of the white children residing within the corporate limits of the town of Shelby, within school ages, which fund shall be used and appropriated by said commissioners and their successors for the erection of school buildings and the advancement of education, and for the free and equal benefit of all white children within school ages in said town. 1873/74 Public Laws Ch. 59 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER LIX. AN ACT TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY APPROPRIATION FOR THE INSTITUTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, AND THE BLIND, FOR THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND S8VENTY- FOUR. Sec. 2 That the Public Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the said amount of forty-six thousand and five hundred ($46,500) dollars to the treasurer of said institution out of the funds allotted by law for the support of said institution, or out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the amount above stated be drawn quarterly in advance, and in equal installments, and, Provided further, That six thousand and five hundred dollars of this appropriation shall be expended for the completion of the building for the colored department: Provided further, That it shall not be lawtul for the board of trustees of said institution to contract any debts during the present fiscal year which would call for an appropriation by the State to make up a deficit. 1873/74 Public Laws Ch. 133 Sec. 22 Identified by: model CHAPTER CXXXIII. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE ON PRO- PERTY, POLLS AND INCOME, KNOWN AS THE MACHINERY ACT. Sec. 22 Clerk to transmt abstract of tax list to. Auditor ss The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in September, after the lists are returned, shall return to the Auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount as State and county tax paid on each subject and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return the Auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, eounty-and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1874/75 Private Laws Ch. 75 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER LXXV. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE TRUSTEES OF STATESVILLE ACADEMY. Sec. 2 That they and their successors in office are hereby authorized and empowered to take and hold title in fee to the new academy lately erected in or adjacent to the town of Statesville, Iredell county, North Carolina, and the lands, grounds and property of every description belonging or appurtenant to said academy, and to hold the same for the purpose of establishing, carrying on and conducting a school for white male children in said academy upon such terms and in such manner as they in their discretion may deem best. : 1874/75 Private Laws Ch. 80 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER LXXx. AN ACT CONCERNING THE CITY OF RALEIGH. Sec. 4 Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and thereafter, to open their books at such places in the city of Raleigh as may be designated by the said commissioners, on or before the last Monday in March in such year and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration, and entitled to register and vote in that ward, for which snch registrar has been appointed ; keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters and designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering, the place of his residence in his ward ; and if any applicant for registration shall-not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his willful failure soto do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and has resided in the city of Raleigh ninety days, and in the ward for which he offers to register thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register, and that his place of residence is at , in such ward; and if any person shall willfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, That after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof, a new registration shall not be annually had, but a revision of the registration book shall be made ten days prior to each succeeding election to be held for eaid city agreeably to the provisions of section eight, chapter fifty-two, Battles Revisal. 1874/75 Public Laws Ch. 89 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER LXXXIX. AN AOT TO AMEND CHAPTER FIVE, SECTION FOUR, PAGE EIGHTY- TWO, LINE NINE, OF BATTLES REVISAL, IN REGARD TO PRE- VENTING WHITE CHILDREN TO BE BOUND TO COLORED MAS- TERS. Sec. 1 Zhe General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That chapter five, section four, page eighty-two, line nine, of Battles Revisal be amended by adding after the word years, the following: Provided, That no white child shall be bound to a colored master or mistress. 1874/75 Public Laws Ch. 184 Sec. 23 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXXXIV. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE ON PRO- PERTY, POLLS, ETC... KNOWN AS THE MACHINERY ACT, Sec. 23 Clerk to transmit abstract of tax list to Auditor: The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the first Monday in September, after the lists are returned, shall return the Auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number ot acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount as State and county tax paid on each subject and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return the Auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1874/75 Public Laws Ch. 250 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCL. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLORED INSANE OF NORTH CARO- LINA. Sec. 1 Zhe General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the eum of ten thousand dollars per annum be and the same is hereby appropriated to the establishment at the Marine Hospital building at Wilmington, North Carolina, of a branch asylum for the colored insane, and their support and treatment, subject, nevertheless, to the same control and general superintendence and regulations as the asylum for the insane at Raleigh. And the board of directors and superintendent of the insane of the State shall remove and keep, in their discretion, support and treat at said branch asylum all colored patients, citizens of the State, and entitled to admission under the same rules, regulations and treatment as are required by law for the insane at the principal or Raleigh asylum: Provided, That no more colored insane shall be received in the asylum at Raleigh, and that all the colored inmates now in the asylum at Raleigh, North Carolina, be removed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and that there shall be no expenditure exceeding two hundred dollars per annum for each patient, and no expenditure in excess of the above appropriation shall be made or allowed without the previous assent of both branches of the General Assembly: Provided further, That upon the removal of any such colored patient from the State Raleigh asylum, the general appropriation fund shall be credited to the proper extent and amount, until the place of such patient is filled with another patient at such asylum. 1876/77 Private Laws Ch. 36 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER XXXVI. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE AND TWO OF CHAPTER THIRTY- SEVEN, PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO AND ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE, ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF OXFORD COLORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, OF GRANVILLE COUNTY. Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That section one, of the above entitled act, be amended so ss to read as follows: That Henry Hester, Lawson Wright, Grandison Young, Benjamin Ridley and Peter Royster, and their successors and associates, are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The Oxford Colored Educational Association, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with ; purchase and hold, in their corporate capacity, such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining a school for boys and girls at Oxford, in the county of Granville, with power by and with the consent of a majority of the members of the association, given at their annual meeting, to make all needful rules, by-laws and regulations for their own government, and the government oftheirschool; Provided, That no sectarian school shall be established under the provisions of this act. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 139 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CXXXIX. AN ACT CONCERNING THE TOWN OF GOLDSBORO. Sec. 4 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town; and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the court-house in said town at least ten -10 days before the day of election, herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters ; and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides, and his place of residence in such ward ; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do, shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 155 Sec. 23 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLV. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE, KNOWN AS THE MACHINERY ACT. Valuation of lands, when to be made. Sec. 23 The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the first Monday in November, after the lists are returned, shall return the Auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots and the number of white and colored polls, separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount as State and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return the Auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth, separately, the tax levied on each poll, and on each one bundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. Penalty on clerk for default: 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 16 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 16 The county examiner shall deliver to the secretary of the county board of education, on or before the first day of September of every year, a catalogue of all the teachers to whom he gave certificates during the year, also an abstract statement of the number, grade, race and sex of the teachers, and report the same to the superintendent of public instruction. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 22 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 22 The county board of education shall consult the convenience of the white residents in settling the boundaries of districts for white schools, and of colored esidents in settling boundaries for colored schools. The #NAME? of the two races shall be separate ; the districts the same or not, according to the convenience of the parties concerned. In cases where there are two sets of #NAME? in a county they shall be designated as school districts number one, two, three, &e., for white schools, or school districts number one, two, three, &., for colored schools, (as the case may be,) in the county of 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 29 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 29 Every teacher or principal ofa school to which aid shall be given under the provisions of this act, shall keep a daily record of all absences of pupils and of the grade in scholarship and department ofeach. The grade in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers 1 2, 3, 4, and 5; 1 representing the highest or first grade, and 5 the lowest and the three intermediate numbers the three intermediate grades. The grades in deportment shall be represented by the same numbers and in the same order. At the end of every term every teacher of a public school shall deliver to the county treasurer a statement of the length of the term of the school, of the race, number, sex and average attendance of pupils, and the name of the district in which the school was taught. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 31 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 31 The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday of September of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, apportion among the several districts in the county, according to the number of children in each, between the ages cf six and twentyone years, (which number shall be ascertained by a census to be taken by the schoo] committees and reported to the county board of education) all school funds, specifying how much thereof is apportioned to the children of each race, and give notice thereof to the school committees of the several districts of the county, and shall pub lish the same by an advertisement posted on the courthouse door of each county, and furnish the county treasurer with the amounts thus apportioned among the several school districts aud the amount that each district is entitled to. The sums thus apportioned to the several districts shall be subject to the orders of the school committees thereof for payment of the school expenses mentioned in this act. Provided, however, that in no case shall the school fund thus apportioned to either race be expended for the education of the other race. And provided further, that so much of said school fund as shall not be expended in any school district for the education ofthe race for which it was apportioned in any year, shall be added to the final apportionment to said race in said school districts for the succeeding year. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 33 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 33 The county treasurer of each county shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the first day of September of each year, the entire amount of school money received by him during the preceding school year, the several sources from which it was derived and the disbursements thereof made by him, designating the sums paid for the white and colored children respectively for school house sites in the several districts. At the same time he shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction the number of public schools taught in the county during the year for each race, the number of pupils of each race, their average attendance, the number of males, and the number of females, according to the reports made to him by the provisions of this act. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 40 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 40 It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board of education for each county to report to the superintendent of public instruction on or before the first day of October of every year, full and accurate statistics, showing the race, sex and number of teachers as reported to him under the provisions of this act; and also the number of school children in the county, as reported to the county board of education under the provisions of this act. And if any secretary of a county board of edueation shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section at the time above stated, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the superior court of his county, he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than one month or more than six months, in the discretion of the court. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 46 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXII. AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. Sec. 46 It shall be the duty of the school committee of each district to take and return to the county board of education, on or before the first day of September in every year, a full and accurate census of the children between the ages of six and twenty-one, giving the number in public schools, and the number who attend no school, designating the race and sex in all cases. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 234 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CCOXXXIV. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH NORMAL SCHOOLS. Sec. 1 Zhe General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That it shall be lawful, for the state board of education, to establish a normal school, in connection with the state university, for the purpose of teaching and training young men of the white race for teachers of the common schools of the state, and to aid in defraying the expense of carrying on such normal school. The state board of education is authorized and instructed to draw upon the treasury for an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars annually for the year of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and the year of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be used for the purpose herein stated, and no other. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 234 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CCOXXXIV. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH NORMAL SCHOOLS. Sec. 2 That it shall be lawful for the state board of education to establish a normal school at any place they may deem most suitable, either in connection with some one of the colored schools of high grade in the state, or otherwise, for the teaching and training young men of the colored race, from the age of fifteen to twenty-five years, for teachers in the common schools of the state for the colored race, and to aid in defraying the expense of carrying on such normal school the state board of education is authorized and instructed to draw upon the treasury for an amount not to exceed two thousand dollars annually for the year of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven and the year.ofone thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be used for the purpose herein stated, and no other. _ 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 234 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCOXXXIV. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH NORMAL SCHOOLS. Sec. 3 That it will be required and expected of all young, of both races, who may be thus taught and trained for teachers of common schools, at the cost of the state, to apply themselves, as far as practicable, to the occupation of teaching, within the borders of this state, for a term of not less than three years after leaving school. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 272 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CCLXXII. AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE GUARD- Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same companies, battalions or regiments. . 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 272 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCLXXII. AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE GUARD- Sec. 6 Two or more white companies, or two or more colored companies, organized in any military district, may form a battalion and elect a major and other battalion officers. Five or more white, or five or more colored companies, organized in any military district, may form a battalion and elect a lieutenant colonel, major, and other battalion officers. Ten white, or ten colored companies, organized in any military district, may form a regiment and elect a colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, and other regimental officers. Where two battalions or two regiments shall be organized in a military district, they may form a brigade, which shall take the number of the district in which it is formed, and it shall be the duty of the commander-in-chief to organize the companies of the state guard, in each military district, into battalions, regiments and brigades, as iapidly as they form; each regiment or battalion to be designated by number, and each company by letter, at the formation, and a record thereof made in the office of the adjutant general. And whenever the commander-in-chief shall form a battalion, or regiment of the state guard, he shall order at the same time an clection to beheld for the field officer or officers of such battalion or regiment, such election to be conducted as hereinafter provided. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCXXLVIII. ZAN ACT TO PROVIDE AN ASYLUM FOR THE COLORED INSANE OF THE STATE. Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, appropriated by the general assembly at the session of one thousand eight hundred and seventy four and one thoussand eight hundred and seventy-five, for the support of #NAME? the colored insane of the state, which remains in the treasury unexpended, be and the same is hereby approrpriated for the establishment of an asylum for the coleored insane, at some point in the state, and for the supyport and maintenance of the inmates thereof, for the next two years. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCXXLVIII. ZAN ACT TO PROVIDE AN ASYLUM FOR THE COLORED INSANE OF THE STATE. Sec. 3 That as soon as said asylum is ready for the reception of patients, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to cause to be removed to said asylum the colored insane now in the asylum in Raleigh, and no other colored insane shall be received at said Raleigh asylum~ 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCXXLVIII. ZAN ACT TO PROVIDE AN ASYLUM FOR THE COLORED INSANE OF THE STATE. Sec. 6 That so much of an act to provide for the colored insane of the state, ratified March the twenty-sixth,, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, as conflicts: with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. 1876/77 Public Laws Ch. 285 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCLXXXV. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE TOWNSHIPS HAVING WITHIN THEIR LIM- ITS CITIIES OF FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS AND UPWARDS TO LEVY TAXES FOR THE SUPPORT OF GRADED PUBLIC SCHOOLS. j Sec. 4 That this act shall not apply to the townships in which are situated the cities of Newbern, Wilmington, Goldsboro or Charlotte. Provided, The provisions of this act shall extend to Cross Creek township, in the county of Cumberland, provided the application for the election shall be made by two hundred of the qualified voters of said township who shall be freeholders therein, and at least one-half of such petitioners shall be of the white race. 1879 Private Laws Ch. 67 Sec. 33 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 67 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WINSTON AND THE AMENDMENTS THERETO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 33 The commissioners of the town shall provide for the establishment and support of a system of graded schools under the following conditions, to-wit: 1 No interest-bearing debt of the corporation shall be , created for this purpose. ; 2 The schools shall be open to all bona fide residents of the town, of all races, between the ages of six and twenty-one, but the white and colored schools shall be in distinct and separate buildings and departments, and the schools shall have separate apartments for the higher classes of males and females. 3 The fund raised by taxation shall be used only for the payment of the salaries of teachers. 4 No fee or tuition shall be exacted from or on behalf of any one entitled to the benefits of the schools of more ~ than fifty cents per annum, and at the same ratio for a session of less time. 5 Persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the school from their homes, or as boarders, on the payment of tuition fees to be fixed by the school commissioners. 6 Suitable buildings, furniture and apparatus for the schools shall be provided by voluntary effort. 7 The tax for school purposes shall not exceed twenty s_ feents on the hundred dollars of assessed property and polls; and twenty-five per cent. of the revenues raised ) ander sections fifteen, seventeen and eighteen, and by fines and forfeitures shall be paid to the graded school fund. _ 9 The schools shall not be established until the subject, with the conditions above, has been submitted to the qualified voters of the town on thirty days notice in the town papers and at the court house doors, and ratified by a majority of said voters at an election to be held as other town elections. : _ 10 The said proposition when voted down may be sub- mitted at other elections, but not oftener than once in peach year. 1879 Private Laws Ch. 120 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 120 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NORTH CAROLINA INDUS- TRIAL ASSOCIATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 And be at further enacted, that the object and business of said association shall be this: To encourage and promote the development of the industrial and educational resources of the colored people of North Carolina, to gather statistics respecting their progress in the various pursuits and customs peculiar to civilized and enlightened nations; to hold annually at such time and place as it ay elect an exhibition of the products of their industry and education, and to offer such premiums for articles so exhibited as the means of the association will allow. 1879 Public Laws Ch. 54 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 54 AN ACT TO CONTINUE IN FORCE THE ACT TO ESTABLISH NORMAL SCHOOLS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the provisions of an act to establish normal schools, ratified March seventh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, be extended so as to include females, and that a preparatory department may be established in connection with the colored normal school. 1879 Public Laws Ch. 71 Sec. 29 Identified by: model CHAPTER 71 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. Assessment and valuation of lands: Sec. 29 The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in November, after the lists are returned, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll, and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. Penalty on clerk for default : 1879 Public Laws Ch. 174 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 174 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE WESTERN ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the sum of twenty thousand dollars is appointed [appropriated] for the further construction of the colored insane asylum near Goldsboro. 1879 Public Laws Ch. 276 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 276 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BRUNS- WICK, SURRY AND EDGECOMBE COUNTIES TO PAY CERTAIN SCHOOL CLAIMS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of education of the counties of Brunswick, Surry and Edgecombe shall at the time required by law for distribution of the public school funds for the counties in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, ascertain the amount of outstanding and unpaid school drafts that have been issued for teachers wages prior to March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and which have been audited by said board; and shall notify the school committee of the several districts by advertisement at the court houses the amount of claims outstanding against each several districts, together with the amount then due the same, haying regard to the distinction between the white and colored schools; and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to pay off the said old drafts out of any school money in his hands belonging to the district upon which such draft or drafts were drawn. And where new districts have been formed or the boundaries changed the payment of the drafts shall be made by the board in the most equitable manner possible. 1879 Public Laws Ch. 332 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 3832 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION OF THE PUPILS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE BLIND FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN CONTAINED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the board of directors shall have the lot in front of the colored institution for the purpose of a garden for the pupils, and the sale of a portion of said lot, and ail notes and papers may be cancelled, provided the purchasers will agree to give up the bonds, receive their notes and the amount of money advanced by them, and to this end the governor is fully empowered to effect this arrangement. . 1880 Public Laws Ch. 22 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 22 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF EDGE- COMBE COUNTY TO PAY CERTAIN SCHOOL CLAIMS, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of education of Edgecombe, Brunswick, Pender and Washington counties shall at the time prescribed by law for distribution of the public school funds for said counties in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, ascertain the amount of outstanding and unpaid school drafts that have been issued for teachers wages prior to the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, in accordance with law; and shall notify the school committees of the several districts by advertisement at the court house of the amount of claims outstanding against each several district, together with the amount then due the same, having regard to the distinction between the white and colored schools; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer of said counties to pay the said old drafts out of any school money in his hands belonging to the district or districts upon which said draft or drafts were drawn. 1880 Public Laws Ch. 27 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SALISBURY AND IN THE TOWN+ SHIP OF GOLDSBORO, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 The special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twentyone years ; and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for colored persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years: Provided, that the Salisbury graded school committee shall have power to receive into the graded school for white persuns any white pupil of either sex, without regard to age: and shall also have the power to admit to the graded school for colored persons any colored pupil of either sex, without regard to age. 1880 Public Laws Ch. 27 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SALISBURY AND IN THE TOWN+ SHIP OF GOLDSBORO, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 The board of commissioners for the county of Wayne, if, in their discretion, they may deem it advisable, is hereby authorized, with the assent of a majority of the qualified voters of the township of Goldsboro, to establish a graded school for white children, and a graded school for colored children in said township. The special taxes which may annually be levied for such schools shall not exceed one-fifth of one per cent. on property, and sixty cents on the poll. An election shall be held in said township on the first Monday in May, anno domini eighteen hundred and eighty, to determine whether a majority of the qualified voters of said township will assent to the payment of such annual special taxes for the purposes aforesaid. Each qualified voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and the election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as is prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. The sheriff of the county of Wayne shall collect the taxes authorized by this section and his duties and liabilities shall be the same as is now provided by law for the collection and disbursement of the state and county taxes. The board of commissioners for Wayne county and the board of commissioners for the town of Goldsboro shall make such rules and regulations for the government of said graded schools, as they may in their discretion determine, not incosistent with the laws of North Carolina. The taxes raised from the property and polls of white persons shall be appropriated exclusively to a graded school for white persons, and the taxes raised from the property and poll, of colored persons shall be appropriated exclusively to a graded school for colored persons. 1881 Private Laws Ch. 37 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 37 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the charter of the town of Winston be amended by adding the following as a part thereof as contained in chapter one hundred and seventeen, acts of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven: that the commissioners of graded schools of the town of Winston shall be authorized to purchase lots and erect and furnish proper buildings for the graded schools, white and colored of said town, from taxes to be levied and collected on the assessed property and polls of said town for said purposes: Provided, Said taxes shall not exceed twentyfive cents on the one hundred dollars of property or seventy-five cents on the poll in any one year, and shall not be continued longer than two years. 1881 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 40 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration hooks; and it shall be the duty of said registrars, appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in the ward for which they were appointedon or before the last Monday in March in such years, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration, and entitled to register and vote in that ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and designating on the registration book, opposite the names of each person registering, the place of his residence in his ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina, and has resided in the city of Charlotte ninety days and in the ward for which he offers to register thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register; and, if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars, and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, That after the tirst registration shall have been made by virtue hereof, a new registration may not be made biennially, but such registration book shall be revised so as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered, and still residing in said city without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrars shall, on or before the last Monday in March biennially, open said books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration, whose names have never before been registered in such ward, or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, That the board of aldermep may atany time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed. 1881 Private Laws Ch. 50 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 50 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO, IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the city ; and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said county commissioners in said city at least ten days before the day of election herein provided fer; and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides and his place ef residence in such ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to registration in such ward. 1881 Private Laws Ch. 71 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 71 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WESTERN UNION NORMAL SCHOOL FOR THE COLORED, IN THE TOWN OF MONROE, IN UNION COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Rey. R. Hasty, J. T. Davis, A. F. Blakely, the Rev. William Johnson, Charles Achans, Peal Helms, H. Walkup, Perry Laney, the Rey. John T. Sarvis, Burrel Davis and Isaac Miller, and their+successors, be and they are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate, for educational purposes under the name and style of the Western Union Normal School for the colored, and by that name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and may acquire, have and hold by purchase, donation or otherwise, goods and chattels, lands and tenements in furtherance of the objects and parposes aforesaid of said corporation, and shall have corporate existence for and during the term of ninety-nine years. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 28 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 117 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. Assessment and valuation of lands : Sec. 28 The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the firsts Monday in November, after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and tke value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the ameunt paid on the whole. Atthesame time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and shool taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll, and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. Penalty on clerk for default : 1881 Public Laws Ch. 133 Sec. 16 Identified by: model CHAPTER 138 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTH CARO- LINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 16 The following interrogations with their respective answers by competent witnesses, shall likewise be transmitted with the other papers to the board of directors: Question 1 What is the name of the patient? Question 2 Is he or she white or colored? Question 3 What is his or her age? Question 4 Is he or she married or single? Question 5 What is the supposed cause of insanity ? Question 6 In what way is the disease exhibited? Question 7 Has any medical treatment been pursued ? If so, what kind and by whom ? Question 8 How-long has he or she been insane? Count from first symptoms. Question 9 Has the patient manifested any propensity to injure himself or others? If so, in what way ? Question 10 Has he or she been subject to epilepsy ? Question 11 Have any of his or her ancestors been insane? If so, state what ancestor, and what was the character of their insanity ? Question 12 Has he or she any family, and, if so, what persons compose it ? Question 13 Are any of them insane, and what is the character of such insanity ? Question 14 What is the occupation of the patient ? Question 15 How many attacks of mental disease has the patient had ? Question 16 Are parents of the insane person related by blood? If so, what is the degree of relationship ? Question 17 Has the applicant property ? If so, state in what such property consists,and what is the value thereof. Question 18 Is the applicant under any forcible restraint? If so, what? Question 19 Has the patient received any aid from the county? Ifso, what? Question 20 Give name and address of the friends of the patient, with whom the superintendent of the insane asylum can correspond, as circumstances require, for the benefit of the patient. Question 21 Give any information in your possession, not embraced in the above questions, which may throw light on the mental or physical condition of the patient. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO CARRY INTO EFFECT CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE IN REGARD TO THE UNIVER. SITY. WHEREAS, The constitution of this state, by section sixth, chapter ninth, provides that the general assembly shall have authority to provide for the maintenance and management of the University of North Carolina; AND WHEREAS, By article ninth and section seventh of the constitution, it is made the duty of the general assem- bly, as soon as practicable, to provide that the benefits of the University shall be extended to the youth of the state free of charge for tuition ; AND WHEREAS, By article ninth, section fourteenth of the constitution, it is made the duty of the general assem- bly to establish and maintain in connection with the University, a department of agriculture, of mechanics, of mining and of normal instruction ; AND WHEREAS, Twelve years having elapsed since the adoption of the foregoing provisions of the constitu- tion, in the opinion of the general assembly, it is now practicable, and it therefore becomes their duty to the extent hereinafter mentioned, to carry the same into effect ; : AND WHEREAS, An efficient system of public schools cannot be obtained without competent teachers for the same, and it is of vast importance to the well-being of the state that its young men of all pursuits shall be able to secure the advantages of higher education as cheaply as possible ; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the state board of education be directed to establish other normal schools than thosg at Fayetteville and the University, and that the sum of two thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated for such schools for white teachers, and the sum of two thonsand dollars for such schools for colored teachers authorized by this act, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for normal schools: Provided, however, That the number of schools shall not be less than four for each color. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 149 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 149 AN ACT TO DONATE ONE ACRE OF STATE LAND TO SHAW UNI- VERSITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A COLORED MEDI- CAL COLLEGE. Wuereas, Certain philanthropists have contributed and placed in the hands of Henry M. Tupper, president of Shaw University, a sufficient sum of money to erect the necessary buildings for a colored medical college ; AND WHEREAS, It is very necessary to have said college located upon ground contiguous to said University; now therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That one square acre of ground, to be taken from the southeast corner of the lot on which the goy- , ernors mansion is now located, shall be and the same is hereby donated to the trustees of Shaw University, to be by them held in trust for the purpose of establishing a medical college for colored students. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of the county of Wayne are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of Goldsboro township, in saidcounty, on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored children in said township. Each voter sball vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said township for white persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded school in said township for colored persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That E. B. Boyden, J. A. Bonitz, H. L. Grant, H.5, Lee, W. A. Deans, Nathan Bogatt and B. F. Arrington, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That Hinton Sugg, Anestus Smith, William Crockett, Hillery Sears, Squire Hodges, Nathan Boyett, (colored,) and C. A. Scott, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the public school money which shall, from time to time, be,collected under the general school law for public schoo! purposes for the white children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded schools for the whites, under the orders and direction of the board of trustees for said graded public schools for white children. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall, from time to time, be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said township shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 21 Identified by: model CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 21 The county board of education shall consult the convenience of the white residents in settling the boundaries of districts for the white schools, and of colored residents in settling boundaries for colored schools. The schools of the two races shall be separate; the districts the same in territorial limit, or not, according to the convenience of the parties concerned. In cases where there are two sets of districts in a county, they shall be designated as school district number one, two, three, etc., for white schools, or school district number one, two, three, etc., for colored schools, (as the case may be) in the county OF fee. 3 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 22 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 22 The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday of March of each year, apportion among the several districts in the county, according to the number of children in each, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, (which number shall be ascertained by a census to be taken by the school committees and reported to the county board of education,) all schoo! funds, except such as may be raised by the special tax provided for in section sixty-two of this act, specifying how much thereof is apportioned to the children of each race, and give notice thereof to the school committees of the several districts of the county, and shall publish the same by advertisement posted on the court-house door of each county; and furnish the county treasurer with the amounts thus apportioned among the several school districts and the amount to which each district is entitled. The sums thus apportioned to the several districts shall be subject to the orders of the school committees thereof for payment of the school expenses mentioned in this act: Provided, however, That in no case shall the school fund thus apportioned to either race by expended for the education of the other race: And provided further, That so much of said school fund as shall not be expended in any school district for the education of the race for which it was apportioned in any year, shall remain to the credit of said race in said school district for the year next ensning. As far as practicable, the county board of education shall require all the schools to begin on the same day. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 27 Identified by: model CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 27 It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county board of education to keep a book in which he shall open an account with each public school district in the county, showing the amount apportioned to said district, distinguishing the moneys due to the whites and the colored districts, the dates of all payments of school moneys, th name of the person to whom paid and the several amounts. He shall balance the accounts of each district annually on the thirtieth day of November in each and every year, and shall report by letter or printed circular, to each school committee the amount apportioned to the respective districts for the year, together with the balance which may be due any of the said districts from the preceding year. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 32 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 32 The county treasurer of each county shall report to the state superintendent of public instruction on the first day of December of each year, the entire amount of shool money received by him during the preceding school year, the several sources from which it was derived and the disbursements thereof made by him, designating the sums paid to teachers for the white and colored children respectively and for school-houses and sclioolhouse sites, in the several districts. He also shall report to the state superintendent of public instruction, specifically and in detail by items, the amounts paid out for other purposes in pursuance of this act and other laws now in force. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 45 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 45 It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public instruction of each county, on or before the first Monday in December of every year, to report to the state superintendent of public instruction an abstract statement of the number, grade, race and sex of the teachers examined and approved by him during the year ; also the number cf public schools taught in the county during the year for each race ; the number of pupils of each race enrolled in said schools; their average attendance; the number of males and the number of females; the average length of the terms of said schools and the average salary, respectively, of the white and colored teachers; also full and accurate statistics of the number of school children in the county, giving race and sex ; the number of school districts for each race and the number of public schoolhouses and the value of public school property for each, race; the number of teachers institutes held and the number of teachers that attended such institutes; together with such suggestions as may occur to him promotive of the school interests of the county. 25 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 51 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 51 It shall be the duty of the school committee of each district to take and return to the county superintendent of public instruction, on or before the first day of September in every year, a full and accurate census of the children between the ages of six and twenty-one, designating the race and sex. And the said committee shall also report to the said county superintendent the number of public school-houses and the value of all public school property for each race, separately. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 58 Identified by: model CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 58 Every teacher or principal of a school, to which aid shall be given under the provisions of this act, shall | keep a daily record of all absences of pupils and of the grade in scholarship and deportment of each. The: grade in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers. 1,2, 3, 4 and 5, 1 representing the highest or first grade, and 5 the lowest, and the three intermediate numbers the three intermediate grades. The grades in deportment shall be represented by the same numbers and in the same order. At the end of every term every principal or teacher of a public school shall report to the county superintendent of public instruction the length of term of school; the race for which it wastaught; the number, sex and average daily attendance of the pupils, and the number of the district in which the school was taught. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 206 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum is hereby constituted a corporation, and shall be and remain a corporation under that name, and the said Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum is hereby invested with all the property and rights held by the colored insane asylum near Goldsboro, and by that name to-wit, The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum, it may acquire and hold for the purpose of the accommodation, maintenance, support and care of the colored insane of this state all such property and estate as may be devised, bequeathed or in any way given or conveyed to it. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 206 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 13 Every insane colored person confined in jail for any other cause than crime, may be removed to the Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum, upon the order of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the jail is situated. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 206 Sec. 16 Identified by: model CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 16 Whenever the justices of the peace, under the provisions of the preceding section, shall direct any insane person to be removed to the asylum as a patient for safekeeping, it shall be their duty to make a full report of their proceedings to the clerk of the superior court of their county. The following interrogatories with their respective answers by competent witnesses shall likewise be transmitted with the other papers to the board of directors: Question 1 What is the name of the patient? Question 2 Is he or she white or colored ? Question 3 What is his or her age? Question 4 Is he or she married or single ? Question 5 What is the supposed cause of insanity ? Question 6 In what way is the disease exhibited ? Question 7 Has any medical treatment been pursued ? If so, what kind, and by whom? Question 8 How long has he or she been insane? Count from first symptoms. Question 9 Has the patient manifested any propensity to injure himself or others? If so, in what way ? Question 10, Has he or she been subject to epilepsy ? Question 11 Has any of his or her ancestors been insane? If so, state what ancestors, and what was the character of their insanity ? Question 12 Has he orshe any family, and, if so, what persons compose it? 26 Question 13 Are any of them insane, and what is the character of such insanity ? Question 14 What is the occupation of the patient ? Question 15 How many attacks of mental disease has the patient had? Question 16 Are the parents of the insane person related by blood? If so, what is the degree of relationship ? Question 17 Has the applicant property? If so, state in what such property consists, and what is the value thereof? Question 18 Is the applicant under any forcible restraint? If so, what? Question 19 Has the patient received any aid from the county? If so, what? Question 20 Give name and address of the friends of the patient, with whom the superintendent can regularly correspond in his behalf. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 211 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CEVA UBB. sea eleke AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE BLIND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb and the blind located in the city of Raleigh, on Caswell square, and on lot located in the eastern part of the city, belonging to the state, and on which the institution for the colored children is located, shall be, and the same is, and shall remain a corporation under the name and style of The North Carolina Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and shall be under the management of a board of trustees and principal. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 211 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CEVA UBB. sea eleke AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND THE BLIND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 The board of trustees shall, on application, receive in the institution for the purpose of education, in the main department, all white deaf mute and blind children, and in the department for the colored all colored deaf mutes and blind children, residents of this state not of confirmed immoral character, nor imbecile or unsound in mind, or incapacitated by physical infirmity for useful instruction, who are between the age of eight and twentyone years: Provided, That applications shall be made and applicants received at stated times, and shall be at the commencement of some scholastic year. In case of deaf mutes the following questions shall be answered: Name? Is the child white or colored? When and where was he born ? Was he born deaf? At what age did he lose his hearing? By what disease or accident did he become devf? Is the deafness total or partial ? Have any attempts been made to remove the deafness ? Is there any ability to articulate or read on the lips? Have any attempt been made to communicate instruction? Is he laboring under any bodily infirmity ? Does he show any signs of mental imbecility or idiocy ? ? Has he had the small-pox or been vaccinated ? Has he had the scarlet fever? Has he had the measles ? Has he had the mumps? Has he had the whooping-cough ? Are there any other cases of deafness in the family ? Are there any cases of deafness among relatives or ancestors ? What is the name of the father ? What is the name of the mother ? What is the occupation of the father? What is his post-office address ? Is either of the parents dead ? Has a second connection been formed by marriage? Was there any relationship between the parents previous to marriage? In case of blind applicants, the following questions shall be answered : Name? Is the child white or colored ? When and where was he born ? Was he born blind ? At what age did he become blind ? By what disease or accident did he become blind ? Is the blindness total or partial ? Have any attempts been made to remove the blindness ? Have any attempts been made to communicate instruction ? Is he laboring under any bodily infirmity ? Does he show any signs of mental imbecility or idiocy? Has he had the small-pox or been vaccinated ? Has he had the scarlet fever? Has he had the measles? Has he had the mumps? Has he had the whooping-cough ? Are there any other cases of blindness in the family ? Are there any cases of blindness among relatives or ancestors ? What is the name of the father? What is the name of the mother ? What is the occupation of the father ? What is his post-office address ? Is either of the parents dead ? Has a second connection been formed by marriage? Was there any relationship between the parents previous to marriage? When the application is made, it shall be filed in the office of the principal, and on reception of applicant, a record of such pupil shall be made and entered in a book to be kept for that purpose. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 231 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 231 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF DURHAM, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 The special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded publicschool for white persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended for the benefit of the public schools of the colored children of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, in said town. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 234 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2534 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS IN CERTAIN LOCALITIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the sale of spirituous liquors shall be prohibited within two miles of the following places, to-wit: Masonboro Baptist church in the county of New Hanover; Piney-meeting house church in the county of Davidson; White Stone Baptist church and Wakefield Baptist church in Little River township in Wake county ; the villages of Hope Mills (otherwise called Rockfish), Beaver Creek, or the Bluff, in the county of Cumberland; School-house, number two, in Black Creek township in the county of Wilson; Mt. Bethel church in Mangum township, Orange county; Pleasant Hill Methodist church and Swanns school-house in McDowell county ; Corner Stone church, at or near the boundary corner of the States of North and South Carolinas known as the Stone Corner; Jamestown Academy in the county of Guilford; Bethel church in Macon county; Stantonsburg Methodist church in Wilson county; McKenzies Campgrounds, A. M. E. Zion church in Catawba county during the time of holding the meeting for divine services; Roxboro Methodist church, Baileys, Mt. Zion, Oak Grove, Providence, Mt. Tirzah, Concord chapel, Webbs chapel, Salem Methodist church, Clement Baptist church, Upper South Hyco church, Mill Creek Baptist church ; Reeves Chapel church in Cabarrus county ; Turrentine schoolhouse in the county of Davie; Hamlet Baptist church in Richmond county; Zion Baptist church in the county of Yancey ; Lynville church at Lynnville Cove in Mitchell county; Mt. Pisgah church and Macedonia Baptist church in the county of Iredell; Centre Grove church, in township number four, Cabarrus county; Hollands church in Panther Branch township, Wake county; Christs Lutheran church in Salisbury township, Rowan county ; Mt. Pleasant church, New Hope church, Cub Creek church, in the county of Wilkes; Wesley Chapel Methodist church in the county of Davidson ; Buffalo Baptist ehurch, Mt. Pleasant church, Bethel Baptist chureh, Friendship church, Forest Home Baptist church, Milton M. E. church, Old and New churches, and Bethany church in the county of Ashe; Christ church in Gaston county ; Stanly Creek Methodist church in Gaston county; Andrews chapel in McDaniels township, Sampson county ; Salem M. E. church in Anson county; Watery Branch church in the county of Wayne; Cross Roads fin the county of Martin; Concord Methodist church in the county of Person ; Stoney Knoll church in Rockford township in the county of Surry ; Mt. Zion Baptist church in the county of Lincoln; Holly Springs church in Mt. Airy township in Surry county; the Methodist church in the town of Leasburg in the county of Caswell; Woodland church in Mecklenburg county ; Orange Factory church in Orange county; Bethlehem church in the county of Alamance; St. Marys chapel in Rowan county ; Trinity M. E. Church in Bladen county; the town of Charleston in the county of Swain; the public school-house in district number twenty-four, New Hope township, Chatham county; Union church and Mt. Mitchell church in the county of Cabarrus; Mt. Carmel Methodist Protestant church in Warren county; Black Mountain station and Kerlews chapel in Buncombe county ; Organ church in Rowan county; Stone Fork Baptist church in Watauga county ; McManin Chapel M. E. chureh in Orange county ; Masseys chapel in the county of Orange; Bartles Baptist church, Salem Methodist or Gibboa Methodist church in the county of Burke; Logan church, Clio church, New Bethel church, and Friendship church, in the county of Iredell ; Rock Hill Methodist church (colored) in Lincoln county ; Bethlehem M. E. Church, South, in the county of Catawba; Oak Grove Methodist church, New Hebron church, Bethel, or Gwyns chapel, and Ebenezer church in Surry county ; Oramge church in Chapel Hill township in the county of Orange; Hadens Grove Methodist church (colored) and Zion Baptist church (colored) in the county of Davidson; Caney River Baptist church in Yancey county ; Ebenezer Lutheran church in Rowan county; the Methodist Church and the Baptistchurch in Clemonsville, Davidson county ; Linville Cove Baptist church in Mitchell county; Antioch church in Madison county; Little Pine Creek church and Bynums school-house in the county of Madison; New Perth Lutheran and Mt. Vernon Baptist churches, Fair View church and McDonalds chapel in the county of Burke; Cedar Grove church, Dewese school-house, in the county of Cabarrus; Saratoga Free-Will Baptist church and Pleasant Hill church near Saratoga in the county of Wilson; Woodside school-house, Greene county ; Goshen chapel, Walnut Grove township, in the county of Granville; the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches in the town of Norwood, Salem Methodist church, Friendship Protestant Methodist church, Wesley Chapel, New Chapel, Pine Grove, Bethsaida, Rehoboth, Cedar Grove, Mt. Zion,and Harrisville African Methodist church in Stanly county; Colliers and Tabernacle churches, Harpers and Conways chapels, and Presbyterian Mission school-house in Lenoir township, Caldwell county; Elkin M. E. church and Indian Grove schoolhouse in Surry county; Trinity church in Pitt county ; Fork church in Davie county; Rehoboth M. E. church, South, in Catawba county. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 297 Sec. 19 Identified by: model CHAPTER :2.97. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WESTERN INSANE ASYLUM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 19 The following interrogatories, with their respective answers by competent witnesses, shall likewise be transmitted with the other papers to the board of directors : Question 1 What is the name of the patient? Question 2 Is he or she white or colored ? Question 8 What is his or her age? Question 4 Is he or she married or single? Question 5 What is the supposed cause of insanity ? Question 6 In what way is the disease exhibited ? Question 7 Has any medical treatment been pursued ? If so, what kind and by whom? Question 8 How long has he or she been insane? Count from first symptoms. Question 9 Has the patient manifested any propensity to injure himself or others? If so, in what way ? Question 10 Has he or she been subject to epilepsy ? Question 11 Has any of his or her ancesters been insane? Ifso, state what ancestors, and what was the character of their insanity ? Question 12 Has he or she any family, and, if so, what persons compose it? Question 13 Are any of them insane, and what is the character of such insanity ? Question 14 What is the occupation of the patient ? Question 15 How many attacks of mental disease has the patient had? Question 16 Are parents of the insane person related by blood? Ifso, what is the degree of relationship? Question 17 Has the applicant property? If so, state in what such property consists, and what is the value thereof? Question 18 Is the applicant under any forcible restraint? Ifso, what? Question 19 Has the patient received any aid from the county? Ifso, what? Question 20 Give name and address of the friends of the patient with whom the superintendent of the insane asylum can correspond, as circumstances require, for the benefit of the patient. Question 21 Give any information in your possession not embraced in the above questions, which may throw light on the mental or physical condition of the patient. 1881 Public Laws Ch. 316 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 316 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS OR INTOXICA- TING LIQUORS WITHIN TWO MILES OF THE COLORED MISSION- ARY BAPTIST CHURCH AT BESTS STATION IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That it shall be unlawful fer any person or persons to sell or dispose of any spirituous or intoxicating liquors within two miles of the colored Missionary Baptist church at Bests station in Wayne county. 1883 Private Laws Ch. 15 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 15 An act to incorporate the North Carolina Colored Christian Con- ference. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Sec. 2 That all devises, bequests and conveyances heretofore made, or hereafter to be made to said North Carolina Colored Christian Conference, shall vest in the same and be good and valid in law. _ 1883 Private Laws Ch. 50 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 50 An act to incorporate the Kings Mountain High School at Kings Mountain, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That they and their successors in office are hereby authorized and empowered to take title in fee simple to the academy in Kings Mountain, and all lands, grounds and property belonging to or appurtenant of every description, and which may hereafter be added to for the purpose of carrying on and conducting a school for white children in said building upon such terms and in such manner as they, in their discretion, may deem best. Said trustees and their successors shall have full power to lease, rent or mortgage said lands and buildings for any term of years not to exceed ten -10 for educational purposes, and shall have full power at any time to dispose of by sale, and convey the whole or any part thereof, whenever they shall deem it best for the interest of said school or it be necessary for the discharge of any debt due on said academy or lands, or for the purpose of reinvesting the proceeds for a like purpose. 1883 Private Laws Ch. 80 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 80 An act to incorporate ** Mott's Grove Camp Ground Methodist church (col.,) in Catawba county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That Emerson Cornelus (colored), Robert Beaty (colored), James Long (colored), and their successors in office, be-and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, to be known and styled by the name and style of the trustees of Motts Grove Camp Ground, situated and lying in the county of Catawba, North Carolina, and the said trustees shall have succession and a common seal, and be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity in this state, that they may take, demand, receive and possess all lands, tenements, moneys, goods and chattels which may be given to them by deed, will or otherwise for the use of said camp ground. 1883 Private Laws Ch. 110 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 110 An act to incorporate the Colored Orphan Home of Eastern North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That George T. Wassom, John A. Savage, Louis H. Fisher, George H. White, John C. Dancy, J. H. Mattocks, P. W. Casey, W. C. Coleman, C. H. Johnson, W. W. Arrington and Richard Bunn, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name of the Colored Orphans Home of Eastern North Carolina, with power to receive, purchase and hold proprty, both real arid personal, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to sue and to be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, to contract and to be contracted with, and to do all other acts and things which may be necessary for the convenient and efficient management of the business of said corporation and for the carrying out the intentions of the same. 1883 Private Laws Ch. 110 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 110 An act to incorporate the Colored Orphan Home of Eastern North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Said corporation shall have power to secure control of such orphans, unprotected and friendless children, in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws of the corporation: and it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to interfere with the said Orphan Home of eastern North Carolina, in its management and control of said children after they are lawfully entered and received by said corporation: Provided, that the said institution shall be for children of the colored race only. __ 1883 Private Laws Ch. 142 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 142 An act to incorporate the town of Smithfield, in Johnston county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said county commissioners in said town, at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration: and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward ;-andif any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facia evidence that he is not entitled to registration in such ward. 1883 Private Laws Ch. 149 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 149 An act to incorporate Union School, in the county of Yadkin. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Sec. 1 That G. W. Transoo, J. H. Gilmer, jr., George Wright, J. A. Martin, A. B. Long, Richard Lawson, Alexander Long, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic under the name and style of Farbush Union School, in the county of Yadkin, for the education of colored people, and as such they shall have all the corporate powers of trustees of like institutions. The trustees may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and may purchase and hold real and personal estate. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 36 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 36 | An act to establish a graded public school in the town of Statesville, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 The commissioners of the town of Statesville are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified yoters of said town at such time or times, not oftener than one in any one year, under such regulations as said commissioners may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the establishment and support of a graded school in said town. That such qualified voters at such election shall vote on written or printed ballots the words For School or Against School, and the penalties for illegal and fraudulent voting in this election shall be the same as for the annual elections for mayor and commissioners of said town of Statesville. In case @ majority of the qualified voters at such election shall be in favor of such tax, the same shall be levied and collected by the town authorities under the same rules and regulations and in the same manner as other town taxes are or may be collected, and the tax collector shall be 6 subject to the same liabilities for the collection and ing over of said taxes, as he is or may be for other taxe Provided, that the tax so collected shall not exceed one fifth of:one per centum on the value of property, an sixty cents on the poll; and the taxes thus levied an collected shail be applied exclusively to the purpose providing, by purchase or otherwise, suitable buildin and grounds, and to the support of a graded publie school which shall be free to all white persons within the school age, living within the corporate limits of the town Statesville; and for the education of colored persons within the school age living in said tone, as hereinafter gohan 1883 Public Laws Ch. 36 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 36 | An act to establish a graded public school in the town of Statesville, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 The special tax thus collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be applied and expended exclusively for the purpose aforesaid of procuring buildings and grounds for, and in keeping up a graded public school, free for all white persons of both sexes within the school age resident in said town; and the special tax thus collected from the property and polls of colored persons shall be expended exclusively for the education of colored children of both sexes, within the school age, resident in said town, by the same persons and as other free common school funds are or may be by law expended. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 36 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 36 | An act to establish a graded public school in the town of Statesville, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That said Board of Education of the town of Statesville may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase and hold real estate for the purposes of said corporation as herein expressed, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value; and may adopt rules for its government not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state; and the said board shall receive and apply to the purposes of the said graded school all publicschool moneys from whatsoever source arising which are now or may hereafier be applicable to the common school education of white children within the school age and resident within the town of Statesville. . 1883 Public Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 82 An act to amend section twenty-six, chapter two hundred, laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section twenty-six of chapter two hundred of laws of dne thousand eight hundred and eightyone, be so amended as to allow the committee of school district number four (white), Lincolnton township, Lincoln county, to give orders for repairs in the two academies known in said district as the male and female academies; and that the orders of said committee shall be paid out of the funds apportioned to said district, number four (white), by the treasurer of the county board of educalaa of Lincoln county. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 3 Identified by: model (cH APTER 117 An act to establish graded schools in the city of NewBerne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 The special assessments thus levied and colected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for white children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special assessments thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended for the keeping up a graded public school for the colored children of both sexes between the ages of six and Prenty #NAME? years in said city. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 4 Identified by: model (cH APTER 117 An act to establish graded schools in the city of NewBerne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the board of trustees of the NewBerne academy be and they are hereby constituted the board of trustees for the graded school for the white children. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occyring in said board, to employ teachers and to do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 5 Identified by: model (cH APTER 117 An act to establish graded schools in the city of NewBerne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That the money arising from the special assessment eaten provided for, collected from the property and polls of white persons shall, as soon as collected, be paid over to such person or persons as the board of trustees aforesaid shall appoint, and that the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school Jaw for public school purposes applicable for the white children in said city of NewBerne, shall be in like manner paid over to said board of trustees, and shall be applied for keeping up the said public graded school or schools. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 6 Identified by: model (cH APTER 117 An act to establish graded schools in the city of NewBerne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the school committee of district number eight in the county of Craven, and their successors in office, and E. A. Richardson, V. A. Crawford, I. B. Abbott, A. Bass, B. W. Morris, George H. White, Robert G. Mosely, A. G. Oden, George S. Fisher, Joseph Mumford, M. Pr. Bryan, Rey. George. B. W illis, John A. Jones,+H Rkbins, be ad they are stelle conmitiated a boada of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; . that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies o curring in said board; to employ teachers and do such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said grad school for colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 7 Identified by: model (cH APTER 117 An act to establish graded schools in the city of NewBerne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the money arising from the special assessment herein provided for, collected from the property and polls of colored persons shall, as soon as collected, be paid over to the treasurer of the county of Craven, and held by him, subject to the orders and directions of the board of trustees of said public graded school for the colored children, and the school committee of district number eight in the county of Craven: Provided, said treasurer shall receive as compensation for receiving and holding said money, not exceeding two and one-half per centuin upon the amount so received and held. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 121 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 121 An act to amend an act entitled an act to revise and consolidate the public school law, and to make more efficient the system of public instruction in this state, ratified March tenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 Amend section twenty-four by striking out in line eleven the words one months, and inserting the words thirty days. Amend section twenty-four, line one, by inserting after the word each the words white and each colored. Amend the same section, in line four, by striking out the word December and inserting the word October, and by inserting after the word whose, in line four, the words, term of service shall begin the first Monday of December following, and whose. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That upon written petition, signed by ten white voters of any school district for white children, or by a like number of colored voters of any school district for colored children, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners wherein such district is located, to post a notice, signed by their chairman, at three public places in such district, notifying the white or colored tax payers, as the case may be, that they will be heard at the next regular meeting of said board as to submitting to the voters the levying and collecting an assessment in such district in aid of the public school in said district. At said meeting the board shall hear a]l persons who map desire to be heard, and shal} decide whether the question shall be submitted to the said voters or not; and if they decide to submit the question to the voters, they shall also decide what per cent., not exceeding twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars valuation of property and seventy-five cents on the poll, shall be collected on property and the amount on polls respectively, and shall issue a written order, signed by the chairman of said board, to the school committee of such district, to submit to the qualified white or colored voters of such district, as the case may be, whether an annual assessment shall be levied and collected therein for the support of the public school in said district for the white children, or for the colored children, as the case may be. Said committee shall give thirty days wrilten or printed notice of the time and place at which said election shall be held, and the said notice shall be posted at three public places in said district. Said committee, or a majority of them, after being sworn by a justice of the peace, shall open the 15 polls, hold said election, eount the votes and shall report to the board of county commissicners at their next regular meeting after said election the result thereof. ach voter shall deposit a ballot, upon which shall be written or printed the word assessment or the words no assessment; and said election shall be held and conducted in all other respects under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 In case a majority of the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of such assessment, the board of commissioners shall direct their clerk to make out from the tax list of the township in which such district is situate a list of all the taxable property and poll of the white or colored tax payers, as the case may be, in such district, and it shall be the duty of the school committee of such district to aid the clerk in making out said list, and said flerk shall deliver said list to the sheriff of the county with an order signed by him commanding the sheriff to collect said assessment in like manner as provided for the eollection of state and county taxes, and said sheriff shall collect and pay over the same to the county treasurer. And said sheriff's official bond shall be liable therefor, as provided in case of county school tax. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in aiding to keep up the public school in said district for white children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in aiding to keep up the public school in said district for colored children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. e 1883 Public Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 It shall be the duty of said treasurer to keep a book in which he shall open an account with each school district showing the amount of assessment collected and paid by the white districts and by the colored districts respectively, the dates of all payments, the name of the person to whom paid, and the amount of such payments; he shall balance the accounts of each district on the thirtieth day of November in each year, and shall report by letter or by printed circular, to each school committee the balance due each district from the preceding year. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 9 Said treasurer shall, on the first Monday in December of each year, report to said board the amount of money received from the sheriff from each school district ; said report shall show the amounts received respectively from assessments paid by the whites on the property and poll, and the same as to the colored. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 12 The treasurer of each county shall report to the state superintendent of public instruction on the first day of December of each year, the entire amount received by him under this act during the preceding school year, the amount received from property and polls of the white and the colored respectively, and the disbursements thereof made by him, designating the amounts paid to teachers for the whites and the colored respectively. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 156 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 156 An act to incorporate the insane asylums of the state and for other purposes, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 The North Carolina Insane Asylum and The Western North Carolina Insane Asylum shall be exclusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the white insane of the state, and The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum shall be exelusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the colored insane of the state. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 156 Sec. 19 Identified by: model CHAPTER 156 An act to incorporate the insane asylums of the state and for other purposes, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 19 The following questions with their respective answers by at least one physician of respectable standing, and such other competent witness as said justices may determine, duly sworn and subscribed by them, and so certified by said justices, shall be transmitted with the other papers to the board of directors of the proper asyJum : Question 1 What is the name of the patient? Question 2 Is he white or colored ? Question 3 What is his age? Question 4 Is he married or single, and if married, for how many years? Question 5 What is the supposed cause of insanity ? Question 6 In what way is the disease exhibited ? ~ Question 7 Has any medical treatment been pursued ; ifso, what kind and by whom? Question 8 How long has he been insane? Count from the first symptoms and give all known symptoms from that time to this date. Question 9 Has the patient manifested any propensity to injure himself or others; if so, in what way and how often ? Question 10 Has he been subject to epilepsy? Question 11 Have any of his ancestors been insane; if so, state what ancestors, and what was the character of their insanity ? Question 12 Has he any family; and if so, what persons compose it? Question 13 Are any of them insane, and what is the character of such insanity ? Question 14 What is the occupation of the patient? Question 15 How many attacks of mental disease has the patient had ? Question 16, Are the parents of the insane persons related by blood ; if so, what is the degree of relationship? Question 17 Has the patient property ; if so, state in what such property consists, and what is the value thereof? Question 18 Is he under any forcible restraint; if so, what? Question 19 Has the patient received any aid from the county ; if so, what? Question 20 Give name and post office of the nearest relative or friend of the patient, with whom the superin: tendent of the insane asylum can correspond, as circumstances require for the benefit of the patient. Question 21 Give any information in your possession not embraced in the above questions, which may throw light on the mental or physical condition of the patient. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 157 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 157 An act to incorporate the Fayetteville public graded and normal school for whites. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That A. H. Slocumb, A. A. McKethan, Jr., John D. Williams, W. H. Cohen, W. C. Troy, A. Moore, B. C. Ledberry, T, D. Haigh, W. A. Guthrie, C. F. Moore, George M. Rose, Charles Haigh, W. N. Tillinghast, R, W. Hardie, W. T. Taylor, J. C. MacRae, John A. Pemberton, Silas Sheets and J. M. Welsh, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Trustees of the Fayetteville public graded and normal school, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold, enter upon and possess, in their corporate capacity, property, real and personal, such as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining and carrying on a public graded and normal school for whites in Cross Creek township, in the county of Cumberland, with power to make all needful rules and regulations for their government and that of said school, and shall have continual succession in sueh capacity. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 157 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 157 An act to incorporate the Fayetteville public graded and normal school for whites. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That upon the written application of said trustees, through their proper officers, to the board of commissioners of Cumberland county, the said board of commissioners shall order an election, by the white voters of said township upon the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein upon the property and polls of the white citizens and owners of property in said township, for the support of the said public graded and normal school, said election to be held under rules and regulations to be fixed by the said commissioners, and conforming, as near as may be, to the rules and _ regulations, for conducting other elections. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 An act in relation to the graded schools of Goldsboro township in the county of Wayne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That J. A. Bonits, E. P. Borden, Henry Lee, H. L. Grant, W. A. Deans, W. F. Kornegay and J. F. Dortch, and their successors in office, be and hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Trustees of the Goldsboro Graded School for the whites, located in the city of Goldsboro, in Wayne county, and under such name and style may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and do all such acts as pertain to bodies politic and corporate. | 1883 Public Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 An act in relation to the graded schools of Goldsboro township in the county of Wayne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the trustees for the graded school for the whites in Goldsboro township are authorized and empowered to purchase and hold, for the purposes of such school, the property in the city of Goldsboro known as the Goldsboro Female College, and to issue bonds, with coupons attached, for the purchase money ; and to execute a mortgage on so much of said property as may be necessary to secure the payment of such bonds. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed seven per cent. per annum, and such coupons shall be receivable in payment of all assessments levied and collected for maintaining such school; and the said trustees may sell so much of said property as they deem necessary for the purposes of said school, and with the money so arising they shall pay off said bonds so far as it may suffice. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 186 An act in relation to the graded schools of Goldsboro township in the county of Wayne. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That whenever it shall appear to the board of commissioners for Wayne county, upon a petition in writing, signed by the trustees of the graded school for whites for Goldsboro township, that an increase of the assessment for maintaining such school is desirable and necessary, then it shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners to submit the question of such increase of assessment to the qualified white voters of said township, under such rules and regulations as the said board of commissioners may prescribe; and in submitting such question to the voters as aforesaid, the rate of assessment on the poll and property shall be expressly named and limited. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for increase of school assessmert, or against increase of school assessment; and such election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly; and in case a majority of the qualified white voters of said township shall be in favor of such increase of assessment, the same shall be levied and collected in the same manner as is provided by law for levying and collecting state and county taxes. The provisions of this section shall also apply to the graded school for the colored in Goldsboro township, and at all elections held pursuant thereto, relating to said graded school for the colored, only the qualified colored voters of said township shall be entitled to vote. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 188 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the commissioners for the town of Monroe, in the county of Union, are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said town at such time and under such rules and regulations as the said commissioners may prescribe, whether an annual assessment shall be levied therein for the support of a graded school for the white children, and a graded school for the colored children in said town; that at such elettion such qualified voters as are in favor of levying such assessment shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school upon it, and such voters as are opposed to the levying of such assessment shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words against school upon it, and the penalties for illegal and fraudulent voting in this election and the rules and regulations for conducting the said election shall be in all respects the same asin the annual elections for mayor and commissioners of the said town of Monroe. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 188 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That the special assessments thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up agraded public school for white persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded school for colored persons of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years in said town: Provided, that if the special assessment so levied and collected from the property and polls of colored persons shall be insufficient to maiutain and support a graded school for colored persous, then aud in such event the assessment so levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be exclusively used and expended for the benefit of the public schools of the colored children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years in said town. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 188 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the commissioners of said town at their next regular meeting after said election, and their suecessors in office, every two years thereafter, shall elect five persons of integrity and ability, qualified voters of said town who are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded schoo! for the whites, that said Soard shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 188 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That the commissioners of said town at their next regular meeting after said election, and their successors in office, every two years thereafter, shall elect five persons of integrity and. ability, qualified voters of said town, who are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children, should there be such school operated within said town, and their powers shall be the same in relation to the graded school for colored children as then enumerated in the preceding section. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 188 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said town shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the whites under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for white children. | 1883 Public Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 188 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said town, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children in the event that such graded school should be operated in said town. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 192 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the board of commissioners of the county of Wilson are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of the said Wilson Graded School District in said county, on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children, and a graded public school for the colored children in said district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words For school, or No school, thereon, and said election shal] be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 192 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said district for white persons of both sexes, whose names are on the school census list for the current year, between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the special tax thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons, shall be expended in keeping up a graded school in said district for.colored persons of both sexes, whose names shall be on the school census list as aforesaid, between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 192 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That Thomas J. Hadley, R. J. Taylor, Warren Woodard, George D. Green, G. W. Blount, Moses Rountree, H. C. Moss, H. G. Conner and M. T. Maye, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 192 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That E. C. Simms, Peter Rountree,Mharles Battle, G. A. Farmer, Jerry Washington, C. M. Jones, Daniel Vick, Samuel Williams and C. H. Darden be and they are constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as may be necessary to keep up the said school for colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 192 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said district, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the white children, under the orders and direetions of the board of trustees of said graded public school for white children, and the public money so collected for public school purposes for the colored children in said district shall be applied to the keeping up the graded school for the colered children, under the rules and direetions of the board of trustees of the graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 192 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 The board of trustees for the graded school for the white children, and the board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children, shall at the first regular meeting after the establishment of said schools, and annually thereafter, elect a treasurer of the respective schools.. Tie person so elected shall execute a bond, with at least three sureties, who shall justify before the clerk of the superior court of Wilson county, and be approved by the president of the board of trustees of the school for which he shall have been elected, in an amount double ihe amount of tax levied for such school. The said bond shall be payable to the state of North Carolina and conditioned for the payment of and accounting for all money or other property which shall come into his hands as treasurer. The said bond shall be filed in the office of the register of deeds of Wilson county as other official bonds, and in the event of a breach of the conditions thereof,@n action may be prosecuted by the board of trustees of the school of which the person giving such bord is treasurer. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That Henry A. Bond, James A. Woodward, W. D. Pruden, Geo. H. Coke, W. G. Warren, Moses Hobbs, W. H. Coffield, W. R. Skinner, P. F. White, W. E. Bond, A. T. Bush, H. DeB. Hooper, C. W. Cason, R. B. Perkins, A. M. Moore, J. H. Garrett, J. R. B. Hathaway and G. W. White be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the Edenton graded school for the white race until July first, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, and until their successors are elected as hereinafter stated. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the trustees of Edenton graded school are hereby authorized at their first meeting in the month of June next, and annually thereafter, to elect seven men from among the white citizens of the school district in which Edenton is situated, who have children to enter at said graded school, to constitute for one year from and after the thirtieth day of June, and until their successors are elected, the board of trustees of said graded school for the white race, which shall be free to the white children of both sexes of said school district. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That said board of graded school trustees for the white race shall have power to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school, and shall be the custodian of all public school property for the white race of said school district. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That all public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for the white race of said schoof district, and all special school taxes which may from time to time be collected from white persons in said sehool district, shall be applied for keeping up the said graded school for white children under the orders and direction of said board of graded school trustees for the white race. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That William Heath, Hannibal Badham, Philip McDonald, Elijah Hathaway, J. W. Draper, London Johnson and G. W. Lane be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored race, which shall be free to the colored children of both sexes of said schoo] district. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That said board of graded school trustees for the colored race shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and to do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for colored children, and shall be the custodian of all public school property for the colored race of said school district. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 220 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That all public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school Jaw for the colored race of said school district, and all special school taxes which may from time to time be collected from colored persons in said school district, shall be applied for keeping up said graded school for colored children, under the orders and directions of said board of graded school trustees for the colored race. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 228 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 228 An act to provide for the sapport of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the sum of five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the improvement and repairs necessary at both the white and colored departments of said institution. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That upon the written application of fifty white tax payers or of a like number of colored tax payers, citizens of any incorporated town in Guilford county, asking the establishment of a graded school or schools in such town, the whites asking for a white graded school and the colored asking for a colored graded school, it shall be the duty of the mayor or other chief officer of such town to submit the question of a graded school for white children to the white qualified voters of said town, or of a graded school for colored children to the colored qualified voters of said town, as the case may be, at the first regular election thereafter held in said town for mayor and commissioners thereof, first giving four weeks notice thereof in some newspaper published in said town, or if there be no such newspaper, then by printed notice posted at five public places in said town for thirty days immediately preceding the day of such election. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That at such election which shall be held under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed by law for the election of mayor and commissioners of said town, such of the white electors as desire the establishment of a graded school for white children, or such of the colored electors as desire the establishment of a graded school for colored children, as the case may be, shall vote a ballot upon which is printed or written, for white school, or for colored school. And such of said voters, white or colored, as the case may be, who object to the establishment of such white or colored schools, as the case may be, shall vote no white school, or no colored school, as the case may be, on a written or printed ballot. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 If at such election or elections the majority of the votes deposited by the white voters be for white school, or if the majority of the colored votes deposited by the colored voters be for colored school, then it shall be the duty of the municipal authorities of such town to establish and maintain such white school, or such colored school, as the case may be, in said town, which school or schools shall be under the control and supervision of such municipal authorities, and they shall levy and impose an assessmert upon all the taxable property of the whites situated in said town for the support of the white graded schdol, and an assessment upon all the property of the colored race situated in said town for the support of the colored graded school, as the case may be, but such assessment shall not exceed twenty-five cents on one hundred dollars valuation of property, and there shall be assessed on the white poll for the white school, and on the colored poll for the colored school, which shall not exceed seventy-five cents on the poll. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That all white children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, residents of such town, shall be entitled to [be] educate[d] at the white graded school free of charge ; and all colored children between the ages of six and twenty-one, residents of such town, shall be entitled to be educated at the colored graded school free of charge, 1883 Public Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That for the election provided for in the first section of this act, the municipal authorities shall provide two ballot boxes, in one of which the white voters shall deposit their ballots, and in the other the colored voters shall deposit their ballots. _ 1883 Public Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 That the moneys paid to the said school district committee out of the general school fund, under the laws of this state, shall be used for the maintenance of the graded school or schools, the same being divided per capita between the races as provided by law. _ 1883 Public Laws Ch. 235 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 235 An act to repeal an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous or intox- icating liquors within two miles of the colored Missionary Baptist church at Bests Station, in Wayne county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That chapter three hundred and sixteen of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, entitled an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors within two miles of the colored Missionary Baptist church at Bests Station, in Wayne county, be repealed. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of Lenoir county are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of Kinston township, in said county, on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored children in said territory. Each voter shall votea written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That the special taxes thus collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in the town of Kinston for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in the town of Kinston for colored persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twentyone years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That all money arising from retail liquor license tax collected by the commissioners of the town of Kinston shall be applied in the same manner as taxes collected on property and polls, as prescribed in section third of this bill. Said license tax shall be equally divided between the white and colored graded schools. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That John Tull, Dr. John A. Pollock, S. H. Abbott, James A. Pridgen, W. F. Stanley, J. W. Grainger, J. K. Davis, A. D. Parrott and L. Harvey, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ hers, and to do all such acts as shall be necessary to on said graded school for the white children. _ 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That L. H. Fisher, Owen Parrott, Wiley Lowry, Spencer Smith, Peter Brem, Henry Green, Richard Whitfield, Squire M. Jones and Peter Williams, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children. That said board shal] have power to fill a)l vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be apportioned under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the whites under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 That the public school money which shall from time to time be apportioned under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children under the orders and dirctions of the board of trustees, for said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of the county of Edgecombe are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of Tarboro township in said county on the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored children in said township. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules and regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the special tax thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said township for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said township for colored persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That George Howard, N. M. Lawrence, C. J. Austin, J. B. Coffield, T. H. Gatling, E. C. Farrar and R. C. Brown be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That John C. Dancy, H.C. Cherry, Victor E. Howard, Benjamin Norfleet, Edward Zoella, Henry S. Spragins and W. H. Knight be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the whites, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded public school for white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 255 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of the county of Caldwell are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters in the bounds of a radius of two miles of the court house in the town of Lenoir in said county, on the first Monday in June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual assessment shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored children in said township. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules and regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 255 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the special assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said township for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special assessments thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded school in said township for colored persons of both sexes_between the tages of six and twenty-one years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 255 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That I. M. Spainhour, G. W. F. Harper, J. G. Ballew, W. M. Earnhart, Leander Nelson, F. Weisenfeld and I. C. Blair be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all the vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 255 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That Moses Sudderth, Henry Harper, Henry Bower, James Gaither, Anthony Jones, John Anderson, Edney Norwood be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, toemploy teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 255 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said graded school for the whites under the orders and di tion of the board of trustees for said graded public school for white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 255 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 282 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 282 An act to establish a graded school in Shoe Heel school districts number one and two for white children, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of county commissioners of Robeson county shall submit to the qualified voters of Shoe Heel school districts known as districts number one and two for white children in said county, on the first Thursday in April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual assessment shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children in said school districts. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly: Provided, that two ballot boxes shall be used, and those electors who reside in district number one shall deposit their ballots in one box, and those electors who reside in district number two shall deposit their ballots in the other; and if a majority of the electors of one district shall vote for school and not a majority of the electors of both districts combined, then in that event the school shall be established in the district where the said majority of the ballots were cast, and the trustees named in this act who reside in the said school district shall be the trustees of said school. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 282 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 282 An act to establish a graded school in Shoe Heel school districts number one and two for white children, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 The special assessment levied and collected from the taxable property of white persons and white polls shall be expended for a graded public school for the white children of both sexes, between the ages of six and twentyone years in said school district: and the special assessments levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended for the benefit of the public school for the colored children residing in the colored school district in which said assessments are levied and collected. : 1883 Public Laws Ch. 282 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 282 An act to establish a graded school in Shoe Heel school districts number one and two for white children, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That J. C. McCaskill, E. L. McCormac, W. B. Harker, J. D. Croone, J. C. McLean and David McCall, in schoo] district number one, and J. B. Wilkinson, L. R. Townsend, R. M. McNair, A. C. Wilkinson and Murdoc McKintire, in schoo! district number two, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites in school district numbers one and two, and are incorporated by the name of the Shoe Heel Graded School, and may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase and hold real and personal property, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value, shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board; to employ and dismiss teachers, and regulate their salaries; shall have power to suspend and expel any pupil, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school. They shall elect one of their number chairman, and one as secretary, and prescribe their duties. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 282 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 282 An act to establish a graded school in Shoe Heel school districts number one and two for white children, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 10 That in addition to the assessments hereinbefore provided for the public school money which shall hereafter be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for white children in said school district shall be set apart by the county board of education and applied to said graded school; and all funds now in the hands of the county treasurer heretofore collected for such white children in said district shall be applied to,said graded school, and all fines imposed by the mayor of said town for violations of the ordinances thereof shal] be paid into the county treasury for the use and benefit uf said graded school; and the license taxes imposed on dealers in spirituous and malt liquors, wine or cider by the town authorities within the limits of said school district shall be divided per capita among the school children of both races between the ages of six and twentyone residing in said district, and for this purpose shall be, by the collecting officer charged with the collection of the same, paid into the county treasury and divided by the county board of education. . 1883 Public Laws Ch. 292 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 292 An act to establish a graded school in Lumberton school district, number seventy, for white children. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of county commissioners of Robeson county shall submit to the qualified voters of Lumberton school district known as district number seventy for white children in said county, on the third Thursday in April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual assessment shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children in said school district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words, for school or no school. And said election shall be conducted under the same rules as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 292 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 292 An act to establish a graded school in Lumberton school district, number seventy, for white children. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 The special assessments levied and collected from the taxable property of white persons and white polls, shall be expended for a graded public school for white children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years in said school district, and the special assessments levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended for the benefit of the public school for the colored children residing in the colored school district in which said assessments are levied and collected. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 292 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 292 An act to establish a graded school in Lumberton school district, number seventy, for white children. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That Berry Goodwin, J. A. McAllister, James S. McNeill, Alfred pina A. W. McLeod, Robert D. Caldwell, Durham Lewis, W. J. Cooley, O. C. Norment, C. B. Townsend and E K. Proctor, Jr., be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded schoo] for the whites in school district number seventy, and are incorporated by the name of the Lumberton Graded School, and may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase and hold real and personal property not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value;shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ and dismiss teachers and regulate their salaries, shall have power to suspend or expel any pupil, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school. They shall elect one of their number chairman, and one as secretary, and prescribe their duties. | 1883 Public Laws Ch. 292 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 292 An act to establish a graded school in Lumberton school district, number seventy, for white children. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 10 That in addition to the assessments hereinbefore provided for, the public school money which shall hereafter be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for white children in said school district shall be set apart by the county board of educacation and applied to said graded school; and all funds now in the hands of the county treasurer heretofore collected for such white children in said district shall be applied to said graded school, and all fines imposed by the mayor of said town for violation of the ordinances thereof shall be paid into the county treasury for the use and benefit of said graded school, and the license taxes imposed on dealers in spirituous and malt liquors, wine or cider by the state, county and town authorities within the limits of said school district, shall be divided per capita among the school children of both races between the ages of six and twenty-one residing in said district, and for this purpose shall be by the collecting officer charged with the collection of the same paid into the county treasury and divided by the county board of education. : 1883 Public Laws Ch. 318 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 318 An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Northamp- ton county to order the treasurer of said county to pay certain amounts due to teachers of public schools. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said amounts, if ordered by said board to be paid, shall be paid out of the school funds in the hands of said treasurer due the districts respectively before named for the white race, and that the school committees of said district respectively shall regulate the schools in said districts so as to spare the amount or amounts due from said districts respectively. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of the county of Edgecombe are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of that portion of Rocky Mount (number twelve) and Battleboro (number seventy-seven) townships in said county, embraced in the description given in section two of this act, on the first Monday in June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored children at Rocky Mount. That the board of commissioners of the county of Nash are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of that portion of Rocky Mount and Stony Creek townships in said county, embraced in the description given in section two of this act, on the first Monday in June, Anno Domini one thousand eight bundred and eighty three, whether any annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children, and a graded public school for the colored children at Rocky Mount. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed for the election of members of the general assembly, with this exception, however, that all the voters in that portion of Edgecombe county embraced in said boundary shall vote in one ballot box in the town of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe county, and that all the voters in that portion of Nash county embraced in said boundary shall vote in one ballot box in the town of Rocky Mount, Nash county. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and poll of the white persons 32 shall be expended in keeping up a graded publie schoo in said town for white persons of both sexes between ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and poll of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said town for colored persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That Jacob Battle, Thomas C. Powell, Daniel Abram, J. J. Battle, T. P. Braswell, John H. Thorp and James 8 Battle, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded public school for the whites; that said board of trustees shall elect a treasurer, who shall hold his office for two years, and he shall give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved and accepted by the board of commissioners of Nash county, who shall record and file the same as other official bonds. That said board of trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That W. W. Parker, J. P. Doughtry, A. W. Arrington, 8S. L. Hart, Jr., Henry Lindsey, Samuel MeLin and A. J. Bryant, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded public school for the colored children ; that said board of trustees shall elect a treasurer, who shall hold his office for two years, and he shall give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of three thousand dollars, to be approved and accepted by the board of commissioners of Nash county, who shall record and file the same as other official bonds. That said board of trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded publie school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law t public school purposes for white children in said teritory'shall be paid to the treasurer of said white graded hool, and by him applied under the order and directions of the said board of trustees for said white graded school for keeping up said school: Provided, however, that if the said graded school shall for any cause cease and determine, the public school money aforesaid shall be applied as now provided by law. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for colored children in said territory shall be paid to the treasurer of said colored graded school, and by him applied under the order and directions of the board of trustees for the said colored graded school for keeping up said school: Provided, however, that if said school shall for any cause cease and determine, the public school money aforesaid shall be applied as now provided by law. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 9 That the sheriffs of the counties of Nash and Edgecombe are hereby authorized and directed to pay over the taxes collected under this act to the treasurer of the said graded schools in the following manner, to-wit: they shall pay to the treasurer of the graded school for the whites that portion of the taxes collected for the whites, and pay to the treasurer of the graded school for the colored respectively: Provided, however, that no such payments shall be made until the said treasurers respectively have given their bonds as in this act required. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 336 An act to authorize the county commissioners of Granville county to pay Mrs. Elizabeth T, Jenkins for teaching a public school. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the county commissioners of Granville county be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay Mrs. Elizabeth T. Jenkins the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars for teaching a free public school for the white race in the county of Granville, at Williamsboro school district, number thirty-seven, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 377 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 377 An act to amend chapter two hundred and thirty-one, laws of o1 thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That a new section, to be known as section seven, be inserted as follows: That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school Jaw for public school purposes, for the white children in said town of Durham, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the whites, under the orders and direction of the Durham graded school committee for white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 412 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 The special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of all white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of all colored persons, or negroes, shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for colored persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 412 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That Charles M. Brown, Charles K. Gallagher and George V. Credle, W. C. Mallison, Charles F. Warren, Jos. L. Winfield, E.S. Hoyt, W. A. Blount and W. T. Farrow, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites, and that Henry Basco, Hampton Bonner, Haywood Hunter, Henry S. Jones, Charles Blackledge, J. W. Peyton, J. M. Williams, Sylvester Dibble and Romeo Little, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the colored: school. The first three trustees named herein for each school shall hold office for one year, the second three for two years, and the third three for three years, from the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. That any vacancy occurring in said board shall be filled by the appointment of the board of commissioners of [the] town of Washington, and when any trustees term of office has expired, the said board of town commissioners shall appoint his successor, who shall hold office for three years: Provided always, that all the trustees for white schools shall be white persons, and the trustees for colored schools shall be colored. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 412 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That if a majority of the qualified voters of the town of Washington shall vote for school, the said trustees herein named for the white and colored graded schbols shall be and are hereby created respectively bodies politic and corporate, entitled respectively The Washington White Graded School and The Washington Colored Graded School, and each may sue and be sued, have acorporate seal, and purchase and hold real and personal property. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 412 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 That the town of Washington shall constitute a school district for white persons and a school district for colored persons. That the public school money which shall be from time to time collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said district shall be applied to keeping up the public graded school for the whites under the order and direction of the board of trustees for said graded school for white children: that the public schoo] money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for colored children in said district shall be applied to keeping up the public graded school for colored children under the order and direction of the board of trustees for said graded school for colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 415 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of the county of Duplin are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of the school district in which the town of Magnolia in said county is situated, on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored childgen in said school district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 415 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That the special taxes thys levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded publie school in said school district for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded school in said school district for colored persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 415 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That Dr. M. K. Devane, G. W. Brinkley, Henry Hollingsworth, H. E. Newley, Dr. McMillain, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 415 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That the board of county commissioners of Duplin county shall appoint five persons to act as trustees of the graded school for the colored children, and said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 415 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said school district shall be applied for keeping up the publie graded schools for the whites, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded public schools for white children. 1883 Public Laws Ch. 415 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said school district shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 31 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 831 An act to amend the charter of the town of Winston, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That all moneys levied and collected by the board of commissioners or corporate government of said town of Winston as privilege taxes, that is to say, as licenses of all descriptions on all trades, occupations, professions, exhibitions and business, shall be paid to the treasurer of the Winston commissioners of graded schools for the use and benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said town. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 31 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 831 An act to amend the charter of the town of Winston, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 3 That the Winston commissioners of graded schools shall be and are hereby authorized to receive and use the moneys herein provided for and to apply the same in such way as they may deem best for the benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said town, whether for suitable buildings and furniture for said schools, or repairs of the same, for salaries of teachers, or for other incidental expenses. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 32 An act to enable the commissioners of the town of Hickory to issue bonds to raise money to purchase a site for and to erect thereon a town hall, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That with the money arising from the sale of said bonds, together with such other money and material as may be donated by private individuals, said board of special commissioners shall, so soon as they shall deem it practicable, proceed to purchase a site for and to erect thereon a suitable public building to be used as a town hall, and to take a deed of conveyance therefor to the commissioners of the town of Hickory ; to purchase grounds to be used for two public cemeteries of the town of Hickory, the one for white and the other for colored persons, and to take deeds of conveyance therefor to the commissioners of the town of Hickory; to erect at the most convenient point across the Catawba river a substantial high-water bridge that shall be free to the traveling public; and also after and not before said bridge shall have been built and completed, said board of special commissioners shall have power, whenever they shall deem it expedient, to contract for and to purchase and make free to the traveling public the bridge that is now across the Catawba river at Ramsours mills, and shall in each case take deeds of conveyance therefor to the commissioners of the town of Hickory. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 33 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 38 An act to repeal the general laws of the State in regard to towns and cities so far as the town of Kinston, in the county of Lenoir, is concerned, inconsistent with this act; to repeal all special laws and charters in relation thereto, and to re-charter the said town. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the said town, and it shall be.the duty of the said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by him in his notice of registration at least ten days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar and he is hereby authorized to administer an oath to all applicants for registration touching their qualification to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not declare his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 38 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 38 An act to incorporate the Dallas High School Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That James Hoffman, Henry Setzer, M. L. Little, A. P. Rhyne, L. L. Suggs, J. M. Rhodes, John L. Rhyne, M. A. Rhyne, M. H. Rhyne, of Gaston county, and W. A. Manney, J.S. Manney, David Manney, of Cleveland county, and Ambrose Costner, of Lincoln county, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate for educational and religious purposes, under the name and style of the Dallas High School Company, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold the High School property, the buildings, grounds, and all appurtenances thereto, situated in the town of Dallas, Gaston county, North Carolina; to acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, real, personal and mixed property for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade for the white race, in or near Dallas, Gaston county, North Carolina. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert POH Ae TER 40:00:00 Av act to amend the charter of the town of Statesville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books; and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in the ward for which they were appointed on or before the last Monday in March in such years, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in that ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters and designating on the registration book opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward ; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is aacitizen of North Carolina and has resided in the city of Statesville ninety days and in the ward for which he offers to register thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register ; and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof a new registration may not be made biennially, but such registration book shall be revised so as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered and still residing in safd city without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrars shall on or before the last Monday in March biennially, open saic books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in such ward or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the board of aldermen may at any time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed. 1885 Private Laws Ch. 87 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 87 An act to authorize the town of Durham to issue bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the bonds shall not be sold for less than their face value, and that the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be expended by the Durham graded school committee in the purchase and erection of suitable grounds and buildings for the Durham graded or public schools for white children: Provided, however, that this act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town for their ratification or rejection at an election to be held in said town at such a time as the commissioners may appoint within twelve months from the ratification of this act. .Th said election shall| be advertised byithe;commissioners of said: town for thitty days prior to the.day of election in,at least. tworpapers published an said.town. i-Those,who,are in favor,of issuing; said bonds shall, vote -{For, school bonds, those, whozare opposed shall vote Ne school, bonds..5:Dhat,the number, of. votes bast,for and against said (honds shall be deposited sinya special box, counted and; duly certified .by ithe inspectors pf said, election and returned to the:commissioners.of said town, who,shall, certify theoresultpef said selection ol ithe Secretary! of State,and toithe register.of deeds of Durham county. df a, majorityoof themotes cast) shall-bei d+Kor school, bonds,,then ; said,com missioners) shall proceed: at once to issuesand sellthe bonds,:but; d a, miajority; of ithe votes, cast shall be .against,on!{ Novschool, bonds, then this act shallbe; ofi;mo\ force arid effect. . The anspectors shall, be, appointed and the election shall. be: held: as-all otherselections inj the:town. 19b10 [[ede madivd to awot od 1885 Private Laws Ch. 87 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 87 An act to authorize the town of Durham to issue bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 In order |to pay interestion said. bonds,and) to create ajsinking fund to. pay the principal ef said bonds at maturity, thecommissioners of the town of Durham shall levy asspecial.tax of ten cents.on the hundred dallars worth of, real, and personal property in, the town and-thirty cents ons each poll: | Provided, nevertheless, that the tax collected from. the eslored population of the town shall, be applied. for,{the benefit of, the, public schools for colored children as/ now provided by Jaw, in.said town. 9 1885 Private Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 117 An act to incorporate the Huntersville High School in the town of Huntersville, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That J. S. Sossaman, R. H. W. Barker, J. I. Blakely, J. W. Mullen, 8 B. Holbrooks, J. Mc Holbrooks, J. B. Nicholson, R. B. Hunter, A.J. Hunter, D. B. Carver, W. E. Alexander, J. M. Segraves, I. I. Ranson, W. I. Ranson, J. R. Hunter, J. H. Hunter, B. D. Brown, J. A. Pope, 8 C. Hunter, R. M. Ranson, Rev. W. W. Orr, Jno. M. Gibbs, Dr. H. J. Walker, A. Darby, W. A. Chester and all other persons who may be associated with them, and their successors, for the purpose of advancing the cause of education among the white race, are hereby constituted 66 a body corporate and politic by the name, style and title of the Huntersville High School: 1885 Private Laws Ch. 120 Sec. 59 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 120 An act to ineorporate the town of Morganton and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 59 The commissioners shall provide separate cemeteries for the white and the colored people, and the fines and fees paid by the white people shall be used in that cemetery provided for them, and those paid by the black people in that cemetery provided for them, and the money accruing from sale of lots in said cemetery shall be used by the commissioners for the keeping up and improving said cemeteries after paying for the same. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 7 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Sec. 1 That a graded school is herehy incorporated to be known as the Edenton Graded School for school district number three of Chowan county, for the white race, and that B. F. Elhott, T. C. Bradham, G. H. Coke, J. A. Harrell, H. De B. Hooper, W. Y. Warren and T. White, A. are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the same until July first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter stated, and said school shall be free to all the white children between six and twenty-one years of age, who are residents of said school district, and shall be the public school of said district. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 7 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Sec. 2 That said board shall organize each year by the election of a_president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall hold their places at the option of said board, and the treasurer shall give bond, to be approved by said board, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and his compensation shall be two and a-half per cent. of funds received by him, and he shall have charge of the tuition paid for non-resident pupils, and of all donations, gifts and contributions of every kind, made for the benefit of said school or for the white race of said school district, except the public funds in the custody of the county treasurer. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 7 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Sec. 3 That a majority of said trustees, convened by public notice, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and said board shall be a body corporate with power to sue and be sued, and shall have one regular meeting at a public place each month, and shall have power to adopt rules for its own government; also, to fill any vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal from said district, to employ and pay teachers with or without certificates required by the public school law, and to do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said school and to secure its good order, and all powers and duties, formerly vested in the school committee for the white race of said district are vested in said board. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 7 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Sec. 4 That said board shall be custodian of all public school property for the white race of said district, and all unexpended public school money which has been apportioned or collected for the white race of said school district under the general laws of the state not applicable to contracts heretofore legally made, and all of which shall hereafter from time to time be so collected or apportioned, shall be applied for keeping up said graded school under the orders and directions of said board, and the treasurer of Chowan county shall pay out the same on the orders of said board, approved and signed by its president and secretary ; but no order shall be given on the county treasurer until the service or property for which it is given has been furnished in full, and the public school funds appropriated to said school shall be drawn from the county treasury at the rate of one-tenth thereof for each month the school may have been in operation. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 7 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Sec. 9 That the act of the general assembly ratified March third, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, entitled An act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina, and all other laws in conflict with this act be hereby repealed, and this act shall take the place for said school district of the public school law now existing or passed at this session of the general assembly. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 35 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 36 An act concerning public schools of Fayetteville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the school committee for district number one, colored, in Cross Creek township, Cumberland county, are hereby authorized, at their discretion, to transfer to the trustees of the Fayetteville graded school for whites in the said township, any surplus school funds that may have accumulated, or may hereafter accumulate, to the credit of said district, after defraying all expenses incident to a ten months school in the same annually. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 51 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 51 An to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson county. Wuersas, the Indians now living in Robeson county claim to be descendants of a friendly tribe who once re- sided in eastern North Carolina on the Roanoke river, known as the Croatan Indians; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the said Indians and their descendants shall hereafter be designated and known as the Croatan Indians. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 51 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 51 An to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson county. Wuersas, the Indians now living in Robeson county claim to be descendants of a friendly tribe who once re- sided in eastern North Carolina on the Roanoke river, known as the Croatan Indians; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That said Indians and their descendants shall have separate schools for their children, school committees of their own race and color, and shall be allowed to select teachers of their own choice, subject to the same rules and regulations as are applicable to all teachers in the general school law. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 51 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 51 An to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson county. Wuersas, the Indians now living in Robeson county claim to be descendants of a friendly tribe who once re- sided in eastern North Carolina on the Roanoke river, known as the Croatan Indians; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 It shall be the duty of the county board of edueation to see that this act is carried into effect, and shall for that purpose have the census of all the children of said Indians and their descendants between the ages of six and twenty-one taken, and proceed to establish such suitable school districts as shall be necessary for their convenience, and take all such other and further steps as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying this act into effect without delay. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 51 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 51 An to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson county. Wuersas, the Indians now living in Robeson county claim to be descendants of a friendly tribe who once re- sided in eastern North Carolina on the Roanoke river, known as the Croatan Indians; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 The treasurer and other proper authorities, whose duties it is to collect, keep and apportion the school fund, shall procure from the county board of education the number of children in said county between the ages of six and twenty-one, belonging to said Indian race, and shall set apart and keep separate their pro rata share of said school funds, which shall be paid out upon the same rules in every respect as are provided in general school law: Provided, that where any children, descendants of Indians as aforesaid, shall reside in any district in which there are no schools, as provided in this chapter, the same shall have the right to attend any of the public schools in said county provided for their race, and shall be allowed to draw their share of public school fund upon the certificate of the school committee in the district in which they reside, stating that they have thus removed and are entitled to attend public schools. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 73 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 78 An act for the relief of certain citizens of Sampson county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the citizens of the white race entitled by law to the benefit of the public school found living and resident within the following prescribed limits in the county of Sampson, to-wit: Beginning at the Sampson and Johnston county line east of EH. Barefoots, thence to the east corner of George R. Williams farm on the Wilmington and Raleigh road, thence to Sampson Warrens mill on Great Coharie thence to Joel Lees near the Johnston line, thence in a straight line to the Johnston and Sampson county line, be allowed and permitted to use and enjoy that portion of the public school fund apportioned to them by law in the future for the payment of tuition and other expenses incurred in attendance on Glenwood Academy in Johnston county. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 76 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 76 An act for the relief of Dinah E. Davis. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Hyde county is hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in his hands, due school district number fourteen of said county, the sum of forty dollars to Mrs. Dinah EK. Davis for services rendered as teacher of white race for said district for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 111 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAP THR lk An et to establish a graded school in the town of Brevard in Tran- sylvania county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The special tax thus collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be applied and expended exclusively to the purpose of a graded public school which shall be free to all white persons within the school age living within the corporate limits of said town of Brevard; and for the education of colored persons within the school age living in said town, as hereafter provided. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 111 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAP THR lk An et to establish a graded school in the town of Brevard in Tran- sylvania county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 And the special tax collected from the property and polls of colored persons shall be expended exclusively for the education of colored children of both sexes within the school age residents in said town, by the same persons and as other free common school funds are or may be by law expended. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 111 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAP THR lk An et to establish a graded school in the town of Brevard in Tran- sylvania county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That said board of education of the town of Brevard may sue and be sucd, have a common seal, purchase and hold real estate for the purpose of said corporation as herein expressed, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value, and may adopt rules for its government, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State; and the said board shall receive and apply to the purpose of said graded school all public moneys from whatsoever source arising, which are or may hereafter be applicable to the common school education of white children within the school age, and residents within the town of Brevard. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 115 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 115 An act to prevent live stock from running at large in Goldsboro township, Wayne county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That if the owner of any live stock so impounded shall refuse or neglect to redeem the same within ten days after registration, the impounder of said stock shall, after ten days advertisement at the court house door in Goldsboro, and three other public places in said township, describing the stock and naming the place, day and hour of sale, sell said stock at public auction and apply the proceeds to the payment of all costs, charges and damages provided for in this act, and the balance he shall turn over to the owner of said stock, if known, and if the owner be not known, then to the treasurer of the board of trustees of Goldsboro graded school for the whites, for the benefit of said school. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 141 An act in reference to the public schools in Raleigh township, Wake county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : That in order that the public school interests of Raleigh township, Wake county, may: be more efficiently and con- veniently conducted, the following shall be the law for the government of the said interests in said township: Sec. 6 The school committee provided for in this act. shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in Raleigh township as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up the public schools for both races. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 174 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 174 An act to amend the public school law, chapter fifteen of The Code. The General Assembly uf North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Section twenty-five hundred and fifty-one is amended to read as follows: The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday of January of each year, apportion among the several districts of the county all school funds (except such as may be raised by the special tax provided for in section twentyfive hundred and ninety) in the following manner: first deduct an amount sufficient to defray the general school expenses of the county authorized by law; then apportion two-thirds of the funds to the several districts in proportion to the whole number of children between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the remaining one-third shall be apportioned in such manner as to equalize school facilities to all the districts of the county, as far as may be practicable and just to all concerned, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race. If the committee so determine, any unexpended balance of school money, now or _ hereafter remaining to the credit of a district, shall be returned to the general fund to be used for school purposes as provided in section twenty-five hundred and ninety of The Code. As far as practicable the county board shall require all the schools to be in session at the same time. As soon as the apportionment is made, the county board of education shall post a statement at the court house door, showing the amount apportioned to the several districts of the county; and they shall also notify each committee of the amount apportioned to their district. The board shall also furnish the treasurer of the county board of education with a statement of the amounts apportioned to the several districts. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 177 Sec. 32 Identified by: model CHAPTER 177 An act to provide for the levying and collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 32 The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the firsts Monday in November, after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return fo the Auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of State and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. Atthe same time the clerk shall return to the Auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll, and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of Cabarrus county are authorized and required to order an election to be held in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county on the first Monday in May next, and at said election to submit to the qualified voters of said school district the question of levying an annual special tax on the property and polls of white persons/in said district, for the purpose of supporting and maintaining a public graded and high school for the white children in said school district, and for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of certain bonds hereafter mentioned, and to be issued in behalf of said school. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That if a majority of the qualified voters of said school district shall vote for school tax, the county authorities of Cabarrus county legally empowered to levy taxes shall, in addition to the other taxes levied upon said school district, annually compute and levy, at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property and polls of the white people of said school district to raise such a sum of money as the trustees hereinafter mentioned of said school shall report annually to said authorities as necessary yearly to support and maintain said school, which sum shall be not less than twentyfive hundred and not more than thirty-five hundred dollars annually, and the tax to raise the same shall not exceed annually one-half of one per centum on the property and two dollars on the poll of white persons in said school district. And at the same time said authorities shall compute and levy a special tax on the property and polls of the white persons in said school district, in such proportion on each as they deem proper, sufficient to regularly and promptly pay the interest on the bonds hereinafter authorized to be issued by the trustees of said school; and at the same time said authorities shall also compute and levy an additional special tax, in the same manner and on the same subjects of taxation, equal to one-tenth of the principal of said bonds to be issued by said trustees to create a sinking fund to pay the principal of said bonds; and the taxes for the support of said school and to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds shall be annually collected as other taxes are collected, and paid over by the sheriff, or other collecting officer, to the county. treasurer, which officer shall give a good and sufficient qualified bond, to be approved by said commissioners, for the safe keeping and proper disbursement of said taxes. And the taxes levied and collected for these purposes shall be kept sacred, separate and distinct, by the officer having them in charge, from each other and from all other taxes, and each shall be used only for the purpose for which it was levied and collected: Provided, if at any time there shall be a surplus of the tax levied to support said schoo! over and above what is necessary for this purpose, that said surplus may be applied to the interest or sinking fund as said rustees may direct. The sinking fund shall be used yearly, if possible, in purchasing the bonds to pay the principal of which it was levied and collected; but if it is impracticable to annually invest said sinking fund in the purchase of said bonds, the same thall be invested as may be directed by the trustees of said school. And the tax for the sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds shall be levied and collected no longer than is necessary to create a fund sufficient to pay off the principal of said bonds; of which sufficiency the trustees of said school shall be the judges. And said trustees shall report to the authorities Jevying said taxes when a sufficient sum is created as a sinking fund to pay off the principal of said bonds; and immediately after the election herein provided for, said trustees shall also report to the county authorities empowered to levy taxes, what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said school for the first year, and at the same time said trustees shall also report to said authorities what amount of bonds and the rate of interest thereon said trustees have issued in behalf of said school; and annually thereafter said trustees, thirty days prior to the time for levying county taxes, shall report to said authorities what sum of money is needed for the support of said school during the next year and the status of their bonded debt. And the taxes for the support of said school shall be paid out by the officer having them in charge on such warrant and to such person as shall be prescribed by the by-laws herein provided for. And the interest upon said bonds shall be promptly and regularly paid, by the officers having in charge the taxes for this purpose, on presentation of the coupons when due. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 The school herein provided for shall be kept up and maintained in said school district number eleven, only for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That W. J. Montgomery, W. G. Means, D. H. Cannon, J.S. Fisher, D. R. Hoover, Joel Reed and G. W. Brown, are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded, public and high school for the white children in school district number eleven of Cabarrus, and they and their successors in office are hereby created a body corporate under the name of Trustees for the Graded, Public and High School of Schoo} District Number Eleven, Cabarrus County, and they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts of this State and the United States, have a common seal with right to alter the same at pleasure, make all by-laws and regulations expedient or necessary for the purposes of their incorporation, purchase, lease and hold and convey all property, real and personal, proper and requisite for their corporate purposes, have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ and dismiss all officers and teachers of said school, and regulate their salaries, to prescribe, control and regulate the course of instruction in said school, to elect one of their number chairman, one as secretary, and such other officers as they deem best, combining one or more officers in one person as they think proper, and to do all acts proper and necessary for the best advantage of said school; and to said trustees any pupil may appeal, who is expelled, dismissed or suspended from said school by the officer or teacher of the school authorized by the by-laws to inflict or impose those penalties or punishments. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for the white children in said school district number eleven shall be applied to the support and maintainance of the graded, public and high school provided for in this act, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees of said school. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 17 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 17 That if, for any reason, the result of said election shall be against school tax, then the commissioners of Cabarrus county shall again order another election submit said questions mentioned in the first section of this act to the qualified voters of said school district number eleven, whenever. petitioaed to do so by fifty white tax payers of said school district. And said election shall be ordered within forty days after said commissioners shall have received said petition. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 18 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 An act to establish a public graded and high school in school district number eleven of Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 18 That said county commissioners, if they so determine, may, at the election mentioned in the first section of this act, or at any election ordered by them under petition under this act, submit the questions mentioned in the first section of this act to the white voters only of said school district number eleven. And upon their said determination this act shall be read and construed as if the words of the white race appeared immediately after the words qualified voters wherever said latter words occur in this act. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 An act to provide for the support of the institution for the eduea- tion of the deaf and dumb and the blind. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the sum of five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, for the improvements and repairs necessary at both the white and colored departments of said institution. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 229 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER, 229 An act to establish a normal school at Boone in the county of Wa- tanga. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That it shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to establish a normal school at Boone in the county of Watauga, for the teaching and training of teachers of the white race to teach in the common schools of the State. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the bounds of white school district number forty, in Smithfield township, Johnston county, shall be and is hereby constituted the Smithfield Graded School District for white and colored. : 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 2 That the board of commissioners of Johnston county are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said Smithfield Graded School District in said county on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of graded public schools for white and colored of said district; each voter shall vote written or. printed ballot with the words For School or No School thereon, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election for members of the General Assembly. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 4 That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said district for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special taxes levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school in said district for colored persons of hoth sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 5 That J. J. Harper, L. E. Kirkman, Dr. J. G. Rose, P. T. Massey, S. R. Morgan, D. W. Fuller, W. N. Benton, Seth Woodall, Robert Sanders, E. W. Pou, E. Redford and R. D. Lunceford, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the white race; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies in said board, to employ teachers, and to do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said school for the white children. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 6 That Ashley W. Smith, Joseph Carroll, Marshall Avera, W. H. Brown, John W. Beckwith, Willie McCullers, Jared Whitfield and Wesley Whitfield, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded public school for the colored race. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies, to employ teachers, and to do all acts which may be necessary to keep up the said school for colored children, under the supervision of the county superintendent of public instruction of Johnston county. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 7 That the public school money which may from time to time-be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said district, shall be applied to keeping up the graded school (public) for white children under the orders and direction of the board of trustees for said graded public school for white children, and the public school money so collected for public school purposes for the colored children in said district shall be applied to the keeping up of the graded public school for the colored children, under the rules and directions of the board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children, subject to the supervision of the county superintendent of public instruction. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 10 That the board of trustees of the graded school for the whites in said district are authorized and empowered to purchase and hold for the purposes of such school a building and suitable grounds, or to purchase a suitable lot and build a house thereon, within the corporate limits ef the town of Smithfield, or within one-fourth of a mile of said corporate limits, and to issue honds with coupons attached for the purchase money, and to execute a mortgage on such property to secure such bonds. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed eight per centum per annum, and such coupons shall be receivable in payment of all taxes levied and collected for the maintenance of such school. The said trustees shall have power to sell so much of said property as they may deem advisable. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 275 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 275 An act to amend chapter two hundred and thirty-six of the acts of the General Assembly passed during the session of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, being An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, Lenoir county. WHEREAS, Section one of the act to establish a gra- ded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county, includes the entire territory embraced within Kinston township as the limits of said graded school district: therefore, for the purpose of amending said section one and also section five of the said act: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That section five of said act be amended by adding to the names of the a therein mentioned THE WAMES Chis ssciecce sesecer's ac neces adteacsndeecsedee eae eames who, together with those mentioned in said section ike, shall constitute a beard of trustees for the said graded school for the whites. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 317 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 317 An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within three miles of Red Hill Baptist church (colored) in Anson county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell intoxicating liquors within three miles of Red Hill Baptist church (colored) in Anson county, situated near Pee Dee river. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 328 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 328 An act to establish a graded school in the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of aldermen of the town of Asheville may at any time after the ratification of this act submit to the qualified voters of the city of Asheville, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied for the establishment and support of [a] graded school for each race of said city. That such qualified voters at such election shall vote a ticket on which shall be written or printed the words For School, or Against School, and the penalty for illegal voting shall be the same as in other elections for said city. In case a majority of the qualified voters in such election shall favor the tax, the same shall be levied and collected by the authorities of the city of Asheville, and the tax collector shall be subject to the same liabilities for the collection and payment of such taxes as he is by law for other taxes. The taxes thus levied and collected shall be one-tenth of one per centum and the tax on the poll shall be equal to the amount levied on the three hundred dollars worth of property. 1885 Public Laws Ch. 349 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 349 An act to amend sections thirty-two hundred and sixty and thirty- two hundred and sixty-one of The Code, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That section three thousand two hundred and sixty-one of The Code be stricken out and the following substituted therefor: Two or more white companies or two or more colored companies may form a battalion and elect a major ; five or more white or five or more colored companies may form a regiment, not to exceed ten companies, and elect a colonel, lieutenant-colonel and major. Each battalion or regiment shall be designated by number, and each company by letter, and a record thereof made in the office of the adjutant-general. The commander-in-chief may in his discretion organize the State Guard into one or more brigades and divisions, and appoint brigadier and major-generals to command the same, who shall hold their commissions at the pleasure of the commander-in-chief, and whenever commander-inchief shall form a battalion or regiment of the State Guard he shall order an election to be held for the field officer or officers of such battalion or regiment, such election to be conducted as hereinafter provided. 1887 Private Laws Ch. 2 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2 \ An act to incorporate the Concord Female Academy. The General Assenbly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 In the election of officers and trustees above provided for, and in all matters of business, every white person owning fifty dollars of stock in said Concord Female Academy shall be entitled to one vote, and one vote for every fifty dollars owned, and the officers of the corporation are hereby authorized to issue certificates of stock to all persons owning stock in said corporation, fifty dollars to constitute a share. The crtificates shall be signed by the president and secretary. 1887 Private Laws Ch. 17 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER: 17 \ An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate The Biddle University, ratified the tenth day of February, A. D. eightcen hundred and seventy-sever, and amendments thereto. WHEREAS, It is desirable to promote useful knowledge among the, freedmen ; and whereas, an institution of learning for their benefit has been established near the city of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklen- burg, by the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, under a charter granted in pursuance of sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter twenty-six of the Revised Code of North Carolina, said insti- tution being known and designated in said charter as Biddle Memorial Institute ; and whereas, a charter was obtained from the general as- sembly of this state incorporating the same under the name and style of The Biddle University, ratified the tenth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the provisions of which are incomplete, by reason of which and for a more efficient organization of said university, it is desirable to obtain further legislation from the state of North Carolina; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That Luke Dorland, Amos 6 Billingsley, Willard Richardson, S. Loomis, J. H. Studd, D. J. Sanders, James Allison, James B. Lyon, John C. McCowl, R. 8 Davis, E. Nye Hutchinson, Rufus Barringer, W. R. Coler and their successors in office, duly elected and appointed as hereinafter provided, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, in Jaw and in fact, to have perpetual succession, by the name and style of The Biddle University, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, and shall forever be capable in law to take, receive and hold all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities and other hereditaments which at any time or times heretofore have been granted, bargained, sold, released, devised, or otherwise conveyed to said corporation ; and the said lands, rents, annuities, and other hereditaments are hereby vested in said corporation forever; also that the said corporation at all times hereafter shali be able and capable to purchase, have, receive, take, hold and enjoy in fee simple or lesser estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienation, release, confirmation or devise of any person or persons or bodies corporate or politic capable and able to make the same; and further, shall be capable in law to take, receive and possess all moneys, goods and chattels that have been given or shall hereafter be given, sold, released or bequeathed by any person or persons for the use of said university, and the same to apply according to the will of the donors; and all such lands, vents, tenements, hereditaments, moneys, goods and chattels of what kind, nature or quality soever the same may be, the said corporation shall have, hold, possess and use in special trust and confidence for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, for the purpose of establishing and endowing said university at the site hereinbefore selected therefor, for the education of men of the colered race and others for the ministry, for catechists and for teachers. ~ 1887 Private Laws Ch. 17 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER: 17 \ An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate The Biddle University, ratified the tenth day of February, A. D. eightcen hundred and seventy-sever, and amendments thereto. WHEREAS, It is desirable to promote useful knowledge among the, freedmen ; and whereas, an institution of learning for their benefit has been established near the city of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklen- burg, by the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, under a charter granted in pursuance of sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter twenty-six of the Revised Code of North Carolina, said insti- tution being known and designated in said charter as Biddle Memorial Institute ; and whereas, a charter was obtained from the general as- sembly of this state incorporating the same under the name and style of The Biddle University, ratified the tenth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the provisions of which are incomplete, by reason of which and for a more efficient organization of said university, it is desirable to obtain further legislation from the state of North Carolina; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall be able and capable in law to bargain, sell, grant, convey and confirm to the purchaser or purchasers such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the condition ofthe grant to them, or the will of their devisor, does not forbid it; and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be held in trust for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, for the education of men of the colored race and others for the minSe tie 2 tl tae fect a Ni Li Met lt istry, for teachers, and for catechists; and further, that the said cor-- poration may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in all courts of record or otherwise whatsoever, in all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, matters and demands. 1887 Private Laws Ch. 47 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 47 An act to incorporate the Colored Orphan Asylum of North Caroliva. WHEREAS, oe has been deemed expedient to establish in the county of Granville*state of North Carolina, an asylum for the care and maintenance, and mental, moral and industrial training and educa- tion of the colored orphan children in the state aforesaid; and whereas, it is desired that the said asylum shall be incorporated by the general assembly of North Carolina; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That A. Shepherd, J. Perry, W. A. Patillo, M. C. Ransom, Henry Hester, H. P. Cheatham, I. Alston, O. Bullock, A. B. Fleming, J. W. Levy, J. . Jeffreys, J. T. Reynolds, M. F. Thornton and H. E. Long and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Colored Orphan Asylum of North Carolina, with power to receive, purchase and hold property, real and personal, not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to contract and be contracted with, and to do all other acts which may be necessary to manage the business of the corporation herein created and to carry out the intent and object thereof, provided the same shall not be inconsistent with the laws of North Carolina. 1887 Private Laws Ch. 47 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 47 An act to incorporate the Colored Orphan Asylum of North Caroliva. WHEREAS, oe has been deemed expedient to establish in the county of Granville*state of North Carolina, an asylum for the care and maintenance, and mental, moral and industrial training and educa- tion of the colored orphan children in the state aforesaid; and whereas, it is desired that the said asylum shall be incorporated by the general assembly of North Carolina; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the object of said corporation shall be to receive, maintain and care for such colored orphan children of, the state of North Carolina as under the laws and regulations of said corporation may be deemed practicable and expedient, and to impart to them such mental, moral and industrial education and training as may fit them for usefulness in life. 1887 Private Laws Ch. 52 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 582 An act to incorporate Newton Female Seminary, Catawba county.. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 The purpose of this institution is for the education of females of the white race, and no person of color shall own stock therein, and any stock transferred to a person of color shall be forfeited to said corporation. ; 1887 Private Laws Ch. 86 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 86 An act to amend the charter of the town of Taylorsville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in the town of Taylorsville on or before the last Monday in March in such years and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the town of Taylorsville, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters and designating on the registration book opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in the town, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in the town, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in the town. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and has resided in the county of Alexander for ninety days and in the town of Taylorsville for thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register, and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof a new registration may not be made annually, but such registration book shall be revised so.as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered and still residing in said town without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrar shall on or before the last Monday in March annually open said books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in the town of Taylorsville or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the town commissioners may at any time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 55 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 55 An act to pay a certain school order in favor of Mrs. Sallie E. Barlow, of Onslow county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Onslow county is hereby authorized and instructed to pay to Mrs. Sallie E. Barlow the sum of twenty-seven dollars and twenty cents out of the general school fund of Onslow county, for teaching a public school in district number one for white race from the nineteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eightyfive, to the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, upon the presentation of said order. ' 1887 Public Laws Ch. 86 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 86 An act in relation to the public schools in the town of Durham. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 For the purposes and benefits of this act the town of Durham shall be and constitute a public school. district for both white and colored in the county of Daeg 4 ham. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 86 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 86 An act in relation to the public schools in the town of Durham. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 The school committee created by this act may elect annually a superintendent of theschools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children, if the same shall be established. The said superintendent shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in the said schools, and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said school committee. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 86 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 86 An act in relation to the public schools in the town of Durham. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 9 The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the town of Durham, as shall be just. to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or prejudice to either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races. And the committee created by this act shall perform the duties and have all the powers | that the graded school committee had under an act entitled an act to authorize the town of Durham to issue bonds, being chapter eighty-seven, private laws eighteen hundred and eighty-five, ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-five. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 137 Sec. 34 Identified by: model CHAPTER 187 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collec- tion of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ; Ronee lax: Sec. 34 The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in November, after the lists are-;completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 155 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 155 An act to amend chapter one hundred and seventeen of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eigty-three, relating to the New- bern Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the special taxes thus levied and collected shall be expended in keeping up separate graded schools for the white and colored children in said city of Newbern, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the schools for each race herein provided for shall have the same length of school terms. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 160 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 160 An act for the relief of certain citizens of Rowan county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That all the citizens of the white race entitled by law to the benefit of the public school fund, living and resident within one and a half miles of Thyatira church, in Rowan county, be and they are hereby allowed and permitted to use and enjoy that portion of the public school fund apportioned to them by law for the payment of tuition and other expenses in attendance at Thyatira academy, in Rowan county. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 249 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 249 An act to be entitled an act to create and establish a free school district at Sharpsburg in the counties of Wilson, Edgecombe and Nash. . The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 G. W. Robbins, J. D. Dawes and D. L. Lancaster are hereby appointed and constituted a school committee for the whiterace. Peter Harris and Irwin Battle are hereby appointed and constituted a school committee for the colored race. The said committees shall held their office until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, the county board of education of each of the counties of Wilson, Edgecombe and Nash shall elect one committeeman out of the residents of the school district that live in their respective counties. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 254, An act to amend section one thousand eight hundred and ten of The Code. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That section one thousand eight hundred and ten of The Code of North Carolina be amended by adding thereto the words: That all marriages between an Indian and a Negro or between an Indian and a person of Negro descent to the third generation inclusive shall be utterly void: Provided, this act shali only apply to the Croatan Indians. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 289 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 289 An act to allow the treasurer of Haywood county to pay a school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Haywood county is hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in his hands due district number two to J. H. Hamilton, for services rendered as teacher of white race for said district in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, the sum of twenty-four dollars and ninety cents upon the order of the school committee of said district, countersigned by the county superintendent of public instruction. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 381 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 381 An act to amend the Edenton graded school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That chapter seven of laws of North Carolina for one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, incorporating the Edenton Graded Schbol, be amended as follows, viz.: , By inserting in section one in line eleven between the word district and the word and these words, viz.: At all times when its expenses are provided for by public or voluntary funds or by both of said funds combined. Ul By striking out of section two in line eight the word non-resident. By adding at the end of section three these words, viz.: Provided, that the failure of any trustee to act at three consecutive meetings of said board may be considered a resignation and shall constitute a sufficient cause for said board to declare his place vacant by a majority vote. By striking out of section four in line sixteen the word tenth, and by inserting instead thereof the word eighth. By inserting in section five, between the word that in line one and the word said in line one these words, viz.: Whenever the public school funds apportioned to said school together with the voluntary funds secured for it shall be insufficient to maintain said school eight months a year, said board may adopt and collect under rules which it may order and publish before the beginning of each session such graded charges for the instruction of pupils as may be proper and necessary to maintain said school: Provided first, that the resident white children of school age of said district who are dependent upon the public funds for education shall be furnished with free scholarships for each session: And provided second, that if by accident or other cause any child or children so dependent are not so furnished, then the proper free scholarships shall be issued by said board upon applications setting forth the necessary facts; but every such case shall be liable to investigation, and if error or attempted fraud be shown, the board may withhold a free scholarship in any case at its discretion: And provided third, that a ratable proportion of the public funds and of voluntary funds received by said school shall be credited to offset charges made for the instruction of every resident child, as may be determined by dividing the whole amount of such funds received from all sources by the total number of resident white children included in the last previous census of said district. By striking out of section seven in line two the word June and by inserting instead thereof the word July, and by striking out of section seven all between the word contributed 'in line thirteen and the word patrons in line fifteen, and by inserting instead thereof these words, viz.: Twelve dollars or more to the support of said school during the year, but not less than ten. By adding at end of section eight these words, viz.: But nothing in this act shall be construed to exclude any white child of schoo! age from the benefits of said school, or to hinder said board in any proper or legal action for the collection of any claim against any parent or guardian justly responsible for charge for the instruction of a child at said school. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 382 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 382 An act to amend chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and gighty-oue, relating to the Goldsboro graded schools. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _ Sec. 4 That the special taxes thus levied and collected shall be expended in keeping up separate graded schools for the white and colored childen in said township between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the schools for each race herein provided for shall have the same length of school terms. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 397 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 397 An actin relation to the public schools in the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact; Sec. 3 For the purposes and benefits of this act, the city of Asheville shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 397 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 397 An actin relation to the public schools in the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact; Sec. 6 The school committee created by this act may elect annually a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children if the same shall be established. The said superintendent shall examine al} applicants for teachers positions in the said schools and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said school committee. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 397 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 397 An actin relation to the public schools in the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact; Sec. 9 The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the city of Asheville as shall be just to the white and colored races without discrimination. in favor of, or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 400 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 400 An act to establish a normal school in the county of Robeson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That W. L. Moore, James Oxendine, James Dial, Preston Locklear, and others who may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, for educational purposes, in the county of Robeson, under the name and style of the Lrustees of the Croatan Normal] School, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold school property, including buildings, lands and all appurtenances thereto, situated in the county of Robeson, at any place in said county to be selected by the trustees herein named, provided such place shall be located between Bear swamp and Lumber river in said county; to acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, real and personal property for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a school of high grade for teachers of the Croatan race in North Carolina. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 400 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 400 An act to establish a normal school in the county of Robeson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the trustees whose names are mentioned in the first section of this act shall have power to select three additional trustees from the Croatan race in such manner as they may determine. r 1887 Public Laws Ch. 400 Sec. 10 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 400 An act to establish a normal school in the county of Robeson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 10 Provided, that no person shall be admitted into said school as a student who has not attained the age of fifteen years; and that all those who shall enjoy the privileges of said school as students shall previously obligate to teach the youth of the Croatan race for a stated period. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 401 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 401 An act to be entitled an act to authorize the trustees of the Smith- field Academy, Johnston county, to convey the same in fee simple. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That Jno. B. Beckwith, P. T. Massey, R. D. Lunceford, L. R. Waddell, F. F. Ellis, E. W. Pou, Sr., J. H. Abell, C. Radford, S. R. Morgan, J. G. Rose, L. Eldridge, T. R. Youngblood and A. J. Heath, trustees of the Smithfield academy, Johnston county, are hereby authorized and empowered to convey in fee simple that lot of land known as the Smithfield academy lot and the improvements thereon, held in trust by said trustees, to the school committee of white district number forty, to the use of said committee and their successors in office, to be used for educational purposes only for the education of white children. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 407 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 407 An act for the relief of certain citizens of Sampson county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the citizens of the white race entititled by law to the benefit of the public school fund, living and resident within the following prescribed limits in the county of Sampson, to-wit: beginning at a stake in the Johnston county line, near White Oak, and run south six -6 hundred yards to a stake, thence east one thousand yards to a stake, thence north to a stake in the Johnston county line, then with said line to the beginning, be allowed and permitted to use and enjoy that portion of the public school fund apportioned to them by law in the future, for the payment of tuition and other expenses incurred in attendance in school district number twenty-seven, of Johnston county, or any other convenient school district in said Johnston county. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 424 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 424, An act in relation to the public school of Reidsville school district, Rockingham county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of Novih Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 The school committee created by this act shall elect annually a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children if the same shall be established. The superintendent of said schools shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in the said schools and issue certificates to the same, which certificates shall be valid for one year from date, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said committee. 1887 Public Laws Ch. 424 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 424, An act in relation to the public school of Reidsville school district, Rockingham county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of Novih Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 The school committee provided by this act #NAME? apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in said district as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the pubtic schools of beth races. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 5 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 5 An act to incorporate Bethany College. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That L. A. Rutherford, L. H. Holoway, A. Wintfield, C. Hooper, H. B. McNeil, C. B. Blue, John Holoway, Wesley Rozier, N. A. Rutherford, and their associates and successors, be and the same are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of Bethany College, in the county of Robeson, Lumberton township, State of North Carolina, situated two hundred yards from the town line of the town of Lumberton, on the east side of the Carthage road, at the Rutherford place, for the education of colored people; and as such they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of trustees of similar colleges in North Carolina. The trustees may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and acquire and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain a college. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 6 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 6 An act to amend the charter of the town of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 Said registrars shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to open their books at such places in the town of Winston as may be designated by said commissioners on the second Tuesday in January next preceding the election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he has been a bona fide resident of North Carolina for twelve months, of the town of Winston and of the ward in which he proposes to register for ninety days next preceding that date, and that he has not been convicted of any crime which, by the laws of North Caroelina, disqualifies him from voting. In said oath he shall specify the place of his residence in such ward. If any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as for larceny: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made as provided for herein, a new registration shall not be biennially held unless the board of commissioners shall, at their regular meeting in December, determine that the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same and the place where the books of registration shall be opened; but a revision of the registration books shall be 30 made, beginning on Saturday next preceding each election to be held for said town, in accordance with the provisions of section 2075 of The Code. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 7 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 7 An act to amend chapter seventeen of the private acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the Biddle University, ratified the eighth day of February, 1887 The General Assembly of North Carolina .do enact: Sec. 1 That section one of chapter seventeen of the private acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Biddle University, ratified the eighth day of February, 1887, be amended by striking out the words and others, between the words race and for, in the thirty-first line of said section, the said line being the last line but one in said section. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 62 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 62 An act te incorporate the Farmers Co-operative School of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That J. T. Eaton, T. C. Davis, A. C. Davis, J. J. Royal, W.L. Arendell, T. D. Webb, A. S. Willis, Silas Webb and Daniel Bell, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade in or near the town of Morehead City, county of Carteret, State of North Carolina, for the intellectual development and training of the white children, under the name and style of the Farmers Co-operative School Company,.and in that name may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property, personal and real, and exercise all acts in relation thereto incident to the ownership of personal property and real estate. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 71 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 71 An act to incorporate the Long Creek High School, of Long Creek, in Pender county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That it shall be lawful for any children of legal school age of the white race residing in the school district in which said high school is situated to attend the same: Provided, such children shall have the same rights and be subject to the same discipline as other children attending said school. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 74 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 74 ' Ab act to authorize the town of Shelby to issue bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That in case the election provided for in this act shall result in favor of bonds, then the trustees aforesaid shall proceed at once to procure sites in the town of Shelby, and erect thereon suitable school buildings for the white and colored races, separately, as in their judgment, according to the needs and requirements of each race. That the trustees aforesaid shall have control and general supervision of the property acquired under this act, and shall provide for the conduct of schools therein under such rules and regulations as they may adopt. They shall meet within ten days after the election provided for in this act, and organize by electing a president and a secretary, and make rules and regulations for subsequent election of officers and their own government. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 74 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 74 ' Ab act to authorize the town of Shelby to issue bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 9 That the trustees aforesaid shall have the right to control the site and buildings of the present academy in the town of Shelby, and the title thereto is hereby vested in them and their successors, and they shail have the right to improve the same by erecting other buildings, etc., for the use of a school for the white race, or to sell the same and apply the proceeds of such sale in the purchase of sites and erecting and furnishing buildings for schools for the white race, and make title to the same in fee to the purchaser; and any laws heretofore enacted vesting the title in any other person or persons, or giving control of same to any other person or persons, are hereby repealed. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 76 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 6. An act to amend the charter of the town of Morganton. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That section fifty-six, private laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, chapter one hundred and twenty, be amended by striking from said section all after the word cemetery, in line eight thereof, and inserting, and no person shall hereafter be buried at any place within the corporate limits of the town of Morganton without a permit from the commissioners of the town, who shall grant such permit on application, and the payment into the town treasury of thesum of five dollars per capita to bury in either the Episcopal, M. E. Episcopal, South, [or] Presbyterian grave-yards; and the money accruing from such payment shall be a fund for the maintenance of said cemeteries: Provided, the fund arising from the burial of white persons shall be applied to the maintenance of the white cemetery, and that arising from the burial of colored persons shall beso applied to the maintenance of the colored cemetery. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 138 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 138 An act to incorporate the town of Pilot Mountain, in the county of Surry. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the corporate limits of the said town shall be as follows: Beginning at a stake in fork of old and new Hollow road, then northeast to fork of Lynchburg\and Worths Forge road; then with Lynchburg road to Wolf creek; then easterly with left prong of said creek to Sam Hills (col.) house; then southeast to a stake in the Hollow road at Wm. Whitts blacksmith shop; then west, crossing railroad, and running with Heatherlys creek to A. S. Keys line; then with Keys and V. Boyds line to railroad crossing Lynchburg road; then northwest to Dodsons Mill road at colored school-house, lot included: then northeast to the beginning. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 141 An act to improve the Edenton Academy. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That said academy and all real and personal property appertaining thereto are set apart forever for the exclusive purpose of educating the children of the white race and of assisting to support the school by literary and musical entertainments. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 165 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 165 ~ An act to incorporate the Yadkin Academy. WHEREAS, Magager G. Hoskins and his wife Alice O. Hoskins, of Alamance county, North Carolina, did, on the -... day of January, 1889, convey to the board of missions for freedmen of the Presbyte- rian church of the United States, for the purpose of education, one tract of land containing five acres, lying one mile west of Mebane, North Carolina, on which is the Yadkin Academy; and whereas, it is desirable that a charter should be granted for said academy: there- fore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That -------Billingsby, M. G. Hoskins, D. J. Sanders, N. H. Payne, George Carson, H. D. Woods, D. Brown, W. H. Bryant, L, D. Swine, R. H. Allen, L. P. Berry and D. A. Murray and their successors in office, duly elected and appointed as hereinafter provided, be and they are hereby [created] a body politic and corporate in law and in fact, to have perpetual succession by the name and style of Yadkin Academy, and shall forever be capable in law to take, receive and hold all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities and other hereditaments, which at any time or times which have heretofore been granted, bargained, sold, released, devised or otherwise conveyed to said corporation; and the said lands, rents, annuities and other hereditaments are hereby vested in said corporation forever; also that said corporation, at all times hereafter, shall be able and capable to purchase, have, receive, take, hold and enjoy, in fee simple or lesser estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienations, release, confirmation or devise of any person or persons, or bodies corporate or politic, capable and able to make the same; and further, shall be capable in law to take, receive and possess all moneys, goods and chattels [which] have been given or shall hereafter be given, sold, released or bequeathed by any person or persons for the use of said academy, and to apply the same according to the will of the donor; and all such lands, rents, tenements, heriditaments, moneys, goods and chattels of what[ever] kind or nature the same may be, the said corporation shall have, hold, possess and use all such lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, moneys, goods, chattels of what[ever] kind the same may be, in special trust and confidence for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian church of the United States of America, for the purpose of establishing and endowing said academy at the site hereinbefore selected therefor for the education of the colored race for any vocation, profession or occupation of life. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 165 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 165 ~ An act to incorporate the Yadkin Academy. WHEREAS, Magager G. Hoskins and his wife Alice O. Hoskins, of Alamance county, North Carolina, did, on the -... day of January, 1889, convey to the board of missions for freedmen of the Presbyte- rian church of the United States, for the purpose of education, one tract of land containing five acres, lying one mile west of Mebane, North Carolina, on which is the Yadkin Academy; and whereas, it is desirable that a charter should be granted for said academy: there- fore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall be able and capable in law to bargain, sell, grant, convey and confirm to the purchaser or purchasers, such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the conditions of the grant to them or the will of the devisor does not forbid it, and the proceeds. arising therefrom shall be held in trust for the use and benefit of said academy for the education of the colored race; and further, that the said corporation may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in all courts of [this] State. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 170 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 170 An act to incorporate the Franklinton Military and Classical Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That S. C. Vann, J. S. Joyner, W. L. McGhee, H. C. Kearney, I. G. Staunton and N. Y. Gulley, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the Franklinton Military and Classical Institute, for the purpose of maintaining [a school] in the town of Franklinton, Franklin county, North Carolina, for the military and classical training of white males; and by such name may acquire, hold and convey real and personal estate; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any of the courts of this State; may contract and be contracted with; may adopt a constitution and by-laws, and may alter or amend the same as they may deem necessary and proper from time to time, for the government of the affairs of the corporation; and enjoy any and every right and privilege incident and belonging to corporations according to the laws of this State. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 172 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 172 Av act to incorporate the Louisburg Male Academy. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That Jos. J. Davis, C. M. Cooke, E. W. Timberlake, B. B. Massenburg, J. B. Clifton, J. E. Malone, J. 8 Barrow, T. H. Edgerton, P. B. Hawkins, W. H. Pleasants, Thomas White, E. C. Jones, G. S. Baker, W. F. Green, W. B. Uzzell, N. H. Macon, B. T. Ballard, W. B. Coppedge, O. L. Ellis, Jere. Perry and J. C. Fowler, of Franklin county, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate, for educational purposes, under [the] name and style of Louisburg Male Academy, and by that name may have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with; to have and to hold the academy property, the buildings, grounds and all appurtenances thereto, situated iri the town of Louisburg, Franklin county, N. C.: to acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, real, personal and mixed property, for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade for white males in the town of Louisburg, Franklin county, N. C. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 211 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 211 An act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the North Carolina or Eastern Cherokee Indians, resident and domiciled in the counties of Jackson, Swain, Graham and Cherokee, be and the same are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name, style and title of The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, with all the rights, franchises, privileges and powers incident and belonging to corporations under the laws of the State of North Carolina. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 211 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 211 An act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, by that name and style, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sue and implead in law or in equity in all the courts of the land touching and concerning all the property of whatever nature held in common by the said North Carolina or Eastern Cherokee Indians in the said counties; and that the said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, by that name and style, can and may be sued and impleaded in all the courts in the land touching and concerning the said property held as aforesaid in the said counties. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 211 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 211 An act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That in all cases where the State of North Carolina has heretofore issued any grant to any person or persons for any of the land held as aforesaid by the said Eastern Cherokee Indians and under whom the said Indians claim title, as also all deeds made by commissioners of the State for what is known as Cherokee lands, to any person or persons for any of the land held as aforesaid in said counties by said Eastern Cherokee Indians, and under whom the said Eastern Cherokee Indians claim title, such grants and deeds are hereby declared valid as against the State. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 211 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 211 An act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That in all cases where titles or deeds have been executed to the said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, or any person or persons in whatever capacity in trust for them under that name and style by any person or persons, either collectively, individually, officially or in any capacity whatever, such deeds or titles are hereby declared valid against the State and all persons or any person claiming by, through or under the State by virtue of any grant dated or issued subsequent to the aforesaid deeds or titles to the said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 219 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 219 An act to amend the charter of the city of Greensboro. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _ Sec. 6 That the registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the said city in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such city, and still residing therein, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city, and entitled to registration, whose names have never before been registered in said city or do not appear in the revised list: and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters; and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina twelve months and in the city of Greensboro ninety days previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age. If any person shall wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, upon thirty days notice, may direct that there shall be an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election. ; 1889 Private Laws Ch. 239 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 239 An act to amend the charter of the town of Murphy, in Cherokee county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and thereafter, to open their books in some convenient place in the town. on or before the last Monday in March, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled fo register and vote, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of . North Carolina and has resided in the town of Murphy ninety days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register; and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be mae TE DPT al ae FO RT ae ee eee Aa - 1889.PrivateCHAPTER 239 Dtccrnsd: guilty of the crime of perjury, and upon conviction shall be _ punished as provided by law in such cases. 1889 Private Laws Ch. 240 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 240 An act to amend the charter of the town of Wilkesboro. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eightynine, and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in 1889.PrivaTECHa4PTER 240 _ the town of Wilkesboro on or before the last Monday in March in such y years, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the town of Wilkes- boro, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from _ those of colored voters, and designating on the registration book opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in the town, and if any applicant for registration shall not _ disclose the place of his residence in the town, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register _inthetown. Any person offering to register may be required [to] _ take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and | has resided in the county of Wilkes for ninety days and in the town of Wilkesboro for thirty days next preceding that date, and is otherwise entitled to register, and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding fifty _ dollars and to be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days in the county jail: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof, a new registration may not be made annually, but such registration books shall be revised, so as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered and still residing in said town without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrar shall, on before the last Monday in March annually, open said books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in the town of Wilkesboro, or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the town commissioners may at any time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 20 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 20 An act to amend chapter 27 of the laws of the special session of 1880, it being an act entitled ** An act to authorize the establish- ment of graded schools for the town of Salisbury, &ec. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That section three of chapter twenty-seven of the laws of the special session of 1880 be and the same is hereby amended by adding to said section the following: All moneys which from time to time shal] be apportioned under the general school laws of the State for both the white and colored districts included within the territory hereinafter described, and undivided, within the corporate limits of the town of Salisbury, together with the special taxes levied and collected under the provisions of this chapter, and all other moneys to which the Salisbury graded school committee may be entitled by reason of any fines, penalties, gifts, grants, apportionment or otherwise, shall be received and held by the said graded school committee as a common fund for the purpose of keeping up and maintaining the Salisbury graded schools for both races: Provided, the school for the white race and the colored race shall be forever kept separate and distinct. And the said committee shall use and apportion the moneys so raised and received for educational purposes in the town of Salisbury, as provided in this chapter, and for the benefit of said graded schools, as shall be just to both white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, giving equal school facilities to both races, due regard, however, being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the graded schools of both races, 1889 Public Laws Ch. 20 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 20 An act to amend chapter 27 of the laws of the special session of 1880, it being an act entitled ** An act to authorize the establish- ment of graded schools for the town of Salisbury, &ec. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That all money now in the hands of said committee unappropriated, whether to the credit of the white graded school or the colored graded school, shall be held as a common fund for the purposes herein provided. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 60 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 60 An act to amend the laws of 1885 and 1887 so as to provide additional educational facilities: for the Croatan Indians, citizens of Robesen county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That chapter fifty-one, section two, of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five be amended by adding after the word law in the last line of said section the words, and there shall be excluded from such separate schools for the said Croatan Indians all children of the negro race to the fourth generation. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 82, An act to allow the treasurer of Haywood to pay a school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Haywood county is hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in his hands due school district number twenty-one, to Mrs. C. E. McCloud, for services rendered as teacher of white race for said district, in the year eighte#n hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of forty-four dollars upon the order of the school committee of said district, countersigned by the county superintendent of, public instruction. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 169 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 169 An act in relation to indigent and other apprentices. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That indigent children when apprenticed in this State shall be indentured in the name of the superior court clerk of the county where they reside, of the first part, and the employer or employers to whom apprenticed, of the other part, which shall be recorded and filed in the office of said clerk ; but no white child shall be bound to a colored person in this State. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 169 Sec. 17 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 169 An act in relation to indigent and other apprentices. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 17 Minor children above the age of fourteen and under twenty-one years being males, and eighteen being females, whether indigent or not, may be apprenticed to learn the art or mystery of any trade or craft by their father, or in case of his death, incompetency, or where he shall have wilfully abandoned his family for six months without making suitable provisions for their support, or has become an habitual drunkard, by their mother or by their legal guardian; and if illegitimate, they may be bound by their mother, and if they % have no parent competent to act and no guardian, they may bind themselves with the approbation of the superior court clerk of the county where they reside; but the power of a mother to bind her children, whether legitimate or illegitimate, shall cease upon her subsequent marriage and shall not be exercised by herself or her husband at any time during such marriage. But no white child shall be bound to a colored person, and no colored child shall be bound to any white person if a competent and suitable colored person can be found in the county. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 195 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 195 An act for the relief of W. P. White, a public school teacher of Alamance county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the county treasurer of Alamance county be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to W. P. White, a teacher of public schools of the white race for Alamance county, for his service in teaching a public school in district number forty-three, in the year of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be paid out of the funds of said district. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 198 Sec. 14 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 198 An act for the relief of certain soldiers of the late war between the States. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 14 That the auditor shall,as soon as the same is ascertained, transmit to the register of deeds of the several counties a correct list of the pensioners (with their post-offices) as allowed by the State board of pensions. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 199 An act to amend the public school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That section two thousand five hundred and sixty of The Code, as amended by the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, is amended to read as follows: The treasurer of the county board of education of each county shall report to the State superintendent of public instruction on the first Monday of July of each year the entire amount of school money received and disbursed by him during the preceding school year, designating by items the amounts received respectively from property tax, poll-tax, liquor licenses, fines, forfeitures and penalties, auctioneers, estrays, from State treasurer, and from all other sources. He shall also designate by items the sums paid to teachers of white and colored children respectively, and for school houses and school house sites in the several districts, and for all other purposes, specifically and in detail by items, and on the same day he shall file a duplicate of said report in the office of the county board of education. He shall make such other reports as the board of education of the county may require from time to time. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 199 An act to amend the public school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 That the auditor of the. State shall include on the form which he furnishes to the board of county commissioners, and on which the tax-lists are to be made out, separate columns for school poll-tax and school property tax, in one of which columns shall be entered the total poll-tax levied by the General Assembly and the county authorities for schools due by each tax-payer, and in the other the total property tax levied by the General Assembly and the county authorities for schools due by each tax-payer. The auditors form shall likewise show, in separate columns, the white and colored polls, and in separate columns the property of whites and colored, and the list-takers form shall be arranged accordingly. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 23 Identified by: model CHAPTER 199 An act to amend the public school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 23 That section two thousand five hundred and fifty-one, as amended by the laws of 1885, is amended to read as follows: The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday in January of each year, apportion among the several districts of the county, designating the amount to each school-house, if more than one in the district, all school funds in the following manner: First, deduct an amount sufficient to defray the general school expenses of the county authorized by law; then apportion two-thirds of the funds to the several districts in proportion to the whole number of children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and at the same time the remaining one-third shall be apportioned in such manner as to equalize the average length of school terms for the two races, as far as may be practicable, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race. As soon as the apportionment is made, the county board of education shall post a statement at the court-house door, showing the amount apportioned to the several districts or schools of the county, and they shall also notify each committee of the amount apportioned to their district and to each school. The board shall also furnish the treasurer of the county board of education a statement of the amounts apportioned to the several districts and schools. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 42 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 199 An act to amend the public school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 42 That in determining the right of any child to attend the white or colored schools, the rule laid down in section 1810 of The Code, regulating marriages, shall be followed. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 200 An act to abolish the white normal schools of the State, and to provide for holding county institutes throughout the State. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 It shall be the duty of all white public school teachers of the county in which the institute is held to attend continuously the sessions of said institute, and on failure so to do, without satisfactory reasons, they shall not be certified as teachers for the ensuing year; and in case an institute is held while the schools are in session in any county, they shall be suspended during the session of the institute. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 200 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 200 An act to abolish the white normal schools of the State, and to provide for holding county institutes throughout the State. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 At the close or during the sessions of every institute, the conductor thereof, in connection with the county superintendent, shall hold written examinations of all public school teachers, white and colored, who may apply, and shall grant first and second grade certificates, which shall be signed by both and be good for three years in the county in which the institute is held, and in any other county of the State, when endorsed by the county superintendent thereof; but the said certificates shall be subject to revocation by any county superintendent for immoral conduct. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 212 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 212 An act to authorize the treasurer of Randolph county,to pay a certain school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Randolph county be and he is hereby authorized to pay John T. Rush thirty? dollars ($30.00) out of the public school funds due district number fifty-three (53), white race, as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district from the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five -1885 to the seventeenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (1885). 1889 Public Laws Ch. 218 Sec. 36 Identified by: model CHAPTER 218 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : POLL-TAX. Sec. 36 The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the first Monday in November, after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of thesame, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of State and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 231 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 231 An act to authorize the payment of school order of Mrs. Nevada E. Roth out of the school funds of Surry county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Surry county is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Irs. Nevada E. Roth the sum of twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents, balance due her as teacher in district No. 45 (white race), Surry county, for the year 1885, out of any school funds now due or may hereafter be due said county. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within a radius of two and one-half -24 miles from the centre of the town of Littleton, which lies partly in thecounty of Halifax and partly in the county of Warren, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district, and shall be called the Littleton supplemental pipe schools for the white and colored races., 1889 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the board of commissioners of Halifax county, upon the written application of a majority of the board of trustees of said school district, is hereby authorized and directed to submit, on the first Monday in May, 1889, to the qualified voters of said school district embraced in said county of Halifax, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of supplemental public schools for white and colored of said district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school thereon, 1889.CHaApTER 254 and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election for members of the General Assembly. e 1889 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That the board of commissioners of Warren county, on the written application of a majority of the board of trustees of said school district, is hereby authorized [and] directed to submit, on the first Monday in May, 1889, to the qualified voters of said school district embraced in said county of Warren, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of said schools for white and colored of said district. Such voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school thereon, and said election, shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the General Assembly. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of said school district shall be expended in keeping up public schools in said district for the white and colored. races of both sexes, between the ages of six and twenty-one years of age, and the said special taxes shall be equally divided between the schools for white and coloredone-half -4 to the school for the white race and one-half -4 to the school for the colored race. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That Dr. Willis Alston, Jno. B. Leach, Wm. A. Johnston, M. V. Perry, B. R. Browning, W. F. Young, M. E: Hall and Alexander Brown, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for said school district, and they are hereby authorized and directed to establish at least two public schools in said district, one distinct and separate and apart for the white race, and the other separate and apart for the colored race. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said schools, and shall receive no compensation for their services. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the per capita part of the school fund of the county raised under the general school law shall be applied to keeping up the public schools established by this act in said district, and shall be by said board of trustees disbursed and equally divided between the schools for the white and colored racesone-half for a school for the white race and one-half for a school for the colored race. The trustees and the principals of the said schools shall make to the county superintendents the reports required by the general school law to be made by committees and teachers. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 284 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 284, An act to validate certain State grants in the counties of Haywood, Jackson and Swain. WHEREAS, For the purpose of preserving peace between the whites and the Cherokee nation of Indians, the Legislature of this State, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, allotted to the said tribe of Indians a certain boundary of land described in section two thousand three hundred and forty-six, volume two, of The Code; and whereas, by the treaty of Holston, concluded between the government of the United States and the said Cherokee Indians on the second day of July, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-one, all that por- tion of said lands lying east of the Meigs and Freeman line was ceded and relinquished by the said Cherokee Indians; and whereas, said lands, after the extinguishment of the said Indian title, reverted to the State of North Carolina; and whereas, the said State, between the years seventeen hundred and ninety-one and seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, issued sundry grants within the said territory relin- quished by the said treaty of Holston east of the Meigs and Freeman line; and whereas, the supreme court of the State, in the case of Strother vs. Cathey, 4 Murphy, 162, declared that the act of seventeen [hundred] and eighty-three was repealed by the treaty of Holston and confirmed the title to said lands lying east of the said Meigs and Freeman line; and whereas, the greater portion of said lands has been purchased by citizens in small tracts for homes; and whereas, in consequence of a recent decision of the supreme court of this State. doubts exist as to the validity of the said grants; and whereas, certain parties have recently made large entries of said lands for speculation, greatly to the annoyance and anxiety of the good citizens residing in said territory and to the injury of their just rights; therefore. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all grants issued by the State of North Carolina between the years seventeen hundred and ninety-one and January the first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, for lands lying to the east of the Meigs and Freeman line, within the territory allotted to the Cherokee Indians as described in section two thousand three hundred and forty-six, volume two, of The Code of North Carolina, act of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, section five, be and the same are hereby ratified, confirmed and validated and declared good and effectual to pass all the right, title and interest of the State in and to said lands from the date of said grants: Provided, that wherever within said territory and within said dates any such grants may conflict or lap, the junior grants shall be given force and effect. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 Au act to authorize the treasurer of the board of education of Alamance county to pay certain school orders. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the board of education of Alamance county be and he is hereby authorized to pay E. T. Iseley the following orders given for services as teacher, to-wit: one for seventy dollars, given by school committee of district No. 15, of white race, and one for seven dollars, given by school committee of district No. 26, of white race, of said county, and that the same be paid out of any moneys now in said treasurers hands, or that may come to his hands apportioned to said districts, respectively. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 341 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 341 Au act to provide for criminal statistics. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That within twenty days after the adjournment of any criminal court of record, or of any term of the superior court at which criminal causes were triable, the clerk thereof shall transmit to the office of attorney general of State a duly certified statement of the number of indictments finally disposed of at such court, specifying the number for each separate offence, the number on which convictions were had and on which defendants were acquitted, and of indictments against persons who were convicted on confession, and against persons who were discharged without trial, and also the name, age, occupation, sex, race and offence of every person convicted at such court or (pleading guilty) of any offence, together with such other items of information in relation to such convicts and their offences as the attorney general shall require. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 351 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 351 An act to increase school facilities in portions of Rowan and Iredell counties. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That this act shall apply equally and alike in all respects to the schools for both races, the committee appointed in section three of this act being the committee for both races, and the district for the colored race being co-incident and co-terminal with the district for the white race. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 420 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 420 An act to authorize the treasurer of Randolph county to pay W. F. Talley certain school claims. The General Assembly of North Carolina.do enact: _ Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Randolph county is hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in his hands belonging to schools the sum of twenty-nine dollars to W. F. Talley for services as public school teacher of white race for the years eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: Provided, that any money that shall be paid him shall be charged to the school district or districts in which said schools were taught and for which he has not been paid. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 458 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 458 An act to amend chapter fifty-seven, acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, in reference to the schools of Croatan Indians in Richmond county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the citizens of Richmond county who are Croatan Indians, or the descendants of such who are known as such, or who have a distinct race identity as such, shall be entitled to the same school privileges and benefits as were granted to other Croatan Indians in Robeson county under the provisions of said act of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, chapter fifty-one, and the act or acts subsequent to and amendatory of the act of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 477 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 477 An act for the relief of Daniel G. McClellan, of Cumberland county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the school fund of Cumberland county be and is hereby instructed to pay out of any funds that may now or hereafter be in his hands to the credit of school district number three, white race, of Black River township, Cumberland county, to Daniel G. McClellan, for board during the school term of feur months ending twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as per agreement between him and the committee of said district, the sum of twenty-eight dollars: Provided, the board of education of Cumberland county shall have power to inquire into the claim of Daniel G. McClellan, and allow the same, provided they are satisfied of its justice, and that the same or part be paid, and if so satisfied they may endorse their approval thereon, whereupon it shall be paid out of the school fund of the district | referred to. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 484 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 484 An act to supplement the public school in district No. 4, Guilford county, North Carolina, with a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the board of commissioners of Guilford county, upon the written application of a majority of the committee of said school district, is hereby authorized and directed to make special provisions for the registration of voters, designate the place of holding election, and submit to the qualified voters of said school district, on the first Monday in May, 1889, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of the public schools for white and colored children of said district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school thereon, and said election or elections shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the electiop for members of the General Assembly. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 484 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 484 An act to supplement the public school in district No. 4, Guilford county, North Carolina, with a special tax. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the special tax thus collected from the taxable property and polls, together with the general school fund appropriated by the board of education to said district, shall be expended by the school committee of said district in keeping up the public schools of said district for the white and colored races of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years of age, in accordance with the general school law of the State. 1889 Public Laws Ch. 514 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 514 An act to authorize the board of education of Haywood county to order the payment of a school claim. ak The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of education of Haywood county be and are hereby authorized and empowered to order the treasurer of said county to pay, out of any moneys due district No. 21, or out of general fund at their discretion, to J. E. Kinsland thirty-seven dollars, for services rendered as teacher of the white race for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, upon the order of the school committee of said district 1889 Public Laws Ch. 520 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 520 An act to authorize the payment of school order of Miss Maud Folger out of the school funds of Surry county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Surry county is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Miss Maud Folger the sum of nineteen dollars and seventy-five cents, the balance due her as teacher in district number fifty-eight (white race), Surry county, for the year eighteen hundred and eigthty-eight, out of any schoo! funds now due or may hereafter be due Surry county. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 An act to incorporate the Franklinton Christian College. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact - Sec. 1 That Charles A. Beck, Byron R. Long, C. W. Garovette, J. F. Utley and John Blood, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of The Franklinton Christian College,for the education of colored people of both sexes, with their chief place of business in the town of Franklinton in the county of Franklin and state of North Carolina, and as such they shall have full powers to take by gift, devise or by purchase and to hold all such realand personal property as they may desire for the prosecution of their work, with full powers to sell and convey the same; they shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities and shall have all the power conferred on corporations by the general laws of North Carolina, with full power to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 40 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the town of Salem. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the registrar shall be furnished by the said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the said town in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in said town and still residing therein without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also every day between the hours of seven oclock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted) from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing within the corporate limits and entitled to registration, where [whose] names have never before been registered in said town, or do not appear in the revised lists; and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and also their places of residence; and any person offering to register shall be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the state of North Carolina twelve months and in the town of Salem ninety days previous tothe day of election; that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is an actual and bona fide resident of said town and a qualified voter according to the laws of the state. If any person shall wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be guilty of perjury and punished as in like cases of perjury. The board of commissioners upon thirty days notice may direct that there shall be an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election or for the interest of said town. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 858 An act to incorporate the Trustees of Mont Amorna Female Seminary. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That C. A. Rose, W. R. Brown, J. Q. Wertz, C. A: Marks, W. A. Lutz, R. W. Misenheimer, M. A. Holshoman, C. L. Nussman, Chas. H. Fisher, C. M. Pool and Jonas Cook, and their successors duly elected, be and they are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate under the name and style of tee Trustess of Mont Amorna Female Seminary, for the religious training and literary education of fernale youths of the white race; and by that name they shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and be sued, and may purchase, take, receive and hold any real or personal property whatever, not exceeding the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and may sell, transfer, lease, mortgage and convey any such property; but nothing in this section shall authorize said trustees to use or dispose of any property given, bequeathed, devised or conveyed to them contrary to the condition of any such gift, bequest, devise or conveyance. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 63 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 683 An act incorporating the Stockholders of Sparta Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That W. C. Field, W. K. Holbrook, H. K. Boyer, F. P. Field, R. H. Hackler, R. A. Doughton, Geo. Doughton, Wesley Gilliam, J. C. Roup, H. R. Richardson, John Choat, J. Holaway, J. W. Hawthorn, A. S. and J. M. Carson, R. 8 Carson, O. McSmith, W. E. Cox, Sowel Choat, J. M. Boyer, J. L. Smith, W. S. and A. M. Edwards, H. Edwards, W. A. Woodruff, H. S. Edwards, W. F. Burchett, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a joint stock company, a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade in the town of Sparta, Alleghany county, for the intellectual and moral training of the children of the white race of both sexes, under the name and style of Sparta Institute, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold afd convey in their corporate capacity property, real and personal, and exercise all acts in relation thereto or incident to the ownership of real and personal property and for the promotion of education. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 154 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 154 An act te incorporate Oak Ridge Institute in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That J. Allen Holt, Martin H. Holt, Thomas M. Holt, D. F. Caldwell, Walter L. Steele, Jesse Benbow, W. O. Donnell, T. J. Benbow, Charles Case, John A. Lowry, C. R. Benbow, A. S. Clark, J. F. Holt, M. F. Blalock, J. J. Nelson, Charles Wilson, S. S. Brown, O. C. Hamilton, Geo. T. Winston, W. L. Poteat, Henry L. Smith, W. A. Blair, Geo. S. Wills, A. H. A. Williams, T. J. Ogburn, J. M. Barker, J. C. Buxton, C. B. Watson, J. L. King, R. R. King, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade at or near Oak Ridge, Guilford county, for the intellectual and moral training of the youth of the country of the white race under the name and style of Oak Ridge Institute, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with; acquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property, real and personal, of any and all kinds, and exercise all acts in relation thereto incident to the ownership of real and personal property, and for the promotion of education as aforesaid. _ 1891 Private Laws Ch. 238 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 238 An act to amend the charter of the town of High Point. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the said city in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such city and still residing therein, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names have never before been registered in said city or do not appear on the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters; and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the state of North Carolina twelve months and in the city of High Point ninety days previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age. If any person shall wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath he shail be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and [be] imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, upon thirty days notice may direct that there shall be an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 243 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 243 An act to amend the charter of the city of Raleigh. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be their duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of their office fairly, impartially and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the said city, in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such city and still residing therein, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrars shall also, on or before the last Monday in March of such year, open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city, and entitled to registration, whose names have never before been registered in said city or do not appear in the revised list, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in that ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the state of North Carolina twelve months and in the city of Raleigh and in the ward for which he offers to register ninety days next preceding the day of election, or is otherwise entitled to register, and that he is twenty-one years old, and that his place of residence is at --_-.__- , in such ward; and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, upon thirty days notice, may direct that there shall be an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election. A revision of the registration books shall be made, beginning forty days and closing ten days prior to each succeeding election to be held for said city, in accordance with the provisions of section two thousand six hundred and seventy-five of The Code. This revision, or this new registration, if ordered by the board, may, if the board so determine, be conducted by one of the registrars hereinbefore provided for, to be designated by the board, who shall keep all the registration books of the city at the mayors office. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 256 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 256 An act to allow the commissioners of the town of Louisburg to pur- chase claims and interests in the Louisburg Female College property and to sell and convey said property in trust for school purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the said property shall be held by the said commissioners in trust exclusive[ly] for a school or schools for the white race; and any party who shall by lease or purchase from the said commissioners or in any way acquire the said property shall hold the same affected by the said use and trust. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 256 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 256 An act to allow the commissioners of the town of Louisburg to pur- chase claims and interests in the Louisburg Female College property and to sell and convey said property in trust for school purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That said commissioners, however, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered at any time either before or after the holding of the aforesaid election and the acquiring of the aforesaid claims or interest, to sell, convey and make title to the said property to such person or persons as they may think best, to be held and used by such purchaser or purchasers in trust exclusively for the purposes of a school or schools for the white race. That if such sale shall be made before the issuing of the bonds as aforesaid, then the consideration for which a sale is authorized under this act shall not be for less than a sum required to be paid to the claimants aforesaid to acquire their interest in said property, and which said sum on this account shall not exceed fifty-five hundred dollars, with interest at eight per centum from the ratification of this act, and such other additional consideration as said commissioners may require, not to be less than fifty dollars. That if such sale shall be made after the town shall have acquired the said title of the said claimant as provided above, then it shall not be for a Jess consideration than a sum snfficient to pay off said bonds which shall have been issued by the said commissioners and such additional consideration as the commissioners may require, not to be less than fifty dollars. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 256 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 256 An act to allow the commissioners of the town of Louisburg to pur- chase claims and interests in the Louisburg Female College property and to sell and convey said property in trust for school purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That if the commissioners of said town shall by the issuing and sale of the bonds aforesaid acquire the aforesaid interest in said property, then thereafter, and until they shall make sale of said property, they are hereby authorized to lease and rent such property for the purposes of a school for the white race, and the rents so received, after paying the insurance and for the repairs upon said property, shall be applied to the payment of the interest on said bonds, 1891 Private Laws Ch. 307 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 307 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 Said registrars shall be furnished by said bdard of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to open their books at such places in the city of Winston as may be designated by said aldermen on the second Tuesday in January next preceding the election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and designating on the registration books, opposite the names of each person registering, the place of his residence in his ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he has been a bona fide resident of North Carolina for twelve months, of the city of Winston and of the ward in which he proposes to register for ninety days next preceding that date, and that he has not been convicted of any crime which, by the laws of North Carolina, disqualifies him from voting. In said oath he shall specify the place of his residence in such ward. If any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as for larceny: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made, as provided for herein, a new registration shall not be biennially held unless the board of aldermen shall, at their regular meeting in December, determine that the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same and the place where the books of registration shall be opened; but a revision of the registration books shall be made, beginning on Saturday next. preceding each election to be held for said city, in accordance with the provisions of the general law. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 307 Sec. 52 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 307 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 52 That the Winston commissioners of graded schools shall be and are hereby authorized to receive and use the money herein provided for, and to apply the same in such way as they may deem best for the benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said city, whether for suitable buildings and furniture for said schools or for repairs of the same, for salaries of teachers or for other incidental expenses. , 1891 Private Laws Ch. 307 Sec. 86 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 307 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 86 The aldermen of the city shall provide for the establishment and support of a system of graded schools under the following conditions, to-wit: First, no interest-bearing debt of the corporation shall be created for this purpose ; second, the school shall be open to all bona fide residents of the city of all races between the ages of six and twenty-one, but the. white and colored schools shall be distinct and separate buildings and departments, and the schools shall have separate apartments for the higher classes of males and females; third, the fun&raised by ad valorem taxation shall be used only for the payment of the salaries of teachers; fourth, persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the school from their homes or as boarders on the payment of tuition fees, to be fixed by the school commissioners; fifth, the tax for school purposes shall not exceed twenty cents on the hundred dollars of assessed property and sixty cents on the poll, and the license and privilege taxes as hereinbefore provided, and also not less than twenty-five per centum of the fines and forfeitures shall be paid to the graded school fund. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 320 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 3820 * or. An act to incorporate Zion Wesley A. M. E. Church, Cabarrus county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That Anderson Louder, May Jackson, William Parker, Joseph McLean and Calvin Cook, of the colored race, and their successors, shall be and are hereby declared a body politic and corporate in deed and in law by the name and style of The Trustees of Zion Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Church in number eight -8 township, Cabarrus county; and said corporation shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power to purchase and hold real and personal property, and to acquire the same by gift or otherwise, sue and be sued, and may elect such officers as they shall deem necessary. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 321 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 321 An act to incorporate Shiloh Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That Isaac Alston and Mansfield F. Thornton of Warren county, and M. F. Hawkins of Franklin county, and .B. Harper of Halifax county, Henry Hester of Granville county, and O. Bullock of Vance county, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate for educational purposes under the name and style of Shiloh Institute, an institution of learning situated at Warrenton in the county of Warren and state of North Carolina, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold the buildings, grounds and all appurtenances belonging thereto situated in the said town of Warrenton, and which is now vested in the said parties above named as trustees by virtue of a deed from W. S. Davis and wife to the trustees of Shiloh Baptist Missionary Association of North Carolina of date of February, one thousand eight hundred and eightyfour, and registered in the registrars office of Warren county in book forty-nine, page eight hundred and thirty-seven, to acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, real, personal and mixed property for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade, as well as of elementary learning, for the colored race in said town of Warrenton, and to make such by-laws and regulations and rules for the government of said institution as they and their successors may deem best. 1891 Private Laws Ch. 355 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 355 An act to amend the charter of Beaver Hill Cemetery. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said corporation may purchase an? hold as much land as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of esta! lishing a cemetery near the town of Edenton, in the county of Chowan, and may sell or dispose of said land in suitable burial lots, to be used exclu sively as a place for the burial of the dead (white) of said town, and of such other white people as the trustees of said association may permit to be buried therein. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 18 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 18, An act for the relief of E. G. McDaniel. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the board of education of Jones county be and he is hereby authorized to pay E. G. McDaniel a school order given by the school committee of district number thirteen and a half (13%), colored, Jones county, for services rendered by Joel Burny teaching in said district and the same assigned by said Burny to said McDaniel, the same being for fifteen dollars for one months service teaching, and that the same be paid out of any moneys now in said treasurers hands or that may come into his hands appropriated to said district. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 52 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 52 An act to authorize the board of education of Haywood county to order the payment of a school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: *% Sec. 1 That the board of education of Haywood county be and are hereby authorized and empowered to order the treasurer of said county to pay out of any money due school district number thirty-six (36), to W. J. Hannah, nine dollars for services rendered as teacher of the white race for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, upon the order of the school committee of said district. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 139 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 139 An act to establish a normal and industrial school for white girls. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That there shall be established an institution for the white race under the corporate name of The Normal and Industrial School, the board of directors of which, hereinafter provided for, shall be a body corporate and politic, with all the powers usually conferred upon such bodies enabling them to receive, protect and hold property, and do all things necessary for the purpose for which the corporation is created. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 139 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 139 An act to establish a normal and industrial school for white girls. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That assoon as the institution shall have been located and the directors appointed the presidentshall call a meeting of the directors, who shall make rules and regulations and provide for the opening and operation of the institution : Provided, that the board of directors shall make such regulations about the admission of pupils as will not discriminate against any county as to the number of pupils allowed it in case ail applicants cannot be accommodated : Provided further, that each county shall have representation in proportion to its white school pdpulation if it desires it, and should any county fail to avail itself of its proportionate number the board of directors may recognize applicants from counties which already have their proportionate representation. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 139 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 139 An act to establish a normal and industrial school for white girls. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of the faculty of the normal and industrial school to extend its influence.and usefulness as far as possible to persons who are unable to avail themselves of its advantages as resident students, having respect to the claims of each county in the State. To this end they shall arrange a course of reading and study which may be pursued by others than those resident at the institution. Upon application of any white person for examination upon this course at the institution, or at the county institutes provided for in this act, an examination shall be held, and if such examination proves satisfactory the regular certificate of the institution shall be granted. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 An act to authorize the treasurer of Gaston county to pay a school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact - Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Gaston county be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay F. P. Hall the sum of twenty dollars out of any moneys due school district number thirty-seven -37 for services as teacher for the white race in said district number thirtyseven -37 in Gaston county. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 206 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 206 An act to authorize the trustees of the Goldsboro Graded Schools to pay for their school building. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That for the purpose of paying for and repairing the school buildings and grounds belonging to the trustees of the Goldsboro Graded Schools and used for the white race, the trustees of the Goldsboro Graded Schools shall have power and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the denomination of one hundred dollars to an amount not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, to run for a period not to exceed thirty years. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 250 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 250 An act to authorize the treasurer of Surry county to pay school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Surry county is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Mrs. Ellen S. Harrell the sum of seven dollars ($7), the balance due her as teacher in district number nineteen -19 (white race), Surry county, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight (1888), out of any school funds now due or may hereafter be due said district number nineteen (19). 1891 Public Laws Ch. 265 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 265 An act to establish a normal school for the colored race in the town of Elizabeth City, in the county of Pasquotank. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That it shall be the duty of the state board of education to establish a normal school at Elizabeth City, in the county of Pasquotank, for the teaching and training of teachers of the colored race to teach in the common schools of the state. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 285 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 285 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Concord, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That all public school funds derived from the state and said county for the use and benefit of the public school districts of said town shall be paid to said town treasurer by the treasurer of said county for the use and benefit of said graded schools; and the property, both real and personal, of said public school districts shall become the property of said graded schools and shall be vested in the said graded school board in trust for said graded schools, and the said graded school board may sell the same and apply the proceeds to said graded schools: Provided, that in the event of the discontinuance of said graded schools, all of the property thereto belonging shall revert to and become the property of said public school districts of said town: Provided further, that the said property belonging to or used for the graded schools for white children shall revert to the public school districts for white children, and said property belonging to or used for the graded schools for colored children shall revert to the public school districts for colored children. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 285 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 285 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Concord, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of said board of school commissioners to establish a graded school for white children and one for the colored children of said town, and apportion the funds derived from said special taxes, or from any other source whatsoever, between said graded schools for white and colored children, so as to equalize school facilities between the two races. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 320 Sec. 23 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 320 An act to provide for the general supervision of railroads, steamboat or canal companies, express and telegraph companies doing business in the state of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 23 That said commissioners shall have power, whenever they deem it expedint and practicable, to require any railroad corporation operating a railroad or part of a railroad in this state to provide separate and equal accommodations for the white and colored races on the passenger trains and also at the passenger stations or waiting rooms in this state, and for failure to comply with the orders of said commissioners made under this section the penalty prescribed in section twenty of this act shall be imposed. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 326 Sec. 33 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 326 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: POLL-TAX. Sec. 33 The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in November after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred doilars value of reai property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. ea 1891 Public Laws Ch. 327 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 327 An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within certain localities. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 It shall be unlawful to sell or dispose of any spirituous liquors with a view to remuneration within one mile of the following places : Alamance.Bellemont M. E. church. Cabarrus.Bells Mission church. Currituck.Providence Baptistand Perkins Methodist churches. Forsyth.Mount Pleasant and Morris chapel churches, Macedonia Baptist church, in Old Richmond township. Henderson.Holly Springs. Haywood. Morning Star M. E. church. Madison.North Fork church. Orange.Caldwell Institute. Polk.Big Level and Green River Baptist churches, Columbus Baptist church, Saluda Baptist church. Sampson.Turkey precinct and post-office, Black River chapel. Wilkes.Orange Chapel Methodist church, Mount Pleasant and Yellow Hill Baptist churches. Yancey.Banks Creek church (colored). Wayne.Colored Disciples church at Greenleaf: Provided, onehalf a mile shall be the corporate limits as to this church. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 330 An act to establish a graded school in district number one in Cherokee county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of education of the eounty of Cherokee, state of North Carolina, shall and they are hereby authorized to, submit to the qualified voters of school district number one for the white race under such rules and regulations and at such time within twelve months after the ratification of this act as the board may prescribe, whether a tax shall be annually levied for the support of the school of said district provided for by this act at the election held under the provisions of this act. Those who favor the levying of such tax shall vote on written or printed ballots without device the words * For school, and those who are opposed to the levying of such tax shall vote on written or printed ballots without device the words ** Against school. The penalties for illegal and fraudulent voting in this election shall be the same as in the election for members of the general assembly. The county board of education shall give at least thirty days notice of the time of holding said election in one or more newspapers published in said district. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 330 An act to establish a graded school in district number one in Cherokee county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 The school committee created by this act shall elect annually a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded schools for white children if the same be established. The superintendent of said schools shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in the said schools and issue certificates to the same, which certificates shall be valid for one year from date, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said committee. . 1891 Public Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 An act to establish a graded school in district number one in Cherokee county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 The school committee provided by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in said district as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 337 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 337 An act in relation to the establishment of childrens homes in the several counties of the state and the maintenance thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 13 On application of any person to have a child committed to any such institution it shall be the duty of the clerk of the superior court to inform himself of the circumstances of the case, and for this purpose he shall cite before [him] one or more of the directors, trustees or managers of such institution and also the parents, parent or guardian or next friend or other person having the custody of such child, and shall carefully by affirmation examine such persons as he may deem proper as may be offered as witnesses, and the evidence taken by him he shall commit to writing and shall file the same, together with his findings of facts and his adjudication thereon, as arecord of said court, and shall record his final judgment or order in the case in a book to be kept by him for that purpose. If he shall adjudge such child to be indigent within the meaning of this act he may issue to the directors, trustees or managers of such institution under the seal of said court a commitment of said child to their care and custody, and such commitment shall be received in all courts of this state as proof of the guardianship of said directors, trustees or managers over said child and their right to retain the said child in their custody under this law: Provided, that no white child shall be committed to any such institution established or maintained for colored children, and no colored child shall be committed to any such institution established or maintained for white children: And provided further, that no child shall be committed to any such institution unless such child shall have acquired a legal settlement in the county by which such institution is maintained or aided as is now required in case of paupers. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 348 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 348 An act to amend chapter four hundred and ten, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled An act supplemental to chapter three hundred and eight, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled an act to establish and maintain an industrial schooi. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the following section be added to chapter four hundred and ten, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty seven: * The appropriation made by act of congress of the date of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the benefit of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, shall be divided into the exact ratio in this state of the white population to the colored; this provision to apply to the current and all succeeding appropriations. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 386 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 386 An act in relation to the public schools in the city of Statesville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 For the purposes and benefits of this act, the city of Statesville shall be and is constituted a public school district for both _white and colored. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 386 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 386 An act in relation to the public schools in the city of Statesville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised and received for educational purposes in the city of Statesville as shall be just to the white and colored races without discrimination of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools for both races; the schools to be provided for separate for each race. If the number for either race and the fund therefor is insufficient to maintain a graded school, the fund without discrimination may be applied for a public free school for said race under the control of said committee. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 386 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 386 An act in relation to the public schools in the city of Statesville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 9 The committee created by this act may annually elect a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall also be the principal of the graded white school, if the same be established. He shall also have general superintendence of the colored school, whether a graded or public school. He shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in said schools and issue certificates to the same before any teacher shall be eligible to election by the committee as teacher in any of said schools, and he shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said school committee. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 399 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 399 An act to establish a school for the white deaf and dumb children of | North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That there shall be established a school for the white deaf and dumb children of the state under the corporate name of The North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb, to be located upon the grounds donated for that purpose near the town of Morganton. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 399 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 399 An act to establish a school for the white deaf and dumb children of | North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That as soon as said school shall be ready to receive pupils, the board shall cause to be removed thereto the white deaf and dumb pupils which may then be in the institution for the deaf and dumb and blind in the city of Raleigh, and if said school shall open before the expiration of the fiscal years for which the appropriation for said institution for the deaf, dumb and blind made at this session of the general assembly was granted, then, the just portion of such unexpended appropriation as would go to the support of the deaf and dumb, to be determined by the boards of the two institutions, shall be turned over to the use of the North Carolina Schcol for the Deaf and Dumb under the discretion of its board. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 399 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 399 An act to establish a school for the white deaf and dumb children of | North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 The board of trustees shall, according to such reasonable regulations as they may prescribe, cn application, receive into the school for the purposes of education all white deaf mutes residents of the state nut of confirmed immoral character, nor imbecile or unsound in mind or incapacitated by physical infirmity for useful instruction, who are between the ages of eight and twenty-three years. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 403 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 403, An act in relation to the public schoo! in the town of Shelby, and pro- viding for it [the] levying of a tax to support the same. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 00 For the purposes and benefits of this act, the town of Shelby shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 403 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 403, An act in relation to the public schoo! in the town of Shelby, and pro- viding for it [the] levying of a tax to support the same. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 The school committee created by this act may elect annually a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children if same shall be established. The said superintendent shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in the said school and issue certificate to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said school committee. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 403 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 403, An act in relation to the public schoo! in the town of Shelby, and pro- viding for it [the] levying of a tax to support the same. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the town of Shelby as shall be just to the white and colored races without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races: Provided, separate schools shall be established and maintained for the white and colored races. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 439 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 439, An aet to authorize the treasurer of Johnston county to pay a certain school claim. WHEREAS, George W. Thornton taught one incontinuous session of a public school in district number twenty-nine, white race, in said county at asalary of twenty-five dollars per month for four months ; and whereas, according to the provisions of the public school law, acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, said term was not accord- ing to law, and the board of education being unable to pay said claim according to law: therefore The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of said county of Johnston be and he is hereby directed to pay said George W. Thornton the sum of one hundred dollars out of any funds now in his hands, or which may come into his hands, belonging to said district number twenty-nine, white race, of said county. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 451 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 451 An act to authorize the treasurer of Mecklenburg county to pay W. J. Miller the sum of twenty-five dollars and sixteen cents for teaching during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Mecklenburg county be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay out of the school fund for Crab Orchard township to Wi. J. Miller the sum of twenty-five dollars and sixteen cents, compensation for teaching a public free-school in district number eleven, white race, Crab Orchard township, Mecklenburg county, during the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 470 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 470 An act to pay Edna Phelps a school claim in Tyrreil county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Tyrrell county is hereby empowered and directed to pay Edna Phelps a public school claim of thirtytwo dollars and seventy-five cents out of the public school fund belonging to, or that may hereafter belong to, district number five (5), white race, of said county. ; 1891 Public Laws Ch. 504 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 504 An act to allow the treasurer of Randolph county to pay a school claim. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Randolph county is hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in his hands due school district number forty-two to V. C. Wood for services rendered as teacher of white race for said district in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine the sum of twenty-two dollars and sixty-six cents, upon the order of the school committee of said district, countersigned by the county superintendent of public instruction. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 523 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 523 An act to remove the colored norma! school now located in Franklinton, Franklin county, to Warrenton, Warren county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the state board of education are hereby directed to remove the normal school for the colored race now located at Franklinton, Franklin county, and establish it at Warrenton, Warren county: Provided, the citizensof Warrenton shall furnish, or cause to be furnished, suitable buildings in which to conduct the exercises of said institution and the sum of three hundred dollars per annum in addition to the state appropriation to defray the expenses of the same. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 530 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 530 An act to make an appropriation for the Colored Orphan Asylum at Oxford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer be and is hereby directed to pay to the board of directors of the Colored Orphan Asylum, to be located at the place that will give most for location of a colored orphanage, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars annually, payable quarterly. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 530 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 530 An act to make an appropriation for the Colored Orphan Asylum at Oxford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the board of directors of the Colored Orphan Asylum aforesaid are hereby required to make a detailed account of the operations of each year, stating fully all receipts and expenditures, to the governor of the state, which report shall be transmitted by the governor to the general assembly at each session. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 536 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 536 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the commissioners for the town of Henderson, in the county of Vance, are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said town at such time and under such rules and regulations as the said commissioners may prescribe, whether an annual assessment shall be levied therein for the support of a graded school for the white children and a graded school for the colored children in said town; that at such election such qualified voters as are in favor of levying such assessment shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words For school upon it, and such voters as are opposed to the levying of such assessment shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words Against school upon it, and the penalties for illegal and fraudulent voting in this election shall be in all respects the same as in the annual elections for mayor and commissioners of the said town of Henderson. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 536 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 536 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 3 That the special assessments thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded public school for white persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the special assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in keeping up a graded school for colored persons of both sexes between the ages of six and twentyone years in said town: Provided, if the special assessment so levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be insufficient to maintain and support a graded school for colored persons, then, in such event, the assessment so levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be exclusively used and expended for the public schools of the colored children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years in said town, 1891 Public Laws Ch. 536 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 536 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the commissioners of said town at their next regular meeting after such election, and their successors in office, eyery two years thereafter shall elect five persons of integrity and ability, qualified voters of said town, who are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 536 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 536 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That the commissioners of said town at their next regular meeting after such election, and their successors in office every two years thereafter, shall elect five persons of integrity and ability, qualified voters of said town, who are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children, should there be such school operated in said town, and their powers shall be the same in relation to the graded school for colored children as enumerated in the preceding section. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 536 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 536 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public School purposes for white children in said town, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the whites under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for white children. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 536 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 536 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Henderson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said town shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children, in the event that such graded school should be operated in said town. - 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That a college of agriculture and mechanical arts be and the same is hereby established for the colored race, to be locdted at some eligible site within this state, to be hereafter selected by the board of trustees hereinafter provided for. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the said institution shall be denominated The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the said board of trustees are empowered to receive any donation of property, real or personal, which may be made to the said College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and shall have power to invest or expend the same for the benefit of said college, and shall have power to accept on behalf of this college such proportion of the fund granted by the congress of the United States to the state of North Carolina for industrial and agricultural training as is apportioned to the colored race, in accordance with the act or acts of congress in relation thereto. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That in addition to the powers hereinbefore granted, the board of trustees shall have power to make such rules and regulations with respect to the admission of pupils to said college for the various congressional districts of this state as they may deem equitable and right, having due regard to the colored population thereof. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That until the site and buildings shall have been furnished for the location of the said college, the said board of trustees shall have power to make temporary provisions for the industrial and mechanical education of the colored youth of the state at some established institution of learning within the state, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That until the site and buildings shall have been furnished for the location of the said college and the buildings shall be completed, the provisions which now or may be made by the trustees of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with any present institution of learning in the state shall continue; but said trustees shall not have power to make any such arrangement for more than one year at a time, but when said buildings shall have been completed then the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race shall have all the rights, powers and privileges of the said board of trustees of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts over any and all funds which may belong or appurtain to the colored race. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 549 Sec. 13 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 549 An act to. establish an agricultural and mechanical college for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 13 That the trustees of the said The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race shall be entitled to the same per diem and mileage as compensation for attendance upon the meetings of said board, as are now allowed by the law to the members of the general assembly. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 556 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 556 An act to prevent live stock from running at large in portions of the county of Franklin. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 It shall be unlawful for any live stock torun at large within [the] section of Franklin county embraced within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at the corner of the present stocklaw fence near Flat Rock church and running in an easterly direc- & tion with Mrs. Kemp Perrys, Mrs. Wiggins and the old Tharrington line to the new road, thence with the new road to the colored church and around the line of this church to the new road again, and thence along said [new road] till it strikes the present stoek-law fence again. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 562 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 562 An act to incorporate the Tarboro School Board. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That W. S. Clark, S. S. Nash, O. C. Farror, N. M. Lawrence, M. L. Hussey, Thomas Ruffin, F. S. Royster, David Lichtenstein, Henry Morris, S. E. Speight, George Mathewson and Victor E. Howard, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The Tarboro School Board, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire by gift, purchase or devise, real and personal estate, and hold, exchange or sell the same, and to do all acts necessary for its perpetual succession, the maintenance of the graded school in Tarboro for white, and the graded school in Princeville for colored children, and the supervision of the public schools in district number one in Edgecombe county, and to that end may pass such by-laws and make such rules and regulations a8 to the number of corporators, the officers and their duties, the mode of filling vacancies, the care and disbursement of funds, and all other necessary matters as may not be inconsistent with the constitution of the state or the United States. 1891 Public Laws Ch. 566 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 566 An act for the benefit of public school district number twenty-six (white) in Martin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That it shall be lawful for the school committee of public school district number twenty-six (white) in the county of Martin, it being in the town of Hamilton, to purchase for said public school land with buildings thereon for a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). _ 1891 Public Laws Ch. 579 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 579 Ana act supplemental and amendatory to an act entitled An act to estab- lish the Agricultura! and Mechanical College for the Colored Race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That J. M. Early of Bertie county is hereby named as temporary chairman of the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, to the end that he call said board together at such time and place as may be suitable for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization of said board of trustees: Provided, that this act shall not interfere with the several provisions of the act of which this is amendatory. 1866/67 Private Laws Ch. 1 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER I. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF FRANKLINSVILLE, IN THE COUNTY OF RANDOLPH. Sec. 4 Beit further enacted, That the said Commissioners, after they are thus elected, and shall have taken an oath faithfully to perform their duty, shall be deemed and held a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Commissioners of Franklinsville ; and, as such, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal, and the same change at pleasure, and have perpetual succesion ; and they, together with the Town Magistrate, shall also have power to adopt al! such rules, by-laws and regulations as they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary for the good order and government of said, Town : Provided, The same shall not be inconsistent with the laws or Constitution of this State, or of the United States. They shall also have power to appoint a Town Constable anda Town Clerk; the Clerk to act as Treasurer, and to hold their office for one year, and till others are chosen ; and to appoint a patrol of all white males over twenty-one, and under fifty, years of age, and to prescribe the rules under which they shall act ; and any person appointed a patrol as aforesaid, who shall refuse to act, shall torfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by warrant, in the name of the Commissioners of Franklinsville. before the Town Magistrate, and be applied as other taxes levied by the Town Magistrates and Commissioners. 1866/67 Private Laws Ch. 9 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER IX. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE LOWELL COLORED SCHOOL SOCIETY, IN THE COUNTY OF WASEH- INGTON. Sec. 1 Be ii enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John . Guyther, Theophilus Ashe, Alexander Fagan, Pros; er Armistead, Frank James, Frank Fessenden, Wilie Johnson, Aaron Gaylord, John Bell, George W. Jones, George Parmerlee, and Virgil Nicholls, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and title of the Trustees of the Lowell Colored School Society, to have continuance thirty years, and, by the name and title aforesaid, to have succession and a common seal, and be able and capable in law to take, receive and hold all manner of Jands, tenements and other hereditaments which shall, at any time or times, be granted, sold, released, devised, or otherwise conveyed to them and their successors, by any person or persons, or bodies corporate or politic; and, further, that the said Trustees and their successors, under the corporate name aforesaid, shall be able and capable, in law, to take, receive and possess all monies, goods and chattels that shall be given, sold or released or bequeathed, by any person or persons, for the use of said Society, and the same to apply according to the will of the donor. 1866/67 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER XL. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE COLORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIA- TION, OF NORTH CAROLINA. Sec. 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of th State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James H. Harris, Handy Lockhart, Moses Patterson, W. H. Anderson, John R. Caswell, W. H. Matthews, Robert Wyche, Wilson Morgan, J. E. O'Hara, colored persons and residents of the county of Wake, and their successors and associates, are hereby incorporated into a body politic, under the name and style of The Colored Educational Association of North Carolina, with power and for the purpose of establishing Schools and encouraging and promoting generally Education among the colored children of the State, and may, for such purpose, receive donations and acquire and hold estate of any kind, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in value. . 1866/67 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER XL. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE COLORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIA- TION, OF NORTH CAROLINA. Sec. 2 Be it further enacted, That the persons hereby incorporated may, in their discretion, and whenever they deem it advisable, associate with them so many other colored persons, in the State, as may be sufficient to keep ten #NAME? wera members in the county of Wake, and five or a less number in each or any of the other counties of the State, and every person becoming a member shall signify the same in writing, filed among the archives of the corporation, and the corporation shall have all the powers that may be proper for the purpose of the Association, and be subject to all the provisions set forth in chapter twenty-six, -26 of the Revised Code of this State. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 62 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 62 An act to incorporate Wadeville Academy. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That E. J. Bruton, J. W. Harris, T. B. Hurley, D. F. Robinson, A. J. Bruton, J. M. Robinson and J. B. Hurley, of the county of Montgomery, and state of North Carolina, and those who hereafter may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate and have perpetual succession by the name and style of Wadeville Academy, located in the village of Wadeville, and by such name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, and make and maintain such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the same and the orderly conduct of its affairs as may be deemed necessary, and shall be capable in law to take, receive and hold all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities and hereditaments which may at any time be granted, bargained, released, demised or otherwise granted, and that said academy and all real and personal property so granted, received or accepted and appertaining thereto shall be set apart forever for the exclusive purpose of educating the children of the white race and of assisting young men and young ladies in the education of themselves, and when in the _ judgment of a majority of the board of trustees a sale of any property acquired as aforesaid is necessary for the interests thereof such sale _and transfer is hereby authorized, and the proceeds thereof directed to be used as a general fund for improvements. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 74 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 74 An act to incorporate the Baptist Missionary and Educational Conven- tion of North Carolina for the Colored Race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That C. S. Brown, C, C. Somerville, A. Shepard, N. L. Roberts, A. W. Pegues, S. N. Vass, J. A. Whitted, P. S. Lewis, A. W. Pattello, M. W. D. Norman, Luke Pierce, and their associates and successors, be and are hereby constitute@and made a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession, under the name and style of The Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention of North Carolina for the Colored Race, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts of law and equity, and may purchase and hold and sell and convey real estate, goods and chattels, whatsoever necessary to the objects of this incorporatign. They shall have power to make and use a common seal, and to alter the same at will. And they are hereby invested with all the powers and privileges necessary for conducting missionary and other religious and educational work. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 84 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 8&4, An act to amend chapter two hundred and forty-three -243 of the private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the charter of the city of Raleigh. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section two -2 of chapter two hundred and fortythree -243 of the private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one be amended as follows: Add to the end of said section two -2 the following: The tract of land conveyed to the city of Raleigh by R. S. Pullen, Esquire, by deed dated March the twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as recorded in book ninety-five, page four hundred and sixty-three, register of deeds office of Wake county, and known as * Pullen Park, and all other territory which may be acquired by the city by purchase, or donation, or otherwise, for park purposes, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased white persons, located northeast of the city of Raleigh, known as Oakwood Cemetery, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased colored persons, located south of the city of Raleigh, known as Mount Hope Cemetery, shall also be included in | he corporate limits of the city of Raleigh, and all ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted by the board of aldermen of said city shall be applicable to the territory included in said Pullen Park or other parks, and in said cemeteries, as fully as if the said territory was embraced within the limits of the city. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 221 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 221 An act to incorporate Vestibule Church (colored) in Cleveland county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The term of office of the above trustees and of their successors shall be while they hold themselves as members in good standing in Vestibule Church (colored), and will act as a live, energetic officer; but should a vacancy be caused by neglect of either of the above requisites, or by death, or by any other cause, then such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by the remaining trustees selecting a suitable person or persons for the same: Provided, their number shall never be less than three nor greater than seven. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 221 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 221 An act to incorporate Vestibule Church (colored) in Cleveland county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That it shall not be lawful for any person to sell, give away, or in any way dispose of, unless for medicinal purposes, spirituous liquors at or within one mile of Vestibule Church (colored), and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for each offence be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 221 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 221 An act to incorporate Vestibule Church (colored) in Cleveland county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the Trustees of Vestibule Church (colored), and their successors in office shall regulate, control or probibit the sale of all articles of merchandise or produce within the limits which they may deem judicious; and any person violating this section, upon conviction, shall be fined two dollars for each and every offence: Provided however, that the trustees shall not lay off a limit greater than onehalf mile from the church. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 246 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 246 An act to authorize the city of Greensboro to issue bonds for school purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That the city of Greensboro may, subject to a vote of the majority of the qualified voters therein, donate the sum of eleven thousand dollars ($11,000) to the trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race; and for that purpose may issue its bonds to the aggregate amount of eleven thousand dollars ($11,000), in such form and denomination or denominations as the board of aldermen may determine. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 246 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 246 An act to authorize the city of Greensboro to issue bonds for school purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 13 That if at said election a majority of the qualified voters of said city of Greensboro shall vote in favor of said donation, the mayor and board of aldermen shall immediately cause said bonds to the aggregate amount of eleven thousand. dollars ($11,000) to be issued and delivered to the board of trustees of said Agricultural and , Mechanical College for the Colored Race. The proceeds of said bonds shall be applied by the said board, as far as may be necessary, to paying the notes given by the citizens of Greensboro to secure the location of said college. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 301 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 301 An act to amend the charter of the town of Asheboro in Randolph county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all after the word viz.: in second line of section two of chapter seventy-nine, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be stricken out and the following inserted as the corporate limits of said town of Asheboro: Beginning at a telegraph pole marked C on the west side of railroad about fifteen poles north of the Wallace old field; thence along the west side of railroad. crossing Salisbury road at the corner of the Trav Smith lot, passing through Fisher's fields and by the northeast corner of the Tom Bell house, crossing Cedar Fork at a ford at a beach marked * C and toa pine north of John Rich's house; thence east crossing the Uwharrie road at a pine marked C south of the colored parsonage, crossing Winn meadow at tan-vats and crossing the plank road south of the Hahn house at a pine marked * C, crossing the Cox road about fifty yards south of Henry Rich's, passing north of Lindsay McDowels to a pine near the road east of his house; thence north passing through J. 8 Fries old field, crossing the old road at the ford at the old brickyard up the branch to Buffalo ford road, running west of Sam Grays through Frank Hearns field, crossing the Franklinsville road at the east corner of Joe Lytles field at a big rock marked C, and continuing north to a maple on the bank of a branch near the corner of the Worth field, called the Jarrell place; thence west north of Atlas Baldwin's, north of Charlie Vuncannons, crossing plank road at a white oak marked C at the intersection of the old dirt road with plank road north of Louisa Presnells to the beginning. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 301 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 301 An act to amend the charter of the town of Asheboro in Randolph county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 10 That it shall be the duty of said board of school commissioners to establish a public school for white children and one for the colored children of said town, and apportion the funds derived from said special taxes or from any other source between said schools for white and colored children so as to equalize the school facilities between the two races. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 316 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 316 An act to promote education in the town of Williamston, Martin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That with said bonds or the proceeds of the sale thereof, to be made at not less than par value, the commissioners of said town shall pay off and discharge the debt owing by the trustees of the Williamston Academy; and upon such payment the trustees of said academy, and their successors in office, shall hold the said academy, its grounds and furniture in trust for the said town; and that the public school for white children in the school district in which the town of Williamston is situated shall be held in said academy, and when the public school is not being so held therein the trustees may have a school held and maintained therein as heretofore. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 316 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 316 An act to promote education in the town of Williamston, Martin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That any balance arising from the bonds issued under this act the said commissioners are authorized and empowered to apply in enlarging, improving or building a school-house for the colored children in the school district for colored children in which Williamston is situated, in any manner that may be agreed on between said commissioners and the schoo! committee of said district. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 334 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 334 An act to charter Trap Hill Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That J. S. Holbftook, J. S. Kirby, J. A. McClean, W. F. Byrd, William Sparks, T. C. Deborde, D. J. Roberts, C. Blevens, C. F. Fields, E. M. Gwyn, J. W. Myers, F. Brewer, I. W. Landreth, Joshua Spicer, E. Blevens and J. F, Gentry, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a joint stock company, a body politic and corporate for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade at Trap Hill, in Wilkes county, North Carolina, for the mental and moral training of the children of the white race of both sexes under the name and style of Trap Hill Institute, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property, real and personal, and exercise all acts in relation thereto or incident to the ownership of rea) and personal property and for the promotion of education. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 341 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 341 An act to incorporate Flat Creek public school near Dulas springs in Buncombe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That Thomas M. Dula, James A. Whitehead, William Penland, Robert Garrison and J. H. Roberts, and all other persons who may be associated with them, and their successors, for the purpose of advancing the cause of education among the white race, are hereby constituted a body politic under the name and style of Flat Creek Robbins School, near Dulas springs. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 354 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 3854 An act to amend the charter of the town of Shelby. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section forty of the laws of eighiteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five be amended as follows, Add after the last word in said section the following: That , out of the funds arising from any license tax on bar-rooms in the town of Shelby the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be applied to the maintenance of the white and colored graded schools in said town: Provided, only one such license for a bar-room shall be issued; but if two or more licenses for bar-rooms in said town shall be issued, then the sum of eleven hundred dollars arising from such funds shall be applied to the maintenance of said schools: Provided, that the balance of said funds, or if the said graded schools shall no longer be kept up then the whole of said funds, shall be applied to such public uses of said town of Shelby as the commissioners of said town may direct. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 375 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 875 An act to incorporate the Saints Ark. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 The business of said corporation shall be to assist and aid the poor and afilicted colored people of this state, by which class is meant such as are afflicted with bodily infirmity or old age or are unable to provide a living for themselves, To this end said corporation may erect suitable buildings in any place they may select, may fully equip the same, and may receive inmates therein of the colored race under such rules and regulations as the by-laws of said corporation shall direct. 1893 Private Laws Ch. 387 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 387 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the town of Wilson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 That the registrar shall be furnished by the said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of said town in such manner that said book shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in said town and still residing therein, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also every day, between the hours of ten oclock a. m. and four oclock p. m. (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing within the corporate limits and entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in said town or do not appear in the revised lists; and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and also their names, ages, place of birth and places of residence; and any person offering may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the state of North Carolina twelve months and in the town of Wilson and in the ward for which he offers to register ninety days next preceding the day of election, and that his place of residente is at .... in such ward, and that he is twenty-one years of age. If any person shall wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be guilty of perjury and punished as in like cases of perjury. The board of commissioners, upon thirty days notice, may direct that there shall be an entirely new registration of Priv38 voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election or for the interest of the town. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 2 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2 An act to amend the charter of the town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and to establish a system of graded schools therein. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 For the purposes and benefits of this att the town of Mount Airy shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 2 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 2 An act to amend the charter of the town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and to establish a system of graded schools therein. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 The school committee created by this act may elect annually & superintendent for the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for whites if the same shall be established. The said superintendent shall [examine] all applicants for teachers positions in said school, and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the said school committee. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 2 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2 An act to amend the charter of the town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and to establish a system of graded schools therein. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 11 The school committee provided by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the town of Mount Airy as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races, 1895 Private Laws Ch. 14 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 14 An act to authorize the treasurer of Haywood county to pay certain : teachers. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Haywood county be and is hereby authorized to pay, out of any moneys in his hands due school district pumber fifty-eight (58), Esther Rogers for services rendered as teacher of white race for said district in the year eighteen hundred and ninetythree (1893), the sum of eleven dollars ($11). Also, pay George J. Owen the sum of fifty-six dollars ($56) out of the public school fund due district number eleven (11), for white race, for services as teacher in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three (1893), in said district. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 18 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 18 An act to incorporate the Girls Training School, Franklinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That Marcellus Joyner, A. G. Fuller, T. O. Fuller, of Franklin county, and T. H. Burwell, of Vance county, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate for educational purposes, under the name and style of the Girls Training School, an institution of learning, situated in Franklinton, in the county of Franklin and State of North Oarolina, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with; to have and to hold the buildings, groupds, and all appurtenances belonging thereto, situated in the town of Franklinton, and which is now vested in said parties above named as trustees by virtue of a deed to them and their successors, from Adam Tredwell, by F. S. Spruill, attorney, with power, of date of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and registered in the Registrar's office, in Franklin county, in book ninety-nine (99), page seventyfive (75), by purchase, donation, or otherwise real, personal, or mixed property, for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade, as well as of elementary learning, for the colored race, in said town of Franklinton, and to make such laws and regulations and rules for the government of said institution as they and their successors may deem best. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 40, An act to incorporate the Garysburg High School Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' Sec. 1 That R. J. Walden, N. F. Roberts, William C. Coats, W. H. Haithcock and S. G. Newsome, of Northampton; J. W. Wood, of Edgecombe county, and R. S. Perry, of Franklin county, their associates and successors, hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate, for educational and religious purposes, under the style of the Garysburg High School Company, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold all property donated to, or purchased by said company, buildings, grounds, appurtenances thereto, situated near the town of Garysburg, Northampton county, North Carolina, for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade for the colored race. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 58 An act to incorporate the North Wilkesboro Academical and Industrial institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That IL. B. Turnbull, E. W. Smith, A. J. McKelway, R. F. Campbell, C. A. Munroe, C. G. Vardell, J. M. Rose, jr., H. 8 Smith, J. M. Rogers, Geo. W. Watts, W. D. Martan, C. E. Graham, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The North Wilkesboro Academical and Industrial Institute, for the purpose of erecting, owning, operating and conducting at or near Wilkesboro an academical, industrial and manual training school for colored people, with power to receive and hold, sell and dispose of any real or personal property to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, which may be given, granted, sold, devised or bequeathed it, and with power to elect such officers as it desires and prescribe their terms and duties, and to make all such rules, regulations, by-laws and ordinances as to it seems necessary or desirable: Provided, they are not inconsistent with this act or the laws of the land. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 62 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 62, An act to incorporate Bertie Academy in the county of Bertie and state of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That Rev. Luke Pierce, Rev. M. W. D. Norman, T. H. Wilson, A. Robbins, Henry Houston, Samuel Haggard, P. S. Sanderlin, Washington Allen and T, C. Bond and their associates and successors, be and the same are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of Bertie Academy, in the township of Windsor, county of Bertie and state of North Carolina, for the education of colored people, and as such they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of trustees of similar academies in North Carolina. The said trustees and their successors may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and acquire and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain said academy. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 75 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 75 An act to amend the charter of the town of Kinston, Lenoir county, chap- ter thirty-three, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That section fifty-one of said chapter be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor: That they may provide graveyardsat least one for the white race and one for the colored racein or near the corporate limits and regulate the same, and may appoint and pay keepers: a white keeper for that of the white race, and a colored keeper for that of the colored race, and compel the keeping and returning bills of eet and they may prohibit interments within the town. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 113 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 113 An act to prevent the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors within two -2 miles of Davis school-house and Bethel Baptist church, both in Stanly county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That no intoxicating liquors shall be manufactured or sold within two miles of Davis school-house, or Bethel church (colored), both in Stanly-county, North Carolina. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 122 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 122 An act to incorporate the Carolina Military Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to buy and sell land for the purpose of carrying on and conducting a school for white children, in such a manner as the stockholders, in their discretion, may deem best. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 142 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 142 Anact to enable school district number thirteen (13), in Martin county, to build a school-house. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the public school committee, in district number thirteen -13 at Everetts, Martin county, be and are hereby, empowered and authorized to contract a debt, in the name of said committee, toan amount not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200), to run for a term of three -8 years, bearing interest at six per centum per annum, for the sole purpose of erecting a suitable public school-house for the white race, and for suitable furniture for the same. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 160 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 160 n act to amend the charter of the town of Gastonia. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 If the board of commissioners shall deem it advisable to establish and maintain public schools in said town, they shall so declare by an ordinance duly adopted, in which shall be set out the maximum rate of taxation which, in their opinion, shall be levied for that purpose, and also the number of school commissioners who shall be elected. The ordinance shall fix a day, not earlier than thirty days after its adoption, when an election shall be held to ascertain the will of the people of the town upon the subject, and it shall be published for four weeks before said election in some newspaper published in said town. At said election those in favor of levying the tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be the words, for graded schools, and those opposed to levying the tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be the words against graded schools. The inspectors shall meet as soon as the polls are closed and shall declare the result, and certify the same to the secretary of the board, who shall record the same. If a majority of the qualified voters of the town shall vote in favor of said school, it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners to levy and collect annually for the use of said school a tax, the rate of which shall be fixed by the school commissioners, not however to exceed the rate mentioned in the aforesaid ordinance. This tax shall be collected as other town taxes, and shall be paid to the treasurer of said town, who shall be ea officio secretary and treasurer of the board of school commissioners. The mayor shall be the president of such board. Within ten days after their election the board shall meet and organize ; they shall hold office until the next regular municipal election, and until their successors are qualified. At the said regular election school commissioners shall be elected under the same rules and regulations as may be provided for the election of commissioners of the town. The board of school commissioners of the town of Gastonia, as herein provided for, shall be a corporation, and shall have power to acquire and hold all such personal and real property as may be needed for the schools to be maintained and established by them under the provisions of this act. They shall employ teachers, fix their pay, and make all rules and regulations for the government of said schools: Provided, however, that the said board must establish and maintain separate schools for the children of the white race, and for the children of the colored race. It shall be the duty of the schoo) commissioners of the county of Gaston, as soon as the schools herein provided for are established, to lay off, as one of the school districts of said county, all that part of said county which is within the limits of the said town of Gastonia, to be known as Gastonia school district ; and all moneys apportioned to said district under the provisions of the school laws of the state shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the board of school commissioners of said town, to be by them expended in the maintenance of said schools: Provided, that the privilege of attending is granted to all children who would be entitled to attend the public schools of the state. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 161 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 161 An act to amend the charter of the city of Winston, North Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 Strike out section eight and insert the following in lieu thereof: Said registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to keep their books open from seven o'clock A. M. until sundown fifteen days preceding the second Saturday before the election on the first Monday in May, at such places in their respective wards as shall be public and convenient to the voters, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from the colored voters. Any person offering to register shall be required to take the following oath or affirmation: that he is or will be twenty-one years of age on or before the day of election, and has been a resident of the state of North Carolina twelve months, of the county of Forsyth ninety days, and of the ward of the city of Winston thirty days preceding the election in which he proposes to vote, and has not been convieted of any crime which, by the laws of North Carolina, disqualifies him from voting. Said registrars shall keep their books open for the inspection of any elector, and any elector may challenge the right of any voter to cast his ballot by filing with the registrar an affidavit, setting forth his reasons for challenge, and said registrar shall mark challenge opposite the name of the person challenged, and shall at once summon all the parties interested to appear before the judges of election of his ward on Wednesday before the succeeding election, between the hours of nine A. M. and five oclock P. M., to determine such voter's right to cast his ballot. If the judges cannot agree the registrar may decide, and if such challenge be sustained the name must be erased from the book. That justice may be done, the registrar is empowered to summon any witnesses that may be material, and shall make known in the summons to the party challenged the TRUE cause for which he is challenged, and the burden of proof shall lie upon the party challenging to show that the party challenged is not entitled to vote. All challenges shall be made before the books close on the second Saturday at sundown preceding the election on the first Monday in May. The registrars shall give notice ten days before they open their books, naming the place and time of opening and closing the books; such notice shall be posted in six conspicuous places in each ward; the board of aldermen may order a new registration or revision of the books by giving thirty days notice of such new registration or revision before the day the registrars are appointed, and shall allow such compensation to the registrars for their services as they may see proper, and shall order a new registration of voters for the election to be held on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. Any registrar who shall refuse to swear or hear any witness whose testimony is material in the determination of any voter's right of franchise, or shall abuse his trust as an officer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, fined one hundred dollars, or imprisoned for sixty days. Any person who may become a qualified voter after the books close, and on or before the day of election, shall be allowed to register when he becomes so entitled. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 2 That the principal chief, assistant (or vice) chief, and members of council shall be elected to their respective offices by the male members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who have attained the age of eighteen -18 years: and all other officers are to be appointed by the council, as hereinafter provided ; that the term of duration of the office of principal and assistant chief shall be four -4 years, and that of members of eouncil two -2 years, and all officers elected by the council shall hold until the first annual or grand council held after the election for members of council, and all officers of said corporation shall hold until their successors are duly qualified. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 9 That the seat of government of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians shall be at Cherokee Council Grounds, Swain county, North Carolina, until changed by the council. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 12 That all acts of council, resolutions, etce., shall be signed by the chairman and clerk, and countersigned by the chief and vice-chief, and certified to by the secretary, and that the agent appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the senate, to supervise the schools of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,-: shall be, and is hereby, made ex officio, by virtue of his office, secretary of this corporation, with the custody of the books and papers appertaining to the same in all respects. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 18 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 18 No person shall ever be eligible to any office or appointment of honor, profit or trust who shall have aided, abetted, counselled or encouraged any person or persons guilty of defrauding the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, or who may hereafter aid or abet, counsel or encourage any pretended agents or attorneys in defrauding the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Neithershall any person be eligible to such office, ete., that has been convicted of a felony, or who denies the existence of a God, or a future state of rewards and punishments. Free exercise of religious worship, and manner of serving God, shall be forever enjoyed, but not construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, inconsistent with the peace and safety of the Band. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 21 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 21 That any officer of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who has violated his oath of office, or has been guilty of any offence making him ineligible to hold said office, may be impeached by a two-thirds -4 vote of the council. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 22 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 22 That the council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians shall direct the management and control of all property, either real or personal, belonging to the Band asa corporation; but no person shall be entitled to the enjoyment of any lands belonging to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation, or any profits accruing therefrom, or any moneys which may belong to said Band asa corporation, unless such person be of at least one-sixteenth (1-16) of eastern Cherokee blood, and in case that any money derived from any source whatever, belonging to Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, shall be distributed among the members thereof, the same shall be divided per capita among the members entitled thereto. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 23 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 23 That the said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is hereby fully authorized and empowered to adopt by-laws and rules for the general government of sdid corporation, governing the management of all real and personal property held by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation, and direct and assign among the members thereof homes in the Qualla Boundary and other land held by them as a corporation, and is hereby vested with full power to enforee obedience to such bylaws and regulations as may be enacted by the council through the marshal of the nation. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 24 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 24 That as the county authorities of Jackson, Swain, Graham and Cherokee counties make no provision for the support of the poor, nor provide free schools for the children of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the male members of said Band in said counties shall be exempt from the payment of any poll tax, or if said poll tax shall be collected, the same shall be paid over by the proper officers of said counties to the council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, to be used by said Band for educational purposes. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 26 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 26 That the organization had and the by-laws passed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on December thirteenth (13), eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (1889), in pursuance to the act of incorporation aforesaid, be, and is hereby, ratified and confirmed. And all acts and resolutions of council, and contracts made by the said council in pursuance to said organization, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of North Carolina, is hereby validated. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 166 Sec. 27 Identified by: model CHAPTER 166, An act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That an act passed and ratified by the general assembly of North Carolina, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty- nine (1889), chapter two hundred and eleven (211), entitled an act incorporating the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and for other purposes, be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following sections, to-wit: Sec. 27 The council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, organized under this act, are hereby fully empowered to convey all interests whatsoever to the Cherokee Indians residing in Graham and Cherokee counties, that the said Eastern Band Cherokees have in all the lands of the said Eastern Band Cherokees, situated, lying and being in the counties of Graham and Cherokee, North Carolina, upon the said Cherokee Indians residing in Graham and Cherokee counties conveying to the Eastern Band Cherokees, all interests whatsoever that the said Cherokee Indians residing in Cherokee and Graham counties may have in the lands known as the Qualla Boundary, in Jackson and Swain counties, North Carolina. In the execution of which deeds the father or mother of such Cherokee residents of Graham and Cherokee counties, if living, shall represent the family ; and the children of such father and mother precluded from afterwards claiming any interests whatever in the common property, either real or personal, held as a corporation or as common property. All deeds executed by the Eastern Band of Cherokees, shall be under the corporate seal, and acknowledged as deeds of corporate bodies are acknowledged under the laws of this state. All contracts, including the contract made with D. L. Boyd for the sale of the timber in the Qualla Boundary, in Jackson and Swain counties, in North Carolina, the contract made with H. G. Ewart for professional services rendered the said Eastern Band, North Carolina Cherokees, and all other contracts, leases, agreements, etc., hitherto made by the Eastern Band, North Carolina Cherokees, whether made under a corporate seal or not, are hereby fully validated and legalized, as if the same had been so made under a corporate seal. Src. 27 This act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 8th day of March, A. D. 1895 1895 Private Laws Ch. 177 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 177 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, Nrth Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Washington, Beaufort county, shall be, and is hereby, constituted tthe Washington graded school district for white and colored children. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 177 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 177 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, Nrth Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of said board to establish a graded choo] for the white children and one for the colored children of said town, and to appropriate the funds derived from said special taxes and all sources for said graded schools for white and colored children so as to equalize school facilities between the two races. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 177 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 177 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, Nrth Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools of said town shall become the property of the said graded schools, and shall be vested in said board of trustees, and their successors, in trust for said graded schools: Provided, that in the event of the discontinuance of said graded schools, all of the property thereto belonging shall revert to, and become the property of, said publie schools of said town: Provided, further, that the said property belonging to, or used for, the graded school for white children shall revert to the public school of said town for white children, and said property belonging to, or used for, the graded school for colored children shall revert to the public school for the colored children of said town. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 178 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 178 An act to repeal chapter five hundred and twenty-seven, acts eighteen hundred and ninety-three, establishing graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the county treasurer of Nash shall, of the money paid to him as aforesaid, hold,to the use of school children of the white race in the territory in Nash county described in said act of assembly, all money that was paid to the school treasurer for them, less the aforesaid commissions and the amount paid out on contracts for their benefit; and to the use of school children of the colored race in said territory, all the money that was paid to the said school treasurer for them, less the aforesaid commissions and the amounts paid out on contract for their benefit; and the provisions of this section shall also apply mutatis mutandis to the county treasurer of Edgecombe. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 205 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 205 An act to incorporate the United Baptist Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That W. E. White, chairman; J. L. Gwaltney, secretary ; J. A. White, Isaac Oxford, Isaac Russell, J. L. Davis, J. Walter Watts, L. P. Gwaltney, J. B. Pool, R. Z. Linney, Hosea Shristopher, W. W. Geyder, E. C. Sloan, H. J. Burke, John G. Harrington, trustees, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, declared to be a body politic and corporate in law for educational purposes, under the name and style of the United Baptist Institute, an institution of learning situated at the town of Taylorsville, in the county of Alexander, and state of North Carolina, and by that name may plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold the buildings and grounds, and all appurtenances thereto belonging, situated in said town of Taylorsville, and the title to which is now vested in said parties, as trustees, by virtue of a deed from James James to the trustees of the United Baptist Institute, of date of the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four (1854), and registered in the office of the register of deeds of Alexander county, in book A, on page two hundred and twenty-one (221); to acquire by purchase, donation, or otherwise, real, personal and mixed property, for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade for the white race upon the premises aforesaid, and to make such by-laws and regulations, and rules of government for said institution, as they and their successors may deem best: Provided, that the institution may also be known as Taylorsville Collegiate Institute. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 277 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 277 An act to incorporate the Barrett Collegiate and Industrial Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That A. M. Barrett, W. W. Barrett, W. H. Quick, D, C. Robinson, J. H. Mattocks and Z. T. Robinson, and their associates and successors, be, and the same are hereby, created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Barrett Collegiate and Industrial Institute, in the county of Anson, Pee Dee, North Carolina, situated in the village of Pee Dee, for the education and industrial training of colored people, and as such they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of trustees of similar colleges in North Carolina. The trustees may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and acquire and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain a college. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 352 Sec. 100 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 352 An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 100 Said schools shall be separated and kept separate in such manner that only white children shall be admitted to the white schools and other children to the other schools, and said board of aldermen shall be the exclusive judges of whether or not any applicant for admission to any of said schools is entitled to enter or attend the same under the provisions of this section. 1895 Private Laws Ch. 352 Sec. 101 Identified by: model CHAPTER 352 An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 101 All moneys raised or received for educational purposes by said city shall be apportioned in such manner as shall be just to the white and other races without discrimination, due regard being paid to the proper expenses of maintaining the different schools of the different races. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 19 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 19 An act to incorporate The Yanceyville Graded (colored) School. Lhe General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That W. H. Burwell, W. L. Malone, G. &. Currie, L. Bigelow, A. Bigelow, R. R. Graves, Clem. Williamson, John L. Hill, F. R. Terry and R. C. Covington and their associates and successors, be and the same are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Yanceyville Colored Graded School in the township of Yanceyville, County of Caswell and State of North Carolina, for the education of colored people, and as such they shall have all corporate powers, rights and immunities of trustees of similar academies in North Carolina. The said Trustees and their successors may sue and be sued, and acquire and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain said academy. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 22 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 22 An act to incorporate The Peoples Benevolent and Relief Association of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 5 That two-tenths (2-10) of one per cent. of any and all {money or monies obtained as premiums by the association, shall be donated to the Colored Oxford Orphan Asylum. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 31 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 81 An act to incorporate the Wingate school in Union county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That F. M. Sutton, G. W. Simpson, B. F. Parker, J. B. Mangum, R. H. James, R. F. Beasley, Jonathan Gordan, J. J. Godfrey, J. L. Bennett, Thos. E. Williams, O. M. Sanders, D. A. Covington, J. C. Sikes, J. A. Bivens, and J. W. Bivens, and their successors, be and are hereby declared to be a body politic, and corporate, for the purpose of conducting under the auspices of the Union White Baptist Association, a school of high grade in the village of Wingate, in Union County, for the education of boys and girls, to be known as the Wingate School, and by this name and style shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts of this State; shall take, receive and possess all moneys, goods, chattels and bonds which may be given them, and shall apply the same according to the wish of the donors to the purpose herein declared ; and they shall have power, by purchase or otherwise to take, demand, hold, and possess rents, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in special trust and confidence, and apply the same, together with the benefits arising therefrom, for the purpose of supporting the school to be Known and styled as The Wingate School. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 40 An act to establish a benevolent association in the town of Tar- boro, North Carolina, under the name and style of * Daugh- ters of the Grand Aid. WHEREAS, the General Assembly of North Carolina did, on the third day of March, 1893, enact and ratify a bill to incor- porate a benevolent association under the name and style of True Friends; and, whereas, it is desired to form an annex to said association under the name and style above given, now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - Sec. 2 The object of this corporation shall be to unite, fraternally, all colored women of sound bodily health and good moral character, who are socially acceptable; to give all moral and material aid in its power to its members and those dependent upon them; to educate its members socially, morally and intellectually, to establish a fund for sick and distressed members, for which such sums as the constitution and by-laws of the corporation permit may be drawn for their aid. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 41 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 41 An act to sell the property of the Franklin academy, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, The General Assembly of North Carolina, at its session of 1831, chapter 35, authorized the Secretary of State to issue a grant for ten acres of land in the town of Franklin, Macon county, to Thomas Love, Sr., George Penland, Jesse R. Siler, John Hall and James Whitaker and their successors in office, in trust and for the use and behoof of the Franklin Acadeiny ; AND, WHEREAS, the Secretary of State, in pursuance of said act, did, on the 38d day of December, 1882, issue said grant, which is recorded in the registers office for Macon county, in Book * A, page 185 AND, WHEREAS, the trustees hereinbefore mentioned have long since died ; AND, WHEREAS, the said Franklin academy has long since ceased to exist ; AND WHEREAS, there is no free school building in District No. 1 for the white race in said town of Franklin and county of Macon ; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That J. G. Siler be and is hereby appointed a trustee in lieu of the trustees hereinbefore mentioned, and he is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to sell, after first advertising the same for thirty days at the court house door and three other public places in said county, to the highest bidder for cash, at the court house door in Franklin, on the first Monday in such month of the year 1897, as he may deem best, the following portion of the land described in said State grant, to-wit: Bounded on the east by Iotla street; on the north by the Presbyterian manse property ; on the west by the lands of I. J. Ash and wife; on the south by the lands of George A. Jones, 8S. H. Lyle and W. R. Johnston, and the lands of J. Johnston, F. 8 Johnston, the Masonic lodge, St. Agnes church and J. F. Ray ; and thesaid J. G. Siler, trustee as aforesaid, shall, upon the payment to him of the sum so bid, make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers a deed in fee for the lands so sold, and such deed shall pass title to the purchaser or purchasers. And the said J. G. Siler, after first retaining five dollars for his services in making such sale, shall turn over the balance of the money so received by him to the school committeemen for District No. 1, for the white race of said county, and the said committeemen shall use such money in the purchase of asuitable site in said district for the erecting of a free school building, and shall apply the remainder of said money, if any, towards the erecting of a suitable building on said site for the use of said school district, and for no other purpose. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 61 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 61 An act to incorporate The Colored Grand Lodge No. 1 of North Carolina, of the order of Knights of Pythias of N. A. S. A. E. A. and A. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 The private property of the members of this corporation shall be exempt from the corporate debts of the said colored Grand Lodge, or members thereof. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 62 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 62 An act to incorporate Mt. Moriah male and female academy. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That R. H. Gower, Hezekiah Pool, Icana Pool, Joe Pool, S. R. Pool, Jas. H. Bryant, Albert Busbee, Wm. H. Kelly, N. B. Broughton, and Thomas Johns, their successors, associates and assigns, be and they are hereby declared and created a joint stock company, a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade near Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, in Wake county, for the intellectual and moral training of the girls and boys of the white race of that community, under the name and style of Mt. Moriah male and female academy, and in and by such name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have perpetual suecession (and a common seal if they so desire), contract and be contracted with, purchase or receive by gift real or personal property, and hold the same, or may sell or otherwise dispose of or mortgage the same in order to raise money to carry on school or schools as said corporation may in their discretion organize and conduct. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 63 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 63 An act to incorporate Elizabeth College Company for the education of white girls. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 Whereas C.B. King, C. L. T. Fisher, George W. Watts, G. 8S. Watts and L. A. Carr, by articles of agreement under their hands and seals, did on the 14th day of January, 1897, set forth before the clerk of the superior court of Mecklenburg county as follows: STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Mecklenburg County. Articles of agreement made and entered intothis the 14th day of January, A. D. 1897, by and bet ween the parties whose names and seals are hereby subscribed, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of North Carolina, Witnesseth : THE CORPORATION NAME. The name of the corporation shall be Elizabeth College Company. THE BUSINESS PROPOSED. The business proposed is the carrying on and conducting a female school and college for the education and instruction of white females. THE PLACE WHERE IT IS PROPOSED TO BE CARRIED ON. The place where the proposed business is to be carried on is in the city of Charlotte, or near thereto, in the county of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina. THE LENGTH OF TIME DESIRED. The length of, time desired for the existence of the corporation is thirty years. THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS WHO HAVE SUBSCRIBED. The names of the persons who have subscribed are C. B. King, C. L. T. Fisher, George W. Watts, G. S. Watts and L. A. Carr. THE AMOUNT OF THE CAPITAL AND THE NUMBER OF SHARES AND THE AMOUNT OF EACH. The amount of this capital of this corporation shall be seventy thousand dollars, divided into seven hundred shares, being of the par value of one hundred dollars per share. That the first meeting of the corporation shall be held in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, the 4th day of Feby., A. D. 1897, at one oclock P. M., at the office of Clarkson and Duls, No. 4law building, in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina aforesaid. In testimony whereof the said subscribers have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals this the 14th day of January, A. D. 1897 C. B. Kine [Seal], Witness : C. L. T. FISHER [Seal]. C. H. DULs. George W. Watts, by C. B. King, atty in fact (seal); G.S. Watts, by C. B. King, atty in fact (seal); L. A. Carr, by C. B. King, atty in fact [seal]. Which said articles, having been duly proven, filed with said clerk, recorded and certified to the secretary of state, under the seal of said court, such certified copy was, on the 16th day of January, 1897, duly filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state. AND, WHEREAS, letters patent under the great seal of the State have been duly issued, declaring such persons signing such articles of agreement a corporation for the purpose and according to the condition of said articles, which said letters have been duly recorded; now the formation of said corporation, and all acts of said corporation in pursuance of. and in accordance with, said articles of agreement, are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed, and said corporation is hereby declared and is granted all the powers and rights, and to be subject to all the liabilities conferred and imposed by law on corporations formed before a clerk of a superior court of this State, together with such additional powers, and rights as are in this act contained. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 63 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 63 An act to incorporate Elizabeth College Company for the education of white girls. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That said corporation shall have and is hereby given the power to maintain and operate at or near the city of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg, a college for the liberal education of white girls and women, and for these purposes shall be and is hereby authorized to do all such acts and make all such contracts as may be proper and necessary. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 83 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 83 An act to amend the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the city of Winston is hereby authorized to purchase, within one mile.of the corporate limits of said city, suitable grounds for cemeteries, one for burying the dead of the white and one for burying the dead of the colored, to be under the supervision and control of the city, with powers to make such regulations as shall be deemed proper for regulating the burying of the dead therein, and to have police jurisdiction thereon. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 90 An act to amend the charter of the town of Mount Airy, North Carolina, chapter 62, private acts, 1887 The General Assembly do enact: That in addition to subjects liable to taxation for state pur- poses, and all subjects made liable by the town charter or amendments thereto, the commissioners of the town of Mount Airy may levy and collect annually aspecific or license tax upon the following subjects : On every soda water vendor, lemonade manufacturer, trader in leaf tobacco, telegraph or telephone office within the limits of the town, warehouse for the sale of leaf tobacco, and on every vendor of watches, clocks, jewelry or repairer of the same, a tax not to exceed ten dollars. On every company, whether incorporated or not, having an office in or resident agent doing business in the corporate limits of the town, a tax not exceeding ten dollars. On every railroad company, a tax not exceeding one hundred dollars. On every person carrying a pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane or other deadly weapon, except guns, shotguns and rifles for shooting game, a tax not exceeding ten dollars: Provided, this shall not inelude officers of the law while on duty. On every vendor or dealer in pistols and other deadly weapons, a tax not exceeding seventy-five dollars. On every hotel, public eating house or restaurant, and ice cream saloon, a tax not exceeding five dollars. On every job printing office, on every vendor of periodicals or stationery or books; on every saw milli or grist mill, machine shop, foundry or other manufactory not specifi- cally named, on every tanyard, on every practicing physician or surgeon having an office in or residing within the town limits, on every practicing lawyer residing in or having office in the town ; on every manufacturer of cigars, cigarettes, smoking tobacco in whatever shape; on every manufacturer of plug, twist, or other shape of chewing tobacco; on every tin manu- facturer, vendor or repairer of tin work, copper, iron ; on every merchant, grocer, or vendor of goods, ware of any description ; on every lumber dealer; on every agent doing business in the town of Mount Airy ; on every insurance agent doing business or residing in the town, either life or fire ; on every plumber or gasfitter; on every photographer or other artist taking like- nesses or enlarging photographs or pictures, or soliciting orders for same, by whatsoever process; on every dealer in patent rights ; on every druggist or apothecary shop ; on every dentist ; on every commission merchant or forwarding merchant; on every auctioneer; on every cabinet shop; on every harness or saddle shop; on every barber shop ; on every corporation ; on every baker; on every land agent doing business in the town of Mount Airy; on every furniture manufacturer or vender of the same; on every undertaker ; on every produce dealer; on every millinery store, vender or dealer in such goods a tax on each not to exceedten dollars. On every insur- ance company, life or fire, doing business within the limits ofthetown, atax not exceeding twenty-five dollars. Onevery fly- ing jenny or merry-go-round, or machines of like nature within the town or within a mile of the town limits, a tax not exceed- ing one hundred dollars. Onevery express company havingan office in the town, a tax not exceeding fifty dollars. On every peddler of any kind or nature of goods, itinerant merchant, vending or offering to vend, a tax not exceeding twenty five dollars. On every dealer in prize goods, atax not exceeding fifty dollars. On every bank or broker or exchange office, a tax not exceeding fifty dollars. On every theatrical or stage player, each person or company, fortune teller, sleight-of-hand performer, minstrel troop, instrumenta! or vocal concert company, exhib- itors of artificial curiosities, rope or wire dancers or tumblers, circus or other show, for each day of performance within the town or within one mile of the town, whether exhibition free orfora charge, a tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars. On every milk dairy doing business or vending milk, a tax not exceed- ing fifty dollars: Provided, no person shall be prevented from selling at their homes. On every cancer doctor or other person doing or professing to effect a cure of any nature, either upon huwan or animal creature, by whatever name or title known. on every optician, phrenologist, dancing school, traveling agent or salesman disposing of any goods, ware or merchandise, or privilege of whatever name not hereinbefore enumerated and taxed, by whatever name, means, trade or subterfuge the sale may be endeavored to be made or concealed, sewing machine agents, agents for fertilizer companies, a tax not exceeding fifty dollars. On every tombstone manufacturer or vender ; on every manufacturer of buggies, carriages or other vehicles, a tax not exceeding ten dollars: Pruvided, that the commissioners of the town shall have power to rebate any of the taxes hereinbefore named. Sec. 3 That the said chapter 62, laws of 1887, private, named, be and is further amended by adding an additional section as follows : That it shall be lawful for the town commissioners of the town of Mount Airy, N. C., to agree in writing with the school committee of the public school district of Mount Airy, as now located, by which the said town commissioners may supplement said public school fund in said district, by paying the said school committee a sum of money sufficient when added to the funds now due, or that may hereafter become due the said public school district of Mount Airy, under the present school law of the state, to maintain a school in said town for a term of not less than four or more than ten monthsin each year, to be paid out of the money that from time to time shall be raised in said town from special tax, gifts, grants and also from the proceeds of any tax imposed by this act, or any act heretofore passed for the benefit of the town, or that may be imposed on licenses on retailers of wine, cordials or spirituous liquors within the limits of the corporation : Provided, that said town commissioners shall not pay any money under this act until all expenses and cost of the support of the town government has first been paid according to the law as now provided: Provided, further, that al] money paid under this act shall be apportioned without discrimination in favor of, or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being had to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools of bothraces. And, Provided, further, thatall children residing within the limits of the town, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, shall be admitted into said school free of tuition charges. And, Provided, further, tnat all paying students admitted into the school shall be under the direction of the school committee. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 112 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 112 An act for the relief of 0 E. Vestal of Chatham county. \ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the county treasurer of Chatham county be and he is hereby directed to pay out of the school funds of district number forty-eight -48 for the white race of Chatham county the sum of thirty dollars and ten cents ($30.10), to O. E. Vestal, for teaching school in the said district. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 113 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 113 An act to incorporate Bethel Hill institute. for male and female, in Person county, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : _ Sec. 1 That J.A. Bean, W.A.Woody, John B. Day, Ruffin Woody, W. M. Falkner, Thomas H. Street and W. A. Dunean, their successors, associates and assigns, be and they are hereby declared and created a body politic and corporate for the purpose of-maintaining a school of high grade near Bethel Hill, Person county, North Carolina, for the intellectual and moral training of the girls and boys of the white race under the name and style of the Bethel Hill institute. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 117 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 117 An act for the relief of George E. Sprinkle. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Madison county is hereby authorized to pay out of any moneys in his hands, due school districts number twenty -28 eight and twenty -29 nine of said county, the sum of ten and {7 dollars out of district number twenty -28 eight, and the sum of thirteen and ;2, dollars out of district number twenty -29 nine, to George E. Sprinkle for services rendered as teacher of white race for said districts for the years one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 124 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 124 An act to incorporate the Davie Educational Union. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' Sec. 1 That J. H. Gilman, Jr., A. T. Clement, T. A. Hilliard, L. M. Van Eaton, B. J. Neely, Sandy Phelps, Richard Pass and G. W. Eaton, their associates and successors, are hereby made and continued a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of Davie Educational Union, and in that name may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, for the purpose of maintaining and conducting a school for the colored race, in or near the town of Mocksville, in Davie county, North Carolina. They may use a common seals, buy land, erect buildings, employ and dismiss teachers and instructors, and establish such rules as may be necessary for the cause of education and maintaining the school not inconsistent with the laws of the State. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 163 Sec. 37 Identified by: model CHAPTER 163 An act to amend chapter three hundred and fifty-two, private laws of one thousand eight and ninety-five, entitled an act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 37 That section one hundred of said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Said school shall be separated and kept separate, in such a manner that only white children shall be admitted to the white schools and other children to other schools, and the said school committee shall be the exclusive judges of whether or not any applicant for admission to any of said schools is entitled to enter or attend the same under the provisions of this section. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 163 Sec. 36 Identified by: model CHAPTER 163 An act to amend chapter three hundred and fifty-two, private laws of one thousand eight and ninety-five, entitled an act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 36 That section one hundred and one of said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the city of Asheville as shall be just to the white and other races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regards being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the different schools for the different races. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 194 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 194 An act to amend chapter two hundred and seventy-four of the 'private acts of the general assembly of North Carolina passed at the session of one thousand eight hundred and ninety- one, relative to the town of Southern Pines. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' Sec. 2 By adding to said chapter the following sections : SEc. 26 That if any person elected town marshal shall refuse to be qualified, or there is a vacancy in the office after election and qualification, or if town marshal be absent from the town, or unable to discharge the duties of his office, the commissioners of said town shall choose some qualified person for the term or the unexpired portion of the term, or during his absence or disability, as the case may be, to act as town marshal, and he shall be clothed with all the authority and powers given under this charter to the regularly elected town marshal. SEc. 27 The commissioners shall have power to appoint such number of policemen as they inay deem necessary for. the good government of the town ; and said policemen, when appointed, and the town marshal, shall have power to execute any process, criminal or civil, in the county of Moore, which may be directed to them by the mayor of said town or other lawful authority ; it shall be the duty of the town marshal and the policemen to see that the laws, ordinances and orders of the commissioners are enforced, and report all breaches thereof to the mayor, to preserve the peace of the town by suppressing disturbances and apprehending offenders, and for that purpose they shall have all the powers and authorities vested in sheriff and county constables, they shall execute all precepts lawfully directed to them by the mayor or others, and in the execution threof shall have the same powers,which the sheriffs and constzbles of the county have, and they shall have the same fees on all processes and precepts executed or returned by them which may be allowed to the constables of the county on like processes and precepts, and also such other compensation as the commissioners may allow; the said policemen and town marshal snall have the t power when in pursuit of a criminal charged with the commis- _ sion of any crime within the corporate limits of said town of Southern Pines, to continuously follow him to anypart of Moore county and may arrest him; the said policeman and town marshal shall have the same powers and be bound by the same rules in this respect as constables of the county of Moore to apprehend all offenders against the state within the limits of the town and to carry them before the mayor or some justice of the peace, and for such duty they shall have the same fees as constables of said county. Src. 28 In all cases where an offender has been convicted ~ before the mayor of said town for a violation of any of the ordinances thereof and a fine has been imposed on such offender for said violation, the mayor of said town at the time of entering judgment against such offender therefore may order that, upon failure to pay such fine to the marshal of said town for the space of one day, such offender so convicted shall be by the marshal of Southern Pines put to work on the streets of said town for a term, to be fixed by the mayor, not exceeding tweneay days, when he shall be discharged. Sc. 29 The mayor of said town shall have the power to hear and determine all charges and indictments against any person or persons fora violation of the ordinances of said town, and in addition thereto shall all the powers, jurisdiction and authority of a justice of the peace over all crimes and criminal offences committed within the corporate limits of said town. Sxc. 30 That all fines and penalties imposed by and collected under the judgment of the mayor of Southern Pines, sittingas a justice of the peace, shall belong to and used to the exclusive benefit of the town of Southern Pines. Sc. 31 That in order to raise a fund for the expenses incident to the proper government of the town, the commissioners may annually levy and collect the following taxes, namely: -1 On all real and personal property within the corporate limits, including money on hand, solvent credits, investments in bonds, stocks and all other subjects taxed by the general assembly ad talorem, except incomes, a tax not exceeding one dollar on every one hundred dollars value. -2 On all taxable polls, a tax not exceeding one dollar a poll, who may be residents in the town on the first day of June of each year, or may have been so resident within sixty days next preceeding that day. -3 On every hundred dollars value of goods, wares and merchandise purchased for re-sale by any merehant trading in the town within one year next proceeding the first day of the year which the same is listed, a tax not exceedingtwenty cents. -4 Upon all dogs kept in the town and which may be so kept on the first day of June, a tax not exceeding five dollars. -5 Upon every express company and upon every telegraph company doing business in the town a tax not exceeding one per centum of its gross receipts in the town to be given in upon oath by the mavaging agent of such company annually at the time when other taxes are listed and under the same penalties as that prescribed in the laws of the state. SkEc. 32 That in addition to the subjects listed for for taxation, the commissioners may levy a tax on the following subjects, the amount of which tax, when fixed, shall be collected by the tax-collector of said town instantly, and if the same be not paid on demand the same may be recoved by suit or the article upon which the tax is imposed or any other property of the owner may be forthwith distrained and sold to satisfy the same namely: -1 Upon allitinerant merchants or peddlers, offering to vend in the town, a license tax not exceeding fifty dollars a year, except such only as sell books, charts or maps, or works of their own manufacture, not more than one person shall peddle under a single license. -2 Upon every company of circus riders or persons by whatever name called, who shall exhibit within the town, a licensed tax not exceeding fifty dollars for each performance or exhibition, the tax to be paid before exhibition. -3 Upon every person or company exhibiting on the town stage, or theatrical plays, slight-of-hand performances, ropedancing, tumbling, wire-dancing or menageries, a tax not exceeding twenty dollars for every twelve hours allowed for exhibiting, fo be paid before exhibiting. -4 Upon every pawn-broker, sewing machine company or agent for such company, a license not exceeding twenty-five dollars a year. -5 Upon every permission by the commissioners to retail spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, a tax of fifty dollars a year. -6 Upon every lawyer, physician, dentist, photographer, street huckster, merchandise or produce brokers or ice dealers, a license tax not exceeding ten dollars a year. -7 Upon every hotel, restaurant or eating house, a license tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars. -8 Upon every other occupation, profession or business not herein especially named, a license tax not exceeding ten dollars a year. 1897._Private LawsCuHapter 194 . Sxc. 33 The commissioners of said town shall annually, on the first meeting after their election, appoint a tax-collector whose duty it shall be to collect all the taxes required to becol- lected under this charter. He shall give bond, payable to the State of North Carolina, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by said commissioners, in a sum double the amount of regular and special taxes levied for the current year. Said tax collector shall receive such compensation as the commis- sioners may allow, not exceeding the per centage allowed to sheriffs of the counties, and said commissioners may , in their discretion, appoint as said tax-collector the town marshal, who shall in that event serve in both capacities and have all the powers and authorities conferred upon each. ; Stc. 34 In case of a vacancy for any chuse in the office of taxcollector, the said commissioners shall fill said vacaney forthe ~ unexpired term by appointment, and the person so appointed shall give the bond and be subject to all the penalties and requirements of the regularly appointed tax collector. SEC. 35 The commissioners of the town shall appoint a treasurer whose duty it shall be to receive and disburse the funds of said town according to law. He shall give bond with good and sufficient sureties before entering upon his duties in a sum double the amount of the regular special taxes for the current year. His compensation shall be such as is allowed by the commissioners of said town, not exceeding the per centage ~ allowed to treasurers of the counties. Sc. 36 That the board of commissioners of the town of Southern Pines be and they are hereby authorized and directed toissue bonds to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars, tobe dueand payable thirty years from date of issue, which said bonds shall bear interest from date of issue at the rate of five per cent. perannum, payable annually on the first day of April of each and every year. Skc. 37 That said bonds shall be coupon bonds of the denomination of one hundred dollars each, and shall be designated as. series *A? and numbered from one upwards in accordance with the order of issue. They shall be signed by the mayor of said town, and countersigned by the clerk of the board of commissioners of said town and sealed with the corporate seal of said town and the coupons thereon shall be signed in the same manner. Src. 38 That said coupons shall be receivable in payment of taxes due the town of Southern Pines. Sxc. 39 That said bonds shall be sold at not less than par value and the proceeds of their sales shall be applied to the following purposes, to-wit: To defraying the expenses of providing and putting in a system of sewerage and water works in said town, and to defraying expenses of macadamizing, paving, grading, draining and otherwise improving the streets of said town and to purchasing ground fur public school purposes and erecting, equipping and furnishing school buildings. Src. 40 That the commissioners shall provide for the sale of said bonds and the money arising therefrom shall be paid to the treasurer of said town to be paid out for the purposes aforesaid according to law and as herein provided, and the bond of said treasurer shall be liable for said funds and increased so as to cover said amounts. Sec. 41 That the commissioners of said town shall have authority, and are directed to make and adopt plans for said system of sewerage aud water works and improvements of streets as contemplated in this act, and contract for putting in said system and doing said work, and can contract to let said work to the lowest responsible bidder or otherwise, or they may employ hands and have the work done. SxEc. 42 That for the purpose of paying the interest which shall accrue on said bonds and of accumulating a fund for the principal of said bonds as they shall mature, and for the payment of the same at maturity, and paying the incidental and running expense in keeping up said system of sewerage and water works, the said board of commissioners for said town shall have power annually to levy and collect in the manner and at the time prescribed for the collection of the general town taxes an ad valorem special tax not exceeding sixty cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of real estate, and personal property in said town, and said taxes shall be used for the purposes mentioned in this section and no other. Sxc. 43 That said special tax shall be collected by the town tax-collector under the same rules and regulations as are preseribed for the collection of the general town taxes, and shall be paid to the treasurer of the town, the treasurer shall renew his bond annually on the first day of June in each year. Said bond, together with the bonds of other town officers, shall be recorded on the minutes of the commissioners. The treasurer shall keep an account of the receipts and disbursements of the said special tax money in a separate book to be kept for that purpose, and he shall annually publish a statement showing the balance and condition of the special tax funds in his hands. Src. 44 That for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act the commissioners of the town of Southern Pines 25 1897.Privare Laws.Cuaprer 194 are hereby authorized, empowered and required to cause an election to be held at the various polling places in said town at such time as said commissioners may appoint, at which said election the qualified voters of said town shall be entitled to vote for or against the issuing of the bonds of said town to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars; those favoring the issuing of such bonds and levying and collecting said taxes shall vote a written or printed ticket with the words for bonds thereon, and those who are opposed shall vote a written or printed ticket with the words against bonds thereon. 'The said election shall be advertised by the commissioners of said town by printed posters ,within the corporate limits of said town for thirty days prior to the day of_election, specifying in said notices the amount of said bonds, @nd said election shall be held by inspectors and judges under the same rules and regulation prescribed for the election of mayor and commissioners in the charter of said town and amendments thereto and the general law applicable to town elections: Provided, the commissioners of said town shall have authority to appoint the registrars, inspectors and judges of election. The result of said election shall be ascertained by the inspectors and judges of election of the respective polling places and certified and returned by them to the commissioners of said town of Southern Pines within two days from the day of election, who shall verify and also certify such result and cause the same.to be recorded in theirminutes. If amajority of the qualified voters of said town shall vote for bonds then the commissioners: of said town shall issue the bonds herein provided for not to exceed the amount specified herein. Sec. 45 If the result of said election shall be against the issuing of said bonds the commissioners of said town may at any time or times after one year from said election again submit to the qualified voters of said town the question of issuing said bonds. Said election or elections to be heid in the same manner as hereinbefore directed. Skc. 46 For the purpose of constructing and maintaining said system of sewerage and water works in said town, the commissioners of said town shall have authority to condemn lands for right of way or for the purposes of putting down and establish-. ingand maintaining said system in the same manner and under | the same law and proceedure as they are authorized to lay out and establish streets and they shall have the same authority under the same rules and regulations to condemn land for purchase upon which to erect the public school buildings contemplated in this act. SEc. 47 The board of commissioners of the town of Southern Pines are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said town at the time specified and authorized hereinbefore for submitting to said voters the question of issuing bonds, and under the same rules and regulations whether a tax shall be annually levied and collected therein for the support of the schools in said town provided for by this act. At the election held under the provisions of this act, those who favor the levying and collecting of such annual tax shall vote on written or printed tickets the words for schools, and those who are opposed to the levying and collecting of such annual tax shall vote on written or printed tickets the words against schools. SEC. 48 Said election shall be certified and declared in the same manner as the said election to determine whether the bonds hereinbefore provided for shall be issued, and if a majority of the qualified voters shall vote in favor of levying and collecting of such annual tax, the said annual tax shall be levied and collected by the town authorities under the same rules and regulations under which other taxes are levied and collected, and the tax: collector shall be subject to the same liabilities for the collection and paying over of said tax as he is or may be for other town taxes: Provided, the special annual taxes so levied and collected for said schools shall not exceed one dollar on the one hundred dollars valuation of property. The annual taxes levied and collected under the provisions of this act for sohools shall be applied exclusively to the suprort and maintenance of the public schools in the town of Southern Pines. The school committee, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, may establish one or more graded schools in the town of Southern Pines, and all taxes levied and collected for schools under this act shall not be appropriated or expended for any other purpose. SEc. 49 For the purposes of this act the town of Southern Pines shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored. Skc. 50 If this act relating to said schools, shall be ratified at the election authorized to be held under it in section 47 of this act, the school committee of the town of Southern Pines shall consist of five members, to be elected by the commissioners of the town of Southern Pines, at their next regular meeting held after the election aforesaid. The said school committee shall be composed of citizens of Southern Pines, and freeholders therein, and shall be divided by said commissioners at the time of their election into three classes of one member of the first class, and two members of the other two classes. The term of office of the first class shall expire at the end of one year from the date of his election and the term of office of the second class shall expire at the end of two years from the date of their election, and the term of office | of the third class shall expire at the end of three years from the date of their election, whenever the term of office of any class shall expire as above provided, his or their successors shall be elected for the term of three years by the said commissioners. Whenever any vacancy occurs in said committee except by expiration of term of office, the vacancy for the unexpired term of the member or members shall be filled by the said committee! Src. 51 That the school committeeprovided for by this act shall have entire and exclusive control of the public school interests and property of the town of Southern Pines ; shall have power to select and purchase sites for the school buildings contemplated in this act and select and provide plans for the building of school buildings and contract for the building, equipping and furnishing of the same; shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government not inconsistent with the provisions of this act ; shall employ and fix the compensation of officers, and location of the public school and graded public schools annually, subject to removal by the said committee; shall make an accurate census of the school population of the town as required by the general school law of the state, and do all other acts that may be just and lawful to conduct and manage the public schoo! interests in said town : Provided, all the children resident in the town of Southern Pines, between the ages of 6 and twenty-one years, shall be admitted into said school free of tuition charges ; Provided, further that persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may, in the discretion of said committee, attend the school from their homes or as boarders, on the payment of tuition fees to be fixed by the school committee. Sxc. 52 The school committee elected by this act may elect annually a superintendent for the schoois established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for whites, if the same shall be established. Thesaid superintendent shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in said schools and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the said school committee. Sxc. 538 The moneys which shall from time to time be apportioned under the general school law of the state to the publie school district or portion of districts embraced in the corporation limits of the town, and any moneys to which the said district or portion of districts may be entitled by reason of any special gift, grant, tax apportionment or otherwise, sha!l be received by the treasurer of the town of Southern Pines, who shall be ex officio treasurer of said school committee and whose receipts for such moneys shall constitute a sufficient voucher of such payments in the hands of any person paying the same, and the said treasurer shall report monthly, to the said school committee, his receipts and disbursements, with all vouchers paid the same. he moneys received as aforesaid shall be held by the treasurer as a separate fund to be disposed of under the direction of the aforesaid school committee, whose warrants signed by the chairman and one other member of the committee and countersigned by the secretary of said committee shall be the only valid voucher in the hands of the said treasurer for the disbursement of said moneys in any settlement required of them by the law. The said treasurer shall furnish annually, to the board of commissioners a statement in writing of his receipts and disbursements of the school money, properly and duly audited and approved by the chairman and secretary of the school committee. The accounts, books and vouchers of the said treasurer shall be open for the inspection of said school committee and the commissioners of said town at any time. Sc. 54 The school committee, provided by this act, shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the town of Southern Pines, as shall be just to the white and colored races without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race. The beginning and ending of the school year shall be fixed by the committee. SkEc. 55 The school committee hereby created shall be a body corporate by the name and style of The School Committee of the town of Southern Pines, and by that name can sue and be sued, shall be capable of receiving gifts and grants, of purchasing and holding real and personal estate, and of selling and transferring the same for school purposes ; conveyances to said school shall be to them and their successors in office, and all deeds and other agreements effecting real estate shall be deemed sufficiently executed when signed by the chairman and secretary thereof, and the seal of the corporation affixed thereto. The corporation shall have a corporate seal which it may break or change at pleasure. Skc. 56 If, at the election herein provided for, a majority of the qualified voters shall be in favor of issuing bonds, and a majority of said electors shall be opposed to the levying and collecting of the special tax for schools, the funds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be appropriated wholly to the expense of providing and putting in a system of water works and sewerage in said town, and of macademiziug, paving, grading, draining and otherwise improving the streets of said town as provided in this act. SEc..57. The commissioners of said town shall have authority . to appoint five persons, resident in the corporate limits of said | town, who shall be styled the board of health of said town, said board shall have authority and power, and it shall be their duty to regulate the sanitary condition of said town, to abate ~ nuisances which they may deem injurious to the health of the citizens of said town, and shall hve all the authority with | respects to said town as is given to the county board of health and the county superintendent of health. Skc. 58 That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Src. 59 That this act shall bei in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1897 1897 Private Laws Ch. 197 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 197 An act to charter Gladstone Academy. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That G. W. Peeler, H. D. Plyler, E. C. Smith, J. D. Redwine, D. T. F. Hall, M. A. Troutman and H. M. Isenhour, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created abody corporate for the purposes of maintaining a school of high grade at Gladstone, in Stanly county, North Carolina, for the mental and moral training of the children of the white race of both sexes, under the nameand style of Gladstone Ace demy, and in that name may sue and besued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold, and convey, in their corporate capacity, property, real and personal, and exercise all acts incident to the ownership of real and personal property and for the promotion of education. : 1897 Private Laws Ch. 201 Sec. 25 Identified by: model CHAPTER 201 An act to amend the charter of the town of Salisbury. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 25 The mayor of the town of Salisbury shall, immediately after his entrance upon the duties of his office, cause a notice to be served upon each member of the committee elected for the Salisbury graded schools, to attend a meeting of to committee for the purpose of electing a treasurer for said schools. The mayor shall preside and the treasurer when elected shall give bond ina sum not less than five thousand dollars. After the treasurers bond has been registered in the office of the register of deeds for Rowan county, the county treasurer of Rowan county is hereby authorized and required to pay over to the said treasurer all funds in his hands, for either the white or colored common or public schools in the district known as number twenty-seven, or that part of Rowan county inside of the corporate limits of the town of Salisbury. The town treasurer of Salisbury is hereby authorized and required to pay over to the aforesaid treasurer of the Salisbury graded schools all of the tax of one-fifth of one per cent. collected on the property of all kinds of said town, levied and collected under chapter twenty-seven, laws of special session of the general assembly of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and as much of the license taxes on retailers of spirits, mayor's fines, &e., as may be required to defray the expenses of the Salisbury graded schools. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 2 That the principal chief, assistant (or vice) chief and members of council shall be elected to their respective offices by the male members of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, who have attained the age of eighteen -18 years; and all other officers are to be appointed by the council as hereinafter provided; that the term of office of the principal and assistant chief shall be four -4 years and that of members of couneil two -2 years, and all other officers elected by the council shall hold until the first annual or grand council held after the election for members of council. and all officers of said corporation shall hold until their suecessors are duly qualified. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 9 That the seat of government of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians shall be at Cherokee Council Grounds, Swain County, North Carolina, until changed by the council. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 12 That all acts of council, resolutions, ete., shall be signed by the chairman and the clerk, and countersigned by the chief, and certified to by the secretary, and that the agent appointed by the general government to supervise the schools or affairs of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians shall be, and is hereby made, ex officio, by virtue of his office, secretary of this corporation, with the custody of the books and papers appertaining to the same in all respests: Provided, however, that if such agent fails to act the council may elect a secretary. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 18 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 18 No person shall even be eligible to any office or appointment of honor, profit or trust who shall have aided, abetted, counselled or encouraged any person or persons guilty of defrauding the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, or who may hereafter aid or abet, counsel or encourage any pretended agent or attorneys in defrauding the eastern band of Cherokee Indians. Neither shall any person be eligible to such office, ete., that has been convicted of a felony, or who denies the existence of a God or a future state of rewards and punishments. Free exercise of religion, worship and manner of serving God shall be forever enjoyed, but not construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 21 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 21 That any officer of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians who has violated his oath of office, or has been guilty of any offence making him ineligible to hold said office, may be impeached by a two-thirds -3 vote of the council. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 22 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 22 That the council of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians shall direct the management and control of all property, either real or personal, belonging to the band as a corporation ; but-no person shall be entitled to the enjoyment of any lands belonging to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation or as a tribe, or any profits accruing therefrom, or any moneys which may belong to said band as a corporation or as a tribe, unless such person be of at least one-sixteenth (1-16) of eastern Cherokee blood, and in case that any money derived from any source whatever, belonging to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, shall be distributed among the members thereof, the same shall be divided per capita among the members entitled thereto. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 23 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 23 That the said eastern band of Cherokee Indians is hereby fully authorized and empowered to adopt by-laws and rules for the general government of said corporation, governing the management of all real and personal property held by the eastern band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation or asa tribe, and direct and assign among the members thereof homes in the Qualla Boundary and other. land held by them as a corporation or asa tribe, and is hereby vested with full power to enforce obedience to such by-laws and regulations as may be enacted by the council, through th2 marshal of the band. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 24 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 24 That as the county authorities of Jackson, Swain, Graham and Cherokee counties make no provision for the support of the poor, nor provide free schools for the children of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, the male members of said band in said counties, shall be exempt from the payment of any poll tax, or if said poll tax shall be collected the same shall be paid over by the proper officers of said counties to the council of the said eastern band of Cherokee Indians, to be used by said band for educational purposes. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 26 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 26 That the organization had and the by-laws passed by the eastern band of Cherokee Indians on December thirteenth, 18, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, 1889, in pursuance to the act of incorporation aforesaid, be and is hereby ratified and confirmed, and all acts and resolutions of council, and contracts made by the said council, in pursuance to said organization, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of North Carolina, is hereby validated ; and that all acts and resolutions of council passed by the band in pursuance of chapter one hundred and sixty-six (166), private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (1895), whether said acts and resolutions be ecountersigned by the assistant (or vice) chief of said band or not, be and are hereby validated. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 207 Sec. 28 Identified by: model CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: , Sec. 28 That whenever it may become necessary, in the opinion of the council, to appropriate to school, church or other public purposes for the benefit of the band, any of the lands owned by the eastern band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation or tribe, and occupied by any individual Indian or Indians of the band, the council may condemn such land for the afore: said purposes only by paying to the occupant of such land the value of such improvements and betterments as he may have placed or caused to be placed thereon, and the value of such improvements or betterments shall be assessed by a jury of not less than six competent persons, who are members of the band, to be summoned by the marshal of the band, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the council: Provided, that either party to such condemnation proceedings may appeal from the judgment rendered therein without bond to the superior court of the county in which such land lies, but such appeal shall not stay execution, and the judge of the superior court to which such appeal is taken may, in his discretion, require either party to give such bond, either before or pending such trial, as he may deem fair.and reasonable. 1897 Private Laws Ch. 209 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 209 An act to incorporate the Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That W. D. Newsome, George Keen, C. 8 Brown, William Reid, I. Boone, Thomas Jernigan, James Rooks, Levi Brown, W. H. Smith,and their associates and successors in office, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of The Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford, for the education of colored people, and assuch they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of similar institutions. The trusteesand directors may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and may acquire and hold such personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain and operatea school of high grade, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, such property to be exempt from taxation. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 13 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 13 An act for the relief of Miss Fannie B. Alston and Florence Williams. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Vance county is hereby authorized and instructed to pay to Miss Fannie B. Alston, a white school teacher of Vance county, and Florence Williams, a colored school teacher of Vance county, the sums of fifteen dollars and fourteen dollars and sixty cents, respectively, out of any school funds now in his hands (not otherwise appropriated) or that may hereafter come into his hands. Said sums of fifteen dollars and fourteen dollars and sixty cents are respectively due to Miss Fannie B. Alston and Florence Williams each for teaching a public school in Vance county in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 18 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 18 An act to amend chapter one hundred and fifty-three, private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Fayetteville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter one hundred and fifty-three of the private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three be amended as follows: Sec. 12 Between section fifty-five and section fifty-six insert section 55b to read as follows: See. 55b. The mayor, chairman of the board of audit and finance, city engineer, and the white physicians residing and practicing in the corporate limits of said city of Fayetteville, sha. constitute the city board of health, which board shall meet at such times as the said board may determine, or upon the call of the mayor or any two physicians belonging to said board for the purpose of making recommendations to the board of aldermen concerning health and sanitation within ine corporate limits of said city. The said board of health may elect its chairman and secretary. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 34 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 34 An act to amend the charter of the city of Southport. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 The registrars shall be furnished by said aldermen with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to open and keep open their books at such places in the city of Southport as may be designated by said aldermen, thirty days before the first Saturday preceding the election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the eolored voters, and designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward. At the municipal election herein provided for the qualifications of the elector shall be the same as prescribed in the general election law of the state for members of the general assembly, with the additional qualification that he shall have resided ninety days immediately preceding the election in the ward in which he offers to vote; the qualification of an alderman shall be the same as an elector as herein stated. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 39 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 39 An act to allow the town of Edenton to sell certain lands for school purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That power and authority are hereby given the town of Edenton, in the county of Chowan, and state of North Carolina, to sell and convey to the county of Chowan, the consideration tobe agreed upon between said town and county, a site for a school-house for the colored race. That said land to be sold and conveyed is bounded and described as follows: One Jot of land situated in the town of Edenton. Beginning at the corner of Oakum and Free Mason streets and runs along Free Mason street to Sawyers Jot; thence with Sawyers lot te the town common and continuing in a straight line to Peterson street; thence along Peterson street to Oakum street; thence along Oakum street to Free Mason street. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 65 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 65 An act to incorporate the Olivia Raney Library. The General Assenbly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The powers, purpose and duties of said corporation shall be as follows: To establish and maintain a free library for the use, without any charge whatever, of the white citizens of the city of Raleigh, and to that end said corporation may acquire real estate as is hereinafter provided, and construct and maintain thereon a suitable building or buildings for a library, and may let such portion or portions of such building or buildings as may be unnecessary for the library to other persons, and appropriate the rents and profits derived from such letting to the maintainance and current expenses of the library. And said corporation may apply the personal estate it may acquire as is hereinbefore provided to the proper furnishing, equipment and mainsainance of the library, including current expenses of the corporation, and may invest its money in interest-bearing securities to such an extent as to provide a suitable income to defray the necessary expenses of maintaining said library; may extend the privileges of said library to white persons who may visit the city ot Raleigh under such circumstances and with such reasonable regulations as the said corporation may prescribe in its by-laws; but no charge shall be made for the use of the said library by such visitors; may make from time to time reasonable regulations as to the use of the library and for the preservation of the books and other property of the corporation, and the maintainance of decency and order on the premises of the corporation. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 103 Sec. 20 Identified by: model CHAPTER 103 An act to amend the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 20 That said acts be amended by striking out all after the word repair in line three down to the word they in line five, and adding after the word mortality in the last line the following: The city of Winston is hereby authorized to purchase suitable grounds for cemeteries, one for the white people and one for the colored people, to be under the supervision and Priv14 control of the city, with power to make such regulations as may be proper for regulating the burying of the dead therein, and to have police jurisdiction thereon; that the cemeteries of the city of Winston as now laid off shall not be enlarged nor shall the dead be buried within the corporate limits of said city other than within the boundaries as now laid off. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 124 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 124 An act to incorporate the, Butler Institute in the county of Martin. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That any five of the corporators shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and in case of vacancy by refusai to act, or by death, removal, resignation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled at a general meeting of the colored citizens of Jonesville [Jamesville] pnd vicinity, called by the trustees for that purpose. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 141 An act to incorporate The Aurora High School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 4 That the said company shall have full power to provide and establish a school or schools in the town of Aurora, Beaufort county, for the white children of said town and of Richland township, and the said company shall have power to make the tuition such sum as the said company may designate. or may make the tuition free to white children of said village, township or county. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 141 An act to incorporate The Aurora High School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 5 That the school committee or authority having charge of the public school for white children in the district or territory in which Aurora is located shall have power to contract with the said company to provide public schools, free of tuition to the parties privileged to attend the public school of said district or territory, and may use the publie school fund to pay said company for such service. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 148 An act to amend the charter of the town of Gastonia, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of the board of aldermen to declare at what place or places elections shall be held in said town; and they shall give due notice of the establishment of said voting place or places by publication in some newspaper published in said town for four weeks before the election or by posting such notices at three or more public places in said town. The said board of aldermen shall at their first regular meeting in March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and annually thereafter, appoint a registrar for said election and shall give notice of registration by causing publication to be made at three public places in said town of Gastonia, giving in said notice the name of said registrar and the place of registration. The aldermen shall furnish such registrar with registration books, and it shall be the duty of the registrar appointed by the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and thereafter for four consecutive Saturdays next preceding the election, between the hours of seven a.m. and seven p. m., to open the registration books at such place or places as has been advertised as aforesaid, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and has resided in the county ninety days and in the town of Gastonia thirty days, and if any person shall willfully swear falsely he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars or imprisoned for thirty days in tae county jail: Provided, however, that after the first registration shall have been made anew registration shall not be made annually, but such registration books may be revised so as to show an active list of electors previously registered and still residing in said town without requiring said electors to be registered anew. And such registration books shall on the fourth Saturday before the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and annually thereafter, be opened for the registration of any elector entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in said books or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the board of aldermen may at any time order a new registration. The said registrar and the two judges appointed as above set forth shall compose the judges or inspectors of election to open the polls, receive and deposit the bailotsin the boxes provided for that purpose, and to superintend and have control of the voting. : 1899 Private Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 64 Identified by: model CHAPTER 148 An act to amend the charter of the town of Gastonia, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 64 That whenever the board of aldermen of the town of Gastonia inay determine that the welfare of the said town requires the establishment of a public school in said town, they shall so declare by an ordinance duly adopted, in which shall be set out the maximum rate of taxation which in their opinion shall be levied for that purpose, and also the number of school commissioners who shall be elected. The ordinance shall fix the date, not earlier than thirty days after its adoption, when an election shall be held to ascertain the will of the people of tae town upon the subject. At said election those in favor of levying the tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be the words, **For graded schools, and those opposed to levying the tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be the words, Against graded schools. The inspectors shall meet as soon as the polls are closed and shall declare the result and certify the same to the secretary of the board, who shall record the same. If a majority of the qualified voters of the town shall vote in favor of said school it shall be the duty of the board of aldermen to levy and collect annually for the use of the said school a tax, the rate of which shall be fixed by the school commissioners, not, however, to exceed the rate mentioned on the aforesaid ordinance. This tax shall be collected as other town taxes and shall be paid to the treasurer of said town, who shall be ex officio secretary and treasurer of the board of school commissioners The mayor shall be president of such board. Within ten days after their election the board shall meet and organize; they shall hold office until the next regular election and unti! their successors are qualified. At the said regular election five school commissioners shall be elected under the same rules and regulations as inay be provided for the election of the aldermen of the town. The board of schoo! commissioners of the town of Gastonia, provided for, shall be a corporation, and shall have power to acquire and hold all such personal and real property as may be needed for the schools to be maintained and established under the provisions of this act; they shall employ teachers, fix their pay and make all rules and regulations for the government of said teachers: Provided, however, that the said board must establish and maintain separate schools for the children of [the] white race and for the children of the colored race. It shall be the duty of the school commissioners of the county of Gaston, as soon as the schools herein provided for are established, to lay off, as one of the school districts of said county, all that part of said county which is within the limits of the said town of Gastonia, to be known as Gastonia school district, and all moneys apportioned to said district under the provisions of the school laws of the state shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the school commissioners of said town, to be by them expended in the maintenance of said schools: Provided, that the privilege of attending is granted to all children who would be entitled to attend the public schools of this state. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 153 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 153 An act to amend, revise and consolidate the charter of the City of Ral- eigh, in the county of Wake, and state of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the territory bounded by and included within the following lines, to-wit: On the north by a line centered upon the center of Union Square and lying two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and five-tenths feet to the northward thereof parallel with the TRUE center of Hillsboro street and Newbern avenue; south by a line centered as aforesaid and lying four thousand three hundred and fifty-one and five tenths feet to the southward of said center parallel with said first described line, and on the east and west by a line parallel with the TRUE center of Fayetteville and Halifax streets, lying three thousand three hundred and seventy nine and five-tenths feet to the eastward and westward thereof respectively, thereby intersecting and closing the extremities of the first and second described lines, shall constitute the external boundaries: Provided, that these boundaries do not extend the corporate limits of the city, and the inhabitants residing therein shall be and remain a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The City of Raleigh, and under such name and style may adopt a corporate seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, acquire by purchase, devise, bequest or other conveyance such real and personal property anywhere within Raleigh township as nay be requisite and necessary for the proper government of the city; hold, invest, improve, use, govern, control and protect, and under the hand of the mayor and two aldermen, attested by the corporate seal, may sell or dispose of the same, and have all the powers, rights ana privileges necessary, belonging or usually pertaining to municipal corporations; and within twelve months after the ratification of this act the board of aldermen may cause an accurate survey to be made of the exterior boundaries of the city as herein provided, and it shall be their duty to erect upon each corner and upon every natural elevation intercepting the line of sight from any one corner to the next corners, a firm and durable monument of stone, to be maintained by the city, and protected from obstruction, removal, defacement orJother injury by a rigid enforcement of the penalties herein denounced against such crimes: Provided, that the tract of land conveyed to the city of Raleigh by R. S. Pullen, Esquire, by deed dated March the twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, as recorded in book ninety-five, page four hundred and sixty-three, register of deeds office of Wake county, and known as Pullen Park, and all other territory which may berequired [acquired] by the city of Raleigh by purchase or donation or otherwise for park purposes, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased white persons, located northeast of the city of Raleigh, known as Oakwood Cemetery,and the cemetery for the burial of colored deceased persons, located southeast of the city of Raleigh, known as Mount Hope Cemetery, shall also be included in the corporate limits of the city of Raleigh, and all ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted by the board of aldermen of said city shall be applicable to the territory included in said Pullen Park or other park and in said cemeteries as fully as if the said territory was embraced within the limits of the City of Raleigh defined (as fully as in any other part of the City of Raleigh). 1899 Private Laws Ch. 156 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 156 = An act to incorporate the North Carolina MutualZand Provident ~~ Association. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That a certain per centum of the proceeds, to be fixed by the board of directors, sha!l be turned over to the Colored Orphan Asylum at Oxford, North Carolina. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 171 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 171 An act to amend the charter of the city of Goldsboro, and to revise and consolidate ali laws in relation to said city. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Said registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books at the expease of the city. and it shail be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated at said city at least ten days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. [t shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters. The registration books shall be closed on Saturday preceding the election at seven oclock p. m., and no registration shall be valid unless it specifies as near as may be the age, oecupation, place of birth and place of residence in the ward in which he offers to register. as weli as the township or county from whence the elector has removed, in the event of removal, and the full name by which he is known. . 1899 Private Laws Ch. 180 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 180 An act to amend the charter of the town of Kinston, in the county of Lenoir, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 8 That said registrar shall be furnished by the alderinen with registration books at the expense of said town, and it shall be the duty of the said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by him in his notice of registration at least ten days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar and he is hereby authorized to administer an oath to all applicants for registration touching their qualification to reg- = ister and vote, and no persons shall be qualified to vote unless he states his name in full, his birthplace and the time of his birth, and his residence for three previous years; and upon his failure to thus qualify himself he shall not be a qualified voter. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart form those of the colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not declare his place of residence in his ward and qualify himself as set out in this section, his failure so todo shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. And the registrar shall be the judge of the qualification herein set out. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 96 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 An act to amerd. revise and consolidate the charter of the City of Salisbury. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 96 Said schools shall be separated and kept separate in such a manner that only white children shall be admitted to the white schools and other children to other schools, and the said school committee shall be the exclusive judges of whether or not any applicant for admission to any of said schools is entitled to enter or attend the same under the provisions of this section. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 97 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 An act to amerd. revise and consolidate the charter of the City of Salisbury. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 97 The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the City of Salisbury as shall be just to the white and other races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the different schools for the different races. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 197 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 197 An act to incorporate Whitehead Academy. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 The acaden_y in all its departments shall be open to all white persons of suitable age and approved character, without distinction of sex, and no person shall be refused admission to or denied any of its privileges or honors on account of sex or the religious opinions which may be entertained; but any student may be suspended or expelled from the institution whose habits are idle or vicious or whose moral character is bad. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 208 Sec. 14 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 208 An act to amend the charter of Siler City, Chatham county, chapter eighty-eight, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 14 that the cemetery for the burial of white people shall be known by the name of Oak Hill Cemetery. No colored person shall be buried within the above-named cemetery. No colored person or any one else shall be buriea inside the limits of the town corporation outside the cemetery. Any person or persons violating either clauses of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined one hundred dollars. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 208 Sec. 18 Identified by: model CHAPTER 208 An act to amend the charter of Siler City, Chatham county, chapter eighty-eight, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 18 That all the territory embraced within the limits of. the town of Siler City as amended by this act constitute a publie school district for the white race, to be known as Siler City school district. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 243 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 243 An act to revise, amend and consolidate the act of incorporation of the town of Louisburg, North Carolina, and the acts amendatory thereof. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 Said registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with a registration book and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his book at such place in the town of Louisburg as may be designated by said commissioners on the first Saturday in April next preceding the election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the said town, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters and designating on the registration books opposite the names of each person registering the place of his residence in said town, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he has been a bona fide resident of North Carolina for twelve months, of the town of Louisburg for ninety days next preceding that date, and that he has not been convicted of any crime which, by the laws of North Carolina disqualifies him for voting. In said oath he shall specify the place of his residence. If any person shall willfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on consideration [conviction] thereof shall be punished as for larceny: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made, as provided for herein,a new registration shallnot be held annually unless the board of commissioners shall at theirregular meeting in March determinethat the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same and the place where the book of registration shall be opened; but a revision of the registration book shall be made, beginning on Saturday next preceding each election to be held for said town in accordance with the provisions of the general law. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 244 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 244 An act to incorporate the High School of Swain county, under the name and style of the James L. Robinson Institute in Swain county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That L. Lee More, 8 B. Gibson, D. Dehart, A. V. Calhoun, John 8S. Woodard, R. T. Cunningham, A. H. Hayes, E. C. Monteeth, John Enloe,*T. P. Sawer, W. T. Conley, E. Everett, D. K. Collins, A. M. Fry, 8S. B. Allison, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a joint stock company, a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade in the town of Bryson City, North Carolina, pe comely for the intellectual and moral training of the chilren and young men and women of the white race, under the name and style of the James L. Robinson Institute, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property, real and personal, and exercise all acts in relation thereto or incident to the ownership of real and personal property and for the promotion of education. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 262 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 262 An act to amend the charter of the town of Clayton. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shail be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said county commissioners in said town, at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of residence, and if such applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence, his willful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to registration. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 307 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 307 An act to amend the charter cf the town of Sanford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 The registrar of each of said wards shall be iurnished by the aldermen of the town with a registration book, and it shall be his duty to perform the duties of his office fairly, impartially and acording to law; to revise the existing registration book of his ward in such manner that said book shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in said ward and still residing therein without requiring said electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and nine oclock p. m., for four successive Saturdays immediately next preceding the day of election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in his said ward and entitled to register, whose names have never before been registered in said ward or do not appear on said revised lists, and shall register in said book all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration, keeping the names of white voters separate and apart from the names of colored voters. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the state of North Carolina twelve months and in the town of Sanford ninety days next preceding the day of election, and that he is an actual and bona fide resident of the ward in which he offers for registration, or is otherwise entitled to register, and that he is twenty-one years old; and if any _ person shall wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding sixty days in the county jail. But the board of alderan entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem men, upon thirty days notice, may direct that there shall be it necessary for a fair election. This new registration may, if the board so determine, be conducted by one of the registrars hereinbefore provided for, to be designated by the board, who sha.l keep all the registration, books of the town at a place to be designated by said board. 1899 Private Laws Ch. 328 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 328 An act to incorporate Neuse River Institute. The Generai Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That William R. Mason, Milan Brown, Richard P. Ivey, J. H. Arrington, Claven Faison, Phillip Garris, 8 G. Newsome, Seldon Jefiry, Moses W. Williams, Cary Alston and David Watkins, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby incorporated for the purpose of educating the colored youths and training them the skill of labor, by the name and style of The Neuse River Baptist Institute, in the town of Sheldon, in Halifax county, by which name they shall exist for sixty years and have a common seai; shall sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and purchase, take and hold lands, goods and chattels: Provided, that the amount or value of property to be held by said institute shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 58 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WINTERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, IN PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That C. W. Blanchard, A. C. Cox. W. C. Newton, J. D. Cox, O. H. Perry, J. A. McDaniel, J. B. Carrol, W. C. Jackson, T. W. Carr. G. A. Norwood, W. R. Simmons, Jesse Jackson, E. W. Cox. W. H. Burke, J. A. Pridgen, M. Duffy Lane, T. A. Bell, F. O. Cox, and their successors be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate for the purpose of conducting under the auspices of the Neuse White Baptist Association a school of high grade in the village of Winterville, in Pitt County, for the education of boys and girls, to be known as The Winterville High School, and by this name and style shall have succession for sixty years and a common seal, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the Courts of this State; shall take. receive and possess all moneys, goods, chattels, and bonds which may be given them, and shall apply the same according to the wish of the donors to the purpose herein declared; and they shall have power by purchase or otherwise to take, demand, hold and possess rents, land, tenements and hereditaments in special trust and confidence, and apply the same together with the benefits arising therefrom, for the purpose of supporting the school to be known and styled as The Winterville High School. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 74 Sec. 21 Identified by: model CHAPTER 74 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF EAST SPENCER IN THE COUNTY OF ROWAN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 21 The town of East Spencer and within a radius of one half mile or less, from the corporate limits of said town east of the railroad, shall constitute a public school district, and the proper county authorities who have the right to lay off school districts and establish school districts, shall proceed at once to establish a free public school district by the name of East Spencer District for the school children of said district, and the proper authorities as provided by law shall apportion, appropriate, and set aside for this district all the schoo] funds it may be entitled to and appoint school committees to take charge, look after and proceed to erect, equip, and construct a public schoolhouse for the white children of said town, with whatever aid and donations they may be able to get, and said school shall be proceeded with as early as possible, and be in operation not later than the fall term of public schools of that year. The Board of Aldermen of said town shall apply all its school taxes collected from the property in said town toward this school. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 79 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 79 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF J. M. ALLHANDS, OF POLK COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Polk County be authorized and required to pay to J. M. Allhands the sum of nine and 25-100 dollars ($9.25) out of any money that may be due or may hereafter accrue in School District No. 15, white race, of said county, the same being a balance due for teaching said school. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 85 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 85 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ENFIELD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Enfield. and all of the portion of Halifax County not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, to-wit: Said territory shall extend for the distance of two and one-half miles north and south each way from the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company's ticket office in said town, and it shall extend east from said office three miles and west two and one-half miles, including a rectangular parallelogram five and one-half miles in length and five miles in width, with said ticket office as the basis of measurement or beginning point; shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Enfield Graded School District. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 85 Sec. 12 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 85 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ENFIELD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of said Board of Trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said district. And said Board of Trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as shall be deemed just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 91 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 91 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN HENDERSON TOWNSHIP IN VANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the limits of Henderson Township, in Vance County, State of North Carolina, as now laid out and established, shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as Henderson Graded School District. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 91 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 91 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN HENDERSON TOWNSHIP IN VANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That in case a majority of the qualified voters of said Henderson Township shall be in favor of such tax, the Board of Commissioners of Vance County shall in addition to other taxes laid upon said school district, annually compute and levy. at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property and polls of the white and colored persons of said Henderson Township to raise such a sum of money as the trustees hereinaiter named for the said school district snall deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools, which sum shall not exceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property, and sixty cents on each poll. Said trustees hereinafter named shall immediately after the election herein provided for report to the Board of Commissioners of Vance County what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the first year. and annually thereafter the said trustees, thirty days prior to the time for levying the county taxes, shall report to the said Board of Commissioners of Vance County what sum is necessary to support and maintain the said graded schools during the next year. The taxes levied for the support of said schools. as herein provided. shall be annually collected as other taxes are collected, and paid over by the Sheriff or other collecting officer to the Treasurer of Vance County for the safe keeping and proper distribution of the same, and the said taxes levied and collected for said graded schools shall be kept sacred and separate and distinct from other taxes, by the said officers. and shall be used oniy for the purposes for which they were levied and collected. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 91 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 91 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN HENDERSON TOWNSHIP IN VANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of said Board of Trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said Henderson Graded School District. and the said Board of Trustees shall use and appropriate the funds derived from the said special taxes herein provided for, in such manner as shall be just to both races. without prejudice, and giving to each equal school facilities, due regard being had, however. to the cost of establishing and maintaining the graded schools for each race. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 95 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 95 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT BAST BEND, YADKIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That all white children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years, having parents or guardians who are residents within the limits aforesaid. shall be permitted free of tuition in said school; all white childrep residing outside of the limits of said district may be admitted as pupils therein upon the payment of such rates of tuition as may be estimated by the Board of Education: Provided, that children whose parents or guardians own property and pay tax on the same within said district may be admitted free of tuition. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 100 Sec. 106 Identified by: model Cuarter 100 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STAT- UTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 106 Said schools shall be separated and kept separate in such manner that only white children shall be admitted to the white schools, and other children to other schools, and the said school committee shall be the exclusive judges of whether or not any applicant for admission to any of said schools is entitled to enter or attend the same under the provisions of this section. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 100 Sec. 107 Identified by: model Cuarter 100 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STAT- UTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 107 The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the city of Asheville as shall be just to the white and other races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up: and maintaining the different schools for the different races. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 105 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 105, AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWN COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO PUR- ~ CHASE CEMETERIES. : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Town Commissioners of the town of Beaufort are authorized to purchase an undivided interest in the lands of the Beaufort Cemetery Association, a corporation, lying and being outside the town of Beaufort, adjoining the corporate limits of said town on the east, and also to purchase an undivided interest in the colored cemetery, adjoining the grounds of the said Beaufort Cemetery Association on the east and lying just outside the corporate limits of the town of Beaufort, provided the said Town Commissioners shall not expend an amount exceeding $1,200 for the purchase of said lands. s 1901 Private Laws Ch. 105 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 105, AN ACT TO ALLOW THE TOWN COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO PUR- ~ CHASE CEMETERIES. : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That two-thirds of such sum shall be expended in the purchase of interest in the said Beaufort Cemetery Association, and one-third of the said sum shall be expended in the purchase of an interest in the said colored cemetery as aforesaid, and the interest of the said town of Beaufort, when said lands are purchased in said cemeteries, shall be governed and controlled by the rules and regulations of the said Cemetery Association. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 115 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 115 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SCHOOL COMMITTEER OF REIDS- VILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, REIDSVILLE, NORTH CARO- LINA, LO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 THAT WHEREAS, the committee of the public schools in Reidsville School District, Rockingham county, North Carolina, was by the General Assembly of 1887, chapter 424, made and declared a body corporate under the style and corporate name of School Corunittee of Reidsville School District, Reidsville, North Carolina ; AND WHEREAS, to enable said corporation to accomplish those purposes and ends for which it was designed and created, it has become necessary and imperative that a suitable and proper school building be erecte and equipped in said school district; Now, therefore, for tue purpose of raising money to build, erect, construct and equip a suitanle and proper building for the white school of Reidsville School District, in said district and county of Rockingham, the school committee of the said school district corporation as aforesaid is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), payable at such place as it may designate. Said bonds shall bear not exceeding six per cent. interest per annum, which interest shall be payable annually, and each bond shall bave coupons attached thereto for the amount of interest due thereon for each year they have to run, and said coupons after their maturity shall be receivable in payment of school taxes in said school district, arid if the holder of said bonds or coupons shall fail to present the same for payment at the time and place therein named he shall not be entitled to more than fifteen days interest thereon for the time they have been outstanding after maturity. Said bonds shall be in denominations and forms as shall be determined upon by said corporation and shall mature and be made payable in not less than thirty nor more than fifty years from the date of their issue, and shall be signed by the chairman of said corporation and countersigned by its secretary, and said secretary shall keep a record of the number and amount of each class of bonds issued, the date of issue, when the same matures and to whom payable. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 122 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 122 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HENDERSONVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 he town of Hendersonville shall be and is hereby constituted a Graded School District for both white and colored schools. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 122 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 122 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HENDERSONVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 It shall be the duty of the said school trustees to distribute and apportion the school moneys placed to their credit so as to give each school in the town, white and colored, the same length of school term as nearly as may be each year. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 133 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 133 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF LINCOLN HOSPITAL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That John Merrick, R. B. Fitzgerald, Dr. A. M. Moore, Dr. S. L. Warren, J. A. Dodson, W. C. Pearson, J. W. ODaniel, &. R. Moore, C. C. Spaulding, D. T. Watson, M. H. Christmas, Albert Armstrong, George Stephens, Jas. BE. Shepherd, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Trustees of Lincoln Hospital, by which name they may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, have perpetual succession, and a common seal, which they may break or alter at pleasure. As such corporation they may establish, conduct and maintain a hospital in the county of Durham, for the reception and treatment of persons of the colored race, who may need medical or surgical attendance during temporary sickness or injury, and for the training of nurses under such rules and regulations as they may from time to time establish. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND AN ELEC- TRIC LIGHT SYSTEM IN THE TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM, RICHMOND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Rockingham, Richmond County, shall be and is hereby constituted The Rockingham Graded School District for White and Colored Children. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND AN ELEC- TRIC LIGHT SYSTEM IN THE TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM, RICHMOND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of said board to establish a graded school for the white children and one for the colored children of said town, and to appropriate the funds derived from said special tax and all other sources for said graded schools for white and colored children so as to equalize school facilities between the two races, having due regard to the requirements of the two races. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND AN ELEC- TRIC LIGHT SYSTEM IN THE TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM, RICHMOND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That the public school money that may from time to time be collected and apportioned under the general school law for general school purposes for the white and colored children in saia town shall be applied to keeping up said graded schools uuder the orders and direction of the said Board of Trustees of said graded school; and the Board of Education or other officer having the matter in charge, of Richmond County, shall appropri ate said fund direct to said Rockingham Graded School Distric for White and Celored Children as they may be entitled to unde the general s-hool law; and the Treasurer of Richmond Count shall pay the same direct to the Treasurer of the town of Rock ingham. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 141 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND AN ELEC- TRIC LIGHT SYSTEM IN THE TOWN OF ROCKINGHAM, RICHMOND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 10 That the Board of Aldermen or Commissioners of th: said town are hereby authorized, empowered and directed t cause an election to be held in May next at the time for the elec tion of municipal officers and at the same time as the electiol provided for in section two of this act, and to submittoth qualified voters of said town the question of issuing bonds to th: amount of not less than eight thousand ($8,000) dollars, no more than fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars for the purpose o either buying or erecting and equipping, or buying and adding t suitable buildings for the white and colored graded schools i said town. The election provided for in this section shall be ad vertised by the Board of Aldermen or Commissioners of said tow1 for thirty days prior to the day of election in some newspape! published in said town, and shal! be held under the same rule: that are prescribed or which may be prescribed by law for thi election of Mayor and Aldermen or Commissioners of the saic town. Those who are in favor of issuing bonds and levying thr taxes hereinafter provided for. for the purposes of paying thi interest on said bonds, and to provide a sinking fund for thei) redemption, shall vote a written or printed ballot, without device with the words For Bonds and Taxes thereon, and those whc are opposed to the issue of said bonds and the levy of taxes here inafter provided for, for their redemption and to pay the interes thereon, shall vote a written or printed ballot, without device with the words Against Bonds and Taxes thereon. The resul of said election shall be ascertained by the officers holding the same and certified and returned by them to the Board of Alder men or Commissioners of the said town, within three days aftel the day of election, who shall verify and also certify said resuli and cause the same to be recorded in their minutes. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 167 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 167 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SELMA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory in Johnston county now embraced within the boundaries of white school district number three, embracing the town of Selma, be and is hereby constituted the Selma Graded School District, and that N. E. Edgerton, M. C. Winston and R. J. Noble be and they are hereby appointed and constituted a board of trustees for the free public schools of both races in said district. They are hereby vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of public school committeemen in and for such district under the general public school taw of North Carolina and all such general public school laws as may hereafter be enacted. They shall hold office respectively as follows: N. E. Edgerton for one year from and after the first day of April, 1901; M. C. Winston for two years from and after said date, and Rk. J. Noble three years from and after said date. At the expiration of each such term the office shall be filled by an election by the two members whose term shall not expire; and if any vacancy shall occur prior to the expiration of a term of office the vacancy shall be filled as soon as practicable by the remaining members of the said board. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 167 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 167 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SELMA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The said board of trustees shall have full power and authority over the schools for both races in said district, and as soon as practicable they shall establish a graded free school for the white race and a graded free school for the colored race. They shall have charge of the expenditure of all the public moneys available for school purposes in said district, and the following moneys shall be placed at their disposal: First. All moneys which by law they shall be entitled to receive from the commissioners of the dispensary at Selma. Second. All moneys apportioned to the said school district from the county school fund. Third. All moneys raised by a special tax in said district for school purposes. Fourth. All moneys which may be appropriated to said purposes by the town of Selma. Fifth. All moneys donated to said school or received in any way whatsoever. That the moneys shall be so appropriated as to provide the same length of school term for the white and colored schools. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 176 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 176 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 138 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1874 AND 1875 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That said chapter 138 of the Private Laws of 1874 and 1875 be and the same is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following additional sections, to be numbered sections 13, 14 and 15, as follows, to-wit: Src. 13 That the School Commissioners of the city of Charlotte shall establish and maintain a library which shall be free for the use of the teachers and students of the graded schools of said city and the public generally; and shall have power to acquire, by donation, purchase or otherwise, books, charts, maps, periodicals and other publications and property of every kind suitable for such library, and shall arrange for separate books and publications for the white and colored races, and provide separate rooms for the use of each of said races, said rooms to be located in such part or parts of said city as the said School Commissioners may designate. Src. 14 That said School Commissioners shall have power to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use of such library as it may deem proper, and to do all acts and things necessary for the successful maintenance and operation of said library. The expense of equipping and maintaining the same shall be paid out of the school revenues of said city of Charlotte, and the Treasurer of said Board of School Commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to pay the sum upon the order or warrant of the chairman of the said The School Commissioners of the city of Charlotte. The Board of Aldermen of the city of Charlotte, on behalf of said city and at its costs, shall provide suitable rooms for the use of said library. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 187 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 187 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF BURLINGTON, ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the said city of Burlington shall be and constitute one school district for the white race and one school district for the colored race. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 198 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 198 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WINSTON AID AND BENEV- OLENT ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That two-tenths (2-10) of one per cent of any and all money or moneys obtained as premiums of the association shall be donated to the Colored Oxford Orphan Asylum, and the Slater Normal and Industrial School Hospital at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, equally. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 232 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE YADKIN VALLEY NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY FOR THE COLORED RACE, AT WILKESBORO, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That R. B. Watts, N. A. Barber, R. W. Barber, E. W. Hackett, John Hunt, W. W. James, P. H. Wilson, A. B. Clark, A. J. Howard, D. P. Sherrill, C. Parsons, Irvin Parks, A. Parks and their associates and successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Trustees of the Yadkin Valley Normal and Industrial Academy for the colored race, and by that name to remain in perpetual suecession for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade at or near Wilkesboro, Wilkes county, and in that name may acquire, hold and convey property, real and personal, may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, and in their corporate capacity may exercise such rights and acts as may be deemed needful for the purpose of instructing the colored youths, male and female, in the various common school, academic and collegiate branches, the best methods of teaching the same and the best mode of practical industry as applied to agriculture and mechanic arts; may have and use a common seal; may make and alter from time to time such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the government of said institution: Provided, such by-laws shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the State of North Carolina. , 1901 Private Laws Ch. 243 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 243 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF MOUNT OLIVE, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the special taxes levied and collected under this act shall be expended in keeping up separate graded schools for the white and colored children in said district between the ages of six and twenty-one years. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 248 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 248 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 142 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1897, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That said chapter 142 is further amended by striking out section 3 thereof and by inserting and adding after section 47 sections numbered as follows: Sec. 48 That the Board of Commissioners of said town of Carthage shall have full power and authority to condemn land for the purpose of draining the town or any part thereof or any of the streets and sidewalks thereof, and to that end they, their servants, agents and employees are fully authorized and empowered to enter upon, lay off. construct and maintain any ditch or other water-way over, across and upon any tands of any person or persons or corporations within or without the corporate limits of said town not to exceed one-eighth of a mile therefrom in any direction they may consider necessary; and the damages in such condemnation proceedings shall be assessed in the same manner and under the same regulations as those prescribed in section 29 of chapter 32 of the Private Laws of 1881, with the same rights of appeal: Provided, that no appeal to the Superior Court shall in anyway delay, hinder or prevent the laying out, construction, final completion and maintenance of said ditch or other water-way during said appeal. Sec. 49 The Board of Commissioners may take such measures as they may deem effectual to prevent the entrance into town, or the spreading therein, of any contagious or infectious diseases, may stop, detain and examine for that purpose all things and persons coming from places believed to be infected with such diseases, may cause any person in town believed to be infected with such contagious disease, and whose stay might endanger the public health, to be removed to some place within or without the town limits; may cause to be removed or destroyed such furniture or other articles which shall be believed to be tainted or infected with any contagious or infectious disease, or which there shall be reasonable cause to apprehend will propagate disease, and may take all such reasonable steps to preserve the public health as they may adjudge necessary. Sec. 50 Whenever an offender has been convicted for a violation of a town ordinance and a fine imposed, the Mayor of said town or other oflicer before whom he shall have been convicted, at the time of entering judgment, may order that on failure to pay the fine to the Constable of said town, or the officer having him in charge, such offender shall be by such officer put to work on the streets of said town for a time to be fixed by the Mayor or other officer rendering the judgment, not exceeding thirty days, when he shall be discharged. Sec. 51 Any and all persons who may be able to labor, who shall frequent said town and be found therein without any visible means of support, sauntering about without employment, or who shall be found sleeping at night, or spending the night in, or upon, the piazzas of the stores or the court-house in said town shall be deemed vagrants and guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not exceeding $50 or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, said offense being cognizable before the Mayor, who may cause such person to be farmed out to work on the public streets or other public works of said town. Sec. 52 That tramps as defined and punished by section 3828, 3829, 3830, 3831 and 3832 of chapter 63 of The Code are subject to the same penalties, punishments and cognizance as vagrants as set forth in the preceding section. Sec. 53 That the Board of Commissioners of the town of Carthage shall have power to prohibit the interment of dead bodies within the corporate limits of said town, except in the cemeteries now used in said town. Said Commissioners shall have the power and authority to purchase and hold to them and their successors, within or without the corporate limits of said town, so much land as in their opinion they may consider necessary to be used by the citizens and residents of the town for the purpose of burying the dead, to be known as the cemetery; and said Commissioners are hereby vested with the control of all interments of the dead and to make rules and regulations, and to adopt ordinances in reference to the same. They shall have power to sell, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between them and their purchasers, lots in said cemetery to citizens and residents of said town and other persons, in their discretion, to make deeds to such persons in fee to be executed by the Mayor under his seal, reciting that said lots are to be held for burial purposes and no other; and the purchasers of said lots and their heirs and assigns shall have the exclusive right to said lots and no burial shall be made thereon without the permission of the owners thereof. That the proceeds of the sale of said lots shall be first appropriated to the payment of the purchase price of said cemetery, or in replacing such money as may have been devoted to said purpose, and then to the improvement of said cemetery. Sec. 54 The Commissioners shall have full control of said cemetery, make rules and regulations, and appoint such person or persons for the management of the same as they may deem necessary; they shall lay off said cemetery in lots of such size and dimensions as they shall think proper; number the same, fix the prices thereon and cause a suitable map of the same to be made and filed in the office of the Mayor; they shall also provide space within said cemetery for the burial of such persons as may not be able to purchase lots, and for that reason, or other reasons, be permitted by the board, or some persons authorized by it, to be buried in said cemetery: they shall grant or cause to be granted a burial permit for all deceased persons not owning lots in said cemetery or permitted to be buried on the lots of others, or otherwise permitted to be buried, and shall have discretion and power to charge a burial fee not exceeding $3 for each body buried, to be used for the purpose of keeping up and improving said cemetery. Sec. 55 The Commissioners shall provide separate cemeteries for the white and colored people of said town, and the fees paid and moneys accruing from the sales of the lots by the white people shall be used in the cemetery provided for them, and the fees paid and money arising from the sale of lots by colored people shall be used in the cemetery provided for them; both said cemeteries to cost not exceeding twelve hundred dollars. Sec. 56 That the real estate purchased for said cemetery and the burial lots and plots conveyed to individuals for the purpose of interment shall be exempt from assessment and taxation and from sale under execution. Sec. 57 That any person who shall carelessly _or_ willfully destroy, deface or injure any tombstone or other structure placed in said cemetery, or injure any shrub tree, plant or flower therein being shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court. Sec. 58 That the Commissioners of said town may cause to be kept in the Mayor's office of said town a record of vital statistics containing all births and deaths occurring therein and such other statistics as they may deem useful and necessary. Sec. 59 Said Commissioners, in addition to their power to maintain a system of water-works, heretofore granted, shall have power and authority to contract and pay for water to be supplied by other persons or corporations to be used for extinguishing fire or other useful or necessary purposes in said town. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 263 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all of the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Edenton, in Chowan county, shall be and the same is hereby constituted the Edenton Graded School District tor white and colored children. : 1901 Private Laws Ch. 263 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the said board of trustees shall provide for the procurement of separate school buildings for the use of the white and colored school] children of said town, either by erecting new buildings or by leasing from the trustees of the Edenton Academy the academy building for the use of the white children, and by using the school buildings now used by the colored public school for the colored children, or leasing such other buildings for the graded school as to said trustees may seem proper; and the said trustees shall have the right to engage, employ, pay and discharge teachers at any time, fix tne [amount] of their compensation and salaries, and have general oversight and control of said school. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 263 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 That the said board of trustees shall apportion the money raised or received for the purpose of carrying on the graded schools in the town of Edenton, as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination between the races, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools of both races. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 333 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 333 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GREENSBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER I. Incorporations. Sec. 7 That the registrar shall be furnished by said Board of Aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the said city in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such city and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shail also between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered, who may apply for registration, and who are entitled to vote in said city, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina twelve months, and in the city of Greensboro ninety days previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified e:ector of said city as defined in section four of this act. If any person wilfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the Board of Aldermen, upon fifteen days notice before the opening of the books may oraer an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 343 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 343 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF HAMLET TO ISSUE BONDS AND LEVY SPECIAL TAXES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 For the purposes of this act. the town of Hamlet shall be and constitute a public school district for both the white and colored races. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 343 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 343 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF HAMLET TO ISSUE BONDS AND LEVY SPECIAL TAXES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 The said Board of Trustees shall apportion the moneys raised or received for educational purposes in the town of Hamlet between the two races so as to equalize school facilities between white and colored children; and they shall maintain a school for each race for so long a term each year as the funds raised and received under this act will allow; and all children resident in said town, between the ages of six and twenty-one vears, shall be admitted to said schools free of tuition. The subjects and studies taught in said schools shall be those taught in the regular public schools of the State, and such other branches as the Board of Trustees shall adopt. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 369 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 369 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE WHITE OAK ACADEMY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the business proposed to be carried on by the said corporation shall be the maintenance and operation of one or more institutions of learning for the white children. 1901 Private Laws Ch. 432 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 432 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO APPROPRIATE MONEY TO MAINTAIN A FREE LIBRARY OR LIBRARIES IN SAID CITY AND REGULATING LIBRARIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That all citizens of the city of Charlotte shall have free access to and the use of the books in all the free libraries in the city of Charlotte now established or hereafter to be established, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board of School Commissioners of the city of Charlotte: Provided, the white and colored people shall be provided separate rooms, books and apartments. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 14 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 14 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ANNIE P. SMITH OF DAVIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Davie County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay Miss Annie P. Smith the sum of ninety-nine and 87-100 dollars due her as teacher of the public school in District No. 4, Fulton Township, of Davie County, for the white race, in the year 1901, out of any money in his hands due the ~ public schools of said county: Provided, the said Annie P. Smith procure an order on said Treasurer from the a of said district. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 16 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The powers, purposes and duties of said corporation shall be as follows: To establish and maintain a free library for the use, without any charge whatever, of the white citizens of the city of Charlotte. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 16 Sec. 23 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 23 That there shall be in the city of Charlotte a public library for colored people, to be known as the Charlotte Public Library for Colored People. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 16 Sec. 24 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 24 That Thad L. Tate, J. W. Smith, P. F. Maloy, P. P. Alston, H. A. Hunt, W. P. Phifer and their successors be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Charlotte Public Library for Colored People, and shall have charge and _control of the library for colored people, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, etc., as are conferred on the trustees beforementioned for the white library. That the Board of Aldermen shall provide a suitable place for said library, and the said trustees shall make all rules, regulations and by-laws for its government and have all the powers conferred on and subject to the limitations imposed on the whites trustees. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 16 Sec. 25 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 25 That the two libraries shall be separate and distinct, and one shall be for the white race and the other for the colored race. That the white library shall be used exclusively for white people and the colored library for the colored people. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 16 Sec. 27 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 27 That the Board of Aldermen shall annually turn over to the trustees of said libraries for the white and colored people the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, which the people voted for that purpose on May 6, 1901; that the said sum of twenty-five hundred dollars shall be distributed between the trustees of the two libraries in such proportion as is just and equitable, all things being considered. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 16 Sec. 28 Identified by: model CHAPTER 16 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CHARLOTTE CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 28 That all contracts that have been made by the Board of School Commissioners of the city of Charlotte in reference to the white city library shall be binding on this corporation for the white race and be fulfilled and carried out by it. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 29 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 29 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF I. H. CHAMBERS, A PUBLIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF CLAY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Clay County be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to pay I. H. Chambers twenty-one and sixty-five one-hundredths dollars ($21.65) out of the school funds now due or may hereafter be, due District No. 1 in Tusquittee Township for the white race as a residue for services rendered as a teacher in said district during the school year of 1901 1903 Private Laws Ch. 30 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 30 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MARY ALISON, A SCHOOL- TEACHER IN STANLY COUNTY. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Stanly County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay to Mary Alison, a schoolteacher of Stanly County, or to her order, the sum of sixty-two and fifty one-hundredths dollars ($62.50) out of the school funds now in his hands, or that may hereafter come into his hands, to the credit of District No. 10 for the colored race in Furr Township, said sum being due said Mary Alison for teaching a public school in said district in said township and county in the year 1900 1903 Private Laws Ch. 31 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 31 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS EFFIE FRAZIER, A PUB- LIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Randolph County is hereby authorized and instructed to pay to Miss Effie Frazier, a white schoolteacher of Randolph County, the sum of thirteen dollars and twenty cents ($13.20) out of the school funds now in his hands, or that may hereafter come into his hands, to the credit of District No. 2 in New Market Township, known as Cedar Square District. Said sum is due Miss Effie Frazier as a balance for teaching a public school in Randolph County in the year 1901 1903 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF G. F. GARNER, A WHITE SCHOOL-TEACHER OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. \ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Randolph County is hereby authorized and instructed to pay to G. F. Garner, a white schoolteacher of Randolph County, the sum of ten dollars ($10) out of the school funds now in his hands, or that may hereafter come into his hands, to the credit of District No. 3 in Richland Township. Said sum is due to G. F. Garner as a balance for teaching a public school in Randolph County in the year 1902 1903 Private Laws Ch. 33 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 33 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF WALTER GARDNER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Washington County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Walter Gardner the sum of eighteen dollars ($18) out of any money in his hands, due or that may. become due to School District No. 1 for the white race in Plymouth Township, Washington County, for services rendered as a public school-teacher in said School District No. 1 for the white race. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 47 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 47 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF EVIE NEWMAN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay Miss Evie Newman the sum of twelve and fifty one-hundredths dollars ($12.50) due her as teacher of the public school in District No. 32, Leasburg Township of Caswell County, for the white race, in the year 1901, out of any money in his hands due the public schools of said county: Provided, the said Evie Newman procure an order on said Treasurer from the committee of said district. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 68 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE VILLAGE AND TOWNSHIP OF SWAN QUARTER, NORTH CARO- LINA, IN THE COUNTY OF HYDE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory lying within Swan Quarter Township, Hyde County, to-wit, beginning at Oyster Creek Bridge and running with the Credle Road to the savanna; thence with the New Road to the Swan Quarter Road; thence with the Swan Quarter Road to the line of the land belonging to the Home for the Aged and Infirm; thence with the back line of the lands belonging to the said Home for the Aged and Infirm and along the back lines of the lands of the devisees of Thomas E. Harris, deceased, the lands of Mrs. Jennie Fisher, the lands of W. S. Harris, the lands of Homer Jarvis, John Jarvis, Foster Jarvis, Zacheus Jarvis, R. D. Harris, the heirs at law of Mrs. Sally Griffin, deceased, Mrs. Ida P. Berry and Samuel Weston, William Swindell and the lands of the heirs of George W. Swindell, deceased, to the line of the lands of the heirs of D. K. Credle, deceased; thence with the line of said Credle land to the public road at the Plank Bridge; thence with the line of the Benders Selby land to the leading ditch that empties into Swan Quarter Bay; thence with said ditch to the said bay and thence with the winds of Swan Quarter Bay to Oyster Creek, and thence with the said creek to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Swan Quarter Graded School District. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 68 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE VILLAGE AND TOWNSHIP OF SWAN QUARTER, NORTH CARO- LINA, IN THE COUNTY OF HYDE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded public schools far the white and colored children of said graded school district, and said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from said particular or special taxes and from all other sources in such manner as shall be just to both races, giving each equal school facilities; due regard, however, being had to the cost of establishing and maintaining the graded schools of each race. That the board of trustees provided by this act shall have entire and exclusive control of the public schools and property in the said graded school district; shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government and the government of the schools not inconsistent with the provisions of this act; shall employ and fix compensation of officers and teachers of the public schools; shall make an accurate census of the school population of said ditrict as required by the general public school law of the State, and do all other acts that may be just and lawful in the management of the public school interests in said district: Provided, that all children resident in said district between the ages of six -6 years and twenty-one -21 years shall be admitted into said schools, the white children into the schools established for the white race and the colored children into the schools established for the colored race, free of tuition charges; and those desiring admission into said schools as pay students may be admitted upon such terms as the said board may determine. The said board may admit pupils residing without the limits of said graded school district upon such terms as the said board of trustees may deem just and reasonable. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 68 Sec. 12 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE VILLAGE AND TOWNSHIP OF SWAN QUARTER, NORTH CARO- LINA, IN THE COUNTY OF HYDE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That all public school funds derived from the State and Hyde County for the use and benefit of the public schools in said graded school district shall be kept by the Treasurer of Hyde County separate and apart from all other funds in his hands for the use and benefit of the graded public schools in said district, and by said Treasurer disbursed in the manner provided in section 7 of this act. That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools embraced within the bounds of said graded school district, whether heretofore belonging to the white or colored public schools, shall become the property of said public graded schools, and shall be vested in said board of trustees in trust for said schools, and said board may sell the same, or any part thereof, if deemed necessary or advisable, and apply the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of said public graded schools. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 77 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 77 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MRS. ELLA CHANDLER, FOR- MERLY MISS ELLA SANFORD, TO PAY A BALANCE OF $20 DUE HER FOR SERVICES AS TEACHER OF SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 4, FOR WHITES, IN HOLLOWAY TOWN- SHIP, PERSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the county school fund of Person County is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Ella Chandler, formerly Miss Ella Sanford, the sum of twenty dollars, balance due her for services as teacher of a public school in District No. 4, Holloways' Township, Person County (for the white race), said sum to be paid out of any unapportioned school fund in said county, 1903 Private Laws Ch. 78 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 78 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MARY JANE WATKINS (COL.) A PUBLIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County be and is hereby authorized and required to pay to Mary Jane Watkins (col.), o1 the holder of a certain voucher drawn in favor of the said Mary Jane Watkins and signed by School Committeemen A. J. Allen anc W. L. Spencer, for services rendered as teacher, out of any schoo fund now due or hereafter to become due District No. 3 for colorec race, Lilesville Township, Anson County, the sum of ten dollars: Provided, this claim shall not be paid unless the Superintendent o: Public Instruction of said County Board of Education of saic county deems the said claim just and recommends its payment. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 79 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 79 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS JULIA HOWARD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the county school fund of Per. son County be and is hereby authorized to pay Miss Julia Howard out of any unapportioned school fund in his hands, the sum of thirteen dollars and fifty cents ($13.50), balance due her for ser. vices as teacher in White School District No. 2 of Mt. Tirzah Township, Person County. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 87 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 87 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ANNIE B. WHITTED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the county school fund of Person County be and he is hereby authorized to pay Annie B. Whitted out of any unapportioned school fund in his hands the sum of twentyeight dollars ($28), balance due her for services as teacher Colored District No. 4, Olive Hill Township, Person County. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 95 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 95 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL FOR THE TOWN OF ROXBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Roxboro, Person County, shall be and is hereby constituted the Roxboro Graded School District for white and colored children. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 95 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 95 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL FOR THE TOWN OF ROXBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of said board to establish a graded school for the white children and one for the colored children of said town, and to appropriate the funds derived from said special tax and all other sources for said graded schools for white and colored children so as to equalize school facilities between the two races. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 95 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 95 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL FOR THE TOWN OF ROXBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 10 That the Board of Commissioners of the said town are hereby authorized and directed to cause an election to be held in May next at the time for the election of municipal officers and to submit to the qualified voters of said town the question of issuing bonds to the amount of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars for the purpose of buying a suitable lot and erecting thereon a suitable building for the white graded school and buying a suitable lot for the colored graded school, and - 11 Priv. if no suitable building thereon then to erect such, and the colored graded school may be located outside of the corporation of Roxboro if the trustees in their judgment deem it best. The election shall be advertised by the Board of Commissioners of said town for thirty days prior to the day of election in some newspaper published in said town and at the court-house and four other public places in said town, and shall be held under the same rules and regulations that are prescribed by law for the election of Mayor and Commissioners of the said town. Those who are in favor of issuing bonds shall vote a written or printed ballot without device with the words For Bonds thereon, and those who are opposed shall vote a written or printed ballot without device with the words Against Bonds thereon. The result of said election shall be ascertained as directed by law and certified and returned by them to the Board of Commissioners within two days after the day of election, who shall verify and also certify said result and cause the same to be recorded in their minutes. . 1903 Private Laws Ch. 95 Sec. 11 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 95 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL FOR THE TOWN OF ROXBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That if a majority of the qualified voters of said town shall vote For Bonds, then the Board of Commissioners of said town shall issue coupon bonds to the amount voted for in said election and in denominations of not less than five hundred dollars, bearing interest from the date of said bonds at five per centum per annum, and payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July of each year until said bonds are paid. That the said bonds shall be payable after the expiration of thirty years from the date thereof. The bonds and the coupons shall be numbered and the bonds shall be signed by the Mayor of said town and countersigned by the treasurer of the Board of Commissioners, and a record shall be kept of all bonds, observing the number, amount and to whom sold. The coupons shall be received in payment of taxes, polls, and debts due said town; and the said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, but the Board of Commissioners are authorized in their discretion to pay a commission not to exceed five per centum of the amount of the issue of said bonds, should it become necessary in order to effect a sale thereof; that the sales of the said bonds shall be used by the Board of Commissioners of said town for the exclusive purpose of buying a suitable lot and erecting thereon a building for the white graded school of said town and buy a suitable lot for the colored graded school, and if no suitable building on said lot to erect one. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 97 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 97 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GRAHAM, ALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: J Sec. 1 That the territory now embraced in the corporate limits of the town of Graham or that may be embraced in said corporate limits by any change hereafter made in the same, shall be and constitute one school district for the white race and one school district for the colored race. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 97 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 97 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GRAHAM, ALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: J Sec. 5 The following parties are hereby constituted and appointed the school trustees for the school district hereinbefore created: H. W. Scott, J. D. Albright, T. C. Montgomery, W. R. Goley, E. 8S. Parker, Jr.. W. T. Ezzell and J. M. McCracken. The first two named parties shall hold for two years, the next two for three years and the last three for four years from the date upon which this act goes into effect, and all vacancies, whether they arise from death, resignation, removal, expiration of the terms of office or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining trustees, and a majority thereof shall have the power of selection, and such persons shall hold for three years from the date of their selection. These trustees above named shall have charge of all the schools conducted as public schools in said territory, and they shall establish and maintain at least two schools, one for the colored and one for the white race, and practically the same advantages shall be offered to the children of school age of each race. Said trustees shall have sole charge of said schools and the selection of the teachers to be employed therein and fixing the compensation of said teachers, and shall have the right and power to do any and all things necessary to be done in conducting said schools. Said trustees shall pass such by-laws to regulate their meetings as they shall deem expedient and necessary, and shall select a treasurer, who shall have charge of all moneys coming to their hands and who shall pay the same out upon such vouchers as they may direct and who shall receive such compensation and give such bond as said trustees shall dictate, ; 1903 Private Laws Ch. 102 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 102 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN TOWN OF LaGRANGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of LaGrange and all that portion of Lenoir County not embraced in said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto and embraced in School District No. 1 of Moseley Hall Township, shall be and are hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the aS Graded School District. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 102 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 102 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN TOWN OF LaGRANGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of said Board of Graded School Trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district. And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 102 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 102 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN TOWN OF LaGRANGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 13 That said Board of Graded School Trustees shall have exclusive control of all public schools in said school district, free from the supervision and control of the County Board of School Directors, and the County Superintendent of the schools of Lenoir County shall prescribe rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this act, for their own government and for the government of such schools; shall cause to be taken from time to time, in accordance with the general school law of the State, an accurate census of the school population of said school district; shall prescribe the qualifications, employ and fix the compensation of all officers and 12 Priv. teachers of such schools; and shall exercise such powers as may be necessary for the successful control and operation of said graded schools: Provided, that the board of school trustees, District No. 1, Moseley Hall Township, Lenoir County, is hereby authorized and empowered to carry on white and colored schools in District No. 1 of said township and county until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and to exercise over such schools all such powers as are herein conferred upon said Board of Graded School Trustees over the public schools in said graded school district: Provided further, that the treasurer of Lenoir County school funds shall, without delay, pay over to the Treasurer of the town of LaGrange all the funds of said School District No. 1, Moseley Hall Township, now in his hands, or which may hereafter come into his hands, and that the said Treasurer of the town of LaGrange shall, up to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, disburse said funds upon the warrant of said Board of Township Trustees, and thereafter as hereinbefore provided for the disbursement of other funds of said graded school district. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 104 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 104 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the following bounds, including the town of Fremont, to-wit: Beginning at Seven Bridges across Nahunta Swamp and running the Fremont Road to the line between the heirs of Jesse T. Aycock and M. T. Johnson; thence with said line to Betsy Peacocks corner; thence with Peacock and Johnson line to the road leading from Fremont to Eureka; thence. down said road nearly east to the line between W. H. Peacock and M. M. Mumford; thence with the said W. H. Peacocks line to Aycocks Swamp; thence down said swamp to the Quaker Road; thence nearly north with the Quaker Road to the northern boundary of the Isaac Daniel Farm; thence with the Daniel and Whitley line to the Blaylock line; thence with the Blaylock line to John Moores line; thence with Moores line to Bass Swamp; thence down Bass Swamp to the line between John E. Smith and Joshua T. Aycock; thence with said line around J. E. Smiths farm to J. C. Hooks line; thence with J. C. Hooks line to Edmundson line; thence with Edmundson line to Burnt Swamp; thence up Burnt Swamp to the Kenly Road; thence west with the said road to cross-roads near J. E. Hooks; thence nearly south with said road to Nahunta Swamp at Scotts crossing; thence down said Nahunta Swamp to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Fremont Graded School District. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 104 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 104 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the special taxes levied and collected under this act shall be expended in keeping up separate schools for the white and colored children in said district between the ages of six and twentyone years. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 106 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That there shall be an election held in the town of Greenville on the first Tuesday in April, 1903, for the purpose of taking the sense*of the qualified voters of said town on the question of establishing and maintaining a graded school therein for each race, and issuing coupon bonds to the amount of ten thousand dollars for the purchase of sites, erection, repair and equipment of the necessary buildings therefor. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 106 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That said board of trustees shall have the general control and management of the said graded schools, and they may determine the location, character and equipment of the buildings therefor, which shall not cost in the aggregate to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and they may employ such teachers and officers for each of said schools as they may deem proper and fix the compensation thereof. They may appoint an executive committee of their number, who shall have the more direct control and management of such schools under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may prescribe, and the said board, if they shall deem it advisable to do so, may appoint a committee of colored persons to aid the board in looking after the interest of the colored graded school under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may prescribe. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 106 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 That if the trustees of the graded schools shall deem the ground on whicn Pitt Academy is now located a suitable place for the location of the graded school for the white race, then said school may be located thereon with the consent of the trustees of the said academy; but if the trustees of the graded schools shall deem some other location more suitable, then the Board of Trustees of Pitt Academy as herein constituted may, if they shall deem it advisable to do so, sell said academy and all the lands belonging thereto in such manner and on such terms as they may deem best, make good title to the purchaser and invest the proceeds of such sale in the purchase of the location and in the erection of buildings for the graded school for the white race. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 106 Sec. 10 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 10 That if the trustees of the graded schools shall deem the present location of the public school building for the colored race 4 proper location for the graded school buildings for that race, they may locate the graded school at that point, and with the consent of the proper school committee and the County Board of Education use the public colored school building for that purpose, and make such changes and additions thereto as they may deem proper. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 106 Sec. 11 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That the proceeds of the sale of the bonds provided in this act shall be used exclusively for the erection and equipment of suitable buildings for the graded schools for the whites and such enlargement and equipment of the colored school buildings as may be necessary, and said buildings shall be constructed and equipped and said fund expended under the sole direction of said board of trustees of said graded schools. And to this end it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to determine the location and the character of the building for the white graded school and the needed enlargement, if any, of the building for the colored graded school. But if the said board shall deem it better to select another location for the colored graded school, the said board is hereby fully authorized and empowered to purchase a site therefor and erect and equip the necessary buildings thereon. And it shall be the duty of said board, as soon as possible after the ratification of this act by the qualified voters of the town of Greenville, to determine said location and to proceed as speedily as possible with the erection and enlargement of the buildings for said school.. The said board may have said buildings erected and enlarged by contract or in such other way as they may deem best, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said town to pay for the same out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds upon the order of the board of trustees, signed and countersigned in such manner and under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe. But said board of trustees shall keep a record which shall show in detail the manner in which the said fund has been expended by them. The Town Treasurer shall also keep a separate account of his receipts and disbursements of this fund, and he shall make a report to the Board of Aldermen from time to time of his dealings therewith, and he shall be allowed as his compensation in receiving and paying out this fund two and one-half per cent. commission on his disbursements. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 106 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 13 That the corporate limits of said town shall constitute a school district for each race, but the trustees of the graded school and the persons charged by law with the duties of locating and managing the various school districts in the county of Pitt may extend the boundary of the graded school district so as to take in territory and people not included within the corporate limits of said town. And the board of trustees may enter into negotiations with the school committee of the district in which the said graded schools are situated and the County Board of Education looking to acquiring the title to the lands and the school buildings for the white and for the colored races belonging to said school: committee on such terms as may be agreed upon, and the sale of these buildings and the investment of the proceeds in the graded school buildings for such races respectively. And the said board of trustees shall have full power and authority to receive, use or hold any donations, gifts, devises and bequests made for either or both of said graded schools. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 107 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 107 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the said corporation shall have and is hereby given the power to maintain and operate at or near the city of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg, a school for the instruction of white youth of both sexes in the common school and academic branches, the best mode of practical industry and its appliance to agricultural, domestic and technical arts; and to teach and give instruction in all branches and departments of useful and industrial knowledge; and for these purposes shall be and is hereby authorized to do all such acts and make all such contracts as may be proper and necessary. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 109 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 109 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section 107 of chapter 100 of the Private Laws of nineteen hundred andone be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided, however, for the purposes and benefits of this act and of any general school law, the City of Asheville shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored in the county of Buncombe. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 125 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 125 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MATTINETT PICOT OF WARREN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That E. A. Carter, T. C. Alston and J. B. Patterson, School Committeemen for Butterwood Township, in Halifax County for School No. 2, white race, in said township, be authorized and required to issue to Miss Mattinett Picot an order on the treasurer of the countyschool fund in the sum of sixty dollars, for services rendered in teaching said school, and the County Superintendent be authorized and required to countersign said order, and that the Treasurer of Halifax County be authorized and required to pay said order out of any money that may be due or may hereafter accrue in said school district. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 132 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 132 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LENOIR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory in Caldwell County within the following boundaries, to-wit: The present boundaries of the town of Lenoir and one-half mile additional in every direction and parallel thereto shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Lenoir Graded School District. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 132 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 132 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LENOIR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of said Board of Graded School Trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district; and said board of trustees shall appropriate and, use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 135 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 135 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WORTH MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Randolph County is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Vorth Manufacturing Company of Randolph County the sum of thirty-four and 91-100 dollars out of the school funds now in his hands or that may here after come into his hands to the credit of Public School District No. 2, white race, Randleman Township, Randolph County, N. C Said sum is due said Worth Manufacturing Company for nails lumber, doors, window-glass, stove-pipes, clearing away schoo ground woods and various other articles furnished said school dis trict from February 12th, 1900, to February 28th, 1901:00:00 Provided the school committee in District No. 2, white race, sign an order approved by the County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Randolph County, on the Treasurer of Randolph County to pay the said amount. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 146 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 146 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF VANCE W. BARRETT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Chatham County is authorized and required to pay Vance W. Barrett, or his assigns, the sum of twenty ($20) dollars out of any money that may be due or may hereafter accrue in School District No. 2 for colored race in Gulf Township, Chatham County, the same being a balance due for teaching. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 150 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 150 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ISABEL WELLS, COLORED, A SCHOOL-TEACHER OF CLEVELAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Cleveland County be and he is hereby authorized to pay Isabel Wells, colored, a school-teacher in Cleveland County, the sum of twenty-five ($25) dollars out of any school funds now due or which hereafter may become due District No. 23, for the colored race, of Cleveland County: Provided, a voucher for the said amount shall first be signed by the F committee and approved by the County Superintendent. ; 1903 Private Laws Ch. 151 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 151 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MAMIE LITTLE, A PUBLIC SCHOOL-TEACHER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the County Treasurer of Anson County be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Miss Mamie Little, out of the public school money now due or hereafter to become due District No. 8, Burnsville Township, for the white race, the sum of forty dollars for services rendered as teacher in said district: Provided, the said sum is not to be paid unless a voucher, signed by a majority of the committee of said district, is presented. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 161 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That said board of trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district. The said trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof, published in some newspaper published in Alamance County, and by notices posted at four public places in said district. The said board of trustees shall select three men, qualified voters of said district, one of whom they shall appoint registrar and the other two poll holders to hold said election, and these three shall hold said election and shall be governed in their acts in all particulars as to the registration of voters, challenges, etc., by the same rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers; and the qualified voters of said district shall vote at said election on the first Monday in May next ensuing, tickets on which shall be written or printed the words For Graded School or Against Graded School, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules that govern the election of county officers; the said election shall be held at the school-house for the white race in said territory. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 165 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 165 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE AND ORANGE COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the said board of trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district. The said trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof published in some newspaper published in each of the said counties and by notices posted at four public places in said district. The said board of trustees shall select three men, qualified voters of said district, one of whom they shall appoint registrar and the other two poll holders, to hold said election, and. these three shall hold said election and shall be governed in their act in all particulars as to the registration of voters, challenges, etc., by the same rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers, and the qualified voters of said district shall vote at said election on the first Monday in May next ensuing, tickets on which shall be written or printed the words For Graded Schools, or Against Graded Schools, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules that govern the election of county officers, and the parties holding said election shall certify the result thereof to both the Commissioners of Alamance and Orange counties. The said election shall be held at the school-house for the white race in said territory. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 168 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 168 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT AT HOPE MILLS, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Hope Mills, and all that portion of Cumberland County not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, to-wit: Including the present public school districts, Nos. 1, 2 and 7, and also the territory adjoining said districts Nos. 1 and 2, beginning at the line of district No. 1 at Big Rockfish Creek and running thence with said creek to the mouth of Gillis Branch and up said branch, the said branch being the line, to William MeMillans line; thence with William McMillans line to J. A. McDonalds corner; thence with J. A. McDonalds line to D. W. Biggs line; thence with D. W. Biggs line to the Lumberton road, thence with the Lumberton road toward Fayetteville, N. C., to Jas, H. Johnsons line, thence with Jas. H. Johnsons line on the east to Francis Berckmans line on the east, thence with Francis Berckmans line to Dr. J. W. Me. Neills line, thence with Dr. J. W. McNeills line on the east to Big Rockfish Creek, thence up Big Rockfish Creek to the line of said dis trict, No. 2, shall be, and are hereby constituted a public schoo district for white and colored children, to be known as The Hops Mills Graded School District. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 168 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 168 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT AT HOPE MILLS, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 The said Board of Graded School Trustees may establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district. And said Board of Trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said special taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as they may deem just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each race, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in cost of maintaining said schools. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 169 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 169 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That said Board of Trustees shall on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district, above created, the question of establishing a graded school in said district. The said trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notiedilireot published in some newspaper published in Alamance County, and by notice posted at four public places in said district. The said Board of Trustees shall select three men, qualified voters of said district, one of whom they shall appoint registrar, and the other two poll holders, to hold said election, and these three shall hold said election and shall be governed in their acts in all particulars as to the registration of voters, challenges, etc., by the same rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers and the qualified voters of said district shall vote at said election on the first Monday in May next ensuing, tickets on which shall be written or printed the words, For Graded School or Against Graded School, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules that govern the election of county offi- 23-Priv, cers. The said election shall be held at the school-house for the white race in said territory. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 174 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 174 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF S. L. DELLINGER, PUBLIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF CLEVELAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of: Cleveland County be and is hereby authorized to pay, on proper voucher signed by school committeemen of. the district and countersigned by the County Superintendent, S. L. Dellinger five ($5) dollars out of the public school funds of District No. Twenty-seven (27), for the white race, as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending 1897 1903 Private Laws Ch. 185 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 185 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF D. D. JONES, COLORED. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the county school fund of Person County be and he is hereby authorized to pay D. D. Jones, out of any unapportioned school funds in his hands, the sum of twentyone ($21) dollars, balance due him for services as teacher in Colored School District No. 2 of Mt. Tirzah Township, Person County, upon the production to said treasurer a voucher signed by majority of school committee in said district and approved by the County Superintendent of Schools for said county. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 201 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 201 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ROXA BILLINGS, A SCHOOL- TEACHER IN WILKES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Wilkes County be and he is authorized and directed to pay to Roxa Billings, out of the school fund which now is or may come into his hands, the sum of thirtythree dollars and seventy-five cents, the same being the amount due her for her services as teacher of a free public school, white race, in District No. 7, in Walnut Grove Township, Wilkes County, N. C., for the year 1901 1903 Private Laws Ch. 227 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 227 _AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. A. NEWELL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF ANSON COUNTY. i The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County be and is hereby authorized and required to pay to W. A. Newell the sum of twenty: six ($26) dollars out of any public school moneys now due 1 which may hereafter become due District Number two -2 for white race, Lilesville Township, said sum being a balance due for service: rendered as teacher. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 236 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS ZERAH FOOTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurgr of Wilkes County be and he is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay Miss Zerah Foote of Wilkes County the sum of sixty-eight dollars and twelve cents ($68.12), out of any public funds that may now be or hereafter come into his hands, for services rendered by her as a teacher in public school (white race) in District No. 3, Antioch Township, . Wilkes County, in the year 1902 1903 Private Laws Ch. 239 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 239 AN ACT TO ALLOW. THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Board of Aldermen of the city of Charlotte may purchase a lot and erect a building or buildings for school purposes for white children in Ward 4 of the city of Charlotte, and may issue coupon bonds in payment of same not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 302 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 302 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF GEORGE W. MARTIN OF CAS. WELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Geo. W. Martin, assignee of Wilson Cary, eighteen and 50-100 dollars, balance due to said Wilson Cary as teacher of Colored School District No. 14 of Caswell County from November 12th, 1900, to February 2d, 1901, upon his exhibiting the duly authenticated voucher issued to said Wilson Cary, and proves said amount to be due to him to the satisfaction of said Treasurer; said money to be paid out of any unapportioned school fund. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF MECKLEN- BURG COUNTY TO PAY THE CLAIMS OF MISS ANNA. B. CARR AND OTHER SCHOOL-TEACHERS IN COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Mecklenburg County be and is hereby authorized to pay the following school claims, to-wit: To Miss Anna B. Carr the sum of seventy-eight dollars and four cents, balance due her as teacher of a public school in District Number Two (2), Charlotte Township, in said county, for the white race, for the year nineteen hundred and two, the same to be paid out of any school funds now in the hands or which may hereafter come into the hands of said Treasurer, belonging to said school district. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF MECKLEN- BURG COUNTY TO PAY THE CLAIMS OF MISS ANNA. B. CARR AND OTHER SCHOOL-TEACHERS IN COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 To Robert H. Lafferty the sum of fifteen dollars and twentytwo cents, balance due him for services as a teacher of a #NAME? school in District Number Two (2), Dewese Township, in said county, for the white race, for the year nineteen hundred and two, the same to be paid out of any school funds now in the hands or which may hereafter come into the hands of said Treasurer, belonging to said school district. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 330 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 330 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF MECKLEN- BURG COUNTY TO PAY THE CLAIMS OF MISS ANNA. B. CARR AND OTHER SCHOOL-TEACHERS IN COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 To J. C. Cochrane, assignee of C. L. Byers, the sum of seven dollars and fifty certs, balance due said Byers for services as a teacher of a public school in District Number Two (2), for the colored race, in Mallard Creek Township, for the year nineteen hundred and two; also to E. G. Henderson the sum of four dollars, balance due her for services as a teacher of a public school in District Number Five (5), colored race, in Mallard Creek Township, for the year nineteen hundred; also to W. N. Peoples two dollars and fifty cents, the price of a cord of wood furnished to the public school in District Number Two (2), for the white race, Charlotte Township, in the year nineteen hundred and two, all of said claims to be paid out of any school funds now in the hands or which may hereafter come into the hands of said Treasurer, belonging to the respective school districts named in this section: Provided, vouchers for all payments mentioned in this act shall be signed by a majority of the school committee for the respective districts and approved by County Superintendent of Education. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 333 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 333 AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PAYMENT OF MISS MATTIE E. SALE OUT OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS OF WILKES COUNTY. , : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Wilkes County is hereby authorized and directed to pay Miss Mattie EK. Sale the sum of nine dollars and forty-nine cents, balance due her as teacher of public school (white race), Argentine District, Antioch Township, Wilkes County, for the year 1894, out of any school funds now in his hands or may come into his hands: Provided, a voucher for the said amount is signed by the school committee, the County Superintendent and the County Board of Education. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 346 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 346 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PAYMENT OF THE RESIDUE OF THE SALARIES OF G. L. CATHEY AND BELL MCRACKEN, PUBLIC-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SWAIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Swain County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay G. L. Cathey $57, a residue of his salary as a white public-school teacher in District No. 6 of Forneys Creek, in said county, for the year 1902; also $8 to Miss Bell McCracken, a residue of her salary as a white public-school teacher for District No. .., in said county, for the year 1902 1903 Private Laws Ch. 347 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 347 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MARY VICKORY, A PUB- LIC-SCHOOL TEACHER OF YANCEY COUNTY. Lhe General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the County Treasurer of Yancey County is hereby authorized to pay to Miss Mary Vickory, a white public-school teacher of Yancey County, the sum of one hundred dollars, the same being due Prices Creek Township School District No. 4, for the year 1902; said amount being due the said Miss Mary Vickory for teaching a public school in said district in the year 1902 The Treasurer shall not pay this money unless under order signed by the present committeemen of Prices Creek School District No. 4, and approved by the County Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 364 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 364 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF NARCISSA V. MASON, A COL- ORED SCHOOL-TEACHER OF THE COUNTY OF PERSON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of the county school fund of Person County be and he is hereby authorized to pay to Narcissa V. Mason, a colored school-teacher of School District No. 5, for [the] colored race, in Cunningham Township, Person County, the sum of eighty dollars for services as teacher of a public school in said district from October 30, 1899, to March 13, 1900 1903 Private Laws Ch. 373 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 373 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF POLK COUNTY TO PAY A CERTAIN SCHOOL CLAIM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Polk County is hereby authorized and empowered to pay to Herbert Powell, a public-school teacher of District [No.] 25, for the white race, thirty-one ($31.25) dollars and twenty-five cents out of any funds due the said district in which he taught, the same being District No. 25, in White Oak Township, Polk County. 1903 Private Laws Ch. 390 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 390 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CAPT. B. P. GRIGSBY, A PUB- LIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF ASHE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That on the presentation of an order, properly signed by a majority of the Public-school Committee of Districts Nos. .. and .., for [the] white race in Ashe County, the Public Treasurer of Ashe County is authorized and directed to pay to Capt. B. P. Grigsby the sum of $.... for teaching public schools in said districts for the years 1902 and 1903, out of the school funds belonging to said districts. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 11 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER: 11 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE, FORSYTH COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the moneys which shall from time to time be apportioned under the general school laws of the State to the above-described school district shall be turned over by the Treasurer of Forsyth County to the treasurer of the said schsol trustees for the benefit of said school: Provided, that in apportioning the school fund of said county said graded school shall be allowed the proportion of said fund due per capita to the white children of school age. ; 1905 Private Laws Ch. 11 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER: 11 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE, FORSYTH COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That the property, both real and personal, of the public school for white children of said district shall become the property of the said graded school and shall be vested in the said board of trustees and their successors in trust for the said graded school, and said board of trustees may in their discretion sell the same, or any part thereof, and apply the proceeds to the use of the public graded school; to the established graded school; to be established in said graded school district of Kernersville. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the general control, management and authority over property in and near the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, known as Vance Park, Carnegie Park, the Old White Cemetery on West Fifth Street, and new park known as Independence Park (composed of lands of the Charlotte Water Works, Piedmont Land Company, Brevard and Springs and Highland Park Company, donated to the city), and such other park land or improvement in Charlotte Township hereafter acquired for park purposes, be and same are hereby vested in a corporation to be known as the Charlotte Park and Tree Commission, hereby created, composed of the following citizens of Charlotte and vicinity, viz.: D. A. Tompkins, Dr. C. M. Strong, A. C. Summerville, Daniel W. McLemore, W. C. Maxwell, Dr. Jas. R. Alexander, HE. R. Preston, W. S. Alexander, E. 8S. Williams, Dr. C. L. Alexander, George Stephens and A. H. Washburn. Said corporation shall have power, subject to the supervision of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, to protect the property, enforce order, permit or prohibit public meetings, picnics, games or assemblages of persons for any purpose whatever on the grounds of said parks; prescribe rules and regulations for the government of themselves and the property which they control, and generally carry forward improvements as money may be from time to time appropriated for such purpose. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That it shall be the duty of the Charlotte Park and Tree Commission to look after the care and preservation of the trees on the streets of said city of Charlotte, to plant out new trees when in the discretion of said commission it is necessary ; to encourage civic improvement by the citizens of said city; to encourage the observance of Arbor Day; to establish a nursery or nurseries, green-house or houses for flowers, plants and trees for the parks and streets; to establish in Independence Park a natatorium and also a drill or parade ground for the military in any park now owned or which hereafter may be acquired by the commission; to establish in their discretion places for animals in Independence Park or any park convenient that may hereafter be acquired by said commission. The powers, purposes and duties of said commission shall be to establish, maintain and keep up free parks for the use of the white citizens of the city of Charlotte and vicinity, and do other things as set forth in this section. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 25 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 25 That it shall be unlawful for any person other than white persons to go in said parks now owned by said corporation or by this act turned over to said corporation or hereafter acquired by it: Provided, that colored nurse or nurses with white child or children shall be allowed in said parks; that colored persons employed to work for this corporation shall be allowed in said park or parks; that any person of color who shall be netified to leave said park or parks, or be notified not to come in said park or parks, and shall refuse to do so and shall come into said park or parks, shall be guilty of a trespass for each offense, and on conviction be imprisoned thirty days or fined fifty dollars. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 26 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 26 That H. J. Green, C. S. L.A. Taylor, Silas B. Washington, Samuel J. Caldwell, J. T. Sanders, J. Henry Warren, Ed. W. Butler, W. H. Houser, Louis Perry, Rufus Caldwell, S. B. Pride and Walker Hill and their successors be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Charlotte Publie Park Commission for Colored People, and shall have charge and control of the park or parks for colored people, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, etc., as are conferred on the trustees before mentioned for white people in reference to their parks. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte shall provide a suitable place for a park or parks and the said trustees shall make all rules, regulations and by-laws for its government and have all the powers conferred on and be subject to the limitations imposed on the white trustees. All ordinances of the city of Charlotte that apply to the white parks shall apply to the colored park or parks. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 27 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 27 That the parks shall be separate and distinct between the racesthose established by the white trustees for the white race and the other for the colored race; the white parks shall be used exclusively for the white people and the colored park or parks for the colored people. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 29 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 29 That the board of aldermen shall annually turn over to the trustees of said parks for white people and colored people not less than the sum of one thousand dollars; that the said sum of one thousand dollars shall be distributed between the trustees or commissioners of said white and colored parks in such proportion as is just and equitable, all things being considered, and shall turn over any additional sum in the discretion of the board to the Charlotte Park and Tree Commission for trees, ete. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 36 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 36 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH IN THE COUNTY OF WAKE AND THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory bounded by and included within the following lines, to-wit: On the north by a line centered upon the center of Union Square and lying two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and five-tenths feet to the northward thereof, parallel with the TRUE center of Hillsboro Street and New Bern Avenue; south by a line centered as aforesaid and lying four thousand three hundred and fifty-one and five-tenths feet to the southward of said center, parallel with said first-described line, and on the east and west by a line parallel with the TRUE center of Fayetteville and Halifax Streets, lying three thousand three hundred and seventy-nine and five-tenths feet to the eastward and westward thereof, respectively, thereby intersecting and closing the extremities of the first and second described lines, shall constitute the external boundaries: Provided, that these boundaries do not extend the corporate limits of the city; and the inhabitants residing therein shall be and remain a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The City of Raleigh, and under such name and style may adopt a corporate seal, and sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; acquire by purchase, devise, bequest or other conveyance such real and personal property anywhere within Raleigh Township as may be requisite and necessary for the proper government and needs of the city; hold, invest, improve, use, govern, control and protect, and under the hand of the mayor and two aldermen, attested by the corporate seal, may sell or dispose of the same, and have all the powers, rights and privileges necessary, belonging or usually pertaining to municipal corporations; and within twelve months after the ratification of this act the board of aldermen may cause an accurate survey to be made of the exterior boundaries of the city as herein provided, and it shall be their duty to erect upon each corner and upon every natural elevation intercepting the line of sight from any one corner to the next corners a firm and durable monument of stone, to be maintained by the city and protected from obstruction, removal, defacement or other injury by a rigid enforcement of the penalties herein denounced against such crimes: Provided, that the tract of land conveyed to the city of Raleigh by R. S. Pullen, Esq., by deed dated March the twentysecond, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as recorded in book ninety-five, page four hundred and sixty-three, Register of Deeds office of Wake County, and known as Pullen Park, and all other territory which may be acquired by the city of Raleigh ne ee ee by purchase or donation or otherwise for park purposes, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased white persons (located northeast of the city of Raleigh) known as Oakwood Cemetery, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased colored persons (located southeast of the city of Raleigh) known as Mount Hope Cemetery, and that the tract of land conveyed to the city by D. M. Carter and wife by deed registered in book one hundred and sixtytwo at page one hundred and sixty-two in the office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, and the tract of land conveyed to the city by Laura Carter by deed registered in book one hundred and sixty-one at page four hundred and six in said Register of Deeds office of Wake County, which tracts of land are owned ft the city for the purposes of maintaining a garbage farm and as a site for the small-pox hospital, shall also be included in the corporate limits of the city of Raleigh, and all ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted by the board of aldermen of said city shall be applicable to the territory included in said Pullen Park or other parks and in said cemeteries as fully as if the said territory was embraced within the limits of the city of Raleigh defined as fully as in any other part of the city of Raleigh. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 46 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 46 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF SPENCER, AND SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ACT ENTI- TLED AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF SPENCER TO ISSUE BONDS FOR GRADED SCHOOLS AND OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory now embraced in the corporate limits of the town of Spencer, or that hereafter Inay be embraced in said corporate limits by any change hereafter made in the same, shall be and continue one school district for the white and one for the colored race. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 77 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 17 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BRYSON CITY GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TO VALIDATE THE SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX ELECTION HERETOFORE HELD IN SAID DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all that territory embraced within the following described boundary, to-wit: Beginning at the Castleberry field on the bank of the Tuckaseegee River, in the line of the Barnard farm, and runs with said line so as to include the Barnard farm to the Patton farm; then with the dividing line through the Patton farm between Seymour Frisby and H. T. Jenkins to the line of H. T. Jenkins home place; then with the back line of H. T. Jenkins home place to Charles Jenkins back line; then with said line to the top and point of a ridge between Charles Jenkins and Peter Jenkins; then up said ridge to the top of Bains Mountain high knob; then up said mountain to the Bains Gap; then a straight line to the back line of the T. M. Buchanan land; then with said back line to Kirklands Creek ; then down said creek to its mouth at the Tuckaseegee River; then up said river to the trestle above the Patterson farm; then up Galbraiths Creek to where K. Elias line leaves said creek ; then with the Elias back line to the line of D. K. Collins; then with the said Collins back line to the Medford back line; then with Medfords back line to the back line of W. P. Shulers home tract; then with the said Shulers back line to F. C. Fishers back line; then with said Fishers back line to M. W. Reeves back line; then with said Reeves back line to Deep Creek; then up said creek to the line between J. F. Teague and the Randall farm; then with Teagues back line to G. W. McCrackens line dividing his land from that of William Estes; then with said line to the top of the mountain dividing Lands Creek from the Tuckaseegee River; thence down said ridge to the Sherrill Gap above J. M. Weeks; then with the Lands Creek road to D. K. Collins line; then with said Collins inside line to D. R. Brysons line; then with said Brysons line to Andy Watkins back line; then with said Watkins back line to M. L. Sittons back line; then with said Sittons back line to Nathan Brendles line, then with Brendles line, that divides Nathan Brendle from A. T. Weeks, to the Tuckaseegee River; then, across and with said river to the beginning, be and the same is hereby incorporated under the name and style of The Bryson City Graded School District for White Children. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 Said registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to open their books at such places in the city of Winston as Inay be designated by said aldermen, on the second Tuesday in April next preceding the election, and to register therein the Names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and designating on the registration books opposite the names of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he has been a bona fide resident of North Carolina for two years, of the city ort Winston and of the ward in which he proposes to register for ninety Gays next preceding that date, and that he has not been convicted of any crime which by the laws of North Carolina disqualifies him from voting. In said oath he shall specify the place of his residence in such ward. If any person shall willfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof be punished as for larceny: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made, as provided for herein, a new registration shall not be biennially held unless the board of aldermen shall at their regular meeting in December determine that the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same and the place where the books of registration shall be opened; but a revision of the registration books shall be made, beginning on Saturday next preceding each election to be held for said city, in accordance with the provisions of the general law. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 52 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 52 That the Winston commissioners of graded schools shall be and are hereby authorized to receive and use the money herein provided for, and to apply the same in such way as they may deem best for the benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said city, whether for suitable buildings and furniture for said schools or for repairs of the same, for salaries of teachers or for other incidental expenses. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 73 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 73 That the board of aldermen shall have power to regulate the manner and terms on which bodies may be interred in the public cemetery and have said cemetery kept in proper repair. They shall also have power to forbid any and all interments of dead bodies within the limits of said city, or any part thereof, whenever they shall deem it expedient, and to pass ordinances for the protection of the cemeteries; may appoint and pay a keeper and compel the keeping and returning of a bill of mortality. The city of Winston is hereby authorized to purchase suitable grounds for cemeteriesone for the white people and one for the colored peopleto be under the supervision of the city, with power to make such regulations as may be proper for regulating the burying of the dead therein, and to have police jurisdiction thereon; that the cemeteries of the city of Winston as now laid off shall not be enlarged, nor shall the dead be buried within the corporate limits of said city other than within the boundaries as now laid off. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 86 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 86 The aldermen of the city shall provide for the establishment and support of a system of graded schools under the following conditions, to-wit: First, no interest-bearing debt of the corporation shall be created for this purpose; second, the schools shall be open to all bona fide residents of the city of all ages between the ages of six and twenty-one, but the white and colored schools shall be distinct and separate buildings and departments, and the schools shall have separate apartments for the higher classes of males and females; third, the funds raised by ad valorem taxation shall be used only for the payment of the salaries of teachers; fourth, persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the schools from their homes, or as boarders, on the payment of tuition fees, to be fixed by the school commissioners; fifth, the aldermen of the city, at their first regular meeting in September, one thousand nine hundred. and five, and annually thereafter, shall appropriate a sufficient sum of money out of the general fund for the support of the graded schools, to be known as The Graded School Fund, the sum to be appropriated for this purpose to be determined by the graded school commissioners and approved by the board of aldermen. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 94 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 94 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ALBERT BIGELOW, A SCHOOL-TEACHER IN CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and hereby is authorized and directed to pay Albert Bigelow, out of the school funds which now are or may come into his hands, the sum of five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25), the same being the remainder due him as teacher of a free public school in district number fifteen (15), colored race, in Yanceyville Township, Caswell County, from the twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and two, to the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and two. But said claim shall not be paid until approved by the school committee of the district, the county superintendent and the county board of education. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 99 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 99 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JULIA M. LEA, A SCHOOL- TEACHER IN CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and is hereby authorized to pay to Julia M. Lea, out of the school funds which now are or may come into his hands, the sum of four dollars and forty-four cents ($4.44), the same being the remainder of the amount due her as teacher of a free public school in district number five (5), white race, in Milton Township, Caswell County, from the fifth (5th) day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three (1903), to the thirtieth (30th) day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three. But said claim shall not be paid until approved by the school committee of the district, the county superintendent and the board of education. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 102 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 102 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF AARON W. MOORE, A SCHOOL-TEACHER IN CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and hereby is authorized and directed to pay to Aaron W. Moore, out of the school funds which now are or may come into his hands, the sum of thirteen dollars and fifty cents ($13.50), the same being the remainder of the amount due him as teacher of a free public school in district number eight (8S), colored race, in Hightowers Township, Caswell County, from the eighth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, to the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four. But said claim shall not be paid until approved by the school committee of the district, the county superintendent and the county board of education. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 103 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 103 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF C. G. LEA, A SCHOOL- THACHER IN CASWELL COUNDBY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to C. G. Lea, out of the school funds which now are or may come into his hands, the sum of seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents ($17.25), the same being the remainder of the amount due him as teacher of a free public school in district number five (5), white race, in Leasburg Township, Caswell County, from the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, to thirtieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three. But said claim shall not be paid until approved by the school committee of the district, the county superintendent and the county board of education. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 123 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 128 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT YOUNGS- VILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That in case a majority of the qualified electors of said school district shall be in favor of such tax the Board of Commissioners of said Town of Youngsville shall, in addition to the other taxes levied upon said-district, annually compute and levy, at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property and polls of the white and colored people of said school district to raise such a sum of money as the trustees hereinafter named for the said school district shall deem necessary to support and maintain graded schools, which sum shall not exceed thirtythree and one-third cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of the property and one dollar on each poll. Said trustees shall immediately after the election herein provided for report to the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Youngsville what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the first year, and annually thereafter the said trustees, thirty days prior to the time of levying for town taxes, shall report to the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Youngsville what sum is necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the next year. The taxes levied as herein provided shall be annually collected and paid over by the town tax collector to the treasurer of said town for the safe-keeping and proper distribution of the same, and the said taxes levied and collected for said graded schools shall be kept sacred, separate and distinct from other taxes by the said officers for the purposes for which they were levied and collected. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 123 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 128 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT YOUNGS- VILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees hereinafter named to apportion all moneys raised and received for educational purposes in the said school district in such manner as Shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools for both races, separate schools to be provided for each race; and that it shall be the further duty of said board of trustees to establish and keep up a graded school in said district for the white children and one for the colored children: Provided, if the number of either race and the fund therefor is insufficient to maintain a graded school for said race, the fund may be applied to a public free school for said race under the control of said board. ' 1905 Private Laws Ch. 161 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND TO IM- PROVE THE STREETS IN THE CITY OF RANDLEMAN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the corporate City mad limits of the city of Randleman shall be and is hereby constituted SP! the public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Randleman Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 161 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND TO IM- PROVE THE STREETS IN THE CITY OF RANDLEMAN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of the said board of graded school trustees to establish graded schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district. And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal facilities for each; due regard being paid, however, to the difference in cost of maintaining said school: Provided, that all donations to said school shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 162 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 162 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 324 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1903, ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF WELDON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section one of chapter three hundred and twenty-four of the Public Laws of North Carolina, session one thousand nine hundred and three, be amended by adding at the end of said section, after the words Fulghums line, the following words: shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Weldon Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 182 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 182 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE ANDREWS SCHOOL DISTRICT, NUMBER FOUR, CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 The board of trustees provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in said district as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races in proportion to the number and advancement of the pupils respectively. ; 1905 Private Laws Ch. 191 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 191 AN ACT TO FORM A SPECIAL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY FOR THE WHITE RACE, TO BE KNOWN AS ROCK FISH DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory lying and being in the following boundaries be and the same is hereby created and established a special school district for the white race, to be known as Rock Fish District, to-wit: Beginning at Rays old mill on Puppy Creek, thence with the Galatia Church Road to Stewarts Creek; thence as said creek southward to the old bridge on the new road, crossing said creek; thence north with the new public road to the old tram-road ; then as the tram-road to the Aberdeen and Rock Fish Railroad; thence with said road to the land line of David Capps; thence with his land line east and south back to the Aberdeen and Rock Fish Railroad; then as the railroad to the road leading from the Stricklands Bridge to Daniel Ellis: thence the road to J. T. Ritters mill on Stewarts Creek; thence as said creek to the land of Kenneth Rayner; then as his land line north to the land line of J. H. Culbreth; thence south to Stewarts Creek; thence as said ereek to Big Rock Fish Creek; then as Big Rock Fish to Puppy Creek ; then up Puppy Creek to the beginning. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 193 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 198 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A BURIAL PLACE FOR WHITES RE- SIDING AT COOLEEMEE, DAVIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the land set apart by the Cooleemee Cotton Mills for a cemetery for the members of the church at Cooleemee and other white inhabitants thereof, to-wit, beginning at Caseys north corner, thence in a westerly direction along the Cooleemee Cotton Mills and Greens line to the old Mocksville Road: thence southward along said road two hundred feet; thence eastward at right angles to the said road to the Casey line; thence to the beginning, shall remain forever dedicated for the purpose of a cemetery. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 193 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 198 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A BURIAL PLACE FOR WHITES RE- SIDING AT COOLEEMEE, DAVIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the manager of the Cooleemee Cotton Mills shall have the authority to assign places for burial therein to the white inhabitants of Cooleemee and to such others as he may see fit to allow to be buried therein: Provided, that none but white persons may at any time be buried therein. : 1905 Private Laws Ch. 196 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 196 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE FLAT ROCK SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 The special tax school district of Flat Rock, Henderson County, shall be and is hereby constituted a graded school district for both white and colored schools. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 196 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 196 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE FLAT ROCK SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 It shall be the duty of the said school trustees to distribute and apportion the school moneys placed to their credit so as to give each school in the district, white and colored, the same length of school term as nearly as may be each year. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 214 Sec. 58 Identified by: model CHAPTER 214 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES. . The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 58 That the town of Southern Pines shall be and constitute a public school district for both white and colored, as provided in chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the Private Acts of the General Assembly of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and the special taxes authorized by sections forty-seven and fortyeight of said chapter one hundred and ninety-four, as sanctioned by a majority of the qualified voters of said town at an election held under said act of one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, to be levied and collected annually for the support of public schools in said town, to-wit, a tax not exceeding one dollar on the one hundred dollars valuation of property shall continue to be annually levied and collected and applied as provided in said act of General Assembly of one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 214 Sec. 63 Identified by: model CHAPTER 214 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES. . The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 63 The school committee provided by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the town of Southern Pines as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race. The beginning and the ending of the school year shall be fixed by the committee. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 262 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF MOREHEAD CITY, CARTERET COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Morehead City, and all territory which may be included in any future extension of said town, be and the same is hereby constituted the public school district for the white and colored children, to be known as the Morehead City Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 262 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF MOREHEAD CITY, CARTERET COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of the board of said graded school trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of the said graded school district. And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds which are derived from said particular taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing necessary facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 266 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 266 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CATTIE KIRBY, A SCHOOL- TEACHER IN ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to pay to Cattie Kirby, a school-teacher in Anson County, or to her order, the sum of forty dollars, out of the school fund now in his hands or that may hereafter come into his hands to the credit of district number four, for the colored race, in Ansonville Township, in Anson County; said sum being due said Cattie Kirby for teaching a public school in said district, in said township and county, during the years one ~ thousand nine hundred and two and one thousand nine hundred and three: Provided, same be approved by county board of education, 1905 Private Laws Ch. 274 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 274 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE MISSIONARY BOARD OF THE KRIMMER MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 . That the object of said corporation is to establish a mission and prepare poor and promising orphans of the colored race for the duties and responsibilities of life; to that end the said corporation shall have power to adopt such measures as will enable it to afford protection and extend the benefits of correct training to all such as may be entrusted to its care by lawful authority. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 278 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Beaufort, and also all the territory embraced and included as it is now laid out in the present public school district. number eighteen, in Beaufort Township, shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as the Beaufort Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 4 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 278 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That in case a majority of the qualified voters of the said Beaufort Graded School District shall be in favor of such tax, the Board of Commissioners of Carteret County shall, in addition to other taxes laid upon said school district. annually compute and levy, at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property and polls of the white and colored persons of said Beaufort Graded School District, to raise such a sum of money as the trustees of said graded schools in said graded school district shall deem necessary to Support and maintain said graded schools, which sum shall not exceed thirty cents on one hundred dollars valuation of property and ninety cents on each poll. The said trustees, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, upon their appointment and qualification after the election herein provided for, shall meet and organize and report to the Commissioners of Carteret County what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the first year; and annually thereafter the said trustees, thirty days prior to the time for levying the county taxes. shall report to the said Board of Commissioners of Carteret County what sum is necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the next year. The taxes levied for the support of said schools, as hereinafter provided, shall be annually collected as other taxes are collected and paid over by the sheriff or other collecting officer to the Treasurer of Carteret County for the safe-keeping and proper distribution of the same, and the said tax levied and collected for said graded schools shall be kept sacred and separate and distinct from other taxes by the said officers, and shall be used only for the purposes for which they were levied and collected. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 278 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of the said Beaufort Graded School District, and the said board of trustees shall use and appropriate the funds derived from said special tax herein provided for in such manner as shall be just to both races, without prejudice, and giving to each equal school facilities, due regard being had, however, to the costs of establishing and maintaining the graded schools for each race. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 299 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 299 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF M. H. BARNES, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER OF CHATHAM COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Chatham County be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to pay M. H. Barnes, a public school teacher of Chatham County, or to his order, the sum of thirty-eight dollars ($38) out of the school funds now in his hands or that may hereafter come into his hands to the credit of District Number Three for the colored race in Gulf Township, said sum being due said M. H. Barnes as a balance for teaching a public school in Chatham County in the year one thousand nine hundred and four. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 301 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 301 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF T. N. CHISMOND, A SCHOOL- TEACHER IN CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and hereby is authorized and directed to pay to T. N. Chismond out of the school funds which now are or may come into his hands the sum of fourteen dollars and thirty-four cents ($14.34), the same being the remainder of the amount due him as a teacher of a free public school in District Number Twenty-two (22), colored race, in Yanceyville Township, Caswell County, from the nineteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, to the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and three; but said claim shall not be paid until approved by the school committee of the district, the county superintendent and the county board of education. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 302 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 302 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF ASHBORO MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY TO SELL OR DONATE AND CONVEY A CERTAIN LOT IN THE TOWN OF ASH- BORO, RANDOLPH COUNTY. WHEREAS, on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hun- dred and ninety-one, J. M. Worth, by deed, conveyed to the trustees of Ashboro Male and Female Academy a certain lot in the town of Ashboro known as the Academy lot, adjoining the Gluyas lot and others, and containing four -4 acres and fifteen -15 square poles, more or less, and recorded in the registers office, Randolph County, book sixty-seven, page three hundred and forty-five; and whereas, the said Ashboro Male and Female Academy no longer exists, but the property has been improyed by public subscription and by funds from the public school district of the town of Ash- boro, and has been for many years used and occupied for the pur- pose of a public graded school for the white race: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the trustees of the Ashboro Male and Female Academy shall have full power and authority, and they or a majority of them are hereby authorized and empowered in their discretion to sell or donate and convey the said lot in the town of Ashboro to the school commissioners for the purpose of being improved and for the occupation and use of the graded school for the white race for the public school district in the town of Ashboro. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 310 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 3810 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF BEDUCATION OF HYDE COUNTY TO PAY ANNIE BRIDGMAN, TEACHER IN WHITE SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 1, THE SUM OF $7.68. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of the Board of Education of Hyde County be authorized to pay out of the school funds of White Public School District Number One, Swan Quarter Township in Hyde County, the sum of seven dollars and sixty-eight cents to Annie Bridgman, this being due her for teaching a public school in said township, in said district, for white race. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 312 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 312 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MARY HUGH STEWART. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Robeson County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Miss Mary Hugh Stewart the sum of sixty dollars ($60) out of any school funds which may be in his hands or become due to school district number one -1 for the white race in Smiths Township, county of Robeson, for services rendered as a public school teacher in said school district from the fifteenth -15 day of February, one thousand nine hundred and one (1901), to the fifteenth -15 day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one (1901). 1905 Private Laws Ch. 321 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 321 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF ROENA MOORE, A SCHOOL- TEACHER OF DURHAM COUNTY: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Durham County is hereby authorized to pay to Roena Moore (colored) the sum of ten dollars, balance due her as teacher in District Number Two, colored race, of Mangum Township, Durham County, for the year nineteen hundred and two, out of any money that is now or may hereafter become due said school district. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 325 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 325 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MAMIE LITTLE, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Miss Mamie Little, out of the public school money now due or hereafter to become due District Number Hight, Burnsville Township, in said county, for the white race, the sum of forty dollars ($40) for services rendered as teacher in said district: Provided, the same shall not be paid unless in their discretion it is ordered to be paid by the board of education of said county of Anson. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HERTFORD AND TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Hertford, North Carolina, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Hertford Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 11 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HERTFORD AND TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district. And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal facilities to each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools, and to the usual habits and environments of the two races: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HERTFORD AND TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 13 That the Treasurer of the County of Perquimans shall, without delay, pay over to the Treasurer of the Town of Hertford all funds of School District Number One for whites and all funds for School District Number One for colored now in his hands or which may hereafter come in his hands; and that the said Treasurer of the Town of Hertford shall, up to the thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred and five, disburse said funds only upon the warrant of said board of trustees, and thereafter as hereinbefore provided for the disbursement of other funds of said graded school district: Provided, that of such moneys belonging to said public school district a proportionate part, in accordance with the law governing the distribution of the common school fund, shall be accredited to that part or parts of said common school district not included in said graded school district. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 14 Identified by: model CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HERTFORD AND TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 14 That all public funds derived from the State and from the county of Perquimans for the use and benefit of the public schools in said graded school district shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Town of Hertford by the Treasurer of Perquimans County for the use and benefit of the graded schools in said graded school district, except as hereinbefore provided in section thirteen of this act; and the property, both real and personal, of the public school districts, or parts thereof, embraced within the graded school district shall become the property of said graded school district, and the title thereto shall be vested in said board of trustees in trust therefor; and said board of trustees may, in their discretion, sell the same, or any part thereof, and apply the proceeds to the use of the graded schools to be established, or which may have been established, in said graded school district: Provided, that any and all interests in said funds or property which may proportionately belong to any-part of School District Number One for whites and to School District Number One for colored, Perquimans County, must be paid to any such part or parts in such an amount and jn such a manner as the county board of school directors may determine, in accordance with the act governing the distribution of the public school funds. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 351 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 351 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN LAKE LANDING TOWNSHIP, IN HYDE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following territory lying and being in Hyde County, North Carolina, in Lake Landing Township, and more particularly described as follows: beginning at the mouth of Middle Creek, thence up said creek with its north bank to Middle Creek bridge; thence with the public road, first northwardly and then westwardly, to Farrows Fork; thence southwardly with the public road to the bridge across Lake Landing Canal at Lake Landing: thence eastwardly with the said canal to the turn or bend in said canal at Last Chance, or Miltonville; thence a straight course to the Negro Church, on the Piny Woods public road; thence with said road southwardly and eastwardly to Brooks Canal; thence with said canal to Pamlico Sound; thence with the shore of Pamlico Sound northwardly to the beginning, is hereby created one school district, which shall be called the Lake Landing Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 354 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 354 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE LUCAMA GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the moneys that shall be apportioned by the State and county of Wilson from time to time, and the moneys that shall arise from the special tax in said district, and the moneys accruing to said schools from the dispensary in the town of Lucama, shall be paid direct to the treasurer of said board of trustees and shall be applied to the maintenance of graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 357 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER. 357 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE HOLMAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That said corporation. Holman Christian University. is Objects of, formed and created for the following objects and purposes, to-wit To inculcate and disseminate moral. educational :ind religious principles; to train and equip young white men and women for the profession of teaching; to educate white men and women for effi-cient service as ministers of the gospel and missionaries. Sunday school teachers, superintendents of Sunday schools and laborers in the various branches of religious work, and generally to conduct a high-grade course or courses of study in all the various branches of learning, together with such special and preparatory depart-ments as nmy be found necessary. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 359 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 359 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, CONTROL AND MAIN- TENANCE OF GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 359 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 359 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, CONTROL AND MAIN- TENANCE OF GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said town, and said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from the special taxes hereinbefore mentioned, and all other sources, in such manner as shall be just to both races, giving equal school facilities, due regard, however, being had to the cost of establishing and maintaining the graded schools of each race, as said board may deem just and proper. The board of trustees provided by this act shall have entire and exclusive control of the public schools and public school property in the town of North Wilkesboro; shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government and the government of the said schools, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act; shall employ and fix the compensation of officers and teachers of the public schools: shall make an annual accurate census of the school population of the town, as required by the general school law of the State, and do all other acts that may be just and lawful in the management of the public school interests of said town: Provided, that all children resident in the town of North Wilkesboro between the ages of six and twenty-onegyears shall be admitted into said schools free of tuition charges, and those desiring admission into said schools as pay students may be admitted on such terms as said board of trustees may determine. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 359 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 359 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, CONTROL AND MAIN- TENANCE OF GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That all public school funds derived from the State and from Wilkes County for the use and benefit of the public schools of said town, as indicated by the annual census of the children of school age therein, shall be paid to the town treasurer by the Treasurer of Wilkes County for the use and benefit of the graded public schools in said town; and the property, both real and personal, of said public school district, whether heretofore belonging to the white or colored public schools, shall become the property of said graded schools as hereinbefore set out, and shall be vested in the said board of trustees in trust for said graded schools, and the said board of trustees may sell the same, or any part thereof, if deemed necessary or advisable, and apply the same for the use of said graded schools. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 366 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 366 AN ACT TO PAY SALLIE CALDWELL, A SCHOOL-TEACHER OF STANLY COUNTY, THE REMAINDER OF SALARY FOR THE SCHOOL TERM, 1904 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That Sallie Caldwell be paid the sum of seventeen and one-half dollars out of the school funds of district number one, colored race, Furrs Township, Stanly County. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 377 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTDR 377 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN WALKER- TOWN AND VICINITY IN FORSYTH COUNTY. The Generak Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the following boundary shall be and is hereby constituted a graded school for the white race in Walkertown and vicinity, including the territory now embraced in Public School District Number One, and all other territory within a radius of one and one-half miles in every direction from the public school-house jin the town of Walkertown, Forsyth County, North Carolina. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 381 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 381 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF KINGS MOUNTAIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced in the incorporate limits of the town of Kings Mountain shall be and is hereby constituted the Kings Mountain Graded School District for white and colored children. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 413 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 413 AN ACT TO BUILD A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING IN THE TOWN OF ASHBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Ashboro, as the boundaries of said town are on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and five, shall constitute a public school district for the white and colored children and shall be known and designated as Ashboro Graded School District. 1905 Private Laws Ch. 413 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 413 AN ACT TO BUILD A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING IN THE TOWN OF ASHBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish and maintain public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district, and said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as may be deemed just, fair and equitable to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 1 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 1 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH, IN THE COUNTY OF WAKE AND STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That until the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the corporate limits of the city of Raleigh shall be and remain as at present defined, and, until the said day, the territory bounded by and included within the following lines as external boundaries, to-wit: On the north by a line centered upon the center of Union Square and lying two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and five-tenths feet to the northward thereof, parallel with the TRUE center of Hillsboro Street and New Bern Avenue; on the south by a line centered as aforesaid and lying four thousand three hundred and fifty-one and five-tenths feet to the southward of said center, parallel with said first-described line; and on the east and west by a line parallel with the TRUE center of Fayetteville and Halifax streets, lying three thousand three hundred and seventy-nine and five-tenths feet to the eastward and v westward thereof, respectively, thereby intersecting and closing the extremities of the first and second described lines, shall constitute and be the territorial area of the city of Raleigh; and within twelve months after the ratification of this act the Board of Aldermen shall cause an accurate survey to be made of the exterior boundaries of the city, and it shall be their duty to erect upon each corner and upon every natural elevation intercepting the line of sight from any one corner to the next corners a firm and durable monument of stone, to be maintained by the city and protected from destruction, removal, defacement or other injury by a rigid enforcement of the penalties herein denounced against such crimes: Provided, that the tract of land conveyed to the city of Raleigh by R. S. Pullen, Esq., by deed dated March the twentysecond, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as recorded in book ninety-five, page four hundred and sixty-three, Register of Deeds office of Wake County, and known as Pullen Park, and all other territory which may be acquired by the city of Raleigh by purchase or donation or otherwise for park purposes, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased white persons (located northeast of the city of Raleigh), known as Oakwood Cemetery, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased colored persons (located southeast of the city of Raleigh), known as Mount Hope Cemetery, and that the tract of land conveyed to the city by D. M. Carter and wife by deed registered in book one hundred and sixtytwo at page one hundred and sixty-two in the office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, and the tract of land conveyed to the city by Laura Carter by deed registered in book one hundred and sixty-one at page four hundred and six in said Register of Deeds office of Wake County, which tracts of land are owned by the city for the purposes of maintaining a garbage farm and as a site for the smallpox hospital, shall also be included in the corporate limits of the city of Raleigh, and all ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted by the Board of Aldermen of said city shall be applicable to the territory included in said Pullen Park or other parks and in said cemeteries and said tracts of land as fully as if the said territory was embraced within the limits of the city of Raleigh. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 5 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 5 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MRS. M. A, STRADLEY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of the county school fund of Granville County be and he is authorized to pay to Mrs. M. A. Stradley, out of any unapportioned funds in his hands, the sum of nine dollars and sixty cents, balance due her for services as teacher in white school in Oxford Township, known as Cotton Mill Public School. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 14 Sec. 37 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 14 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 37 That it shall be the duty of the school commissioners to establish and maintain in the town graded schools, at least one for white children and one for colored children, and to appropriate the funds derived from the town taxes, levied and collected for education, and from all other sources for the maintenance of said schools, so as to equalize the school facilities between the races. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 15 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 15 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS LULA SWINDELL, A PUBLIC SCHOOL-TEACHER OF HYDE COUNTY. te yi 4 he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Hyde County be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Miss Lula Swindell, a public school-teacher of Hyde County, or to her order, the sum of ten dollars and ninety-two cents ($10.92) out of the school funds now in his hands or that may hereafter come into his hands to the credit of district ten for the white race, Currituck Township. Se 1907 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE RAMSEUR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the special-tax election held in public school district number one, white race, Columbia Township, on the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, under and by the authority of section twenty-four, chapter four hundred and thirty-five, Acts of one thousand nine hundred and three, as amended by section fourteen, chapter five hundred and _ thirtythree, Acts of one thousand nine hundred and five, be and the same is hereby declared legal and valid in all respects, and all property now in said boundary described in section one of this act, or that may be in said boundary at any future times, shall be taxed thirty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation, and each poll ninety cents, for the support of a system of public graded schools for white children, as hereinafter provided. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE RAMSEUR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 It shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish and maintain in said district a system of public graded schools for the white children resident therein between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the board of trustees shall have exclusive control of such schools, shall employ, fix the compensation of, and dismiss teachers and officers, and exercise all other powers which they may deem necessary for the proper and successful operation of said schools. That rules and regulations made and adopted by said board of trustees for the government of said schools shall be as valid and binding on the teachers, officers and P pupils of said Ramseur graded schools as are any of the provi- sions of this act. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE RAMSEUR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That all public school property, both real and personal, ' now belonging to the public school of district number one, white: race, Columbia Township, Randolph County, North Carolina, and the title thereto, shall be vested in said board of trustees. Said trustees may in their discretion sell the same or any part thereof, and apply the same to the use of said graded schools as in their c judgment they deem best. Said board of trustees shall have the right to provide buildings and equipment for said schools in their discretion, and they are hereby empowered to pay for same out of any moneys that may come into their hands for the use of said schools. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 32 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE RAMSEUR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That said board of trustees shall cause to be taken, in the month of August of each year, an accurate census of the white children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, as required _ by the general school law, and shall furnish a copy of said census to the County Superintendent of Schools on or before the first Monday of September of each year; and the said board of trustees shall cause said census to be recorded in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, and deliver the same to the superintendent or principal of the graded schools on or before the opening of said graded schools each year. - 1907 Private Laws Ch. 39 Sec. 108 Identified by: model CHAPTER 39 AN ACT TO REVISE AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 108 That it shall be the duty of said board of school trustees to establish separate schools for the white and colored children of said school district, and they may grade the schools for either race, and shall appropriate and use the funds from special taxes and from State and county school fund in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, due regard being had to difference in cost of maintaining and the requirements of said schools: Provided, donations and income for benefit of any special school shall be so applied. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 45 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 45 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE MARLBORO GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the following described boundary, to-wit: Beginning at T. C. Spencers corner in the east line of E. E. Spencer; thence north to road leading baghes Seay out from E. E. Spencers house to public road running with C. 8 Spencer's line; thence in an easterly direction with said road to said public road; thence in a northerly direction with said public road to A. G. Fraziers line; thence east with said Fraziers line to B. F. Ridge and the Ragan heirs corner; thence in an easterly direction with the southern boundary of the Ragan heirs line to J. T. Spencers corner; thence east with south line to Ruth Davis line; thence with said Ruth Davis line around southern boundary to H. H. Beesons line; thence east on H. H. Beesons line to R. L. Davis line; thence east on R. L. Davis line to D. S. Davis line; thence south on D. S. Davis line to Thomas Coltranes line; thence east on Thomas Coltranes north line to E. Swains line; thence south on EB. Swains line to H. Fentress line; thence south on H. Fentress line to Hoover Road; thence along said public road, crossing the railroad at the fourteenth mile-post, to Frank Sniders line; thence in a southwesterly direction, bounding on Clark Sniders line, to Back Creek Township line; thence west with said township line to the southwest corner of district (old survey); thence in a northerly direction along Caraway School District line, bounding on Sydney Davis east line, T. E. Farlows west line, Eliza Foxs east line, Davis and Osbornes west line, J. R. Walls west line, Alvis Vuncanons east line; thence on T. O. Spencers line to the beginning, be and the same is hereby incorporated under the name and style of Marlboro Graded School District for White Children. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 50 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 50 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MATTIE POTILLO AND MRS, MATTIE JENNINGS, OF CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Miss Mattie Potillo the sum of twelve dollars and thirty cents out of the school funds now in his hands, or that may come into his hands, to the credit of district number five, for the white race, in Anderson Township, in said county, the said sum being due her as balance for teaching in said district in the year one thousand nine hundred and six. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 50 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 50 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS MATTIE POTILLO AND MRS, MATTIE JENNINGS, OF CASWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the said Treasurer of Caswell County is likewise authorized and directed to pay to Mrs. Mattie Jennings the sum of thirty-one dollars and seventeen cents out of the school funds now in his hands, or that may come into his hands, to the credit of district number eighteen, for the white race, in Leasburg Township, in said county, the said sum being balance due her for teaching in said district in the year one thousand nine hundred and six. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 51 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 51 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCA- TION OF GRANVILLE COUNTY TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT IN OAK HILL TOWNSHIP. Whereas, there are some thirty or thirty-five white children of school age in Oak Hill Township, Granville County, who cannot reach any public school in the county because of the fact that there are several dangerous creeks between the locality in which said children reside and the public schools as now located; and whereas, there exists a necessity for the establishment in said township of a special school district, with less than sixty-five white children of school age therein, in order that the children living between said creeks may have the benefits of the public schools; and whereas, the County Board of Education of Granville County recommends the establishment of a special school district in said township, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the County Board of Education of Granville County be and it is hereby authorized to establish a special school district in Oak Hill Township, for the white race, with less than sixty-five white children of school age therein, the boundaries of the said special school district to be fixed by the said county board of education, so that the school therein shall be located and taught not more than one mile from Evans store, in said township. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 58 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HIGHLAND, CATAWBA COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 That the said board of school trustees shall apportion the money raised and received for educational purposes in said town as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools for both races, separate schools to be provided for each race. If the number for either race and the fund therefor is insufficient to maintain a graded school, the fund may be applied for a public free school for said race, under the control of the said board. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 82 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 82 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF BEARGRASS TOWNSHIP, IN MARTIN COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS TO BUILD A PUBLIC SCHOOL HOUSE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the school committee of district number eighteen, white, Beargrass Township, Martin County, be authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the denomination of one hundred dollars each to the extent of five hundred dollars ($500), for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a public school building in said school district. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed six per cent. per annum, and the interest on said bonds shall be paid and one-fifth of the whole number redeemed each year by using the funds apportioned to the said school by the county board of education. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 89 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 839 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WADESBOROUGH GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory embraced within the following bounds, to-wit: a square extending one and one-half miles north, south, east and west from the center of the intersection of Wade and Green Streets, in the town of Wadesborough, county of Anson, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Wadesborough Graded School District. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 130 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 130 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JACK PARKER, COLORED. he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Board of Education of Stanly County are ereby authorized to pay to Jack Parker, colored, twenty-four dols and twenty cents, for services rendered as_ public-school sacher in the Harris Township, District Number One, colored, anly County. _ 1907 Private Laws Ch. 130 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 130 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JACK PARKER, COLORED. he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said twenty-four dollars and twenty cents shall be D id out of the funds of District Number Two (2), colored, in Harr s Township, Stanly County. _ 1907 Private Laws Ch. 135 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 135 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. T. BRYANT AND MISS OLIVE ANDERSON, PUBLIC-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF CAS- WELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and he is hereby directed to pay to W. T. Bryant the sum of twelve dollars and twenty-five cents out of the school funds now in his hands or that may come into his hands to the credit of District Number Twenty-nine for the white race, in Milton Township, in said county; said sum being balance due for teaching in said district in the year one thousand nine hundred and five. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 135 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 135 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. T. BRYANT AND MISS OLIVE ANDERSON, PUBLIC-SCHOOL TEACHERS OF CAS- WELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said treasurer is likewise hereby authorized and directed to pay to Miss Olive Anderson the sum of six dollars and twenty-five cents out of the school funds now in his hands or that may come into his hands to the credit of District Number Fortyone for the white race, in Yanceyville Township, in said county ; said sum being balance due her for teaching in said district in the year one thousand nine hundred and five. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 140 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 140 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ELIZABETH CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory in Pasquotank County within the following boundaries, to-wit: All that portion of said county included in Elizabeth City Township and that portion of Nixonton ~ Township which is within the corporate limits of Elizabeth City, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as Elizabeth City Graded School District. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 140 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 140 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ELIZABETH CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district, and said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed. by the donor. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 149 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 149 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE GLENOLA RURAL GRADED SCHOOL, IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory embraced within the following described boundary, to-wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of S. T. Hills land, thence west to the northwest corner of said Hills lands; thence south to T. O. Marshs southeast corner, in Caraway Special School Tax District line; thence in southerly and easterly directions, with the various courses of said Caraway district line. to the district line of the Marlboro graded school; thence with said line in an easterly direction to R. L. Davis southeast corner; thence with the east and north boundaries of said R. L. Davis to A. J. Spencers line; thence in a northerly direction with said A. J. Spencers line, around his lands on the east, to C. F. Coltraines line; thence with said C. F. Coltraines east, north and west lines to E. L. Tomlinsons line; thence in a westerly direction with said E. L. Tomlinsons north line to W. O. Anthonys line; thence with said W. O. Anthonys line in a westerly direction and around his lands on the north to E. 8 Grays lands; thence around said E. S. Grays lands on the north to G. G. Gray's line; thence in a northerly direction to the northeast corner of said G. G. Grays land; thence in a westerly direction with said G. G. Grays north line to J. W. Richardsons line; thence in a westerly direction with said J. W. Richardsons north line to Glencoe school-house lot; thence with the north line of said Glencoe school-house lot to J. R. Trotters line; thence with said J. R. Trotters north line to R. L. Whites line; thence on said R. L. Whites north line to the line of the E. E. Pugh lands; thence with the east, north and west lines of the said E. E. Pugh lands to Timber road; thence with said road to the beginning, be nd the same is hereby incorporated under the name and style of Glenola Rural Graded School District for White Children. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 161 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 161 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF J. A. HENRY, A PUBLIC- SCHOOL TEACHER OF ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay J. A. Henry the sum of sixty dollars ($60) out of any public school money now due, or which may hereafter become due, District Number One for colored race, in Ansonville Township; said sum being a balance due him for services rendered in said district as teacher. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 172 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 172 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MARY A. WATKINS, A PUB- LIC-SCHOOL TEACHER OF ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Mary A. Watkins the sum of fifteen dollars and sixty-five cents ($15.65) out of any public school money now due, or which may hereafter become due District Number Five for colored race, Lilesville Township ; said sum being a balance due for services rendered as teacher. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 173 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 173 ,AN ACT TO CHANGE THE BOUNDARIES OF MAPLEVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN FRANKLIN COUNTY. ; The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the boundary lines of Public School District 3 Number Two of the white race in Louisburg Township, Franklin County, known as the Mapleville District, be changed so that where the line of said district goes through the lands or home 4 place of J. H. Wheless, the said boundary lines shall, instead, fol- _low the boundaries of the said home place of J. H. Wheless, so as to leave the said home place of J. H. Wheless out of said disBe trict. _ 1907 Private Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE FRANKLINVILLE GRADED SCHOOL, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the following described boundary, to-wit: Beginning on the north bank of Deep River, where the line between Franklinville and Columbia Townships crosses said river, thence north with said township line to the north side of H. H. Elders lands; thence west with H. H. Elders north line, and also with the north lines of Frank Jones, R. W. Jordan and J. M. Allred, to New Year Wombles northeast corner; thence around said Wombles lands on the north and west side to W. P. Moons northwest corner; thence south with Moons west line to Bush Creek; thence down said creek with its various courses to T. A. Wrenns line; thence with said T, A. Wrenns west line to the northwest corner of the lands belonging to Franklinville Manufacturing Company ; thence southwest with the said lands of the Franklinville Manufacturing Company to Deep River; thence across said river; thence up said Deep River with its various courses to the mouth of Alder Branch (on the south side of said river); thence up said branch, and with the lines between C. H. Julian and J. F. S. Julian, across Ashboro and Franklinville public road, to a stake in Ellison and Wrights line; thence east with said Wrights line to the public road; thence south along said public road to Henry Allreds southwest corner; thence east with said Allreds line to a point where said Henry Allreds and B. H. Cheeks lands corner ; thence around on south side of B. H. Cheeks and J. A. Cheeks lands to I. H. Pughs line; thence around said I. H. Pughs lands on the south side to the A. J. Curtis lands; thence around said Curtis lands on the south side to G. H. Yorks line; thence on north side of Yorks farm to G. H. Blacks line; thence east to Charles Hensons line; thence around said Charles Hensons lands with his south line to his southeast corner; thence in a northerly direction with said Hensons line to A. B. Steels; thence along said Steels line to H. J. Uptons northeast corner in said Steels line; thence in an easterly direction to Deep River; thence across Deep River to the beginning, be and the same is hereby incorporated under the name and style of Franklinville Graded School District for White Children. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE FRANKLINVILLE GRADED SCHOOL, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That all public school property, both real and personal, now belonging to the public school of District Number Three, white race, Franklinville Township, Randolph County, North Carolina, and the title thereto, shall be vested in said board of trustees. Said trustees may, in their discretion, sell the same or any part thereof, and apply the same to the use of said graded schools as in their judgment they may deem best; said trustees shall have the right to provide buildings and equipment for said schools in their discretion, and they are hereby empowered to pay for same out of any moneys that may come into their hands for the use of said schools. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 186 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 186 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE FRANKLINVILLE GRADED SCHOOL, RANDOLPH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That said board of trustees shall cause to be taken, in the month of August of each year, an accurate census of the white children between the ages of six and twenty-one years residing in. said district, as required by the general school law, and shall furnish a copy of said census for the county superintendent of said schools on or before the first Monday in September of each year; and the said board of trustees shall cause said census to be recorded in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, and shall deliver the same to the superintendent or principal at or before the opening of said schools each year. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 188 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN CAMERON DISTRICT, GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, MOORE COUNTY, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORT OF THE SAME. ' The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: : Sec. 1 That all the territory in Greenwood Township, Moore County, and in the town of Cameron, embraced within the folowing boundaries is hereby constituted a public school district or white and colored children, to be known as the Cameron raded School District: Beginning at the ford of Herds Creek, etween Angus Fergusons and George Coles, and running as the oad in an easterly direction to G. S. Coles line; thence as G. 8S. oles and Matthews line in the direction of Cameron to J. W. ows southwest corner; thence as Yows line to his and Rachel lues corner in Hartsells line; thence with Hartsells line in the irection of Cameron to William Rogers corner in the Cat Tail ranch; thence with the branch, which is Rogers line, to the eith line; thence with Rogers line in an easterly direction cross the Crains Creek and across the Seaboard Air Line Railad to Rogers corner; thence with the railroad and Rogers line Crains Creek: thence up the creek to T. B. Goodwins corner mn said creek; thence with his line to the southwest corner of ohn MeDonalds land; thence with his line to the southwest corner of the John Kelleys land; thence with the south line of e Kelley land to the Fergus Ferguson land; thence with the south and east line of the Ferguson land to the Fayetteville road; ence as Fayetteville road in the direction of Cameron to wanns Station road; thence as Swanns Station road in the direcon of Swanns Station to a point in the road opposite where the ichardson dwelling was burned; thence as the road leading om said point by way of Mrs. Elizabeth M. McFaydens farm, in westerly direction to N. T. Arnolds, on Gulf plank road; thence as said road to George Browders mill; thence as the road leading i vrester's direction to N. T. Arnolds, on Gulf plank road; thence is Said road in the direction of Gulf about one-fourth mile to road ding to old Carthage plank road; thence as said road in the rection of Carthage to ford on Herds Creek near Mrs. Belle Mcers; thence down said creek to the beginning. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 11 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 188 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN CAMERON DISTRICT, GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, MOORE COUNTY, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORT OF THE SAME. ' The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: : Sec. 11 It shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to establish and keep up a public graded school in said district for the white children, and one for the colored children of said district; and the said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from the said special taxes and from all other sources, and shall be just and equitable to both white and colored races, giving each equal facilities, having due regard, however, to the relative cost of keeping up and maintaining the graded schools for both races. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 188 Sec. 15 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 188 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN CAMERON DISTRICT, GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, MOORE COUNTY, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORT OF THE SAME. ' The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: : Sec. 15 That said trustees may elect a principal for the graded school for white children (who may be superintendent), and shall elect a principal for the graded school for colored children annually, on the first Tuesday of June in each year, or subsequently, as the best interest of the schools may require. In the election of teachers preference shall be given to those applicants who attend some school or method in teaching. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ROANOKE RAPIDS, IN HALIFAX COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Roanoke Rapids, and all of that portion of Halifax County not embraced within said corporate limits but lying contiguous thereto, within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at a point on Roanoke River, being the dividing line between the farms of the estate of M. A. Hamilton, deceased, and the late B. W. Bass tract; thence south to the canal of the Roanoke Navigation and Water-power Company; thence down the canal to Medlin and Fulghums line; thence a straight line to the Weldon and Gaston County road; thence west along said county road to Tilghmans Cross Roads; thence along the southern: fork of the county road to Chockoyotte Creek; thence up Chockoyotte Creek as it meanders to the dividing line between the J. C. Simmons tract and John D. Shaws line; thence along the western line of the J. C. Simmons tract to the northwestern corner of said tract, on the canal bank of the Roanoke Navigation and Water-power Company; thence from this last named point due north to the bank of the Roanoke River; thence down said river as it meanders to the point of beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 12 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ROANOKE RAPIDS, IN HALIFAX COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said district: And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as shall be deemed just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WINDSOR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN BERTIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following territory in Windsor Township, in Bertie County, State of North Carolina, to-wit: Beginning at Cashie River at the county farm at Austin; thence running along the southern line of said farm to Cashie Neck and Windsor public road; thence up said public road to the church and Reeves old railroad bed; thence along said old railroad bed to the public road leading from the Heckstall farm to the Windsor and Colerain public road; thence along said public road by J. B. Stokes residence to the Windsor and Colerain public road to Cashie bridge, at Cashie River to Hoddards mill; thence down Cashie River to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby constituted a public school district fer white and colored children, to be known as The Windsor Graded School District. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WINDSOR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN BERTIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the special taxes levied and collected under this act and said thirty-seven and a half per cent. of the net profits of said dispensary shall, together with any funds received from other sources, be expended in keeping up separate schools for the white and colored children in said districts, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 13 Identified by: model CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WINDSOR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN BERTIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 13 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district in accordance with the provision of this act; and said board of school trustees shall have exclusive control of all public schools in said district, free from the sypervision and control of the county board of education, and shall prescribe the qualifications, employ and fix the compensation of all officers and teachers of such schools; shall prescribe rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this act, for their own government of such schools; shall cause to be taken from time to time, in accordance with the general school law of this State, an accurate census of the school population of said school district, and shall exercise such other powers as may be necessary for the successful control and operation of said graded schools: Provided, that the County Board of Education of Bertie County, until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, shall exercise over the public schools in said district all such powers as have heretofore been exercised by said board of education over the public schools in said county: Provided further, that on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, the said county board of education shall turn over to said board of graded school trustees all public school property in said graded school district. And the treasurer of Bertie County school funds shall, on said thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seven, pay to the treasurer of said board of graded school trustees all funds in his hands belonging to the public schools in said graded school district. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 206 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 206 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 4382, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1901, AND CHAPTER 16, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1903, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO LEVY A SPE- CIAL TAX FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE CARNEGIE PUB- LIC LIBRARY. e General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That for the purpose of providing an adequate ap- } propriation for the support of the Charlotte Carnegie Public Library for white people, in the city of Charlotte, the board of aldermen of said city shall annually, and at the time of levying Other city taxes, levy and lay a particular tax on all persons and subjects of taxation on which said board now are or may be hereafter authorized to lay and levy taxes for any purpose whatever, said particular tax not to be more than three cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation on property, and not more than nine cents on each poll within said city. The taxes provided for in this act shall be collected in the manner and at the time other city taxes are collected, and shall be accounted for and kept separate from other taxes, and shall be applied by said board of aldermen to the purpose for which they are levied and collected. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 232 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE IOTLA GRADED SCHOOL DIS- TRICT, IN MACON COUNTY, AND PROVIDE FOR THE RUNNING AND MAINTENANCE OF A GRADED SCHOOL THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That the board of graded school trustees shall have exclusive control of all the school interests and property in said graded school district. They shall establish, run, operate and maintain a graded public school at the Iotla graded or high school building, for white children and pupils; and they shall adopt, to >be used in said school, the text-books recommended by the State Board of Education, together with such other text-books as said board of trustees shall deem necessary for the best interests of said graded school and pupils, and shall fix the rates of tuition to be paid for the same in all the grades: Provided, that children of the school age living in the district shall not be required to pay tuition during the public school term. They may admit pupils residing outside the limits of said district upon such terms as shall seem reasonable and just: Provided, there shall be accommodations more than adequate for all the pupils or children of school age, living within the limits of said graded school district. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 232 Sec. 10 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 232 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE IOTLA GRADED SCHOOL DIS- TRICT, IN MACON COUNTY, AND PROVIDE FOR THE RUNNING AND MAINTENANCE OF A GRADED SCHOOL THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 10 That, for the purpose of elevating the standard of education and supplying the public schools with more efficient teachers, a high school or training department, to which advanced pupils, and those pledging and obligating themselves to become teachers, and public school teachers of Macon County may have access, Shall be established in said graded school, in accordance with such laws as are or may be enacted establishing public high schools in this State. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 235 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 235 AN ACT TO AMEND THE AURORA GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That for the purposes of providing for and defraying the expense of the Aurora Graded School District for white and colored children, provided for in this act, the Board of Town Commissioners of the Town of Aurora shall annually and at the time of levying the municipal taxes levy and lay a particular tax on all persons, property and subjects of taxation within the limits of the Aurora Graded School District, as heretofore described, on which said board of town commissioners may now or hereafter be authorized to lay or levy taxes for any purpose whatsoever. The said particular taxes to be and remain the same as when the original Aurora graded school was first established, which is thirty cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation on all personal and real property of whatsoever kind and ninety cents on each taxable poll of said district. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 235 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 235 AN ACT TO AMEND THE AURORA GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district. The said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed. by the donors. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 237 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 237 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF CANTON TO ISSUE BONDS AMOUNTING TO $65,000 FOR A WATER SUPPLY. SEWERAGE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO MEET THE INTEREST AND PAY SAID BONDS, AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Canton, Haywood County, shall be and is hereby constituted the Canton Graded School District for white and colored children. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 237 Sec. 15 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 237 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF CANTON TO ISSUE BONDS AMOUNTING TO $65,000 FOR A WATER SUPPLY. SEWERAGE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO MEET THE INTEREST AND PAY SAID BONDS, AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 15 That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish a graded school for the white children and one for the colored children of said town, if any; and to appropriate the funds derived from said special tax and all other sources for said graded schools for white and colored children so as to equalize school facilities between the two races. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 237 Sec. 18 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 237 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF CANTON TO ISSUE BONDS AMOUNTING TO $65,000 FOR A WATER SUPPLY. SEWERAGE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO MEET THE INTEREST AND PAY SAID BONDS, AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 18 That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools of said town shall become the property of the said graded schools, and shall be vested in the said board of trustees and its successors in trust for said graded schools: Provided, that in the event of the discontinuance of said graded schools all the property thereto belonging shall revert to and become the property of the said public schools of said town: Provided further, that the said property belonging to or used for the graded school for white children shall revert to the public schools of said town for white children, and the property belonging to or used for the graded school for the colored children shall revert to the public school for colored children of said town. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 256 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 256 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SAMARIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, NUMBER FOUR, WHITE RACH, IN FERRELLS TOWNSHIP, NASH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the following boundaries shall constitute a public school district, to-wit: Beginning on the Raleigh and Tarboro road at Turkey Creek bridge, thence down said creek to the Wilson road; thence around the Dennis Simmons Lumber Companys land (said land being known as the Boon place) to Z. F. Brantleys place or line, and thence around the same to the road; thence up said road to a path; thence up said path to S. Hopkins land, including same, to Edwards land, including same, to C. C. Smiths land; ineluding same; thence up path to the Raleigh road; thence, including the lands of W. A. Murray and George W. Ferrell, to Spring Hlope road; thence with said road, including the lands of B. . Cone, Bettie Cone and A. R. Griffin, to a prong of Turkey Creek; thence up said creek to White Oak Branch; thence up said branch to G. W. Paces corner and including the lands of J. lL. Cornwall, L. H. Griffin, T. B. and D. S. Cone; thence east, including the lands as follows: Octavia Cone, Earp land, the Tayborne land, Charles Sanders land, C. B. Brantleys land, W. D. Murrays land, Denton land and A. N. Cone land; thence along Spring {lope road to Raleigh road; thence up said road to the beginning. The said territory so bounded shall constitute a public school district for the white race, to be known as the Samaria School District Number Four, in Ferrells Township, Nash County, North Carolina. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 262 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MOCKSVILLE GRADED SCHOOLS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corpoate limits of the town of Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina, shall be and the same is hereby constituted a school district for white and colored children to be known as the Mocksville Graded School District. _ 1907 Private Laws Ch. 262 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MOCKSVILLE GRADED SCHOOLS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 The board of graded school trustees shall establish graded public schools for the white and colored children for said town, and the said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from special taxes and from other sources in such manner as it may deem just to both races. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 268 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 268 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. H. BURWELL AND A. H. HAUGHAWONT, PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN CAS- WELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to W. H. Burwell, out of school funds of District Number Sixteen, colored race, which may come or now are in his hands belonging to said district, the sum of thirty dollars and twenty-three cents, being amount due him 1907Cuarrer 268269., for teaching the public school in said district for the year one thousand nine hundred and five; said claim being approved by _ township committeemen, county superintendent and county board of education. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 268 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 268 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. H. BURWELL AND A. H. HAUGHAWONT, PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN CAS- WELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the Treasurer of Caswell County be also authorized and directed to pay to A. H. Haughawont, out of school funds of District Number Five, colored race, which may come or are now in his hands belonging to said district, the sum of twenty-five dollars, being the amount due him for teaching the public school in the said district for the year one thousand nine hundred and six; said claim being approved by township committeemen, county superintendent and county board of education. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 285 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 285 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MISS CLAUDIA WILEY, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER OF ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Anson County be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Miss Claudia Wiley, a public school teacher of Anson County, or to her order the sum of twenty-eight dollars and fifteen cents ($28.15) out of the school funds now in his hands or that may hereafter come into his hands to the credit of District Number One for the white race of Lilesville Township, said sum being due said Miss Claudia Wiley as a balance for teaching a public school in Anson County in the year one thousand nine hundred and five. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 297 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 297 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CASWELL COUNTY TO BE KNOWN AS SEMORA GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory, lying and being in Caswell County, in Milton Township, covering Milton School Districts Numbers Thirty-one and Thirty-two, bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stake in the Person County line at a point where it is intersected by the line of School District Number Thirty, near John W. Smiths residence; thence with said Person County line north to the Virginia and North Carolina State line; thence west along said Virginia and North Carolina State line to a stake near Miss Elizabeth Connellys; thence south along known lines of School Districts Thirty-one and Thirty-two to the corner stake in Leesburg Township line, near M. P. Hixs residence; thence east with the line of District Number Thirty to the beginning, near John W. Smiths, be incorporated into and established as a special tax school district for the white race and colored race, to be known as Semora Graded School. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 298 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 298 AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF WINDSOR TO CON- VEY CERTAIN SCHOOL PROPERTY TO THE WINDSOR GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Windsor, in Bertie County, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to convey by deed executed by said mayor and clerk of said town and all of the said commissioners the property on Queen Street, known as the Windsor Academy lot, together with all buildings thereon; which said property shall be held by the Trustees of the Windsor Graded School District for the purpose of a public school for the white race of said graded school district. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 305 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER OF RANDOLPH COUNTY TO PAY A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER OF SAID COUNTY REMAINDER OF SALARY FOR 1905 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of the County Board of Education of Randolph County is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Daisy G. Cross the sum of twenty dollars out of any moneys appropriated to District Number One, Union Township of said county, for colored race. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 314 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 314 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF WISH, WARREN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the following bounds, including the town of Wise, to-wit: Beginning at a point on South Creek where the Virginia line crosses said creek, thence up said creek to the mouth of Terrapin Creek; thence up said Terrapin Creek to the southwest corner of Daniel Hicks land; thence along Daniel Hicks line eastwardly to John Robinsons line or ridge path; thence southwardly along said Robinsons line and ridge path to the southwest corner of said Robinsons land; thence eastwardly along said Robinsons line to Hawtree Township line; thence southwardly along said Hawtree Township line to the south side of N. B. Weldons land; thence along the south side of said Weldons land; thence along the north side of John Cawthorns land; thence along the south side of P. R. Perkinsons land to the public road; thence northwardly along said road to the southwest corner of Richard Stevensons estate; thence along the south side of the Stevenson land to the Falkner land; thence east to Hawtree Creek; thence down Hawtree Creek to the Virginia line; thence along said line weswardly to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Wise Graded School District. , 1907 Private Laws Ch. 325 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 325 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR IN LAKEVIEW SCHOOL DIS- TRICT NO. 2, WHITE RACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell or otherwise dispose of for gain or remuneration any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or any substance, either liquid or solid, that produces or may produce intoxication, inside the boundaries of Lakeview School District Number Two for white race, in Moore County. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 342 Sec. 198 Identified by: model CHAPTER 342 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE STATUTES THAT CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE, AND TO EXTEND THE CORPO- RATE LIMITS OF SAID CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 198 That said board of school commissioners shall have power and authority to establish and maintain a library in connection with each school building, which shall be free for the use of the teachers and students of the graded schools of said city ; and shall have the power to acquire by donation, purchase or otherwise books, charts, maps, periodicals and other publications and property of every kind suitable for such library, and shall arrange for separate books and publications for the white and colored races, and provide separate rooms for the use of each of said races. And the said board of school commissioners shall have the power to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use of such library as it may deem proper, and to do all acts and things necessary for the successful maintenance and operation of said library. The expense of equipping and maintaining the same shall be paid out of the school revenues of said city of Charlotte. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 343 Sec. 74 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 343 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LUMBERTON. Whereas, numerous acts have been heretofore enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina relating to the town of Lum- berton, which now constitute the charter of said town; and whereas, it is deemed advisable by the authorities and citizens of said town that the numerous acts of assembly relating thereto should be revised, consolidated and amended to the end that the charter of said town shall be contained in one act of the General Assembly: therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 74 Any and all amounts which may be apportioned from the county school fund or from the State of North Carolina for Said district under the general school law of the State or under any other act of assembly or otherwise, shall be hereafter paid direct by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the said board of graded school trustees; and the said graded school district shall be entitled to receive a proportionate amount of all funds to the credit of the public school districts, white and colored, in which the town of Lumberton was located just prior to the pasSage of this act, which may be in the hands of the county treasurer at the time of the ratification of this act, such proportionate part of said funds to be determined in accordance as the number of children contained in the graded school district hereby established bears to the total number of children in the public school district in which said town of Lumberton was located just prior to the passage of this act, and the county treasurer shall at once ascertain such proportion and pay over such proportionate part of such funds to the treasurer of the said graded school district. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 369 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 369 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MARION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section one, chapter two hundred and fortyseven of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three be amended by striking out all of lines one to ten inclusive at the top of page five hundred and sixty-five, and inserting in lieu thereof the words then north twenty-six degrees west with Johnson Street to Fern Avenue, then west with Fern Avenue to a stake, and by striking out the words northeast corner of the. D. E. Hudgins and Ed. Conly, in line twelve, and inserting in lieu thereof the words southeast corner of the Colored Methodist Church. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 386 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 386 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF MRS. HARRIET VAUGHN, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER OF STOKES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the County Board of Education of Stokes! County is hereby authorized and empowered to pay to Mrs. Har- * riet Vaughn, out of the funds apportioned to white School District Number Eight, Meadow Township, Stokes County, such sum as said board may find honestly and justly due her for services rendered as teacher of the public school in said district during the year one thousand nine hundred and three. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 424 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 424 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said county commissioners in said town, at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to registration in such ward. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 425 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 425 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF PINE LEVEL, IN JOHNSTON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time.and place designated by said town commissioners in said town, at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to Keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 432 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 432 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF PENDER COUNTY TO ORDER AN ELECTION, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX IN SPECIAL SCHOOL-DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, IN BURGAW TOWNSHIP, PENDER COUNTY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A GRADED SCHOOL BUILD- ING IN SAID DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses of erecting a graded school building in Special School District Number One, for the white race, Burgaw Township, Pender County, the Board of Commissioners of Pender County is hereby authorized to levy a special tax of not exceeding twelve cents on each one hundred dollars valuation, and thirty-six cents on every taxable poll within said special tax district, at the same time as other general taxes are levied, the same to be computed, collected and accounted for in the same manner, under the same conditions and penalties, and at the same time as other general and special taxes are levied, collected and settled, and the funds derived therefrom shall constitute a special building fund to be used by the trustees or special school district committee to pay for the erection and equipment of a graded school building for said district for the white race. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 449 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 449 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF J. L. GLASS, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER IN DISTRICT No. 3, WILKESBORO TOWNSHIP, WILKES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Wilkes County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to J. L. Glass, teacher in Public School District Number Three for Wilkesboro Township, Wilkes County, for the white race, the sum of seventeen and fortysix one-hundredths dollars ($17.46) for services as such teacher in said district for the years one thousand nine hundred and five and one thousand nine hundred and six, out of any money now due said district or any that may hereafter become due the same. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 482 Sec. 52 Identified by: model CHAPTER 482 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 52 For the purposes and benefits of this act the said territory shall be and constitute a public school district for the white race. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 482 Sec. 56 Identified by: model CHAPTER 482 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARTHAGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 56 The school committee created by this act may elect annually a superintendent for the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for whites if the same shall be established. The said superintendent shall ' examine all applicants for teachers positions in said school, and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the said school committee. 1907 Private Laws Ch. 506 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 506 AN ACT TO RELIEVE D. I. MASSEY, PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER IN WAKE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 Upon approval of the Committee of District Number Five, white race, Wake Forest Township, Wake County, the County Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wake County may, if satisfied of the justice of the claim, approve the voucher of one D. I. Massey, public school teacher in the above-named district, for the sum of forty dollars ($40), the same being compensation for teaching the public school in the said district for the term of sixty-six days on a third grade certificate. In the General Assembly read three times, and ratified this the 11th day of March, A. D. 1907 1908 extra Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 58 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Beaufort, and also all the territory embraced and included as it is now laid out in the present Public School District Number Eighteen, in Beaufort Township, shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as the Beaufort Graded School District. 1908 extra Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 58 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That in case a majority of the qualified voters of the said Beaufort Graded School District shall be in favor of such tax, the Board of Commissioners of Carteret County shall, in ad-_ dition to other taxes laid upon said school district, annually compute and levy, at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property of white and colored persons of said Beaufort Graded School District to raise such a sum of money as the trustees of said graded schools in said graded school district shall deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools, which sum shall not exceed thirty cents on one hundred dollars valuation of property and ninety cents on each poll. The said trustees, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, upon their appointment and qualification after the election herein provided for, shall meet and organize and report to the Commissioners of Carteret County what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the first year; and annually thereafter the said trustees, thirty days prior to the time for levying the county taxes, shall report to the said Board of Commissioners of Carteret County what sum is necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the next year. The taxes levied for the support of said schools, as hereinafter provided, shall be annually collected as other taxes are collected, and paid over by the sheriff or other collecting officer to the Treasurer of Carteret County for the safe-keeping and proper distribution of the same, and the said tax levied and collected for said graded schools shall be kept sacred and separate and distinct from other taxes by the said officers, and shall be used only for the purposes for which they were levied and collected. 1908 extra Private Laws Ch. 58 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 58 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said Beaufort Graded School District, and the said board of _trustees shall use and appropriate the funds derived from said special tax herein provided for in such manner as shall be just to both races, without prejudice, and giving to each equal school facilities, due regard being had, however, to the costs of establishing and maintaining the graded schools for each race. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 11 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 11 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE BOARD OF GRADED- SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF LUMBERTON. Whereas heretofore parts of certain public-school districts within the county of Robeson which included the town of Lumber- ton were consolidated into one district, which was thereafter known as White Public-school District Number One, for Lumber- ton Township; and whereas, thereafter, by taxation, a fund was aised and used in the purchase of a lot in the town of Lumber- ton, on Walnut Street, lying between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, in the town of Lumberton, and containing about one acre; and whereas thereafter certain money was borrowed from the State of North Carolina and used in the erection of a building upon said lot; and whereas by act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, at the session of one thousand nine hundred and seven, the town of Lumberton was made a graded-school district and was authorized by law to receive all public moneys raised from property in said district ; and whereas said district has issued bonds and has erected a large and commodious graded-school building in said town of Lumberton, and has also voted a special tax for the maintenance of said graded school; and whereas on this account the property belonging to the old public-school dis- trict, above referred to, has ceased to be used for school purposes, and there now exists no longer any reason for using said property for school purposes; and whereas it is advisable that said property should be sold and disposed of, in order that the fund derived therefrom may be used for educational purposes; and whereas it is just and proper that, inasmuch as the territory now embraced within said graded-school district originally furnished by far the larger part of the fund from which said property was purchased, said territory should receive the benefit of the money to be raised upon a sale of said property ; and whereas the indebtedness to the State of North Carolina upon said property has never been fully paid and the sum of four hundred and forty-eight dollars is now due thereon; and whereas the authorities of the said graded- school district have indicated their willingness to assume the pay- ment of this debt to the State, and have further offered to pay over for the benefit of that portion of the old public-school district which lies on the west side of Lumber River the sum of two bhun- dred dollars, this being its proportionate part and share in the said property, said money to be paid to the State and to said dis- trict upon the execution and delivery to said graded-school trus- tees of a deed conveying to them the said property in fee simple; and whereas this proposition having been submited to the County Board of Education of Robeson County, the said board approved the same, and is willing to execute said deed upon receiving the necessary authority from the General Assembly of North Caro- lina: therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That upon the assumption by the board of gradedschool trustees of the town of Lumberton of the indebtedness to the State of North Carolina of four hundred and forty-eight dollars upon the property hereinafter described, and upon the payment by said board to the County Board of Education of Robeson County of the sum of two hundred dollars, that the said county board of education of the county of Robeson be and it is hereby authorized, directed and instructed to execute and deliver to the said board of graded-school trustees of said town of Lumberton a good and sufficient deed conveying to said trustees and to their successors in office, in fee, all that certain lot or parcel of land lying in the town of Lumberton, upon Walnut Street, in said town, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, in said town, and containing one acre, it being the same land whereon it located a public-school building heretofore used and occupied for school purposes by said white district. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 11 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 11 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE BOARD OF GRADED- SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF LUMBERTON. Whereas heretofore parts of certain public-school districts within the county of Robeson which included the town of Lumber- ton were consolidated into one district, which was thereafter known as White Public-school District Number One, for Lumber- ton Township; and whereas, thereafter, by taxation, a fund was aised and used in the purchase of a lot in the town of Lumber- ton, on Walnut Street, lying between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, in the town of Lumberton, and containing about one acre; and whereas thereafter certain money was borrowed from the State of North Carolina and used in the erection of a building upon said lot; and whereas by act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, at the session of one thousand nine hundred and seven, the town of Lumberton was made a graded-school district and was authorized by law to receive all public moneys raised from property in said district ; and whereas said district has issued bonds and has erected a large and commodious graded-school building in said town of Lumberton, and has also voted a special tax for the maintenance of said graded school; and whereas on this account the property belonging to the old public-school dis- trict, above referred to, has ceased to be used for school purposes, and there now exists no longer any reason for using said property for school purposes; and whereas it is advisable that said property should be sold and disposed of, in order that the fund derived therefrom may be used for educational purposes; and whereas it is just and proper that, inasmuch as the territory now embraced within said graded-school district originally furnished by far the larger part of the fund from which said property was purchased, said territory should receive the benefit of the money to be raised upon a sale of said property ; and whereas the indebtedness to the State of North Carolina upon said property has never been fully paid and the sum of four hundred and forty-eight dollars is now due thereon; and whereas the authorities of the said graded- school district have indicated their willingness to assume the pay- ment of this debt to the State, and have further offered to pay over for the benefit of that portion of the old public-school district which lies on the west side of Lumber River the sum of two bhun- dred dollars, this being its proportionate part and share in the said property, said money to be paid to the State and to said dis- trict upon the execution and delivery to said graded-school trus- tees of a deed conveying to them the said property in fee simple; and whereas this proposition having been submited to the County Board of Education of Robeson County, the said board approved the same, and is willing to execute said deed upon receiving the necessary authority from the General Assembly of North Caro- lina: therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That upon the payment by said Board of Graded-school Trustees of Lumberton of said sum of two hundred dollars the said County Board of Education of Robeson County shall turn same over to the treasurer of said county, to be by him credited to White Public-school District Number Three, for Lumberton Township, the said sum of money to be used by said district for school purposes. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 40 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL IN TOISNOT TOWNSHIP, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That there shall be an election held in the White School District Number One, in Toisnot Township, Wilson County, North Carolina, on Tuesday, the sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nine, upon the question of the establishment of a graded school in the said district and of a special school tax for the support of the said graded school. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 40 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL IN TOISNOT TOWNSHIP, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That if a majority of the qualified voters of said district who have registered shall vote a ballot upon which is written or printed the words For School, then all of the territory now embraced in White School District Number One, in Toisnot Township, Wilson County, North Carolina, shall be and the same is hereby created a graded school district to be known as the Elm City Graded-school District: Provided, that if at the said election a majority of the duly qualified voters do not vote For School, this act shall be of no effect. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 40 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 40 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL IN TOISNOT TOWNSHIP, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CARO- LINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That the Said board of trustees of graded school shall apportion the money raised and received for educational purposes in the said school district in such manner as shall be just to the white and colored race, without discrimination to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the school for both races, separate schools to be provided for each race. If the number of either race and the funds therefor is insufficient to maintain a graded school, the funds may be applied to a public school for said race under the control of the said board. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 52 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 682 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF _ THE FREMONT GRADED SCHOOLS TO SELL CERTAIN SCHOOL PROPERTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of trustees of the Fremont Graded Schools be and is hereby authorized and directed to sell at public auction, after thirty days notice in three public places in the _ Fremont Graded-school District, the old school building and lands formerly occupied and used for public-school purposes for the colored race in said school district, and make title to same to the _ purchaser thereof, and place the money arising from the sale thereof to the credit of the Fremont Graded-school District. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 53 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 53 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. _ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory in Scotland County within #NAME? present boundaries of the town of Laurinburg, and the lands owned by the Dickson Cotton Mill, the Scotland Cotton Mill and _ the lands adjoining, owned by J. F. McNair, January first, one thousand nine hundred and nine, shall be and is hereby constituted | a public-school district for white and colored children, to be known 1909 Private Laws Ch. 53 Sec. 20 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 53 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. _ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 20 That said board of graded-school trustees shall establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded-school district, shall fix a curriculum of studies, adopt text-books, provide for instruction other than that included in the prescribed course, fix the rate of tuition to be charged therefor, and admit pupils residing without the limits of said graded-school district upon such terms as the said board of trustees may deem just and reasonable. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 63 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 63 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ELECTION IN SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1, COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That upon the request and approval of the County Board of Education of Columbus County, the Board of Commissioners of Columbus County shall call an election to be held in School District Number One, Lees Township, for the white race, at a date to be named by them, prior to the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, in accordance with the provisions for holding special-tax elections prescribed .in section four thousand one hundred and fifteen of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five, being the public-school law of North Carolina, upon the question of whether or not the special school tax of ninety cents on the poll and thirty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of property shall continue to be levied in said school district. At said election those who favor said special school tax shall vote a written or printed ballot, For Special School Tax; those who oppose said special tax shall vote a written or printed ballot, Against Special School Tax. If a majority of the votes cast at said election shall be For Special School Tax, the board of county commissioners shall continue to levy the tax, as heretofore ; if a majority of the votes cast at said election shall be Against Special School tax, the levy of said special school tax shall be discontinued. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 66 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 66 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE FRANKLIN GRADED-SCHOOL DISTRICT, TO PROVIDE FOR THE LEVY AND COLLEC- TION OF SPECIAL TAXES THEREIN, AND TO AUTHOR- 1ZK SAID DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS AND PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That a public-school district is hereby created, including the town of Franklin and adjacent territory, in Macon County, to be known as the Franklin Graded-school District, and bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at a white oak on the north bank of Sugarfork River, corner of the John Rogers heirs land; runs north with the line of the said Rogers heirs land and with B. M. Angels and G. W. Downs east lines to the top of McCoy Mountain; then with the top of said mountain to a stake in the road, on top of the ridge between Ingram and Wash. Cabe; then with the top of said mountain between the J. M. Lyle home place and the John Ingram lands to the junction of the McCracken and J. W. Quisenberry lands; then with the south boundary line of the Quisenberry land to the Dillsboro Road; then with the north line of the J. M. Lyle home lands to Charlotte Calloways line; running thence so as to include all the lands of E. W. Johnson and J. P. Angel, to the north corner of J. P. Angels land, on the Tennessee River; thence down the river to the corner of the J. W. Gribble Elias land, on the bank of said river; thence west with the said J. W. Gribble Elias tract to R. S. Halls line; thence with the north boundary line of said Halls land to J. E. Calloways line; thence with said Calloways north line to E. Hursts line; thence running, so as to include the farms of E. Hurst and J. E. Hurst, to the Mashburn-Crews corner and Sol. Jacobs? corner, at Mashburn-Crews property; thence with the north line of the Crews property to its northwest corner; thence with its west boundary line to the Jones heirs line; then with their north and west lines to Z. Bairds line; thence west with said Bairds north and west lines to Lee Crawfords line; thence with the west boundary line of Lee Crawfords land to F. T. Smiths line; thence with Smiths west boundary line to the Murphy Road; thence east with said road to Mrs. Alice Robinsons corner ; thence south with west boundary line of Mrs. Robinsons land to the Addington line; thence with the west boundary line of the Addington land to the C. J. Harris roller-mill property ; then running so as to include the Harris roller-mill property to the bridge across Cartoogechaye Creek; thence with the south bank of said creek to W. C. Allmans corner; thence with said Allmans west boundary line to the Posy Jones property; thence with the west boundary: line of said Jones land to the Cartoogechaye Road; thence in an easterly direction with said road to its intersection with the Franklin-Clayton Road; thence up the Franklin-Clayton Road to the W. C. Smart line; thence east with his north boundary line to the gap of the mountain; thence east to the west boundary line of the George Angel place; thence with the south line of said Angel place to the Tennessee River and corner of Angel and M. N. Donaldson; thence down the river to the south corner of E. P. Dowdles land, on the bank of the river; thence with south line of said Dowdles land to Lee Snyders land; thence with south and east line of said Snyder to G. N. Penlands line; thence with said G. N. Penlands and Polly Angel's lines to the road leading to the bridge across Sugarfork River; thence down said road to the negro church and school property; thence along the west side of said property to the bridge across Sugarfork River; thence up the river to the beginning. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 67 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 67 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SALEM, AS CONTAINED IN CHAPTER 40 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA OF 1891 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That section seventy-two of said chapter be and the same is hereby stricken out and the following is adopted in lieu thereof, to wit: That the board of commissioners shall have power to provide for the establishment, maintenance and support of a system of public schools, and to this end may buy, improve and sell and exchange lands, buildings and other property, and may annually appropriate a certain part of the taxes of the city to pay for said property or improve the same and to maintain and support said public-school system. Said schools, when established, shall be devoted to the education of the young by the high-school or the graded system, and shall be open to all bona fide residents of the town of Salem between the ages of six and twenty-one years; but persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the schools from their homes, or as boarders, on the payment of tuition fees, and under such regulations and rules as may be prescribed by the public-school commissioners. That white and colored schools, when established, shall be conducted in distinct and separate buildings and departments; that said public schools shall be managed by a board of five citizens and taxpayers of the town, two thereof being members of the board of commissioners, to be annually elected by the board of commissioners; and in case of any vacancy occurring during the term of office of any commissioner, the board of commissioners shall appoint some one to fill out the unexpired term; that said public-school commissioners, when elected, shall be a body corporate and politic, under the name of the Public-school Commissioners of Salem, and shall elect one of their number chairman, and take in Gflarge the various public schools which may be established in the town. The public-schoo] commissioners shall have the power to proportion and distribute the school fund, to select teachers and dismiss them for cause, to fix their salaries, to aid them in the establishment of grades and enforcement of discipline, to abate nuisances at the schools, to regulate the admission of pupils from without the corporate limits of the town and to fix the rate of tuition, to visit the schools regularly for inspection, and to do all other acts pertaining to their office for the good and success of the school; and said public-school commissioners shall have the power, in the establishment of one or more graded or high schools, to provide for the attendance of boys and girls at the same school or at separate schools, and may have the power to make arrangements with other established schools for admission of students to be taught the branches that are usually taught in such graded and high schools; that said public-school commissioners shall serve without compensation, but are authorized to purchase the necessary books, stationery and fuel and to pay the secretary a sum not exceeding thirty dollars per annum. The term of office of said commissioners shall be as follows: Those selected from the board of commissioners shall serve during the term for which they have been elected commissioners of the town, and those not from the board of commissioners of the town shall be elected, one each year, for a term of three years each and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. That such public-school system, as may be established under this act, may be combined or consolidated with the public-school system of any other district, town or city in Forsyth County, under such terms as the said districts, towns or cities may agree upon as mutually advantageous, which consolidation can be effected and carried out by the school authorities of the districts, towns or cities wishing such combination ; that for the purpose of establishing, equipping and maintaining a system of public graded and high schools for the town of Salem, the commissioners of said town are hereby authorized and empowered to create a public debt for said town and issue bonds therefor, after such issue shall Have been duly approved by a majority of the voters at an election held for that purpose and in accordance with the charter of Salem and the law governing elections for such purposes. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 72 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 72 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' Sec. 9 Said registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and said registrars shall open their books at such places in the city of Winston as may be desig: nated by said aldermen, on the second Tuesday in April next preceding the election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register or yote in the ward or precinct for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he has been a bona fide resident of North Carolina for two years, of the city of Winston and of the ward in which he proposes to register for four months next pre ceding that date, and that he has not been convicted of any crime which by the laws of North Carolina disqualifies him from voting. In said oath he shall specify the place of his residence in such ward. If any person shall willfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished as for larceny: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made, as provided for herein, a new registration shall not be biennially held unless the board of aldermen shall at their regular meeting in December determine that the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same and the place where the books of registration shall be opened, but a revision of the registration books shall be made, beginning on Saturday next preceding each election to be held for said. city, in accordance with the provisions of the general law. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 72 Sec. 44 Identified by: model CHAPTER 72 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' Sec. 44 The board of aldermen shall have the power to enact ordinances, in such form as they may deem advisable, as follows: For the protection of the waterworks and water supply of the city of Winston; to grant to any person, firm or corporation, a franchise and right to own, control and operate, for a term of years or otherwise, street railways, telephone, telegraph, lighting or heating systems or any other business engaged in public service; to fix tolls of street railways; to contract as to compensation for such franchises, and to control, regulate and tax the same; to prevent vagrancy, and any person not engaged in any lawful occupation and who spends his time in gambling or loafing about the streets, without visible means of support, shall be considered a vagrant; to regulate and conduct all elections, to prevent interference with the officers thereof, and to preserve order thereat: to prescribe rules and regulations for the government and duties of police officers; to prohibit all trades, occupations or acts which are nuisances; to define and condemn nuisances and provide for the abatement or removal of same; to regulate and control the character of buildings which shal]l be constructed or permitted to be and remain in any part of the city of Winston, with the right to declare the same a nuisance or unsafe, and cause its demolishment or removal; to provide for the leveling, filling-in and drainage of all ponds, sunken lots or other places in which water stands and stagnates, and to recover from the owner or occupant the expenses of removing the same, which expenses shall be a lien upon the lots so improved, and enforced as liens for taxes; to prevent dogs, hogs, cattle and other live stock from roaming at large in the city, and to regulate the keeping of hogpens within the city limits; to define and establish fire limits and prevent the location of wooden or other buildings within said fire limits and in any part of the city where they may increase the danger of fire; to regulate and describe what character of buildings shall be constructed within the said limits, and provide for the conditions under which buildings may be erected; to establish, regulate and control the markets or market buildings, to fix the location of any market building, prescribe the time and manner and place within the city wherein marketable articles, such as meats, perishable vegetables, fish, game, ete., and all other kinds of perishable food or diet shall be bought or sold: Provided, that nothing therein shall apply to the purchase or sale of meats, grains or flour packed in barrels or boxes, or fodder or hay or oats in the straw; to appoint keepers of the markets and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation; to regulate the license of itinerant merchants or peddlers and of those doing a temporary business; to establish, regulate and control cemeteries, to provide for the manner in which bodies may be interred therein or removed therefrom, and for beautifying, ornamenting and keeping the same in condition; to provide suitable grounds for the enlargement, extension or establishment of new cemeteries, providing separate cemeteries for white and black; to control and regulate the time and manner of burying the dead, the burial of any person within the corporate limits of the said city not within said cemeteries, and provide for the punishment of persons violating the rules and regulations concerning the cemetery; to provide for the establishment, organization. equipment and government of fire companies, fire commissioners and fire-alarm system, and to adopt rules for the conduct. regulations and terms of office thereof; to regulate the erection, placing and maintenance of all telephone, telegraph and other electric wires and to prohibit the same from being strung overhead in a public street, and to compel the owners and operators of telephone, telegraph or electric wires to put same underground; to prohibit or contro] the firing of firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes or other explosive materials, and to govern the sale thereof; to control and regulate the speed of all horses or other animals, automobiles, buggies, carriages, wagons or other vehicles on the streets; to regulate the speed of railroad engines and trains or street cars within the corporate limits, or the stopping of engines or cars in the streets or crossings of the city; to specify the manner in which all stovepipes and flues and electric wires shall be put in buildings, and to contro] and regulate the arrangement and operation thereof; to control and regulate the mauner in which powder and other explosives and inflammable substances may be kept and sold, the manner in which commercial fertilizers are stored; to provide for the sanitary condition and keeping of all lots, cellars, houses, water-closets, privies, lavatories, stables, styes and other places of like character, to provide for the examination and sanitation thereof, and for that purpose ordinances may be passed fiuthorizing sanitary officers or policemen to enter the premises suspected of being in bad or unsanitary condition and have the same cleaned at the expense of the owner, or abating such places as nuisances, and recover of the occupant or owner the expense thereof; to regulate the due observance of Sunday; to prevent the entrance into the city or the spreading thereof of any contagious or infectious disease, and for that purpose may stop, detain and examine every person coming from places believed to be infected with such disease; to establish and maintain quarantines against communities and territories where it is suspected prevails any infectious or contagious disease; to establish and regulate hospitals within the city or within three miles thereof, and may cause any person in the city suspected to be infected with such disease, and whose stay in the city may endanger public health, to be removed to the hospital or other place that the mayor may select; to prevent from coming into the city any secondhand clothing, bedding or furniture; to remove from the city or destroy any furniture or other articles which may be suspected to be tainted or infected with contagious or infectious disease or in such condition as may generate and propagate disease; to abate all nuisances which may be injurious to public health; may vaccinate or otherwise subject to medical treatment all persons having smallpox or other contagious or infectious disease; to recover, by proper action against those who may cause the same, all costs and expenses of removing and treating people having or suspected of having contagious or infectious diseases; shall have power, by force, to remove all persons from the city or to carry them to hospitals or other places selected by the mayor or board of aldermen and detain them therein; to prohibit the carrying-on of any disorderly house or house or ill fame or gambling house or house where games of chance are being carried on or where liquors are illegally sold; to provide for the inspection and examination thereof, and for that purpose may enter upon said premises and make arrest of any person or persons violating the ordinances of the city in reference thereto; to prohibit the construction of cellars under sidewalks or the making of entrances into sidewalks, and to make rules and fix specifications for the construction of all cellars under said sidewalks or entrances into said sidewalks. On behalf of the general welfare of the city of Winston, and for the good order and government thereof, the board of aldermen may, in addition to the foregoing powers, pass or ordain any resolution or ordinance, and enforce the same by proper punishment or penalty, which it may consider wise or proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 72 Sec. 50 Identified by: model CHAPTER 72 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ' Sec. 50 The board of aldermen shall provide for the establishment, continuance, maintenance and support of a system of public schools, and for this purpose shall annually appropriate a certain part of the taxes of the city. Said schools shall be devoted to the education of the young, by high-school or the graded system, and shall be open to all bona fide residents of the city of Winston between the ages of six and twenty-one years, but persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may, attend the schools from their homes or as boarders on the payment of tuition fees, and under such regulations and rules as may be prescribed by the public-school commissioners; that white and colored schools shall be conducted in distinct and separate buildings and departments; that said public schools shall be managed by a board of five citizens and taxpayers of the city, two thereof being members ot the board of aldermen, to be annually elected by the board, of aldermen, and in case of any vacancy occurring during the term of office of any commissioner the board of aldermen shall appoint some one to fill out the unexpired term. That said board of commissioners elected shall be a body corporate and_ politic, under the name of the Public-school Commissioners of Winston, and shall elect one of their number chairman and take in charge the various public schools of the city. The commissioners aforesaid shall have the power to proportion and distribute the school fund, to select teachers and to dismiss them for cause, to fix their salaries, to aid them in the establishment of grades and the enforcement of discipline, to abate nuisances at the schools, to regulate the admission of pupils from without the corporate limits and fix the rate of tuition, to visit the schools regularly for inspection, and do all other acts pertaining to their office, for the good and success of the school. Said commissioners shall serve without compensation, but are authorized to purchase the necessary books, stationery and fuel and pay its secretary a sum not exceeding thirty dollars ($30) per annum. The term of office of said commissioners shall be as follows: Those selected from the board of aldermen shall serve during their term for which they have been elected aldermen, and those not from the number of aldermen shall be elected, one each year, for a term of three years each, and those now in office shall continue until the expiration of their respective terms, when their successors shall be elected. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 88 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 88 AN ACT TO PAY C. C. HONEYCUTT, A SCHOOL-TEACHER, FOR SERVICES RENDERED AS SCHOOL-TEACHER IN STANLY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 The County Board of Education of Stanly County is hereby authorized and empowered to order the payment to C. C. Honeycutt of thirty-six dollars and forty cents for services rendered in the year one thousand nine hundred and seven, and evidenced by an order signed by three members of the school committee and approved by the County Superintendent of Stanly County at that time; the same to be paid, if ordered, out of the funds apportioned by said county board of education to District Number Seven. (white race), Furr Township, of said county, for the school year ending June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and ten. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 92 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 92 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MORVEN HIGH-SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory embraced within the following boundaries, to wit, lying in Anson County, beginning at a point on Mill Creek, known as Parsons Mill Bridge, about one and one-half miles southeast of Morven, and thence following the Lilesville Road north to Jones Creek, and thence west with said creek to the crossing of the Wadesboro Road; thence with said road towards Wadesboro, to its junction with the Paris Road; thence a line due south to Jones Creek ; thence with said creek to the Morven and Gulledge Township line; thence with said line south to the corner of District Number One (McFarlan Special-tax District), near the head of Mill Creek, and thence with said creek, the northern boundary of the McFarlan District, to the beginning, at Parsons Mill Bridge, shall be and the same is hereby constituted a public-school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Morven High-school District. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 94 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 94 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ELKIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory in Surry County within the following boundaries, to wit, beginning at east corner of J. H. Greenwoods home traet, on Yadkin River, then in a northerly direction with his line to his northeast corner; thence in a westwardly direction to the old Woodruff line; thence so as to include the Wesley Pegram (deceased) land; thence from northwest corner of Pegram land, a westwardly direction, to a point on the State Road, so as to include all lands of H. D. Woodruff on east side of State Road; thence with east side of State Road to Max Hickersons lot; thence with said Hickersons line to his northeast corner, south to Peter Martins line, south to Will Hunts line, with Hunts line to Ember Roberts corner; thence south with Ember Roberts line to his southeast corner; thence to State Road with Roberts line to his southwest corner; thence across State toad to Sylva Dalton and F. Castevens corner; thence with their line a westwardly direction to Sylva Daltons southwest corner; thence with Sylva Daltons line to Lewis Hunts southwest corner; thence with Lewis Hunts line to Noah Foards southwest corner; thence north with Noah Foards line to Sam Hickersons southwest corner; thence with Sam Hickersons line to Lucy Loberts southwest corner; thence north with Lucy Roberts line to her northwest corner; thence east with said Lucy Roberts line to State Road; thence with west side of State Road to the road leading to A. M. Smiths shoe factory, from road leading to shoe factory to Lewis Collins southeast corner; thence with Lewis Collins line west to his southwest corner, in A. M. Smiths line; thence in a westwardly direction, taking in James Rogers land, to the Wilkes County line; thence south with said Wilkes and Surry line to the Yadkin River; thence with Yadkin River east to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public-school district for white children, to be known as the Elkin Graded-school District. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 103 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 108 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL-TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT IN WAKE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES, TO BE KNOWN AS SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 4 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following-described territory, lying and being in Chatham and Wake counties. in New Hope and Buckhorn townships. bounded as follows, to wit. beginning at a point in the line of Wake and Chatham counties, at the northeast corner of the present Merry Oaks School District. running thence nearly west with said district line to the branch just west of C. S. Wilsons residence; thence nearly west with said branch to A. L. Wilsons west line; thence nearly north with his line (running just west of his residence) to the Vicks line; thence with their line to Big Beaver Creek; thence up said creek to the county line between Wake and Chatham counties; thence nearly south with said county line to Little Beaver Creek; thence up said creek to B. B. Freemans line; thence with the same to his southwest corner; thence straight to the northeast corner of the old Allen (now Strickland) place; thence with Stricklands line, running east of his residence, as his line runs to L. E. Rollins line; thence with Rollins line to J. J. Wombles corner; thence nearly east with Wombles line to C. R. Barkers corner; thence south to T. D. Wombles corner; thence east with her line to her east corner; thence nearly south to J. C. Angiers (the Cary Lumber Companys) line; thence east to S. V. Wilsons line; thence nearly south with Angiers line to Mrs. G. H. Wombles line; thence west to the branch; thence down said branch to Thomas Creek; thence up said creek to the corner of said Mrs. G. H. Wombles line; thence northwest with her south line to M. J. Bolings line; thence with his south line to the line of the Ennis land; thence with their south line to the west line of Thomas Wyndham; thence straight to Reynolds corner: thence south with Wyndhams and Reynolds line to their corner: thence nearly west with their line to the said county line; thence north with the said county line to the beginning, be and the same is hereby incorporated into andestablished as a special-tax school district for the white race (the colored race, being few in number. are accommodated at schoo] in adjoining district). to be known as School District Number Four. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 121 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER i721. AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 432, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1901, AND CHAPTER 16, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1903, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE TO LEVY A SPE- CIAL TAX FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE CARNEGIE PUB- LIC LIBRARY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That for the purpose of providing an adequate appropriation for the support of the Charlotte Carnegie Public Library (for white people), in the city of Charlotte, the board of aldermen of said city shall, annually, and at the time of levying other city taxes, levy and lay a particular tax on all persons and subjects of taxation on which said board now are or may be hereafter authorized to lay and levy taxes for any purpose whatever, said particular tax not to be more than three cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation on property and not more than nine cents on each poll within said city. The taxes provided for in this act shall be collected in the manner and at the time other city taxes are collected, and shall be accounted for and kept separate from other taxes. and shall be applied by said board of aldermen to the purpose for which they are levied and collected. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 142 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 742 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN RUSSELL SPECIAL-TAXN SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN HOOPERS CREEK TOWNSHIP, HENDERSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the special-tax school district of Russell, Hoopers Creek Township, shall be and is hereby constituted a gradedschool district for the white race. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 160 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 160 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCA- TION OF IREDELL COUNTY TO PAY AN UNPAID SALARY OF A PUBLIC-SCHOOL TEACHER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the County Board of Education of Iredell County is hereby authorized and directed to pay to C. Toy, Pool the sum of fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents for services rendered as a public-school teacher in District Number Two (white), Coddle Creek Township, in said county, from February twentieth to March second, one thousand nine hundred and eight, the same to be paid out of the public-school fund of said county for the year one thousand nine hundred and nine. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 176 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 176 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WALNUT COVE GRADED- SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory embraced within the following bounds, to wit, beginning at a stake two and a quarter miles north of the schoolhouse in Walnut Cove, in the county of Stokes, and running west two miles to a stake; thence south to a stake in the Forsyth County line; thence east with said line four miles to a stake; thence north to a stake, two miles east of the beginning ; thence west two miles to a stake, at the beginning point, lying and being in the county of Stokes, shall be and is hereby constituted a public-school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Walnut Cove Graded-school District. The Board of County Commissioners of Stokes County shall cause the county surveyor to survey and run and locate the boundaries of said district, as herein set out, at least ten days before the election herein provided for, and to certify the same, with a plat thereof, to the board. The expense of such survey and plat shall be paid for out of the funds of said district. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 181 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN STONY MOUNTAIN SPECIAL-TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN HEN- DERSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 The special-tax school district of Stony Mountain, Henderson County, shall be and is hereby constituted a gradedschool district for the white race. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 196 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 196 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH REYNOLDSON GRADED-SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PROVIDE FOR AN ELECTION FOR SPE: CIAL TAX THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 10 It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to maintain a public school in said district for the colored children in said district; and the said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from the special tax and from all other sources, and shall be just and equitable to both white and colored races, having due regard, however, to the relative cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools for both races: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 203 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 203 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LAURINBURG. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 The board of commissioners of the town of Laurinburg shall be empowered to provide for the maintenance and care of such cemeteries aS may be provided for the said town: Provided, that persons of one race shall not be interred in the cemetery of a different race, be the cemetery inside or outside of the town limits, nor shall any new lot be entered or taken up by any person without conforming to the laws and regulations prescribing how same shall be done. The said town may contract with the Laurinburg Cemetery Company, a corporation chartered for the purpose of providing care for the cemetery, or other person or incorporation that in the judgment of the mayor and board of commissioners will provide satisfactory care and maintenance for any one or more cemeteries belonging to said town, and under such terms and conditions and for such time as the mayor and board of commissioners may deem best. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 210 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 210 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE AHOSKIE SCHOOL DIS- TRICT AND ALLOW IT TO VOTE ON A SPECIAL TAX FOR SCHOOLS AND ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following-described territory, lying and being in Hertford County, in Ahoskie Township, bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at Bonners Bridge, running thence northerly along the county road to the dividing line between the bounds of L. Taylors heirs and J. E. Britt; thence easterly to the run of the Horse Swamp; thence along said swamps meandering course to the east side of the right of way of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; thence southerly along the east side of the said railroads right of way to the First Avenue in the town of Ahoskie; thence easterly along said avenue to Rue Street; thence northerly along said Rue Street to Third Avenue; thence easterly a line through the woods to the original school district line; thence southerly along said line to the county road leading from Ahoskie to Bethlehem; thence a straight line to the county road leading from Ahoskie to Powellsville; thence a straight line to Ahoskie Swamp, at the eastern side of the Wellington and Powellsville Railroads right of way; thence a westerly course up said swamps meandering course to the east side of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroads right of way; thence southerly along said right of way to the west side of W. H. Hills farm; thence across the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and around said W. H. Hills farm to the county road leading from Jernigans to Poor Town; thence along the county road to Bonners Bridge, at first station, be incorporated into and established as a special-tax school district for the white race and to be known as the Ahoskie School District Number Eleven. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 214 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 214 , AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Beaufort, and also all the territory embraced and included as it is now laid out in the present Public-school District, Number Eighteen, in Beaufort Township, shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as the Beaufort Gradedschool District. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 214 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 214 , AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That in case a majority of the qualified voters of the said Beaufort Graded-school District shall be in favor of such tax, the Board of Commissioners of Carteret County shall, in addition to other taxes laid upon said school district, annually compute and levy, at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property of white and colored persons of said Beaufort Graded-school District to raise such a sum of money as the trustees of said graded schools in said graded-school district shall deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools, which sum shall not exceed thitty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property and ninety cents on each poll. The said trustees, whose appointment is hereinafter provided for, upon their appointment and qualification after the election herein provided for, shall meet and organize and report to the commissioners of Carteret County what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the first year; and apnually thereafter the said trustees, thirty days prior to the time for levving the county taxes, shall report to the said Board of Commissioners of Carteret County what sum is necessary to support and maintain said graded schools during the next year. The taxes levied for the support of said schools, as hereinafter provided, shall be annually collected as other taxes are collected, and paid over by the sheriff or other collecting officer to the Treasurer of Carteret County for the safe-keeping and proper distribution of the same, and the said tax levied and collected for said graded schools shall be kept sacred and separate and distinct from other taxes by the said officers, and shall be used only for the purposes for which they were levied and collected. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 214 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 214 , AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said Beaufort Graded-school District, and the said board of trustees shall use and appropriate the funds derived from said special tax herein provided for in such manner as shall be just to both races, without prejudice, and giving to each equal school facilities, due regard being had, however, to the cost of establishing and maintaining the graded schools for each race. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 221 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 221 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF SCOT- LAND VILLAGE, IN THE COUNTY OF SCOTLAND, TO THE TOWN OF EAST LAURINBURG, AND AMEND THE CHAR- TER THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do. enact: Sec. 2 That the corporate limits of East Laurinburg shall include the present corporate limits and be extended to the following lines, to wit: Beginning in the center of the run of Leiths Creek, near Scotland Cotton Mill property, one hundred feet north twenty-three east from the center of the railroad track; thence south sixty-seven east fifty chains to a stake near the head of a small branch of Leiths Creek, near a cemetery for the colored race; thence two hundred feet to the northeast corner of the lands owned by John F. MeNair, January first, one thousand nine hundred and nine, the same being the Waverly Cotton Mill site; thence with the eastern and southern boundary of said lands to the fourth corner thereof, also the third corner of Scotland Mill lands; thence with the southern boundary of Scotland Mill lands to the run of Leiths Creek ; thence up the run of said creek to the beginning. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 230 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 230 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 718 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1903, RELATING TO THE GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section two of chapter seven hundred and eighteen of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and three be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word town, in line three thereof, and inserting in its stead the words Columbia Graded-school District, for the white race. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 230 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 230 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 718 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1903, RELATING TO THE GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That at the next regular town election to be held in the. town of Columbia the board of commissioners of said town are | hereby authorized and empowered and directed to submit to the qualified voters of the said Columbia Graded-school District, for the white race, the question whether the taxes for said graded school shall be increased from the present levy of thirty-three and one-third cents on each one hundred dollars of real and personal property and one dollar on each taxable poll, as now provided by said chapter seven hundred and eighteen, to fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of real and personal property and one dollar and fifty cents:on each taxable poll. If at said election a majority of the qualified voters shall vote for said increase, the said board of commissioners of the town of Columbia shall, hereafter, at their June meeting in each year, levy the tax accordingly, and the same shall be collected and applied as is now provided by said chapter seven hundred and eighteen. If at said election a majority of the qualified voters shall not vote for said increase of taxes, then and in that event taxes shall be levied, collected, and applied as they formerly were, under said chapter seven hundred and eighteen. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 241 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 241 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE EDEN COLONY GRADED- SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the territory lying and being in Harnett and Lee counties and bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at the onehundred-and-nine milepost on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which is one mile north of Rock Branch, Harnett County; thence running due east one mile; thence running due south two miles; thence running due west two miles; thence running due north two miles; thence running due east again one mile to the place of beginning, Shall be and is hereby constituted a special school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Eden Colony Graded-school District. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 254 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 254 AN ACT TO APPOINT TRUSTEES FOR THE YANCEYVILLE PEMALE ACADEMY AND TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER SAID TRUSTEES TO SELL AND CONVEY IN FEE SIMPLE THE LOT UPON WHICH SAID ACADEMY IS SITUATED, AND TO TURN THE PROCEEDS OF SAID SALE OVER TO SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN FOR DISTRICT No. 388, FOR THE WHITE RACE, TO BE USED IN REPAIRING AND IM- PROVING DAN RIVER INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 Whereas the Yanceyville Female Academy has been used for school purposes but for one year in the last past twentythree years; and whereas there are no trustees to hold said property; and whereas it is the desire of the people of Yanceyville and those who would naturally be the patrons of said academy, if used for school purposes, to sell the lot upon which said academy building is situated, and to use the proceeds of said sale, when made, in repairing and improving the school building located in said town of Yanceyville and known as Dan River Institute: now, therefore, G. A. Anderson, R. L. Mitchelle and Thomas P. Womack are hereby appointed trustees of said Yanceyville Female Academy, with power and authority to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, after due notice, the lot or parcel of land in the town of Yanceyville, Caswell County, whereon the Yanceyville Female Academy is situated, and generally known and designated as the Yanceyville Female Academy lot; and the said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to make a fee-simple deed for said lot to the purchaser; and the proceeds of said sale, after paying the costs of said sale, the trustees will turn over to F. W. Brown, N. C. Brandon and T. J. Florance, school committeemen for School District Number Thirty-eight, for the white race, in Caswell County, to be used by them and their successors in office in repairing and improving Dan River Institute, a school building situated in the town of Yanceyville, wherein the public school for the white race in said District Number Thirty-eight has been taught for the past twelve years. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 274 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 274 AN ACT TO PAY MISS BETTIE HUNTER FOR TEACHING A PUBLIC SCHOOL OVERTIME. Whereas Miss Bettie Hunter, of Duplin County, taught in the public school of said county for a period of fifteen and one-half days, at the rate of twenty-five dollars per month, overtime; and whereas she was ignorant of the fact that she was teaching over- time, and taught said period in good faith: now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Board of Education of Duplin County be and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay to Miss Bettie Hunter the sum of nineteen dollars and thirty-eight cents for teaching a public school in Duplin County, in Cypress Creek Township (white race), District Number Seven, upon a voucher, and charge the said amount to the public-school fund of Duplin County. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 282 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 282 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE PEACHTREE HIGH SCHOOL, CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 The board of trustees provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in said district as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races in proportion to the number and advancement of the pupils, respectively. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 297 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 297 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF LITTLETON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced within a radius of two and one-half miles from the center of the town of Littleton which lies partly in the county of Halifax and partly in the county of Warren, incorporated under chapter two hundred and fiftyfour of the Public Laws of North Carolina of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine as the Littleton supplemental public schools for the white and colored races shall be and is hereby constituted a public-school district, which shall be called Littleton Graded School. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 298 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 298 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER AND EXTEND THE COR- PORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF MADISON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That the registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration book of the said town in such a manner that said: book shal! show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such town and still residing therein and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall, also. between the hours of seven oclock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March, up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the book for the registration of any electors residing in the town and entitled to registration whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who mmay apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said town, keeping the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters; and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years and in the town of Madison ninety days previous to the day of election, and that he is twentyone years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said town, as defined in section four of this act. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, on fifteen days notice before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary and proper. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 306 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 306 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL, TO BE KNOWN AS SALEM GRADED SCHOOL, OF SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the board of county commissioners of the county of Surry are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the qualified voters of said Salem School District, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under such rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers, the question whether an annual tax shall-be levied therein for the support of a graded public free school for the white children and a graded public free school for the colored children therein, in said district. Hach voter shall vote a printed ballot with the words For Schools or No Schools thereon, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules as govern elections of county officers. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 309 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 309 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE RICH SQUARE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. Whereas the territory embraced within the boundaries described herein has already been established as a special-tax district, un- der section four thousand one hundred and fifteen of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five of North Carolina, and a majority of the qualified voters within said territory have voted a special tax of thirty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property and ninety cents on each poll for the maintenance of the public schools in said district; and whereas it is desired to make fuller provision for the local management of said schools: therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all territory embraced within the following boundaries, to-wit, beginning at a point on the Roanoke River near Pollocks Ferry, and running along the line between Rich Square and Roanoke townships to the county road leading from Rich Square to Jackson, near John J. Ollivers : thence along the county road an easterly course to the fork at White Oak Schoolhouse; thence along the Hall Avenue, northerly course, to the northwest corner of James Outlands land; thence along the north and west boundaries of the lands of James A. Outland, W. H. divans, Eli B. Copeland, the Miles Bryant land and A. J. Conner to Susan and Jane Browns land, at the Seaboard Railroad ; thence along said Susan and Jane Browns line along the railroad to A. J. Conners line; thence along A. J. Conners line, an easterly course, to the county road; thence along the county road and the north and west boundaries of the lands of Jerry Brown, Hiram Griffin, J. H. Futrell, to the run of Cutawhiskey Swamp; thence along said swamp and the north and eastern boundaries of the lands of James P. Lassiter to the Rich Square-Eagletown Road; thence along said road, westerly course, to L. L. Shoulars corner; thence along the east, north and southern boundaries of the lands of L. L. Shoulars, the Lambertson farm, A. J. Conner, Ellen E. Barber, H. E.,Peele (the Bryant Lassiter land), the W. T. Peele land, the Wilkins Peele Jand, John W. Gay, W. P. and R. C. Benthall and G. E. Ransom (the Lamson and Polenta farms) to the Roanoke River; thence up said river to the first station, now constituting a special-tax district in Rich Square Township, in Northampton County, known as the Rich Square District, shall be and the same is hereby constituted a public-school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Rich Square School District. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 313 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 313 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS OF THE CITY OF HICKORY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That for the purposes and benefits of this act, all the territory within the corporate limits of the city of Hickory, Catawba County, as is now or shall hereafter be prescribed, shall be and remain and is hereby constituted a public-school district for both white and colored children, and shall hereafter be known as the Hickory School District, and that a special tax for school purposes, to wit, twenty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of property and sixty cents on each taxable poll, shall continue to be levied and collected annually, to the same extent and in the same manner as the said tax is now and has been heretofore levied and collected in the Hickory Graded-school District: Provided, that if a majority of the registered voters of said city of Hickory shall vote in favor of the tax hereinafter provided for, then the tax for the use and benefit of the schools of said district shall be levied and collected in amounts, at times and in the manner hereinafter provided. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 313 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 313 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS OF THE CITY OF HICKORY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That it shall be the duty of the said board of school trustees to establish separate schools for the white and the colored children of the said school district, to grade the schools for either race, and to appropriate and use the funds from special taxes and from State and county school funds in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, due regard being had to differences in the requirements and the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, donations and income*for the benefit of any special school may be so applied. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 326 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 326 : AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JAMES ELDRIDGE, A PUBLIC- SCHOOL TEACHER OF SAMPSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Sampson County, upon order of the county board of education of said county, approved by the county superintendent of public instruction, be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to James Eldridge the sum of thirty dollars and twenty-nine cents ($30.29) out of the school fund now in his hands or which may come into his hands to the eredit of District Number One, for the white race, in Mingo Township, Sampson County, said sum being balance due for teaching in said district in the year one thousand nine hundred and eight. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 329 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 329 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT IN RUTHERFORD AND POLK COUNTIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That a new public-school district is hereby established in the county of Rutherford, Sulphur Springs Township, for the white race, to be taken from what is known as Strickland District (No. ....), of Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, and New Hope School District (Number Fifteen), Greens Creek Township, Polk County, and said new district shall be bounded as follows: Beginning upon the State line between North Carolina and South Carolina, upon Harrison Coopers corner; thence with his line or lines, and including his land, to Maria Westbrooks line; thence with her line or lines, and including her land, to Berry Smiths line; thence with his line or lines, and including his land, to the Shade Henderson lines; thence with the Henderson line or lines, and including the Henderson land, to the William G. Tanner line; thence with his line or lines, and including his land, to the Waters line; thence with his line or lines, and including his land, to the Lizzie Walkings line; thence with her line or lines, and including her land, to the Bennie Blantan line; thence with the Blantan line or lines, and including the Blantan land, to Broad River; thence with said river to Poors Ford; thence with the Polk and Rutherford county line to Thomas Arledges line, upon said county line; thence with the said Arledge line or lines, and including his land, to Charley Bostics line; thence with his line or lines to Sarah Smiths line; thence with the said Sarah Smiths line or lines, and including her land, to Thomas Cudds and Mary Cudds line; thence with the Cudd line or lines, and including the Cudd land, to William McGinnis line; thence with his line or lines to James McGinnis line; thence with his line or lines, and including his land, to the Covington original line; thence with the Covington original line or lines to the Marion Turner line; thence with the said Turner line or lines, and including the T. P. Covington and Marion Turner land, to W. R. Princes line; thence with the W. R. Prince line or lines to the State line; thence with the State line to the beginning. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 333 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 333 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THOMAS M. SEAWELL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the chairman of the Board of Education of Moore County are hereby authorized and empowered to draw a voucher on the treas- #NAME? of the county school fund of said county in favor of Thomas M. Seawell. a public-school teacher, for the sum of one hundred and sixty-one and five one-hundredths dollars, the balance due him for. teaching Public School Number Three, for the white race, Cape Fear Township, in the school year one thousand nine hundred and four and one thousand nine hundred and five, provided they are satisfied the claim is just; and the said treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to pay such voucher out of any. unap- _ portioned school funds that are now or that may hereafter come into his hands. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 354 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 354 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JAMES ELDRIDGE, A PUBLIC- SCHOOL TEACHER OF SAMPSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Treasurer of Sampson County, upon the approval of the board of education of said county, be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to James Eldridge any sum which shall be ascertained by said board of education to be due him on account of unpaid salary for teaching public school in District Number Eight (8), for the white race, in Mingo Township, during the year one thousand nine hundred and eight, the same to be paid out of any funds now in the hands of said treasurer or which may come into his hands to the credit of said district. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 355 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 355 AN ACT TO MAKE AND CREATE A SCHOOL DISTRICT, TO BE KNOWN AS BAYBORO WHITE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That District Number One, in Number Two Township, known as District Number One, white race, including Stonewall and Bayboro, be divided and two school districts be made therefrom, to wit: That all of said school districts as now constituted lying south and east of Bay River be and the same shall be known as the White Race School District Number One, in Number Two Township. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 355 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 355 AN ACT TO MAKE AND CREATE A SCHOOL DISTRICT, TO BE KNOWN AS BAYBORO WHITE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That all of the said school district, as now constituted, lying north and west of the said Bay River, to wit, beginning at the fork of the northwest and southwest prongs of Bay River, in Bayboro, and running up the southwest prong of Bay River to Neals Creek; thence up Neals Creek to its head; thence a direct line to the southeast corner of the Hough or Ireland farm, on Neals Creek; thence a direct line to the southeast corner of the Balangia farm; thence with the eastward line of Balangia farm to the Balangia Bridge across Bay River; thence down Bay River to the Lupton Bridge and Hough Road; thence with the Hough Road northwardly to the Bay River (or New Bern) Road; thence a direct line to the west line of the Stelley farm; thence with the west line of the Stelley farm and continuously on to the Pamlico and Beaufort county dividing line; thence with said counties dividing line eastwardly to a point where a line continued with the east line of the Daw land (now C. H. Fowler land) would intersect the said county dividing line; thence with said line along the east side of the said Daw or Fowler line to Raccoon Creek ; thence down and with said creek to its mouth and junction with Bay River; thence up Bay River to the fork of said river, the beginning point, be known and designated as Bayboro School District Number ...., in Number Three Township, for the white race. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 360 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 360 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Said registrars shall be furnished with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to open their books at the time and place prescribed in chapter seventy-three of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five, which is made a part hereof, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and. entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrars to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 373 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 373 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN ELECTION IN SCHOOL DIS- TRICT No. 4, FOR THE WHITE RACE, IN GATES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the county commissioners of Gates County are hereby authorized and empowered, upon a petition duly signed by one-fourth of the registered voters of Public-school District Number Four, for the white race, of Gates County, to call an election to determine the question of a special tax for schools in-said district. The parties desiring such an election shall give thirty days notice of their intention to file an application before the board of county commissioners. Such notice shall be given by plainly written or printed posters. securely posted throughout the district in which the election is desired. The county commissioners shall give thirty days notice of all elections called under the provisions of this act. 1909 Private Laws Ch. 387 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 387 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE J. C. BRASWELL AND J. W. SHER- ROD TO DISINTER AND REMOVE THE DEAD BODIES BURIED IN THE LOT ON CHURCH STREET, IN THE CITY OF ROCKY. MOUNT, KNOWN AS THE OLD METHODIST CHURCH LOT, AND THE LOTS ADJACENT THERETO, AND TO REINTER THEM ELSEWHERE, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That J. C. Braswell, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and J. W. Sherrod, of Hamilton, North Carolina, are authorized to disinter and remove the dead bodies buried in the lot on Church Street, in the city of Rocky Mount, known as the old Methodist Church lot, and in the lots adjacent thereto, as described in deed, recorded in book one hundred and two, at page two hundred and eleven, Nash County registry: Provided, that the bodies of white people there buried shall be decently buried in Pine View Cemetery, and the bodies of colored people there buried shall be decently buried in Unity Cemetery. i 1909 Private Laws Ch. 393 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 393 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN PUPILS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 6, FOR WHITE CHILDREN, IN CUMBER- LAND COUNTY. Whereas certain pupils of Eastover Public School, for whites, in Cumberland County, were injured by the collapse of a float while participating in the public parade at the Cumberland County Fair, and authority is desired to appropriate funds from the special school taxes belonging to Eastover District, Number Six, to help defray the hospital expenses of those pupils injured as aforesaid: now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the Board of Education of Cumberland County be and it is hereby authorized to appropriate not exceeding fifty per cent of the special-tax fund of Eastover School, for whites, being School District Number Six, white, for the relief of those pupils of said school injured as aforesaid: Provided, the total appropriation under this act shall not exceed one hundred dollars, and all appropriations hereunder shall be made subject to the approval of the school committee of said district, and any appropriations under this act shall not have the effect to reduce the school term of said district. 5 1909 Private Laws Ch. 394 Sec. 134 Identified by: model CHAPTER 394 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHAR- LOTTE, AND REVISE THE SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 134 That said board of school commissioners shall have the power and authority to establish and maintain a library in connection with each school building, which shall be free for the use of the teachers and pupils of the graded schools of said city; and shall have the power to acquire, by donation, purchase or otherwise, books, charts, maps, periodicals and other publications and property of every kind suitable for such library, and shall arrange for separate books and publications for the white and colored races and provide separate rooms for the use of each of said races; and the said board of school commissioners shall have the power to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use of such library as it may deem proper, and to do all acts and things necessary for the successful maintenance and operation of said library. The expense of equipping and maintaining the same shall be paid out of the school revenues of the said city of Charlotte. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 2 Sec. 37 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION. Sec. 37 That each registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m., and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from seven a. m. until sunset during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Guilford County six months and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such cath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners on fifteen days notice, by publication in some newspaper of said city, before the opening of the books may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. The registration books shall be closed at sun down on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register, except those coming of age after the books close and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city, and the books shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person do desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they were received by him and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk at the time prescribed, shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 89 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 80 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF OLD FORT, IN McDOWELL COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That all the white children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, who reside in said school district, shall be admitted into said school free of tuition charges. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 100 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 1oo. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COLORED GRADED SCHOOL DIS- TRICT, TO BE KNOWN AS THE ARARAT COLORED GRADED SCHOOL OF SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the board of county commissioners of the county of Surry shall levy annually a special tax not exceeding thirty-three and one-third cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property on the taxable property in said district belonging to and owned by the colored people only, and the sum of fifty cents on the poll on the colored people between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years of age, and said tax shall be collected annually by the sheriff of Surry County. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 100 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 1oo. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COLORED GRADED SCHOOL DIS- TRICT, TO BE KNOWN AS THE ARARAT COLORED GRADED SCHOOL OF SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the following persons shall constitute the trustees of said graded school district: George Fulton (colored), Reuben Cloud (colored), Bud Hetters (colored), Thomas Long (colored), and John Alred (colored), and their term of office shall continue two years, and their successors shall be appointed by the board of edueation of Surry County, and all vacancies occurring in the said trustees, by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled for the unexpired term by the remaining members of the said board of trustees under this act. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 100 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 1oo. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COLORED GRADED SCHOOL DIS- TRICT, TO BE KNOWN AS THE ARARAT COLORED GRADED SCHOOL OF SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That the said board of trustees and their successors in office shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and by the name and style of the Board of Trustees of Ararat Graded School, Colored, and by that name may sue and be sued, hold and sell real estate, and all titles of said property shall vest in them, and they shall have the power to sell the same and apply the proceeds to the use of the school with the approval of the board of education of Surry County. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 108 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 108 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF GRADED SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF OXFORD TO ISSUE BONDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the board of graded school trustees shall keep separate the money arising from the sale of said bonds and the same shall be expended and disbursed by said board in erecting, completing, furnishing and equipping the white graded school building in the town of Oxford and to pay off and take up all outstanding indebtedness heretofore created for said purpose, and for no other purpose: Provided, that the holders of said bonds shall not be required to see to the application of the money arising from the sale of said bonds. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 118 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 118 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE GRADED SCHOOLS OF THE TOWN OF HENDERSONVILLE, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF SAID TOWN TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A NEW SCHOOL BUILDING, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the town of Hendersonville shall be and is hereby constituted a graded school district for both white and colored schools. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 118 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 118 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE GRADED SCHOOLS OF THE TOWN OF HENDERSONVILLE, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF SAID TOWN TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A NEW SCHOOL BUILDING, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of the said school trustees to distribute and apportion the school moneys placed to their credit so as to give each school in the town, white and colored, the same length of school term as nearly as may be each year. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 128 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 128 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE NATIONAL RE- LIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL AND CHAUTAUQUA FOR THE COLORED RACE, INCORPORATED. Whereas, the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race was incorporated under the general laws of this State on June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and now desires its charter then granted to be amended as herein set out; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That in addition to the powers conferred upon the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race, incorporated under the general laws of this State on June thirtieth, one thousand nine hundred and nine, by its .charter then granted, the said corporation is authorized and empowered to issue certificates of distinction and confer degrees of honor upon those who have completed satisfactorily the courses prescribed by the board of trustees prescribed in said charter, and upon such other persons distinguished for their work in literature, science or art, as may be from time to time selected and approved by said board of trustees. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 130 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 130 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE WINGATE SCHOOL. IN UNION COUNTY. Whereas, the Wingate School was incorporated in one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, as will appear upon reference to chapter thirty-one, Private Laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, for the purposes of conducting a high school under the auspices of the Union County white Baptist Association; and, whereas, said school was established and, up to this time, has been conducted by the Union County white Baptist Association; and, whereas, said association now desires that all neighboring associa- tions of like faith and order unite with them in the conduct and management of said school under the same provisions, rights and privileges as have heretofore been conferred upon the Union White Baptist Association, together with the right of said association to a representation on the board of trustees; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That all the rights, privileges, immunities and powers heretofore conferred on the Union White Baptist Association in chapter thirty-one, Private Laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, are hereby jointly conferred upon the Union, Anson and Pee Dee Baptist Associations, and such other associations as may hereafter unite with them for the purposes aforesaid. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 140 Sec. 25 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 140 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHE- VILLE, AND TO REPEAL ALL LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER 1 ORGANIZATION. Sec. 25 That each registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from seven a. m. until sunset during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Buncombe County six months, and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners on fifteen days notice, by publication in some newspaper of said city, before the opening of the books may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. The registration books shall be closed at sundown on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register, except those coming of age after the books closed and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city, and the books shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they were received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk, at the time prescribed, shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 143 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 143 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE HODGES INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be proper and permissible for the board of education of Bladen County to extend financial assistance to said Hodges Institute, either by the consolidation of the near-by public school districts for colored people therein or otherwise, as in the discretion of said board may be deemed best. . 1911 Private Laws Ch. 144 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 144 AN ACT TO CHANGE CERTAIN TERRITORY FROM THE BON- SAL TO THE MERRY OAKS SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory, lying in Wake County and being a part of the old Bonsal school district, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning in the Wake and Chatham County lines in the northwest corner of Lonnie Mimms land; thence east with said Mimms line to his northeast corner; thence south with his line to his southeast corner; thence south to Thomas Wyndhams and J. J. Reynolds corner; thence with said Wyndhams and Reynolds line south to their southeast corner; thence west with Reynolds line to the said county line; thence north with the said county line to the beginning, be and the same is hereby incorporated into and established as a part of the Merry Oaks, Chatham County, special tax school district for the white race. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 219 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2109 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE, REVISE AND AMEND THE CHAR- TER OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 Said registrar shall be furnished by said town commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said town commissioners in said town, at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep one book for each ward and to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to registration in such ward. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 219 Sec. 31 Identified by: model CHAPTER 2109 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE, REVISE AND AMEND THE CHAR- TER OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 31 The board of town commissioners shall have the power to enact ordinances, in such form as they may deem advisable, as follows: For the protection of the waterworks and water supply of the town of Smithfield; to grant to any person, firm or corporation a franchise and right to own, control and operate for a term of years or otherwise, street railways, telephone, telegraph, lighting or heating systems or any other business engaged in public service; to fix tolls of street railways, to contract as to compensation for such franchises, and to control, regulate and tax the same; to prevent vagrancy, and any person not engaged in any lawful occupation and who spends his time in gambling or loafing about the streets, without visible means of support, shall be considered a vagrant; to regulate and conduct all eleetions, to prevent interference with the officers thereof, and to preserve order thereat; to prescribe rules and regulations for the government and duties of police officers; to prohibit all trades, occupations or acts which are nuisances; to define and condemn nuisances and provide for the abatement or removal of same; to regulate and control the character of buildings which shall be constructed or permitted to be and remain in any part of the town of Smithfield, with the right to declare the same nuisance or unsafe; and cause its demolishment or removal; to provide for the leveling, filling in and drainage of all ponds, sunken lots or other places in which water stands and stagnates, and to recover from the owner or occupant the expenses of removing the same, which expenses shall be a lien upon the lots so improved, and enforced as liens for taxes; to prevent dogs, hogs, cattle and other live stock from roaming at large in the town; to prevent the keeping of hog pens within the town limits; to define and establish fire limits and prevent the location of wooden or other buildings within said fire limits and in any part of the town where they may increase the danger of fire; to regulate and describe what character of buildings shall be constructed within the said limits, and provide for the conditions under which buildings may be erected; to establish, regulate and control the markets or market buildings, to fix the location of any market building, prescribe the time and manner and place within the town wherein marketable articles, such as meats, perishable vegetables, fish, game, ete., and all other kinds of perishable food or diet shall be bought or sold: Provided, that nothing therein shall apply to the purchase or sale of meats, grains or flour packed in barrels or boxes, or fodder or hay or oats in the straw; to appoint keepers of the markets and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation; to regulate the license of itinerant merchants or peddlers and of those doing a temporary business; to establish, regulate and control cemeteries, to provide for the manner in which bodies may be interred therein or removed therefrom, and for beautifying, ornamenting and keeping the same in condition; to provide suitable grounds for the enlargement, extension or establishment of new cemeteries, providing separate cemeteries for white and black; to control and regulate the time and manner of burying the dead, to prohibit the burial of any person within the corporate limits of the said town not within said cemeteries, and provide for the punishment of persons violating the rules and regulations concerning the cemetery; to provide for the establishment, organization, equipment and government of fire companies, fire commissioners and fire alarm systems, and to adopt rules for the conduct, regulations and terms of office thereof; to regulate the erection, placing and maintenance of all telephone, telegraph and other electric wires, and, to prohibit the same from being strung overhead in a public street, and to compel the owners and operators of telephone, telegraph or electric wires to put same underground; to prohibit or control the firing of firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes or other explosive materials, and to govern the sale thereof; to control and regulate the speed of all horses or other animals, automobiles, buggies, carriages, wagons or other vehicles on the streets; to regulate the speed of railroad engines and trains or street cars within the corporate limits, or the stopping of engines or cars in the streets or crossings of the town; to specify the manner in which all stovepipes and flues and electric wires shall be put in buildings, and to control and. regulate the arrangement and operation thereof; to control and regulate the manner in which powder and other explosives and inflammable substances may be kept and sold, the manner in which commercial fertilizers are stored; to provide for the sanitary condition and keeping of all lots, cellars, houses, water-closets, privies, lavatories, stables, styes and other places of like character, to provide for the examination and sanitation thereof, and for that purpose ordinances may be passed authorizing sanitary officers or policemen to enter the premises suspected of being in bad or unsanitary condition and have the same cleaned at the expense of the owner, or abating such places as nuisances, and recover of the occupant or owner the expense thereof; to regulate the due observance of Sunday; to prevent the entrance into the town or the spreading thereof of any contagious or infectious disease, and for that purpose may stop, detain and examine every person coming from places believed to be infected with such disease; to establish and maintain quarantines against communities and territories where it is suspected prevails any infectious or contagious disease; to establish and regulate within the town or within three miles thereof; and may cause any person in the town suspected to be infected with such disease, and whose stay in the town may endanger public health, to be removed to the hospital or other place that the mayor may select; to prevent from coming into the town any second-hand clothing, bedding or furniture, to remove from the town or destroy any furniture or other articles which may be suspected to be tainted or infected with contagious or infectious disease or in such condition as may generate and propagate disease; to abate all nuisances which may be injurious to the public health; may vaccinate or otherwise subject to medical treatment all persons having smallpox or other contagious or infectious disease; to recover, by proper action against those who may cause the same, all costs and expenses of removing and treating people having or suspected of having contagious or infectious diseases, shall have power, by force, to remove all persons from the town or to carry them to hospitals or other places selected by the mayor or board of commissioners and detain them therein; to prohibit the carrying on of any disorderly house or house of ill fame or gambling house or house where games of chance are being carried on or where liquors are illegally sold; to provide for the inspection and examination thereof, and for that purpose may enter upon said premises and make arrest of any person or persons violating the ordinances of the town in reference thereto. On behalf of the general welfare of the town of Smithfield, and for the good order and government thereof, the board of commissioners may, in addition to the foregoing powers, pass or ordain any resolution or ordinance, and enforce the same by proper punishment or penalty, which it may consider wise or proper, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 242 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CON- FLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION, Sec. 2 That the corporate limits of said city shall include all the territory bounded by and included within the following lines, as external boundaries, to wit: On the north by a line centered upon the center of Union Square and lying five thousand two hundred and eighty feet to the northward thereof parallel with the TRUE center of Hillsboro street and New Bern avenue; south by a line centered as aforesaid and lying five thousand two hundred and eighty feet to the southward of said center, parallel with said first described line; and on the east and west by a line parallel with the TRUE center of Fayetteville and Halifax streets lying five thousand two hundred and eighty feet to the eastward and westward thereof, respectively, thereby intersecting and enclosing the extremities of the first and second above described lines: Provided, that the tract of land conveyed to the city of Raleigh by R. S. Pullen, Esq., by deed dated March the twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as recorded in book ninety-five, page four hundred and sixty-three, register of deeds office of Wake County, and known as Pullen Park, and all other territory which may be acquired by the city of Raleigh by purchase or donation or otherwise for park purposes, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased white persons (located northeast of the city of Raleigh), known as Oakwood Cemetery, and the cemetery for the burial of. deceased colored persons (located southeast of the city of Raleigh), known as Mount Hope Cemetery, and that the tract of land conveyed to the city by D. M. Carter and wife by deed registered in book one hundred and sixty-two, in the office of the register of deeds of Wake County, and the tract of land conveyed to the city by Laura Carter by deed Brated 52... , registered in book one hundred and sixty-one, at page four hundred and six, in said register of deeds office of Wake County, which tracts of land are owned by the city for the purposes of maintaining a garbage farm and as a site for the smallpox hospital, shall also be included in the corporate limits of the city of Raleigh, and all ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted by the board of aldermen of said city shall be applicable to the territory included in said Pullen Park or other parks and in said cemeteries and said tracts of land as fully as if the said territory was embraced within the limits of the city of Raleigh. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 242 Sec. 36 Identified by: model CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CON- FLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION, Sec. 36 That such registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it. shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from seven oclock a. m. until sunset during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Wake County six months, and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners on fifteen days notice, by publication in some newspaper of said city, before the opening of the books may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. The registration books shall be closed at sundown on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register, except those coming of age after the books close and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city, and the books shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shal] mark the day on which they were received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk, at the time prescribed, shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 252 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 252 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT DAVIDSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That all public school funds derived from the State and Mecklenburg County for the use and benefit of the public schools in said town shall be paid to the treasurer of the board of trustees of said graded schools by the treasurer of Mecklenburg County, for the use and benefit of the graded public schools in said town; also that the mayor of the town shall make a full return of all fines, penalties or forfeitures collected on the first days of April and October of each year, all such moneys to be turned over to the treasurer of said board of trustees to become as other school funds. And the property, both real and personal, of said publie school district, whether heretofore belonging. to the white or colored public schools, shall become the property of said graded schools, and shall be vested in the said board of trustees in trust for said schools, and the said board may sell the same or any part thereof, if deemed necessary or advisable, and apply the same for the use of said graded schools. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 252 Sec. 11 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 252 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT DAVIDSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said town, and said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from said special taxes and all other sources in such manner as shall be just to both races, giving each equal school facilities, due regard, however, being had to the cost of establishing and maintaining the graded schools of each race. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 325 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 325 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER FORTY OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINE, RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL IN TOISNOT TOWNSHIP, WILSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That chapter forty of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and nine, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto section twelve, as follows: See. 12 That in the event the election provided for in sections one and two of this act is not held, then it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of Wilson County, whenever requested so to do, by fifty qualified voters residing in white school district number one in Toisnot Township, Wilson County, to call said election upon a date to be named by the said voters in their petition to the said board. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 328 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 328 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR SMITHFIELD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, AFTER THE SAME RATIFIED BY A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That in the event said bonds are issued as provided for in succeeding section, the proceeds derived from the sale thereof shall be used by the trustees aforesaid for the purposes of purchasing a site for a new graded school for the white race in said district, or purchasing additional ground to the present site, and the erection of a modern, brick graded school building thereon, and to equip the same. That the trustees aforesaid, immediately upon the ratification of this act by the voters of said district, shall proceed to locate site and get plans and specifications for the proposed new building, and proceed to have same erected as soon thereafter as practicable. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER I. INCORPORATIONS. Sec. 7 That the registrar shall be furnished by the board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the said town in such manner that such books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such town and still residing therein, and entitled to vote, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of eight oclock a. m. and sunset (Sundays excepted), from and ineluding the first Monday in April up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in the town and entitled to register, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered, who may apply for registration, and who are entitled to vote in said town, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina twelv> months, and in the town of Kernersville four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said town as defined in section four of this act. If any person shall willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars or imprisoned thirty days in the county jail or town lockup, or both. But the board of aldermen, upon fifteen days notice before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 72 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER I. INCORPORATIONS. Sec. 72 That the moneys which from time to time be apportioned under the general school laws of the State to the above deseribed school district shall be turned over by the treasurer of Forsyth County to the treasurer of the said schoo] trustees for the benefit of said school: Provided, that in apportioning the school fund of said county said graded school shall be allowed the proportion of said fund due per capita to the white and colored children of school age. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 73 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER I. INCORPORATIONS. Sec. 73 That the property, both real and personal, of the public school for white and colored children of said district shall become the property of the said graded school and shall be vested in the said board of trustees and their successors in trust for the said graded school, and the said board of trustees may in their discretion sell the same, or any part thereof, and apply the proceeds to the use of the graded school, to the established graded school; which is established in said graded school district. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 344 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 344 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE CAMERON GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. Whereas, the citizens of the Cameron graded school district, em- bracing the town of Cameron and that portion of Moore and Lee counties lying contiguous thereto, did, on the third Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, vote a special tax, not to ex- ceed forty cents -40 on the one hundred dollars ($100) valuation of property and one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) on the poll, for the purpose of establishing graded schools in the Cameron graded schoo] district in compliance with an act of the General Assembly enacted February the twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and seven, as shown in certified copy of same; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within the boundaries of the Cameron graded school district, to wit: Beginning at the ford of Herds Creek, between Angus Fergusons and George Coles, and running as the road in an easterly direction to G. S. Coles line; thence as G. 8 Coles and Matthews line in direction of Cameron to J. W. Yows southwest corner; thence as Yows line to his and Rachel Blues corner in Hartsells line; thenee as Hartsells line in direction of Cameron to William Rogers corner in the Cat Tail Branch; thence with the branch, which is Rogers line, to the Keith line; thence with Rogers line in an easterly direction across the Crains Creek and across the 8 A. L. R. R. to Rogers corner; thence with the railroad and Rogers line to Crains Creek; thence up said creek to T. B. Goodwins corner on said creek; thence with his line to southwest corner of John McDonalds land; thence with his line to the 8 W. of the John Kelly land; thence with the south line of the Kelly land to the Fergus Ferguson land; thence with the south and east line of the Ferguson land to Fayetteville road; thence as Fayetteville road in the direction of Cameron to Swans station road; thence as Swans station road in direction of Swans station to a point in the road opposite where the Richardson dwelling was burned; thence as the road leading from said point by way of Mrs. Elizabeth M. McFadyens farm, crossing the Seaboard Air Line Railroad at said farm; and thence as said road to George Browders mill; thence as road leading in a westerly direction to the N. T. Arnolds on Gulf plank road; thence as said road in direction of Gulf about one-fourth mile to road leading to old Carthage plank road; thence as said road in direction of Carthage to the line of the Melver land; thence as northeast boundary of said land to Herds Creek; thence down said creek to beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Cameron graded school district. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 344 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 344 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE CAMERON GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. Whereas, the citizens of the Cameron graded school district, em- bracing the town of Cameron and that portion of Moore and Lee counties lying contiguous thereto, did, on the third Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, vote a special tax, not to ex- ceed forty cents -40 on the one hundred dollars ($100) valuation of property and one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) on the poll, for the purpose of establishing graded schools in the Cameron graded schoo] district in compliance with an act of the General Assembly enacted February the twenty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred and seven, as shown in certified copy of same; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish and maintain graded public schools for the white and colored children of the said graded school district, and shall fix the time of beginning and closing the term of said schools; and said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from all sources whatsoever in such manner as shall be deemed just to both races, due regard being paid to the difference in cost of maintaining said schools. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 350 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 350 AN ACT TO ENABLE THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHADBOURN SUPPLEMENTAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR THE WHITE AND COLORED RACES TO BORROW MONEY TO ERECT A SCHOOL BUILDING. Whereas, the school building in the Chadbourn Supplemental Pub- lic School for the White and Colored Races district has recently been destroyed by fire, and there are no funds available for rebuilding the same; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the trustees of The Chadbourn Supplemental Public School for the White and Colored Races are hereby authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a suitable school building in said district, and are authorized to execute a mortgage upon the land and building to secure the sum so borrowed. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 356 Sec. 17 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 356 AN ACT TO ENLARGE THE BOUNDARIES OF PARKTON SPE- CIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN THE COUNTY OF ROBE- SON, :-TO CHANGE ITS NAME, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF A SITE AND THE ERECTION OF A SCHOOL BUILDING, AND TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL SPE- CIAL TAX. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 17 That all public school funds derived from the State and the county of Robeson, and which may, from time to time be collected and apportioned under the general school law for school purposes, for the children in said Parkton graded school district, and all moneys to which said district may be entitled by reason of any special tax, gift, grant, apportionment, or otherwise, shall be paid to the treasurer of said board of trustees and shall be by him paid out by order of said board for the proper maintenance of the white and colored schools located in said Parkton graded school district and under the provisions hereof: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 422 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 422 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE BOUNDARY LINES OF SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICTS NUMBERS ONE AND THREE IN ALFORDSVILLE TOWNSHIP, ROBESON COUNTY, AND TO CREATE A NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT IN SAID TOWNSHIP. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the land and territory which is excluded from the boundaries of special tax school district numbers one and three of Alfordsville Township, Robeson County, as described in section one of this act, shall constitute and form a new school district in Alfordsville Township, to be known and designated as White School District Number Five of Alfordsville Township, Robeson County, and the board of education of Robeson County shall proceed to appoint the school committeemen for said district as provided by law. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 429 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 429 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CAROLINA COLLEGIATE AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The object of this institution shall be to teach the branches of learning relating to industrial and agricultural arts and such other scientific and classical studies as the board of trustees may elect to have taught, and to promote moral and practical education to the male and female white race. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 429 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 429 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CAROLINA COLLEGIATE AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 The board of trustees shall use as in its judgment may be proper, for the purpose of such institute and for the benefit of education in industrial and agricultural arts any funds, buildings, lands, laboratories and other property which is or may come into its possession. The said board of trustees shall have the power to accept and receive and hold all manner of lands, tenement rents, annuities and other hereditaments, which at any time or times hereafter may be granted, bargained, sold, released, devised or otherwise conveyed to said corporation forever. Also the said corporation at all times hereafter shall be able and capable to purchase, have, receive, take, hold and enjoy in fee simple, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities or interest in real property by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, or devise of any person, persons, or bodies, corporation or politic capable to make the same; further shall be able to receive and possess all moneys, goods and chattels that have been given or shall hereafter be given, sold, released or bequeathed by any person or persons for the use of said institute. And same to apply according to the will of the donors. The said corporation shall have, hold, possess and use the same for the purpose of establishing and endowing said institute for the education of males and females of the white race. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 431 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 431 AN ACT, TO INCORPORATE THE WHITEVILLE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the said corporation may acquire and hold by purchase, gift or otherwise, as much land as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a cemetery near the town of Whiteville, Columbus County, and may sell or dispose of land and suitable burial lots to be used exclusively for a place of the burial of the dead (white), of said town and all such other white people as the officers of said association may permit to be buried therein. seam a SD aie Ae mi ll cme a all ate AN 1911 Private Laws Ch. 436 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 436 AN ACT TO CREATE A SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUT OF PARTS OF CARVERS CREEK TOWNSHIP, IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND STEWART CREEK TOWNSHIP IN HARNETT COUNTY, TO BE KNOWN AS LINDEN GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the foliowing described territory lying and being in the counties of Cumberland and Harnett, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, in Cumberland County, at the southwestern corner of W. P. Colliers land, running thence in a northern direction, with Colliers line, to the river road in Cumberland County, thence by direct line to a point where the neighborhood road from Woods schoolhouse crosses the Raleigh and Southport Railroad track, thence by this Woods schoolhouse road to the swamp next to Jacob Giles residence; thence northwardly by this swamp to its intersection with the road leading from Jacob Giles residence to W. M. Walkers residence, thence by this latter road to its intersection with the road leading through the old McSwain place (or Briggs Smith place), thence by this latter road along the western line of Mrs. Lucas home tract to the Smiths ferry public road, thence by this road in an easterly direction to the Fayetteville road, running through the plantation of W. L. Williams, thence by this Fayetteville road in a northerly direction to the turn of the road in W. L. Williams field at or near the Red Banks, thence by direct line to Little River at Red Banks, thence up the various courses of Little River to the timber landing on J. H. Williams place in Harnett County, thence from this timber landing on lower Little River, with the western boundary of J. H. Williams land to his northwest corner, thence due north to the Bunnslevel line, thence east with said Bunnslevel district to a point in John Williams line, thence with said line between J. S. Byrd and John Williams to C. L. Smiths corner in said line, thence with the line between John Williams and C. J. Smith to the upper corner of McBrydes land, thence with the eastern line of said McBrydes land to the Averysboro road, thence in a southwesterly direction to the eastern line of E. S. Smiths land, thence with the line of E. S. Smith in a southeast direction to-G. D. Elliotts and E. S. Smiths corner, thence with the line between E. S. Smith and G. D. Elliott to the original corner of the James P. Hodges, Morrisy and Dr. F. Smith corner, thence with the line between the original tracts of land of James P. Hodges to lower Little River, thence down the various courses of Little River and Cape Fear river to the beginning corner, be incorporated into and established as a special tax school district for the white race, to be known as Linden Graded School District. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 441 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER at. AN ACT TO CREATE A SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OUT OF PARTS OF BLADEN AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES, TO BE KNOWN AS BLADEN UNION GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory lying and being in the counties of Bladen and Cumberland, bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning in the Robeson County line, a corner of Cumberland and Bladen counties, and running thence north in a direct line to Willis Creek; thence down the meanderings of said creek to the Cape Fear River; thence westwardly with the county line of Bladen and Cumberland to a stake in the eastern line of Daniel Tyson where it intersects said county line; thence southwardly with the eastern line of Tysons land to his southeast corner; thence due south about two hundred yards to a road; thence southwardly with said road to W. A. Whitteds line, where it first intersects said road leading south; thence southwardly in a direct line across the lands of W. A. and T. R. Whitted about one mile to a road leading from Tolarsville to Prospect Hall, at a point where the rural free delivery mail route comes into said road; thence southwest with the Tolarsville and Prospect Hall road to the Robeson County line; thence northwardly with the Robeson County line to the beginning, be incorporated into and established as a special tax school district for the white race, to be known as the Bladen Union graded school district. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 442 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 442 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ORIENTAL, NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, TOWNSHIP NUMBER FIVE, IN THE COUNTY OF PAMLICO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory, lying in Number Five Township, Pamlico County, to wit: Beginning on Neuse River at the westward line of the Perkins farm; thence northwardly with the line of the Perkins farm to Hog-pen Creek; thence down Hogpen Creek to Greens Creek; thence a direct line to the southern corner of the Thos. McCleese (now Wm. Messics farm); thence with the southern line of the MeCleese (now Messics) farm to the T. C. Midyett lands; thence with the south and east lines of the Midyett lands to the A. 8 MeCleese bridge; thence with A. S. McCleeses lead ditch to Samuel McCleeses line; thence with Samuel McCleeses south line and continuously to Pearces Creek run; thence down Pearces Creek to Neuse River; thence up Neuse River to the beginning, shall be and hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Oriental Graded School District. Said territory comprising the present public school District Number One, Township Number Five, for the white race, as laid out by the board of education of Pamlico County. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 442 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 442 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ORIENTAL, NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, TOWNSHIP NUMBER FIVE, IN THE COUNTY OF PAMLICO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district, and said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from said particular or special taxes and from all other sources in such manner as shall be to them reasonable and just to both races, giving to each school such facilities as they think just and reasonable, due regard, however, being had to the cost of establishing and maintaining the graded schools, of each race, the amount of said tax paid by each shall be taken in consideration. That the board of trustees provided by this act shall have entire and exclusive control of the publie schools and property in the said graded school district; shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government of the schools not ineonsistent with the provisions of this act; shall enjoy and fix compensation of officers and teachers of the public schools; shall make an accurate census of the school population of said district as required by the general public school law of the State, and do all other acts that may be just and lawful in the management of the public school interests in said district: Provided, that all children resident in said district between the ages of six years and twenty-one years shall be admitted into said schools, the white children into the schools established for the white race and the colored children into the schools established for the colored race, free of tuition charges; and those desiring admission into said schools as pay students may be admitted upon such terms as the said board may determine. The said board may admit pupils residing out of said territory of said graded school district upon such terms as the said board of trustees may deem just and reasonable: Provided, that the said two trustees herein and hereby provided for shall act in conjunction with the committee appointed by the board of education of Pamlico County for the colored race for the purpose only of employment of teachers, regulation of schools, taking of census and prescribing rules and regulations for the government of the colored schools in said district, which shall be the only duties of the said committee so appointed for said race in said graded school district. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 442 Sec. 12 Identified by: model CHAPTER 442 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ORIENTAL, NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, TOWNSHIP NUMBER FIVE, IN THE COUNTY OF PAMLICO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 12 That all public school funds derived from the State and Pamlico County for the use and benefit of the public schools in said graded school district shall be kept by the treasurer of Pamlico County separate and apart from all other funds in his hands for the use and benefit of the graded public schools in said district, and by said treasurer disbursed in the manner provided in section seven of this act. Said district shall receive at all times the said proportion of the school fund from State and county, and the same general special and supplemental, that is now levied or which may be levied for the same in addition to the particular tax hereby provided for. That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools embraced within the bounds of said graded school district, whether heretofore belonging to the white or colored public schools, shall become the property of the said public graded schools, and shall be vested in said board of trustees in trust for said schools, and said board may sell the same, or any part thereof, if deemed necessary or advisable, and apply the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of said graded public graded schools. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 447 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 447 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A PROPER LOCATION FOR A PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING IN DISTRICT NUMBER EIGHT FOR BERTIE COUNTY, JUST ACROSS THE COUNTY LINE AND IN HERTFORD COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That for the purpose of procuring a suitable location for a pub- lie school building for School District Number Eight, White Race, Roxobel Township, in Bertie County. Sec. 2 Any child of white race living or residents within the territory embraced in said Distriet Number Eight, in Hertford County, shall have the privilege of attending and being enrolled as pupils of said District Number Eight, of Bertie County. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 453 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 453 AN ACT TO CREATE SUMMERVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN HARNETT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That Summerville school district shall displace and be held as established in leu of District Number 1, White Race, Upper Little River Township, and shall in all particulars be deemed and held as one of the public school districts of Harnett County, and subject to the same regulations and entitled to same benefits; and none of the property in said district shall be lable to any special or local district school taxes for the benefit of the school subjects of any other district than the said Summerville school district. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 466 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 466 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS BY THE CHADBOURN SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER THREE FOR THE WHITE AND COLORED RACES OF COLUM- BUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of Columbus County, upon a written application of a majority of the board of trustees of Chadbourn Supplemental School District Number Three for the White and Colored Races, hereinafter called the Chadbourn district, is authorized and directed to submit on the first Tuesday in May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, to the qualified voters of said Chadbourn district, under such rules and regulations as now exist or may be hereafter established for the election of members of the General Assembly, the question of issuing bonds for the erection of a suitable school building in said district, to take the place of the building recently destroyed by fire, and at such election each voter shall be entitled to vote a written or printed ballot with the words For building bonds or Against building bonds thereon. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 468 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 468 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH MOUNT HOLLY SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the board of commissioners of Columbus County, upon the written application of a majority of the board of trustees of said school district, is hereby authorized and directed to submit on the first Tuesday in May, nineteen hundred and eleven, to the qualified voters of said school district embraced in said county of Columbus under such rules and regulations as exist for the election of members for the General Assembly, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of supplemental public schools for white and colored of said district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words For schools or No schools thereon. 1911 Private Laws Ch. 468 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 468 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH MOUNT HOLLY SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of said school district shall be expended in keeping up public schools in said district for the white and colored races of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one (6 and 21) years of age, and the said special tax shall be so used and expended so as to give to the children of each race an equal number of months of school. 7 1911 Private Laws Ch. 468 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 468 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH MOUNT HOLLY SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That T. F. Collier, G. E. Collier and A. Thompson be, and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for said school district, and shall hold their offices till the first Tuesday in May, nineteen hundred and eleven, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified as hereinafter set out, and they are hereby authorized and directed to establish at least two public schools in said district. One district to be separate and apart for the white race, and the other separate and apart for the colored race. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in said board during the year; to employ teachers and do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said school and shall receive no compensation for their services. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 34 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 34 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SPECIAL-TAX DIS- TRICT, No. 1, IN RED SPRINGS TOWNSHIP, ROBESON COUNTY; TO CREATE RED SPRINGS GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS, AND TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL TAX. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That upon a majority of the qualified voters residing in Special-tax District, Number One, white race, in Red Springs Township, Robeson County, voting in favor of the special tax and bonds hereinafter provided for, the name of said tax district shall be changed, and a taxing district to be known and designated as Red Springs Graded School District shall be and is hereby created, and the boundaries of said Red Springs Graded School District shall be as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the Hoke County line with the channel of Richland Swamp; running thence down the channel of said swamp as the various meanders thereof, in a southerly direction, to the intersection of the channel of said swamp with the line of Special-tax District, Number One, white race, Burnt Swamp Township; thence along the line of said Special-tax District, Number One, white race, Burnt Swamp Township, in an easterly direction to the line of Special-tax District, Number Four, white race, Burnt Swamp Township; thence along the line of Special-tax District, Number Four, white race, Burnt Swamp Township, in an easterly direction, until the line of said last mentioned special-tax district intersects the channel of Big Raft Swamp; thence up the channel of Big Raft Swamp, as the various meanders thereof, in a northerly direction to the Hoke County, line; thence along the Hoke County line, in a westerly direction, to the beginning, the said boundaries being the same, and embracing all the territory, now included in the taxing district now known as Special-tax District, Number One, white race, Red Springs Township, Robeson County. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 41 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 41 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAWS RE- LATING TO THE WILSON GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WILSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 The board of trustees named in section two of this act and their successors in office are hereby created a body corporate and politic, and the usual powers exercised by such corporate bodies are hereby conferred on the said board; and the trustees above named and their successors are required and empowered to conduct one or more public schools in said district for the children of each race who are entitled to public school privileges; and they shall have the further power to employ the necessary teachers; to select the text-books to be used in the schools of the district; to adopt the courses of study to be pursued in the schools; to control all the public school funds of the district, local, county, and. State, and to exercise such other powers as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the schools. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 59 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 59 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH: THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 The territory bounded by and included within the following lines, as external boundaries, to wit, on the north by a line centered upon the center of Union Square, and lying five thousand two hundred and eighty feet to the northward thereof, parallel with the TRUE center of Hillsboro Street and New Bern Avenue; south by a line centered as aforesaid, and lying five thousand two hundred and eighty feet to the southward of said center, parallel with said first described line, and on the east and west by a line parallel with the TRUE center of Fayetteville and Halifax streets, lying five thousand two hundred and eighty feet to the eastward and westward thereof, respectively, thereby intersecting and closing the extremities of the first and second abovedescribed lines, shall constitute and be the territorial area of the city of Raleigh: Provided, that the tract of land conveyed to the city of Raleigh by R. S. Pullen, Esq., by deed dated March the twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as recorded in book ninety-five, page four hundred and sixty-three, register of deeds office of Wake County, and known as Pullen Park, and all other territory which may be acquired by the city of Raleigh by purchase or donation or otherwise for park purposes, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased white persons (located northeast of the city of Raleigh), known as Oakwood Cemetery, and the cemetery for the burial of deceased colored persons (located southeast of the city of Raleigh), known as Mount Hope Cemetery, and that the tract of land conveyed to the city by D. M. Carter and wife by deed registered in book one hundred and sixty-two at page one hundred and sixty-two in the office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, and the tract of land conveyed to the city by Laura Carter by deed registered in book one hundred and sixty-one at page four hundred and six in said register of deeds office of Wake County, which tracts of land are owned by the city for the purposes of maintaining a garbage farm and as a-site for the smallpox hospital, shall also be included in the corporate limits of the city of Raleigh, and all ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted by the board of commissioners of said city shall be applicable to the territory included in said Pullen Park or other parks and in said cemeteries and said tracts of land as fully as if the said territory was embraced within the limits of the city of Raleigh. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 59 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 59 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF RALEIGH, AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH: THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That each registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven o'clock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from seven A. M. until sunset during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Wake County six months, and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners, on fifteen days notice by publication in some newspaper of said city before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. The registration books shall be closed at sundown on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register, except those coming of age after the books close and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city; and the books shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they were received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk, at the time prescribed, shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 68 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 68 AN ACT TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ACT, AND TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF HICKORY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I. NAME AND RIGHTS. Sec. 1 All the territory within the corporate limits of the city of Hickory, Catawba County, as is now or shall hereafter be prescribed, shall be and remain and is hereby constituted a public school district for both white and colored children, and shall hereafter be known as the Hickory School District. The city council shall be charged with the duty of maintaining an adequate and sufficient system of public schools within the Hickory School District, and shall construct and maintain proper buildings, and to that end the public school buildings and all other property now used, or which may be hereafter acquired within the city of Hickory for school purposes, shall be under their control and subject to the disposition of the city council. The city council shall have the same power and authority to condemn lands and to do and perform any and all other acts to acquire and control school property as is given or may be conferred by law upon said council with reference to acquiring lands for streets or any other public purpose, and may control school property and grounds in like manner as it is empowered to control streets; and the said council shall also have such power not in direct conflict with the provisions of this article, with regard to the public schools of the Hickory School District, and the officers, teachers, and employees thereof, as is now conferred by law upon the Board of Commissioners of Catawba County and the Board of Education of Catawba County with regard to the public schools of the county; and the said council shall have charge of the collection of taxes to maintain the schools, and construct school buildings, and the handling and the disbursement of all money used for school purposes. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 98 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 98 AN ACT TO. INCORPORATE THE CHADBOURN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the said corporation may acquire and hold by purchase, gift, or otherwise as much land as may be necessary for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a cemetery near the town of Chadbourn, Columbus County, and may sell or dispose of land and suitable burial lots to be used exclusively for a place of burial for the dead of said town and all such other people as the officers of said association may permit to be buried therein: Provided, no negro or any person of African descent shall be buried on any lot belonging to said association. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 112 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 112 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LITTLETON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory lying within a radius of one and one-half miles from a large stone, the center of the town of Littleton, shall be and is hereby constituted the public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Littleton Graded School District. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 112 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 112 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LITTLETON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and -colored children of said graded school district; and said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in cost of maintaining said school: Provided, that all donations to said school shall be applied as directed by the donors. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 148 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 148 AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CREATING ABERDEEN GRADED SCHOOL AND TO PERMIT SAID SCHOOL DIS- TRICT TO ISSUE AND SELL BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said chapter two hundred and nineteen of the Private Laws of North Carolina, session one thousand nine hundred and seven aforesaid, be and the same is hereby further amended by adding thereto, as a part of said act, the following: (a@) That on Tuesday after the first Monday in April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, there shall be an election held in the territory described in section one of this act, known as Aberdeen Graded School, upon the question whether the said Aberdeen Graded School shall issue coupon bonds in the sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) as hereinafter prescribed, and whether a tax shall be levied on the taxable property in said Priv.27 township as hereinafter prescribed for the payment of the principal of the said bonds when the same shall become due according to their tenor, and the interest that may accrue thereon, the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds to be used in the building and erecting of a school building or buildings for said Aberdeen Graded School for the white race and furnishing and equipping the same and the purchase of such lands as may be deemed necessary for the purposes aforesaid. (b) The election authorized to be held upon the queatign submitted to the qualified voters of said Aberdeen Graded School under the preceding section shall be held in the present school building in the town of Aberdeen in said territory, and the board of cominissioners of Moore County shall have power and authority to appoint all registrars and judges of election and other officers necessary for the holding of said election. For the purpose of said election a new registration of the voters entitled under the laws of the State to vote at said election in said territory shall be had under the rules and laws prescribed for the election of members of the General Assembly, except as modified by the provisions of this act. At the close of said election the registrar and judges of election shall count and canvass the vote cast at said election and declare the result thereof, and shall report the result of such count and canvass in writing to the board of commissioners of Moore County at the next meeting held by said board after said election, and at the meeting of said board of commissioners held after said report has been made the said board of commissioners shall canvass said returns and declare the result of said election and record the same in the minutes of said board, and no other canvass of said election shall be necessary to determine the result thereof. (e) That at said election held under the provisions of this act as aforesaid, all of the qualified voters of said territory who shall favor the issue of the bonds as hereinafter prescribed and the levy of the special tax as hereinafter prescribed for the payment of the principal of said bonds and the interest that may accrue thereon, shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed, or partly printed and partly written, the words For Schools, and those who are opposed to the issue of said bonds and the levy of said special taxes for the purposes aforesaid as hereinafter prescribed, shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words Against Schools. In all other respects said election shall be held and conducted in the manner prescribed by law for the election of members of the General Assembly. (qd) In the event a majority of the qualified voters of said territory shall at said election held under the provisions of this act vote For Schools, the result shall be declared, counted, canyassed, and recorded as hereinbefore provided, and thereupon the oe ed ae eo o> school trustees of said Aberdeen Graded School, created under the provisions of this act and hereinafter referred to, are authorized and empowered to issue and sell coupon bonds for said Aberdeen Graded School, payable to bearer, in the sum of twelve thousand dollars, in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, bearing interest from the date of said bonds at a rate not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually on the first day of January in each year after the date of said bonds until said bonds are fully paid; that said bonds shall be made payable twenty years from the date of said bonds, both bonds and coupons to be made payable at the office of the treasurer of said school trustees of said Aberdeen Graded School in the town of Aberdeen, North Carolina; that the said bonds and their coupons shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with the number one, and each coupon shall bear the number of the bond to which it is attached; the bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the school trustees of Aberdeen Graded School and countersigned by the chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Moore County, and shall have affixed thereto the seal of the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore County, North Carolina, and the coupons attached to said bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the school trustees of Aberdeen Graded School, or shall have his lithographed signature thereon, and the said bonds shall be styled Aberdeen Graded School Bonds; that a record shall be kept of said bonds by the said trustees of Aberdeen Graded School, showing numbers and denominations thereof, the date of issuing the same, and when same will mature, and the interest-bearing rate thereof, the amount received from the sale of the same, and the date of the paying of the proceeds of the sale thereof to the treasurer of Aberdeen Graded School, and such other data in relation to the same as said school trustees may direct to be kept. (e) That the bonds hereby authorized to be issued shall. not be sold for less than par value, and shall not be delivered to the purchaser thereof until the purchase money thereof shall be paid to the treasurer of the school trustees of said Aberdeen Graded School, and said treasurer shall receive all such moneys paid in the purchase of said bonds in his official capacity, and he and his sureties on his official bond shall be liable therefor and shall disburse the same only as provided by this act, upon the order of said school trustees of Aberdeen Graded School upon written order signed by the chairman of said trustees. The money realized from the sale of said bonds or any portion thereof as provided by this act shall only be used for the purpose of building and erecting a school building or buildings for Aberdeen Graded School and furnishing and equipping the same as hereinbefore provided by this act and in the purchase of such lands as may be deemed necessary for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, that the purchaser of said bonds shall not be held responsible for the application of said fund. (f) That the costs of issuing and selling said bonds shall be paid by the said school trustees aforesaid from any school fund due said Aberdeen Graded School under existing law. (qg) For the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds and to create a Sinking fund to pay the principal of said bonds at maturity, the Board of Commissioners of Moore County shall annually, at the time of levying the county and other State taxes required by law to be levied, levy a special tax on all persons and property subject to taxation within the limits of said territory known as Aberdeen Graded School under the provisions of this act, not to exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of real and personal property and seventy-five cents on each taxable poll, and the tax so levied shall be collected by the Sheriff of Moore County, North Carolina, in the same manner as other taxes in the county of Moore, and paid over by him to the treasurer of the school trustees of the Aberdeen Graded School; the said taxes so levied shall be applied, first, to the payment of the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due, and the balance shall constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds at maturity, which fund may be invested by the treasurer of said school trustees under the direction of said trustees, the interest arising from said investment to constitute a part of the fund for the payment of said bonds and the interest coupons thereto attached. The school trustees of Aberdeen Graded School are authorized and empowered at any time before said bonds may become due and payable to use any part of said sinking fund in the purchase of said bonds or any part thereof if agreement can be had with the holders thereof: Provided, that no greater price shall be paid for any of said bonds than the amount received therefor, with interest due on the same to the date of purchase added. (l):That the bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be and constitute obligations of Aberdeen Graded School and shall be payable only by said Aberdeen Graded School, as provided in this act: (i) The school trustees of Aberdeen Graded School as now constituted, to wit, J. W. Graham, J. F. Allred, J. A. Bryant, J. A. McKeithen, and H. A. Page, and their successors in office, shall have full power and authority and it shall be their duty to purchase such lands as they may deem necessary for the erection of school buildings provided by this act, and erect and furnish the same under the provisions of this act. Said trustees shall elect one of their number chairman, and one of their number secretary, and one of their number treasurer. The said treasurer shall qualify by taking an oath of office, before some officer authorized to administer oaths, to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of his office and by executing with sufficient sureties an official bond payable to the State of North Carolina in a sum to be fixed by said school trustees to account for, settle and pay such sums of money as may come into his hands as said treasurer as provided by this act and required by law, which said bond shall be approved by said school trustees and thereafter recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore County, and said register shall have for his services the same fees as is now provided by law for the recording of deeds and other instruments. Suit may be brought against said treasurer and against the sureties on his official bond by Aberdeen Graded School under direction of said trustees, either in the name of Aberdeen Graded School or in the name of the State of North Carolina on relation of said Aberdeen Graded School. Said treasurer shall receive for his services such sum as the said school trustees may fix, not exceeding two per cent of the amount disbursed by him. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 151 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 151 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SPECIAL-TAX DIS- TRICT, No. 1, IN LUMBER BRIDGE TOWNSHIP (WHITE RACE) IN ROBESON COUNTY; TO CREATE LUMBER BRIDGE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS; AND TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL TAX. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That upon the majority of the qualified voters residing in the territory hereinafter described in this section voting in favor of the special tax and bonds hereinafter provided for, the name of Special-tax District, Number One, white race, in Lumber Bridge Township, Robeson County, shall be changed, and a taxing district to be known and designated as Lumber Bridge Graded School District shall be and is hereby created, and the boundaries of the said Lumber Bridge Graded School District shall be as follows: Beginning where the Mill Branch empties into the Little Marsh, and runs with said Mill Branch to the upper or west line of D. L. Sinclairs land; thence with D. L. Sinclairs west line to the Great Marsh; thence with the Great Marsh to the Hoke County line; thence as the Hoke County line to a point opposite M. D. Averitts residence; thence a direct line (including the lands of M. D. Averitt) to Sandy Grove; thence a line running so as to include the lands of J. D. Malloy and between the lands of S. J. Cobb and Martha H. Cobb to the Little Marsh; thence up the Little Marsh to the confluence of Mill Branch, at the point of beginning. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 182 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 182 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SPECIAL-TAX DIS- TRICT, No. 4, WHITE RACE, IN SAINT PAULS TOWNSHIP, ROBESON COUNTY; TO CREATE SAINT PAULS GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS; AND. TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL TAX. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That upon a majority of the qualified voters residing in the territory hereinafter described in this section voting in favor of the special tax and bonds hereinafter provided for, the name of Special-tax District, Number Four, for the white race, in Saint Pauls Township, Robeson County, shall be changed, and a taxing district to be known and designated as Saint Pauls Graded School District shall be and is hereby created, and the boundaries of the said Saint Pauls Graded School District shall be as follows: Beginning at-a point in the public road leading from Shaws Mill to Lumberton in the southern edge of the Little Marsh and running with said road to the southern edge of the Great Marsh; thence up the said marsh to C. L. Johnsons: line; thence with his eastern and southern lines to his southwest corner; thence direct to W. S. Johnsons southeast corner, passing through the lands of Isaac McMillan, Mark Harrell, and others; thence with W. S. Johnsons southern line to E. J. Johnsons southern corner; thence with his southern line to J. HE. McDonalds southwestern corner; thence with his line as to include his plantation; thence from J. E. McDonalds house direct to D. J. McNeills Mill Branch; thence with said branch to the Great Marsh; thence across the Great Marsh direct to A. R. McEHacherns southwest corner; thence with his western line to Mareus Smiths line; thence with his western line to the line of the estate vf Archibald Graham; thence with the western lines of the estate of William Davis and Rev. Joseph Evans to J. D. McRaineys line; thence with McRaineys western line to his northwest corner; thence with his northern line to his eastern corner; thence direct to the I" ee Little Marsh at a point where the Virginia and Carolina Southern Railway crosses said marsh; thence down said marsh to the beginning. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 183 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 183 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE MOUNTAIN VIEW INSTITUTE IN WILKES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the purpose of said institute shall be the education of boys and girls of the white race, and to that end the trustees and principal thereof may, from time to time, adopt and prescribe such a course or courses of study as will lead to thorough preparation for entrance into any of the colleges of this State, and for any of the ordinary business callings or pursuits of life; and may grant certificates or diplomas of proficiency in any given course. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 185 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 185 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ELON GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR THE WHITE RACE IN BOON STATION TOWNSHIP, ALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory embraced in Elon Special-tax District, Number Two, for white race, in Boon Station Township, Alamance County, North Carolina, in which a special school tax of thirty cents on the hundred dollars valuation and ninety cents on the poll has been voted to be levied annually, said special levy now being in force, shall be and is hereby constituted The Elon Graded School District for the white race. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GASTONIA; NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That it shall be the duty of the board of aldermen to declare at what place or places elections shall be held in said city; and they shall give due notice of the establishment of said voting place or places by publication in some newspaper published in said city four weeks before the election or by posting such notiges at three or more public places in said city. The board of aldermen shall at their first regular meeting in March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and biennially thereafter, appoint a registrar for said election, and shall give notice of registration by causing publication to be made at three public places in said city of Gastonia, giving in said notice the name of said registrar and the place of registration. The board of aldermen shall furnish said registrar with registration books, and it shall be the duty of the registrar appointed by the year one thousand nine hundred and thirteen and thereafter, for four consecutive Saturdays next preceding the election, between the hours of seven A. M. and seven Pp. M., to open the registration books at such place or places as has been advertised as aforesaid, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters: Provided, however, that the registrar, after said registration books have been opened and before the same are closed according to law, may in his discretion, register persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote, at other times and places than the time and place mentioned in said advertisement or notice. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and has resided in the county ninety days and in the city of Gastonia thirty days; and if any person shall willfully swear falsely he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars or imprisoned for thirty days in the county jail: Provided, however, that it shall not be required or necessary to have a new registration under this act, but the registration as now in force and effect, under the Private Laws of North Carolina of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, chapter one hundred and forty-eight, or acts supplementary or amendatory thereof, or ordinances of said city in furtherance of said act, shall be in full force and operation, and such books may be revised so as to show an active list of electors previously registered and still residing in said city without requiring said electors to be registered anew; and such registration books shall on the fourth Saturday before the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and biennially thereafter, be opened for the registration of any elector entitled to registration whose names have not before been registered in said books or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the board of aldermen may at any time order a new registration. The said registrar and the two judges appointed as above set forth shall compose the judges or inspectors of election to open the polls, receive and deposit the ballots in the boxes provided for that purpose, and to superintend and have control of the voting. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 199 Sec. 62 Identified by: model CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GASTONIA; NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 62 That the board of aldermen of the city of Gastonia may in their discretion continue and maintain any public school or schools heretofore or hereafter established according to law within the city of Gastonia, and it shall be the duty of the said board of aldermen to levy and collect annually for the use of said school or schools a tax, the rate of which shall be fixed by the school commissioners, not, however, to exceed the rate of thirty cents on every one hundred dollars valuation of all real estate and personal property actually or in contemplation of law situated within the corporate limits of the said city of Gastonia. This tax shall be collected as other city tax and shall be paid to the treasurer of the city, who shall be ex officio treasurer of the board of school commissioners. The mayor shall be president of such board. Seven school commissioners shall be elected biennially at the regular election when the mayor and board of aldermen of said city shall be elected, under the same rules and regulations as may be provided for the election of the aldermen of the city, and said commissioners shall hold office until the next regular election and until their successors are elected and qualified. The board of school commissioners of the city of Gastonia provided for shall employ teachers, fix their pay, and make all rules and regulations for the government of said schools: Provided, however, that said board must establish and maintain separate schools for the children of the white race and for the children of the colored race. It shall be the duty of the school commissioners of Gaston County to lay off, as one of the school districts of said county, all that part of said county which is within the limits of the said city of Gastonia, to be known as Gastonia School District, and all moneys apportioned to said district under the provisions of the school laws of the State shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the school commissioners of said city, to be by them expended in the maintenance of said schools: Provided, that the privilege of attending is granted to all children who would be entitled to attend the public schools of this State. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 236 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 236 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF FREEMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That the registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with the registration books, and it shall be the duty of the registrar to open his books, at the time and place designated, at least ten days before election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrars to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 242 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE BESSEMER CITY GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TO ALLOW IT TO VOTE ON A SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS THEREIN; AND TO VOTE ON THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING AND EQUIPPING SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN SAID DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory, lying and being in Gaston County, North Carolina, near to and including the town of Bessemer City, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of D. P. Fronebergers land and the Southern Railway track, about two miles easterly from the railway station in Bessemer City; thence northerly along Fronebergers line and along the easterly line of Rankins land and along the easterly boundary of the M. F. Fraley land and Gaston Littlejohns land; thence northerly to the southeasterly corner of C. W. Fullers land; thence along the easterly and northerly boundaries of said Fullers land; thence along the northerly boundary of C. C. Kisers land, J. W. Nances land, D. Lee Paynes land, J. T. R. Damerons' land (home place) and the William Arrowood lands; thence direct to the northeasterly corner of Porter Morrows land and along the northerly boundary of his land to A. B. Flowers land, and along the northerly boundary of said Flowers land and of W. L. Ormands land and of the Ormand Mining Companys land (mine tract); thence along the northerly boundary of D. A. Garrison & Co.s land and of R. L. Lewiss land and of A. G. Gantts land; thence along the westerly boundary of said Gantts land and of K. J. Kennedys land and of Ed. Kennedys land; thence along the southerly boundaries of said Ed. Kennedys land and along the southerly boundaries of the following named lands: the Charles Reichel land, ,Sam Webbers land, Robert Walkers land, the Tom Hambrick lands, the Ormand Mining Companys land, J. L. Rhynes land, John Gladdens land, and Mrs. M. E. Wolfes land; thence along the easterly boundary of said Mrs. M. BE. Wolfes land and of H. L. Rhynes land, and Samuel Hoviss land, the Ormand Mining Companys land and D. P. Fronebergers land to the beginning, be and the same is hereby created a school district under the name and style of Bessemer City Graded School District for white and colored children. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 242 Sec. 16 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 242 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE BESSEMER CITY GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TO ALLOW IT TO VOTE ON A SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS THEREIN; AND TO VOTE ON THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING AND EQUIPPING SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN SAID DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 16 That in addition to the powers and duties hereinbefore and hereinafter imposed upon said board of trustees, it shall be their duty and they are hereby empowered : (a) To appoint a treasurer, tax collector, and such other officers and agents as they may deem necessary and expedient, and to fix the compensation of such officers and agents; and such officers and agents or any one or more of them may be appointed from among the members of the board or from the yoters of the district; but no trustee, as such, shall receive any compensation for his services as trustee. -6 To borrow money and create other indebtedness on the credit of the district: Provided, no such indebtedness shall be created except for necessary expense of maintaining the schools and for current repairs to school buildings in said district. (c) To condemn private property for public school use in said district; and whenever private property in said district shall be required for public school use, and it is so determined by resolution duly adopted by the board of trustees, such determination shall be final, and no appeal shall lie therefrom, and the said board of trustees shall appoint an appraiser, and the owner of such private property may appoint one appraiser, and the two appraisers so appointed shall appoint a third appraiser, each of which appraisers shall be a resident and freeholderin said district. Such appraisers Shall meet within three days after their appointment, and after each being duly sworn to act impartially and according to his best judgment, they shall proceed to appraise the damage which will ensue to such private property-owner in consequence of such condemnation, and shall report their finding, verified by their oaths, to the private owner and to the board of trustees, without delay, and whenever, within six months thereafter, said board shall pay or tender payment of the amount named by said appraisers to such private owner, the property so appraised shall be deemed condemned for public school use; but the owner of property so condemned shall have the right to appeal from the findings of such board of appraisers to the Superior Court of Gaston County for trial by jury. In case the private owner shall desire to appeal, he shall cause written notice to be served upon the board of trustees by some proper officer, leaving a copy of such notice with the secretary of the board of trustees or with any member of said board, within thirty days from the date of. the finding of the appraising board, and the officer serving such notice shall return the original notice, with the manner and date of seryice indorsed thereon, to the clerk of the Superior Court of Gaston County, who shall forthwith docket the cause for trial at the next ensuing term of the said Superior Court for the trial of civil actions, when the cause shall stand for trial as any other civil action. In case the private owner shall refuse or fail to appoint an appraiser as hereinbefore provided, within ten days after being notified to do so, he shall be deemed to have waived his right to so appoint, and the board of trustees may appoint an appraiser in behalf of such private owner and the appraisement be proceeded with in like manner as if such private owner had exercised his right to appoint. (d) To maintain and operate a public graded school in said district for the white children, and one for the colored children of said district; and the said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from the district taxes and from all other public sources (applicable to the maintenance of such schools) in such manner as shall be just and equitable te both white and colored races, giving to each equal facilities, having due regard, however, to the relative cost of maintaining a graded school for both races. (e) To, exercise the control and management of the public schools and school property in said district and to prescribe rules and regulations, by and with the consent and approval of the superintendent of public instruction for Gaston County, for the government of said schools: Provided, that all children resident in said district and of ages between six and twenty-one years who conform to the established rules thereof shall be admitted into said schools, as pupils, free of tuition charges, and those desiring admission as pupils, and who reside outside the limits of said district or who may be outside the ages above mentioned, may be admitted upon such terms as said board may determine, but they shall make ho discrimination as to terms of tuition to be charged to pupils of the same grade, and such tuition charges shall be at least as much as the per capita expense of maintaining said schools for resident pupils of school age; to prescribe rules and by-laws for the transaction of the business of said board of trustees; to make an accurate census of the school population of the district as required by the general school laws of the State, and to do all other just and lawful things for the proper conduct of the school affairs in said district. (f) To have the advice, visitation, and recommendations of the superintendent of public instruction for Gaston County, and of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, when requested, in all matters pertaining to the duties of their office. (g) To employ and fix the compensation of the officers, principal, and teachers of the schools in said district, and to delegate such powers of control of the schools to the principal and teachers as they may deem proper. (.) To elect annually, between the second Monday in April and the first Monday in September, a principal or superintendent of schools in said district, and as many teachers for the several grades as in the judgment of said board may be expedient and for the best interests of said district; but no person shall be elected superintendent or principal or teacher who does not hold license to teach in the public schools of Gaston County. (i) To visit each department of the schools of said district at least once in each month when the schools are in session, such visits to be of at least one hours duration each; but such visits may be made by a committee of not less than two of the members of said board, if desired. (j) To make a full and complete report of the operations of said schools and such other reports as may be required under the general school laws of the State, to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to the county superintendent of public instruction for Gaston County. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 251 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 251 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LUMBERTON GRADED SCHOOLS TO REMOVE AN OLD BUILDING. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of graded school trustees of Lumberton, or their successors in office, or any body succeeding to their duties, or the board of trustees of Lumberton Graded School District, shall have full power and authority to tear down the building known as the dormitory, located upon the grounds of the existing white graded school in the town of Lumberton, and to use the material therefrom in the erection of another school building at such point within the graded school territory as they in their discretion may determine. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 252 Sec. 37 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 252 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF SALISBURY AND TO REPEAL ITS PRESENT CHARTER AND ALL LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ORGANIZATION. Sec. 37 That each registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven o'clock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from nine A. M. until eight Pp. mM. during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Rowan County six months, and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners, on fifteen days notice, by publication in some newspaper of the city, before the opening of the books, may order an entire new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper, and in case this form of government is adopted by a vote of the people of Salisbury, together with this charter, there shall be an entirely new registration for the first primary and election held hereunder, and at any and all subsequent primaries and elections, and any one registering and offering to register in either primary or election who is not entitled to register shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The registration books shall be closed at eight oclock P. M. on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register except those coming of age after the books close and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city, and the book shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they were received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk at the time prescribed shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 305 Sec. 3 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS THE GREAT POSTOLIC TEMPLE. Whereas Clara E. Wiggins, G. A. Purvis, Ulysses S. Martin, J. C. Gorham, Cherry Bryant, Dellah Rodman, N. W. Cotton, Abraham Swindell and Percy Stevens, in conjunction with others, have joined together in an effort to organize a lodge for beneyo- lent purposes, to care for its members by providing medical atten- tion and nurse, and for the care and education and general uplift of coming generations of the colored race, and for said purposes deem it wise that the said parties and their successors in office should be incorporated : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 That the said incorporation shall have the right and power to establish a juvenile lodge for the care, protection, and education of children of the colored race, under such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be adopted. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 305 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE A BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION KNOWN AS THE GREAT POSTOLIC TEMPLE. Whereas Clara E. Wiggins, G. A. Purvis, Ulysses S. Martin, J. C. Gorham, Cherry Bryant, Dellah Rodman, N. W. Cotton, Abraham Swindell and Percy Stevens, in conjunction with others, have joined together in an effort to organize a lodge for beneyo- lent purposes, to care for its members by providing medical atten- tion and nurse, and for the care and education and general uplift of coming generations of the colored race, and for said purposes deem it wise that the said parties and their successors in office should be incorporated : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That the object and purpose of the said corporation shall be to care for its members by providing sick benefits, medical 7 Pe ees Steele | a ee TI 2 ag ares attention, moral support, and proper burial of its members, and for the general care and uplift of its membership, which is limited to the colored race, and particularly to care for the unfortunate and destitute. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 323 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 323 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ENFIELD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A BUILDING FOR THE WHITE GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of trustees of the Enfield Graded School District is hereby authorized and empowered to issue, to an amount not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, bonds in the name of said Enfield Graded School District, in such denomination and in such form as such board of trustees may determine, with which to build, construct, and erect and furnish a suitable school building for the white graded school of said Enfield Graded School District. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 323 Sec. 7 Identified by: model CHAPTER 323 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ENFIELD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A BUILDING FOR THE WHITE GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 That for the purpose of providing for the payment of said bonds and coupons as the same shall become due, the said board of trustees of said Enfield Graded School District is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and cause to be collected annually, as other graded school district taxes are collected, a tax not exceeding fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of-real and personal property, and not exceeding forty-five cents on all taxable polls in said Enfield Graded School District ; and, also, before the maturity of the principal of said bonds, and for a sufficient length of time prior thereto, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of said Enfield Graded School District to set apart such portion of the foregoing levy each year as may be necessary to pay for said principal at its maturity; and under said levy the constitutional equation between poll and property shall always be preserved, and the taxes so collected and levied shall be kept separate from all other taxes and shall be used for no other purpose than for the building, erection, construction, and furnishing of said building for the white graded school of said Enfield Graded School District, and for the payment of said bonds and coupons as above provided for. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 323 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 323 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ENFIELD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A BUILDING FOR THE WHITE GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 That thesaid board of trustees of said Enfield Graded School District shall have power and authority to build, erect, construct, and furnish a school building for the white school of said Enfield Graded School District; and it shall have full power to sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the present site of the school building for the white school of said Enfield Graded School District, or the buildings thereon, and power to purchase and hold such real estate and personal property and to acquire all such rights and privileges as may be deemed necessary to enable them to build, erect, construct, and furnish such building for the white school of said Enfield Graded School District. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 325 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 325 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT CREATING PHILADELPHUS GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, RATIFIED FEBRUARY Meee LOLS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section one of an act ratified at this session of the General Assembly, entitled An act to change the name of Special-tax District Number One, Pembroke Township, Number One, in Burnt Swamp Township and a part of Number Four in Red Springs Township, all in Robes6n County, and for the white race; to consolidate said school territory; to create Philadelphus Graded School District; to authorize the board of trustees of said graded school district to issue bonds and to levy an additional special tax, the same being House Bill number one thousand one hundred, Senate Bill number seven hundred and ninety-three, and which was ratified on February ...... , one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out of section one of said act the boundaries of said Philadelphus Graded School District, as therein contained,-and by inserting in lieu thereof the following boundaries for said Philadelphus Graded School District, to wit: . Beginning at the Vardell place on the Red Springs Township line and runs about north to the run of Big Raft Swamp; thence down said swamp to, J. T. Dennys upper line; thence as his line down said swamp to D. McC. Smiths (deceased) east corner ; thence direct to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad where W. S8. MeMillans west line crosses said railroad; thence a south course to J. L. MeMillans north line of his Smith place; thence as his southeast line to what is known as his Grainger place; thence as the line of said place to Atlas Prevatts line; thence as his line to the Lumberton Road; thence as said road to W. McK. Glovers lower line; thence with his line to the Eureka Road; thence with said road to the crossing on the old Lumberton Road; thence as the old Lumberton Road to the Alex McIntyre lower line; thence with his line to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; thence a direct line to A. T. McCallums corner near Cain MecNeills place; thence along the northwest line of A. T. McCallum to and including the D. H. McNeill place; thence with D. H. McNeills upper line direct and the run of Richland Swamp; thence southeast with the swamp to the bridge on the Lowrie Road; thence with the said road to the beginning at the Vardell place. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 347 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 347 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE ROCKDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all the territory in Scotland County within the following described boundaries, to wit, beginning near the Peele homestead, at the intersection of the Wire Road and the State line, and runs thence in a southeasterly direction with said State line to a point where a straight line to the J. B. McColman place will exclude all the lands of D. D. Norton in North Carolina, said point being a corner of District Number One, the Mason Cross District for the white race; thence with the upper boundary of said District Number One in a direct line to the J. B. McColman place, where Preston Leggett now lives; thence along the road leading from said McColman place to Pates Mill on Joes Creek; thence down the run of Joes Creek in a southeasterly direction to the confluence of Joes Creek and Gum Swamp; thence up Gum Swamp to the mouth of Beaverdam Creek; thence up Beaverdam Creek to where it intersects with the public road leading from Laurel Hill to St. Johns Church; thence down said road towards St. Johns Church to the run of Browns Branch near Elijah Gibsons residence; thence in a westerly direction, with the run of said branch to a point two hundred yards beyond the said Elijah Gibsons residence; thence in a southerly direction to the northern edge of the Iron Monger Pond, to the second corner of the lands of the estate of Miranda Wright, deceased ; thence with the said Wright line to its beginning corner; thence with the line between the estates of N. B. Gibson and Miranda Wright to a corner of the said estates; thence in a southwesterly direction with said Gibson line to a corner of the estate lands of N. B. Gibson and the lands of T. M. McLaughlin; thence with the dividing line between the lands of T. M. McLaughlin and the estate lands of W. F. Gibson to a corner; thence with the various lines of the estate of W. F. Gibson, in a southwesterly direction, to the run of Joes Creek; thence in a northerly direction with the run of said Joes Creek to Wrights Bridge on the Wire Road; thence in a westerly direction along the center of said road to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Rockdale Public School District. : 1913 Private Laws Ch. 347 Sec. 13 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 347 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE ROCKDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 13 That in the election or appointment of trustees as provided for in this act it shall be the duty of those exercising such power to so elect or appoint as to always have one trustee residing east of Joes Creek and one residing west of Joes Creek; that the board of trustees herein provided for shall locate and erect the new school building for the white race at Rockdale Springs. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 359 Sec. 161 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 359 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 161 That said board of school commissioners shall have the power and authority to establish and maintain a library in connection with each school building, which shall be free for the use of the teachers and students of the graded schools of said city; and shall have the power to acquire by donation, purchase, or otherwise books, charts, maps, periodicals and other publications, and property of every kind suitable for such library, and shall arrange for separate books and publications for the white and colored races and provide separate rooms for the use of each of said races; and the said board of school commissioners shall have the power to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use of such library as it may deem proper, and to do all acts and things necessary for the successful maintenance and operation of said library. The expenses of equipping and maintaining the same shall be paid out of the school revenues of said city of Charlotte. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 377 Sec. 34 Identified by: model ORGANIZATION. Sec. 34 That each registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein and entitled to vote, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall, also, between the hours of seven o'clock a. m. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not Priv.76 appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from seven a. m. until sunset during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Durham County six months, and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oaths, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners, on fifteen days notice by publication in some newspaper of said city, before opening the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. The registration books shall be closed at sundown on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register, except those coming of age after the books close and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city; and the books shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they were received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk at the time prescribed shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 395 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 395 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE ZION ACADEMIC AND INDUS- TRIAL INSTITUTE OF ANSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That R. J. Beverly, G. W. Baucom, B. F. Tillman, Daniel Diggs, J. F. Davis, B. B. Sturdivant, B. J. Parson, J. Ratliff, F. C. Chambers, P. Q. Davis, Robert Baucom, J. R. Faison, Sandy Ingram, and their successors be and are hereby declared a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Zion Academic and Industrial Institute, an institute of learning for the intellectual, moral, religious, and industrial development and training of the negro youth, situated at Wadesboro, North Carolina, Anson County; conducted under the auspices of the Zion Baptist Association, colored. This institution under the aforesaid name and style shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded. contract and be contracted with; shall take, receive, and possess all moneys, goods, chattels, and bonds which may be given them Priv.79 and shall apply the same according to the wish of the donors to the purpose herein declared, and they shall have power, by purchase or otherwise to take, demand, hold, and possess rents, lands, machinery, appliances, tenements, and hereditaments in special trust and confidence, and apply the same, together with the benefits arising therefrom, for the use of or support of said institution. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 426 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 426 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SPECIAL-TAX DIS- TRICTS No. 1 IN PEMBROKE TOWNSHIP, No. 1, IN BURNT SWAMP TOWNSHIP, AND A PART OF SPECIAL-TAX DIS- TRICT No. 4, IN RED SPRINGS TOWNSHIP, ALL IN ROBE- SON COUNTY AND FOR THE WHITE RACE; TO CONSOLI- DATE SAID SCHOOL TERRITORY; TO CREATE PHILA- DELPHUS GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS; AND TO LEVY AN ADDI- TIONAL SPECIAL TAX. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That upon a majority of the qualified voters residing in Special-tax District, No. 1, white race, in Pembroke Township, in Special-tax District, No. 1, white race, in Burnt Swamp Township, and that part of Special-tax District, No. 4, white race, in Red Springs Township hereinafter described, all in the county ot Robeson, voting in favor of the special tax and bonds hereinafter provided for, the names of the said districts and part of district included in the territory hereinafter described shall be changed, and a taxing district to be known and designated as Philadelphus Graded School District shall be and is hereby created, and the boundaries of the said Philadelphus Graded School District shall be as follows: Beginning at the Vardell place on the Red Springs line and runs down about north to the run of Big Raft Swamp; thence down said swamp to J. T. Dennys upper line; thence as his line to D. McC. Smiths (deceased) east corner; thence direct to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad where W. S. McMillans west line crosses the said railroad; thence as the east side of the said railroad right of way to the first crossing on the said railroad north of Buie station section-house; thence along the road to Panther Ford Bridge; thence down the run of Richland Swamp to W. McK. Glovers lower line; then as his line to the Eureka Road; thence along that road to the old Lumberton Road; thence along the old Lumberton Road to the Chicken Road; thence along the Chicken Road to Moss Neck; thence along the northern line of the right of way of the Carolina Central Railroad to the seventy-seventh mile-post thereon; thence direct to the McLaughlin line on Lumber River; thence along Lumber River to the Red Banks Bridge; thence northeast along the Red Banks and Lowry roads to the Turnpike Road; thence a direct line to the corner of the Philadelphus District, A. T. McCallums corner near Cain MeNeills place; thence along the northwest line of A. T. McCallum to the Richland Swamp; thence down said swamp to the Richland Swamp Bridge on the Lowry Road; thence along the Lowry Road to the Vardell place, the beginning corner. 1913 Private Laws Ch. 435 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE, TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 That the registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with the registration books and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the said town in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in said town and still residing therein and entitled to vote, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of eight oclock a. m. and five oclock p. m., Sunday excepted, from and including the last Tuesday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such town and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear on the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said town, keeping the names of the white voters separate from the names of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, and in the town of Beaufort six months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age and that he is a qualified elector of said town, as defined in section six of this act. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for ninety days in the county jail, or both, but the board of commissioners, upon fifteen days notice before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper and necessary so to do. Sec. 9a. The registration books shall be closed ten days before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register except those coming of age after the books are closed and before or on election day, who are otherwise quatified electors of the town, and the books shall then be placed in the office of the town clerk and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they are received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of the election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk at the time prescribed shall receive no compensation for making said registration and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 63 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 63 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BENSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 Registration books shall be supplied to the registrar by the board of commissioners of the town of Benson at the expense of the town. It shall be the duty of the said registrar to open his books at the time and place named by the board of commissioners at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote under the general election laws; and to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from the names of the colored voters, and to mark opposite each name the street on which the voter resides in the town. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 63 Sec. 47 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 63 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BENSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 47 That the commissioners may establish and regulate all public buildings necessary and proper for the town, and may preyent the erection or building of wooden buildings or structures in any part of the town where the same may increase the danger of fire, or where they may deem such buildings improper; that the said board of commissioners may also regulate and prescribe certain streets, blocks, and lots thereon on which negroes may reside, and certain streets, blocks, and lots on which white people may reside within the town. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 76 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 76 AN ACT RELATING TO THE GRADED SCHOOLS OF ELIZA- BETH CITY, PASQUOTANK COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That section one, chapter one hundred and forty, Private Laws one thousand nine hundred and seven, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Secrion 1 That all territory in Pasquotank County within the following boundary, towit, all that portion of said county included in Elizabeth City Township, and that portion of Nixonton Township which is within the corporate limits of Elizabeth City, and all that portion of Providence Township which is bounded as follows: commencing at the mouth of Knobbs Creek and running westwardly the various courses of said creek to the main line of the Norfolk Southern Railroad where it crosses said creek at or near the mill of the Foreman-Blades Lumber Company; thence northwardly along the main line of the Norfolk Southern Railroad to the county boundary line in Pasquotank River; thence eastwardly and southwardly the various courses of said river to the mouth of Knobbs Creek, the place of beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Elizabeth City Graded School District, and no pupils shall be admitted into the schools of said district without the payment of tuition unless their parents are bona fide resident citizens of the territory included within the Elizabeth City Graded School Dis- trict. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 98 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 98 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF AN ADDITIONAL TAX FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROY- ING AND MAINTAINING THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BUCK- HORN SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 3, BUCKHORN TOWNSHIP, WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That for the purpose of increasing the annual special tax for school purposes in Special-tax School District, Number Three, Buckhorn Township, Wake County, North Carolina, the school committee, or a majority of them, of the said district may apply to the board of county commissioners of Wake County, asking that an additional tax of ten cents on the one hundred dollars of property and thirty cents on the poll be annually levied and collected in said district for the purpose of improving and maintaining the public schools in said district. Said application shall be made at any time within four years from and after the passage of this act; whereupon, at their next regular meeting to be held after said application shall have been made by said school committee, said board of county commissioners shall order and direct that the question whether such additional tax shall be levied be submitted to the vote of the qualified voters of said district at the schoolhouse for the white race in said district. Said election shall be held under rules and regulations of section four thousand one hundred and fifteen of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five and the acts of the General Assembly amendatory thereto: Provided, a petition to the county commissioners for this election shall be signed by one-fourth of the freeholders of the district. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 105 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 105 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DISINTERMENT AND RE- MOVAL OF CERTAIN DEAD BODIES FROM THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OF R. O. COTTER, IN SMITHFIELD, AND THE REINTERMENT THEREOF IN THE TOWN CEMETERY. Whereas a number of dead bodies, comprising largely members of the family of the late John Thomas, colored, were years ago buried on a quarter of an acre lot near the present residence of R. O. Cotter, at Smithfield; and whereas the lands of said R. O. Cotter wholly surround said private burial ground, which con- stitutes a serious objection to the said Cotter family ; and whereas there is situate in said town a public burial ground for colored people, adjacent to which the said R. O. Cotter has conveyed and sold to the proper authorities a quarter of an acre of land suitable for the interment of the dead bodies aforesaid: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That R. O. Cotter, of Smithfield, is hereby authorized to disinter and remove all dead bodies and the remains thereof from the private lot or burial ground situate near his residence, and wholly surrounded by his lands in Smithfield, and decently bury and reinter the same in the lot aforesaid adjoining the cemetery for colored people in Smithfield. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 118 Sec. 5 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 118 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 253 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION OF 1911, RELATING TO OAK GROVE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That said act of nineteen hundred and eleven, Private Laws, chapter two hundred and fifty-three, be further amended as follows: It shall be the duty of the board of education of Surry County and the school committee of said district to provide sepa- ate schools for the white and colored races, in event the colored race shall require and justify the establishment of a school for such race, and in the event they shall not be sufficient in number to justify the establishment of such school for their accommodation, it shall be the duty of the board of education of Surry County to assign the colored pupils, if within said district, to some school for the colored race in Mount Airy Township. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 124 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 124 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUE OF BONDS AND LEVY- ING TAX IN AID OF THE GRADED SCHOOLS OF MOUNT ATRY. Whereas the proceeds derived from a sale of the bonds voted for and issued under the provisions of act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, being chapter one hundred and six of the Private Laws of its session of one thousand nine hundred and five, for the erection and equipment of a building to be used for the Mount Airy Graded School was insufficient for that purpose, and the said graded school has since been burdened with indebtedness of one thousand two hundred dollars or more incurred in carrying out the provisions of said dct; and whereas the number of pupils attending said graded school has so increased as to render the enlargement of said building or erection or improvement of other buildings and an addition to its grounds requisite and necessary to meet the needs and requirements of the said schools, both white and colored : Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That said bonds, when issued, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the said town, who is ex officio treasurer of the board of school commissioners of Mount Airy, to be by him, under the direction of the board of commissioners of the town of Mount Airy, sold and converted into money, and the proceeds thereof disposed of under the direction of the board of school commissioners of Mount Airy for the purposes of paying the balance due on the old indebtedness and for purchasing additional school grounds and erecting new school buildings and adding to and improving the present school grounds and buildings and paying the balance of the purchase money due for the lot bought for the colored school and for erecting the building upon said lot, and for such other purposes as may be necessary for equipping and conducting successfully the said schools: Provided, the said bonds shall not be sold for less than par value. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 125 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 125 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS BY THE FAIR BLUFF SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 1, FOR THE WHITE AND COLORED RACES OF COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of commissioners of Columbus County, upon a written application of a majority of the board of trustees of the Fair Bluff Supplemental School District, Number One, for the white and colored races, hereinafter called the Fair Bluff District, is authorized and directed to submit, on the first Tuesday in June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, to the qualified voters of said Fair Bluff District. under such rules and regulations as now exist or may be hereafter established for the election of members of the General Assembly, the question of issuing bonds for the erection of a suitable school building in said district, and at such election each voter shall be entitled to vote a written or printed ballot with the words For Building Bonds or Against Building Bonds thereon. The said board of county commissioners shall appoint a registrar and two poll-holders for said election who shall canvass and declare the result of said election and make report thereof to the said board of county commissioners; and no other report or canvass shall be deemed necessary. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 161 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A. COUNTY FARM-LIFE SCHOOL IN CONNECTION WITH AN ADDITIONAL PREPARATORY AND HIGH SCHOOL IN THE COUNTY OF FORSYTH, TO BE KNOWN AS THE CLEMMONS FARM-LIFE AND HIGH SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That there shall be established and maintained, as hereinafter provided, in the village of Clemmons in the county of Forsyth, a high school to be known as The Clemmons Farm-life and High School for the education, training, and preparation of white boys and girls for farm life, home-making, and other pursuits and avocations. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 163 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 163 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 464, PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION 1918, RELATIVE TO THE INCORPORATION OF THE STHWARTSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That chapter four hundred and sixty-four of the Private Laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirteen be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end of section four of said chapter the following: The said association is hereby given power to divide the said cemetery into two sections, assigning one to the white people, one to the colored people, and may assign one section to the Croatan Indians, and shall prescribe the bounds of each where white bodies, the bodies of colored persons, or those of Croatan Indians may be buried, and after the said association shall have laid off the same, shall have power to remove all bodies that have been or may be hereafter buried in the division assigned to the white race, and any person or persons who shall hereafter bury the bodies of one race in the division assigned for the burial of another race, as set forth above, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the said cemetery association shall be the sole judges of the matter of the color of the person so buried. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 171 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 171 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF BEL- MONT GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING AND EQUIPPING A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING AT BELMONT, NORTH CAR- OLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the following described territory lying and being in Gaston County, North Carolina, near to and including the town of Belmont and bounded as follows: beginning at old Olivers Ford on the south fork of the Catawba River, runs with the old Olivers Ford road to the Belmont-Mount Holly road; thence in a direct line to old Siffords Ferry on the Catawba River; thence with said river to old Walkers ferry; thence with the old Walkers ferry road to the lands of Captain Thomas Williams ; thence north of the Williams land and south of the Leeper, Hanks, and Groner lands to the south fork of the Catawba ; thence with said stream to the beginning, be and the same is hereby created a school district under the name and style of Belmont Graded School District for white and colored children. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 180 Sec. 9 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 180 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WIN- STON AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SALEM, AND TO ADOPT A CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF WINSTON- SALEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 9 Such registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and said registrars shall open their books at such places in the city of Winston-Salem as may be designated by said aldermen, and shall register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register or vote in the ward or precinct for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters and designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward his willful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward: Provided, that a new registration shall not be biennially held unless the board of aldermen shall determine that the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same, and the place where the books of registration shall be opened; but a revision of the registration books shall be made, beginning on Saturday next preceding each election to be held for said city, in accordance with the provisions of the general law. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 180 Sec. 44 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 180 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WIN- STON AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SALEM, AND TO ADOPT A CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF WINSTON- SALEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 44 The board of aldermen shall have the power to enact ordinances in such form as they may deem advisable, as follows: for the protection of the water-works and water supply of the city of Winston-Salem; to grant to any person, firm, or corporation a franchise and right to own, control, and: operate. for a term of years or otherwise, street railways, telephone, telegraph, lighting, or heating systems, or any other business engaged in public service; to fix tolls of street railways; to contract as to compensation for such franchises, and to control, regulate and tax the same; to prevent vagrancy, and any person not engaged in any lawful occupation and who spends his time in gambling or loafing about the streets, without visible means of support, shall be considered a vagrant; to regulate and conduct all elections, to prevent interference with the officers thereof, and to preserve order thereat; to prescribe rules and regulations for the government and duties of police officers; to prohibit all trades, occupations, or acts which are nuisances; to define and condemn nuisances and provide for the abatement or removal of same; to grant permits for the construction of buildings and other structures, and to prohibit the construction of any building or structure which in the judgment of the board of aldermen may be a nuisance, or of injury to adjacent property, or to the general public; to regulate and control the character of buildings which shall be constructed or permitted to be and remain in any part of the city of Winston-Salem, with the right to declare the same a nuisance or unsafe, and cause their demolition or removal; to provide for the leveling, filling in, and drainage of all ponds, sunken lots, or other places in which water stands and stagnates, and to recover from the owner or occupant the expense of doing the same, which expense shall be a lien upon the lots so improved and enforced as liens for taxes; to prevent dogs, hogs, cattle, and other live stock from roaming at large in the city, and to regulate or prohibit the keeping of hogpens within the city limits; to define and establish the fire limits and prevent the location of wooden or other buildings within said fire limits and in any part of the city where they may increase the danger of fire; to regulate and prescribe what character of buildings shall be constructed within the said limits, and provide for the conditions under which buildings may be erected; to establish and appoint a fire commissioner or fire commission, and prescribe the duties and powers thereof; to prohibit the collection or existence in, on, or about any storehouse, warehouse, residence, or any private premises of inflammable or combustible matter or material; require the owner of such premises to remove or destroy same, and provide rules for the removal or destruction of such inflammable or combustible matter; and for purposes herein set forth to authorize an examination and inspection of all stores, warehouses, residences, or any private premises; to establish, regulate, and control the markets or market buildings; to fix the location of any market building, prescribe the time and manner and place within the city wherein marketable articles, such as meats, perishable vegetables, fish, game, and all other kinds of perishable food or diet shall be bought or sold; to appoint keepers of markets and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation ; to regulate the license of itinerant merchants or peddlers, and of those doing a temporary business; to establish, regulate and control cemeteries; to provide for the manner in which bodies may be interred therein or removed therefrom, and for beautifying, ornamenting, and keeping the same in condition; to provide suitable grounds for the enlargement, extension, or establishment of new cemeteries, providing separate cemeteries for white and black; to control and regulate the time and manner of burying the dead, the burial of any person within the corporate limits of said city not within said cemeteries, and provide for the punishment of persons violating the rules and regulations concerning the cemetery; to provide for the establishment, organization, equipment, and government of fire companies, fire commissioners, and firealarm system, and to adopt rules for the conduct, regulation, and terms of office thereof; to regulate the erection, placing, and maintenance of all telephone, telegraph, and other electric wires and to prohibit the same from being strung overhead in a public street, and to compel the owners and operators of telephone, telegraph, or electric wires to put Same underground; to prohibit or control the use of any gasoline engine, the making or repairing of boilers, the establishment or operation of any plant or business which is or may become a nuisance to any part of the community ; to prohibit or control the firing of firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes, or other explosive materials, and to govern the sale thereof ; to control and regulate the speed of all horses or other animals, automobiles, buggies, carriages, wagons, or other vehicles on the streets; to regulate the speed of railroad engines and trains or street cars within the corporate limits, or the stopping of engines or cars in the streets or crossings of the city; to specify the manner in which all stovepipes and flues and electric wires shall be put in buildings, and to control and regulate the arrangement and operation thereof; to control and regulate the place and manner in which powder and other explosives and inflammable substance may be kept and sold, and the place and manner in which commercial fertilizers are stored; to provide for the sanitary condition and keeping of all lots, cellars, houses, water-closets, privies, lavatories, stables, styes, and other places of like character; to provide for the examination and sanitation thereof; and for that purpose ordinances may be passed authorizing sanitary officers or policemen to enter the premises suspected of being in bad or unsanitary condition and have the same cleaned at the expense of the owner, or abate such places as nuisances and recover of the occupant or owner the expense thereof; to regulate the due observance of Sunday; to prevent the entrance into the city or the spreading of any contagious or infectious disease therein, and for that purpose may stop, detain, and examine every person coming from places believed to be infected with such disease; to establish and maintain quarantine against communities and territories where it is suspected prevails any infectious or contagious disease; to establish and regulate hospitals within the city or within three miles thereof, and may cause any person in the city suspected to be infected with such disease, and whose stay in the city may endanger public health, to be remoyed to the hospital or other place that the mayor may select; to prevent from coming into the city anysecond-hand clothing, bedding, or furniture; to remove from the city or destroy any furniture or other articles which may be suspected to be tainted or infected with contagious or infectious disease or in such condition as may generate and propagate disease; to abate all nuisances which may be injurious to public health; may vaccinate or otherwise subject to medical treatment all persons having smallpox or other contagious or infectious disease; to recover, by proper action against those who may cause the same, all costs and expenses of the moving and treating people having or suspected of having contagious or infectious diseases; shall have power, by force, to remove all persons from the city or to carry them to hospitals or other places selected by the mayor or board of aldermen and detain them therein; to prohibit the carrying on of any disorderly house or house of illfame, or gambling house or house where games of chance are being carried on or where liquors are illegally sold; to provide for the inspection and examination thereof, and for that purpose may enter upon said premises and make arrest of any person or persons violating the ordinances of the city in reference thereto; to prohibit the construction of cellars under sidewalks or the making of entrances into sidewalks, and to make rules and fix specifications for the construction of all cellars under sidewalks or entrances into sidewalks; to regulate and control motion picture shows and all exhibitions or places of public amusement and all exhibitions or performances given therein; provide a board of censors who shall have power to inspect and view all public places of amusement or exhibitions given therein, and prohibit such as, in their judgment, are immoral or against public interest ; and any violation of an order of the board of censors shall be unlawful, and every day an exhibition is permitted after an order of the board of censors prohibiting it shall constitute a separate offense. On behalf of the general welfare of the city of WinstonSalem, and for the good order and government thereof, the board of aldermen may, in addition to the foregoing powers, pass or ordain any resolution or ordinance, and enforce the same by proper punishment or penalty, which it may consider wise or proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 180 Sec. 52 Identified by: model CHAPTER 180 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WIN- STON AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SALEM, AND TO ADOPT A CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF WINSTON- SALEM. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 52 The board of aldermen shall provide for the establishment, continuance, maintenance, and support of a system of public schools, and for this purpose shall annually appropriate a certain part of the taxes of the city. Said schools shall be devoted to the education of the young, by high school or graded system, and shall be open to all bona fide residents of the city of WinstonSalem between the ages of six and twenty-one years, but persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the schools upon the payment of tuition fees and under such regulations and rules aS may be prescribed by the public school commissioners ; that white and colored schools shall be conducted in distinct and separate buildings and departments; that said public schools shall be managed by a board of seven citizens and taxpayers of the city, two thereof being members of the board of aldermen, all of whom shall be elected by the board of aldermen; and in case of any vacancy occurring during the term of office of any commissioner the board of aldermen shall appoint some one to fill out the unexpired term. That said board of commissioners elected shall be a body corporate and politic, under the name of the Public School Commissioners of Winston-Salem, and shall elect one of their number chairman and take in charge the various public schools of the city. The commissioners aforesaid shall have the power to proportion and distribute the school fund, to select teachers and to dismiss them for cause, to fix their salaries, to aid them in the establishment of grades and the enforcement of discipline, to abate nuisances at the schools, to regulate the admission of pupils from without the corporate limits and fix the rate of tuition, to visit the schools regularly for inspection, and do all other acts pertaining to their office for the good and success of the schools: Said commissioners shall serve without compensation, but are authorized to purchase the necessary books, stationery. and fuel and pay its secretary a sum not exceeding thirty dollars ($380) per annum. The term of office of said commissioners shall be as follows: Those elected from the board of aldermen shall serve during the term for which they have been elected aldermen, and the other five commissioners shall be elected, for a term of three years each, by the board of aldermen at its first regular meeting in September, as follows: In September, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, two members shall be elected; in September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, two members shall be elected; in September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, One member shall be elected, and so on by annual election to fill unexpired terms. The members of the present board whose regular terms will expire in May of any year shall hold over until the following September and until their successors are elected and qualified. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 184 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 184 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 11 That the council of the city of Wilmington shall at their last meeting in March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, elect a councilman from the territory comprising the Sixth Ward, as defined in this act, who shall serve as councilman from said ward until the next regular municipal election to be held in May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, or until his successor is elected and qualified; said councilman shall be a resident of the Sixth Ward and shall be elected by the city council upon the recommendation by petition of a majority of the white male citizens who have attained the age of twenty-one years and who are residents of the territory embraced in the Sixth Ward as defined in this act; and should no such majority recommendation be made to the city council by petition, as herein contemplated, then and in that event the said city council shall be free to elect some competent resident of said ward as councilman for the term above mentioned. The councilman elected from the Sixth Ward shall be inducted into office on the day of his election; and upon taking the oath of office as prescribed by law for councilmen of the city of Wilmington he shall be vested with all the rights, powers, and duties pertaining to said office. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 201 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 201 AN ACT TO GRANT A NEW CHARTER TO THE TOWN OF WARRENTON, WARREN COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAR- OLINA. ; The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the corporate boundaries of the said town of Warrenton shall be as follows: Beginning at a stcne monument on the road leading from Warrenton to Warren Plains at the southeast corner of lot adjoining the yard of the Presbyterian parsonage on the west side of the road about 200 feet southeast from said parsonage; thence S. 88 degrees and 05 FE. a distance of 1,295 feet through the property of R. B. Boyd, passing through the southeast corner of said R. B. Boyds yard, to a stone monument in said R. B. Boyds garden; thence 8S. 6 degrees and 15 W. for a distance of 6,260 feet through the property of said R. B. Boyd, the Warrenton Railroad, E. S, Allen, Buck Yancey, Richard Burgess, P. J. Macon, W. B. Boyd, the public school property, J. B. Powell, John Hall, Sr., Isaac Alston, and H. F. Jones, to a stone monument on the property of said H. F. Jones; thence N. 86 degrees and 45 W. for a distance of 3,110 feet, through the property of M. P. Burwell, crossing the street near the residence of W. T. Alston, continuing through property of Edmund White, J. G. King, crossing south end of Main Street near J. A. Dowtins residence, continuing through property of J. A. Dowtin to a stone monument near a branch on J. A. Dowtins property; thence N. 6 degrees and 15 BE. for a distance of 2,775 feet through the property of H. T. Macon, P. H. Allen, Dr. Walters, Hawkins place, Haley, and others, to a stone monument at the end of concrete walk on the north side of Franklin Street; thence N. 23 degrees and 45 E. for a distance of 3,695 feet through the property of negro public school, John Graham, and crossing the road leading to Fairview Cemetery to a stone monument on the north side of the Ridgeway Road; thence across property of James Crossman, J. R. Rodwell, and others, to a stone monument about 30 feet west from cotton mill public school; thence S. 88 degrees and 05 BE. for a distance of 705 feet to a stone monument on the road leading from Warrenton to Warren Plains, which stone is the place of beginning. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 238 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER 238 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WILSON TUBERCULAR _ HOSPITAL FOR NEGROES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 3 It shall be the purpose of the Wilson Tubercular Hospital for Negroes to aid in the prevention and cure of tuberculosis among the negro race of North Carolina. It shall be the privilege and the duty of the board of trustees appointed by this act and their successors in office to correlate the methods and work of the institution with the other health work of the State, and especially with the aims and purposes of the State Board of Health in the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 243 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 243 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH BIG BRANCH SCHOOL DISTRICT IN HARNETT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of education of Harnett County is hereby empowered and authorized to establish the following boundaries for a school district for the white race, to be known as Big Branch School District, to include the following territory, towit: beginning at the McCormick bridge over Barbecue Creek on the McCormick public road, thence with said road to Glover Thomass ; thence a straight line in a northwesterly direction south of M. A. McFarlands to the Swanns Station road; thence with said road to its intersection with the Mount Pisgah School District line; thence north with that line one-half mile; thence a direct line about west to the north side of M. Q. Waddells residence ; thence a westerly direction north of John and Malcolm Darrochs residences; thence a direct line to Mrs. C. H. Wilsons residence on the Swanns Station road, about one-half mile; thence a southerly direction to the corner of H. D. Camerons land where the Olivia School District strikes said land; thence with H. D. Camerons line to the road leading from Olivia by Mrs. Mag Grahams; thence with that road to the road leading from H. D. Camerons to Dock Thomass; thence with that road to the Isaac Cameron place; Priv.44 thence direct to the point where Dry Creek empties into Gum Swamp; thence with said creek to its junction with Barbecue Creek; thence with Barbecue Creek to the beginning. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 253 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 253 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN MADISON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the board of education of Madison County is hereby empowered to establish a new school district for the white race, to be known as the Brooksville School District, to include the territory embraced within the following boundary lines, towit: Beginning at the Jefferson Moore farm on Long Mountain and runs east, crossing Spring Creek, to the top of the mountain which divides the waters of Spring Creek and Doe Branch; thence with the top of said mountain a northerly course to a high knob near Benjamin Andersons house; thence a westerly course, crossing Spring Creek, to a point on the Spring Creek road near the reservoir; thence a straight line to the top of the mountain; thence with the top of the mountain to a high knob near Noah Wardrupes house; thence a straight line to the beginning. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 4 Identified by: model CHAPTER 278 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH CLAREMONT GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CATAWBA COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 4 That it shall be the duty of said board of school trustees to establish separate schools for the white and colored children of said school district, and they may grade the schools for either race, and shall appropriate and use the funds from special taxes and from State and county school fund in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, due regard being had to difference in cost of maintaining and the requirements of said schools: Provided, donations and income for benefit of any special school shall be so applied. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 278 Sec. 20 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 278 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH CLAREMONT GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CATAWBA COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 20 That until there shall be enough children of the colored race within said territory to justify the maintenance of a school for said race, the trustees are authorized to arrange with the county board of education to furnish adequate school facilities for such children outside of said district, or may arrange, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by said trustees and the county board of education, to receive colored children into the school of such district from outside of the territory of said graded school district. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 280 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 280 AN ACT TO CREATE THE CROSS CREEK CEMETERY COM- MISSION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A CEMETERY IN THH CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 30, PRIVATE LAWS 1873-74. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the objects of said corporation shall be to provide for, maintain, and control suitable burial-grounds for the white race of the city of Fayetteville; and to this end it is authorized and empowered to take by deed, will, or otherwise any real and personal property, and to hold and use the same for such purpose; and to pass and enforce reasonable rules, regulations, and by-laws as from time to time may be deemed necessary and proper to maintain such property in good and improved condition and to protect and preserve the same from injury and trespass. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 280 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER 280 AN ACT TO CREATE THE CROSS CREEK CEMETERY COM- MISSION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A CEMETERY IN THH CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 30, PRIVATE LAWS 1873-74. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 5 That said commission, by and with the approval of the board of aldermen or other lawmaking power of the city of Fayetteville, is fully authorized and empowered to pass any and all rules, regulations, and by-laws for the proper protection and policing of the white cemeteries in said city, or near thereto, which may be hereafter placed under the care or control of said commission; and, when so approved, such rules, regulations, and bylaws shall have the force and effect of ordinances of said city, and shall be enforcible as such by the courts of competent jurisdiction. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 280 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER 280 AN ACT TO CREATE THE CROSS CREEK CEMETERY COM- MISSION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A CEMETERY IN THH CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 30, PRIVATE LAWS 1873-74. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 8 Said commission shall have full and exclusive power and control over all cemeteries for the burial of white persons of the city of Fayetteville, and all matters and things therewith connected, and of all property thereto belonging and not inconsistent with the laws of North Carolina. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 336 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE SOUTHERN NORMAL COLLEGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That William W. Hastings, John E. Kent, Lorne A. Summers, Carl H. Goodwin of Battle Creek, Michigan; Fred B. Barnes of South Bend, Indiana; Wilfred BH. Cann of Elizabeth, New Jersey; Elmer Berry of Springfield, Massachusetts; and Henry B. Stevens of Asheville, North Carolina, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of Southern Normal College, in the county of Madison in the town of Hot Springs, State of North Carolina, for the education and training of white teachers, who shall be prepared to give instruction in the graded schools, high schools, colleges, and universities of the several States of the United States; and to educate and train nurses, teachers of domestic science, and directors of physical education and of playgrounds; and as such they and their successors shall have all the corporate powers, rights, and immunities of trustees of similar colleges in North Carolina or elsewhere. The trustees may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and acquire and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain said college. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 351 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 351 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 323 OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA, SESSION 1913, ENTITLED AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ENFIELD GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A BUILDING FOR THE WHITE GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That section seven thereof be amended by striking out the word fifteen in line six thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the word five, and by striking out in line seven thereof the word forty-five and inserting in lieu thereof the word fifteen ; by striking out all after the word district in line eight thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: and said board of trustees of said Enfield Graded School District may provide a sinking fund by setting aside such portion of the foregoing levy each year as may be hecessary to pay off said principal at its maturity: Provided, said bonds shall not be paid annually, but one or more bonds may be taken up annually or otherwise as the said board may elect; and under said levy the constitutional equation between property and poll shall be observed, and the taxes so collected and levied shall be kept separate from all other taxes and shall be used for no other purpose whatever except for the building, erection, construction, furnishing and equipping of said building for the white graded school of said Enfield Graded School District, and for the payment of said bonds and coupons as above provided for: Provided, however, that said board may make said levy in conjunction with the levy made by the board of commissioners of the town of Enfield for the benefit of the Enfield Graded School District, and in such case said taxes need not be kept separate; and the said board of trustees of the Enfield Graded School District shall have a right to use any other funds which may come into their hands, by taxation or otherwise, for the purpose of erecting, building, constructing, equipping, and furnishing said building for the white graded school of the said Enfield Graded School District or for the purpose of paying the bonds and interest coupons herein provided for. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 353 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 353 AN ACT TO CORRECT AND ENLARGE THE TERRITORY IN Sec. 1 CHAPTER 50, PRIVATH LAWS OF 1913, EXTRA SESSION, SAME BEING AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SPECIAL-TAX DISTRICT No, 1, IN ROWLAND TOWNSHIP, ROBESON COUNTY, FOR THE WHITE RACE; TO CREATE ROWLAND HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ISSUE BONDS AND TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL TAX; TO PURCHASE PROPERTY; TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF ROWLAND TO SELL ITS SCHOOL PROPERTY AND USE THE FUNDS ARISING FROM SUCH SALE, AND FOR GENERAL PURPOSES. Whereas, by inadvertence, a portion of the territory intended to be included in the Rowland Graded School District, created by chapter fifty, Private Laws, extra session, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, was excluded, and it is now desired to include said territory within said district: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: SecTION 1 That chapter fifty, Private Laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, extra session, as above set forth, be and the same is hereby amended so that the description of said Rowland Graded School District and boundaries thereof shall be as follows: Beginning at the State line at Lone Home, and runs with the Harlesville and Lumberton road (township line) to Ashpole Swamp; thence with Ashpole Swamp to the Hargroves ford on the Rowland-Fairmont road; thence with said road to a pine stump on the east side of said road, about one and one-half miles east of Rowland on W. D. McPhauls land, and runs south seventeen degrees and forty-five minutes east eight hundred and ninetyfour feet to a stake at the edge of the woods; thence south fortysix degrees thirty-two minutes west eleven hundred and twenty feet to a stake east of W. D. McPhauls house; then runs parallel with and three hundred feet east of the road leading by W. C. Williams, south eighty degrees west eleven hundred and fortyeight feet to a stake back of R. L. Iveys house; then south seventy-nine degrees west twenty-one hundred and eighty-two feet to a stake; thence south fifty-five degrees thirty west twelve hundred and forty-one feet to a stake, nearly on the line between Williams and Smith; then south fifty-three west three thousand two hundred and sixty-eight feet to a stake in the road known as the State line road; then runs south fifty-nine degrees thirty minutes west to the South Carolina line; thence with said South Carolina line to the beginning. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 380 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 380 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SANFORD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 7 The registrar of each of said wards shall be furnished by the aldermen of said town with a registration book, and it shall be his duty to perform the duties of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law; to revise the existing registration book of his ward in such manner that said book shall show an accurate list of the electors previously registered in said ward and still residing therein, without requiring said electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and nine oclock p. m. for four successive Saturdays immediately preceding the day of election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in his said | } ward and entitled to register whose names have never before been registered in said ward or do not appear on said revised lists, and shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for or are entitled to registration, keeping the names of white voters separate and apart from the names of colored voters. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina twelve months and in the town of Sanford for hinety days, next preceding the day of election, and that he is an actual-and bona fide resident of the ward in which he offers for registration, or is otherwise entitled to register, and that he is twenty-one years old; and if any person shall willfully swear falsely in taking such oath he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, upon thirty days notice, may direct that there be an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election. The new registration may, if the board so determine, be conducted by one of the registrars hereinbefore provided for, to be designated by the board, who shall keep all the registration books of the town at a place to be designated by said board. 1915 Private Laws Ch. 394 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 394 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE SEABOARD HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. Whereas the territory embraced within the boundaries described herein has already been established as a special-tax district, un- der section four thousand one hundred and fifteen of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five of North Carolina, and a majority of the qualified voters within said territory have voted a special tax of thirty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property and ninety cents on each poll for the maintenance of the public schools in said district; and whereas it is desired to make fuller provision for the local management of said schools: Therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all territory embraced within the following boundaries, towit, beginning at the fork of the public road near the late B. D. Woodroofs place and running along the public road leading by Harriss shop to Turners cross-roads to a point on said road opposite the mouth of Deep Run; thence southerly across Cypress Swamp to the mouth of Deep Run; thence up said Deep Run to the Seaboard Air Line Railroad; thence a straight line in a southeasterly direction to the cross-roads near Green S. Prudens; thence south the county road leading to Jackson along by Mount Carmel Church to a point opposite the line between C. P. Stephenson and Charlie Erickson; thence along Wheelers line to the late John Ramseys tract ; thence the Ramsey line north or nearly north to the public road leading from Mount Carmel Church to Garysburg; thence north along said public road to Potecasi Creek; thence up said Potecasi Creek to the line between J. W. Leake and William Garriss; thence along the line of John W. Leake and William Garriss in a southerly direction to the public road leading from Mount Carmel Church to Garysburg; thence across said road in a southwesterly direction to the public road leading from Seaboard to Jackson; thence along said public road in a southerly direction to a point opposite the line between C. F. Gays and J. H. Ramsays line; thence along their line in a westerly direction as said line goes; thence in a straight line to Wheelers Mill swamp; thence up said swamp to a point opposite the public road leading. from the Seaboard Air Line Railroad to the fork of the road near the late B. D. Woodroofs by M. L. Daniel place, now constituting a special-tax district in Seaboard Township, in Northampton County, known as the Seaboard District, shall be and the same is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Seaboard High School District. 1866/67 Public Laws Ch. 6 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER VI. AN ACT TO AMEND THE 5TH CHAPTER OF THE REVISED CODE, ENTITLED APPRENTICES. Sec. 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the aw thority of the same, That the Ist section of the 5th chapter of the Revised Code, entitled Apprentices, be amended by striking out the words also the children of free negroes where the parents, with whom such children may live, do not habitually employ their time in some honest, industrious occupation, and all free base born children of color, aftr the word mother, in the 14th line, and insert, in lieu thereof, the words and all base born children whose mothers may not have the means or ability to support them, and that the second section of said chapter be amended by striking out the words if white, but if colored, till twentyone, after the words eighteen years, in the fourth line. 1866/67 Public Laws Ch. 14 Sec. 5 Identified by: model CHAPTER XIV. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE INCORPORATED TOWNS AND CITIES TO ESTABLISH SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Sec. 5 Beit further enacted, That the authorities of cities and incorporated towns, establishing Public Schools, according to the provisions of this Act, shall be required to sett apart all the funds of said corporation that can be spared from other purposes, required by their charters and laws, passed in accordance herewith, for educational purposes, and in addition to the powers of taxation, with which they are already invested, they shall be authorized to levy and collect a poll tax on every white male inhabitant of the corporation, over twenty-one years old, of not more than two dollars, to be wholly appropriated to the use of the Public Schools. 1866/67 Public Laws Ch. 14 Sec. 8 Identified by: model CHAPTER XIV. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE INCORPORATED TOWNS AND CITIES TO ESTABLISH SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Sec. 8 Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of Lue Board of school commissioners of every town or city, to number the white children of the corporation between the ages of 6und 21, and as soon as they receive a statement of the amount of money appropriated for schools for any one year, to provide first for primary schools for all the. children who need them, and if, after such provision, there be other finds, they may be used for schools of higher grade, and all the white children of the corporation, between the ages of 6 and 21, shall be entitled to attend the publie schools which they are qualified to ent.r: Provided, That the grades in the schoo] shall regularly ascend, and the school commissioners shall be required to establish the lowest first, and next the schools of the next higher grade, and so on upward, 1866/67 Public Laws Ch. 14 Sec. 9 Identified by: model CHAPTER XIV. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE INCORPORATED TOWNS AND CITIES TO ESTABLISH SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Sec. 9 Be it further enacted, That the school cammis- sioners of each corporation shall make a quarterly statement, to the town or city authorities, of the condition of the schools, and to be filed with the corporation records, and annually one month before the expiration of their term of office shall make a detailed report of all their operations, stating the number of white children in the corporation between the ages of 6 and 21, the sums expended for school purposes, the number and grade of the schools, the attendance on each, the salaries paid teachers, and such other tacts concerning the schools as may be important, which report shall be published, before the next election, in the papers of the corporation, and if there be none such, in pamphiets or hand bills, and a copy shall be filed with the Seeretary of the Board, and one, authenticated by the seal of office of the Clerk of County Court, sent to the Governor of the State. 1866/67 Public Laws Ch. 69 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER LXIX. AN_ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 68, REVISED CODE, PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES OF CLERKS IN ISSUING MARRIAGE LICENSE. Sec. 2 Be it / further enacte!, That said section be further auieadedias follows, to-wit : The Clerk of the County Court of the county, in which the feme resides, shall issue a license for the marriage of any person not in this chapter prohib ted, to any person applying for the same, directed to any ordained minister or Justice of Peace, in which license he shall state the names of the parties in full, and the parents of each, when known, and also whether the parties are white or colored. 1866/67 Public Laws Ch. 69 Sec. 3 Identified by: model CHAPTER LXIX. AN_ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 68, REVISED CODE, PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES OF CLERKS IN ISSUING MARRIAGE LICENSE. Sec. 3 Be it further enacted, That upon the return of the license and certificate of marriage, as required by sec tion four -4 in said chapter, it shall be the duty of the . Clerk to copy such evidence of marriage in books to be kept by him for the purpose, stating, in parallel columns, the time and place of such marriage, the names of the parties and the parents of each, and by whom married, keeping such registry of white and colored persons in separate books; for which service he shall receive a fee ol forty cents, in addition to other fees allowed by law. 1868/69 Public Laws Ch. 6 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CO BAP T ERs Wis AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF JAMES F. WHITE, FORMER SHERI OF GASTON COUNTY. Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina & enact, That James F. White, former Sheriff of the Conn of Gaston, is authorized to collect the amount of taxes st due on the tax lists of his County for the years eightet hundred and sixty-six and eighteen hundred and sixt seven: Provided, That said ex-Sherifi shall not colle taxes out of any tax-payer who may make aflidavit befo any Magistrate that he has formerly paid the taxes afor said, and has lost the receipt for the same: And provide Surther, That the authority given said White by this a shall cease on the first of July, eighteen hundred and six nine. 1868/69 Public Laws Ch. 184 Sec. 32 Identified by: expert CEAPTE RR. CoeOee by... AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact as follows: BOARD OF EDUCATION. Sec. 32 It shall be the duty of the School Committee to take in the month of June an exact census of all children and youth between the ages of six and twenty-one years, In their returns they shall distinguish between males and females, and between white and colored: they shall take specifically and separately a census of all Indian children between the aforesaid ages, especially of those who live under the guardianship of white persons, with the names of such guardians. All children who may be absent from home attending colleges, boarding schools, and any private or public seminary of learning, shall be included by the Committee in the census list of the Township in which their parents or guardians reside, and shall not be taken by the School Committee of the locality where they may be attending such private institutions of learning. /The Committee shall further report such other statistics as may be required by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or Township Committees; they shall make a full and sworn return thereof on the blanks furnished for that purpose to! the County Examiner, on or before the first day of July next after their appointment,land deliver a copy to the School Committee of the Township. ) a 1868/69 Public Laws Ch. 184 Sec. 50 Identified by: model CEAPTE RR. CoeOee by... AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact as follows: BOARD OF EDUCATION. Sec. 50 The school authorities of each and every Township shall establish a separate school or separate schools tor the instruction of children and youth of each race resident therein, and over six and under twenty-one years of age ; and such school or schools shall be supported, regulated and instructed in the same manner and to the same extent as any other public school or schools of the same grade. 1868/69 Public Laws Ch. 270 Sec. 55 Identified by: model CIE Tek con 5x . AN ACT CONCERNING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF STATE OEFICERS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact as follows: Sec. 55 The Secretary of State shall appoint suitable person to take and enumeration of the Indians upon the several reservations. 1868 Public Laws Ch. 22 Sec. 7 Identified by: model AN ACT TO ORGANIZE A MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA, Sec. 7 The white and colored militia shall be enrolled in separate and distinct companies and shall never be compelled to serve in the same companies. 1868 Public Laws Ch. 22 Sec. 17 Identified by: expert AN ACT TO ORGANIZE A MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA, Sec. 17 That the white and colored members of the detailed militia shall not be compelled to serve in the same sections. 1869/70 Public Laws Ch. 155 Sec. 1 Identified by: model iA PT Whey CL Y.. AN ACT IN RELATION TO A HOUSE ON BAPTIST SQUARE, IN THE CITY OF RALEIGH. Wuereas, Many years avo certain persons in the city of Raleigh, known as the Baptists, erected a church, or house of worship, in said city on a lot known as Baptist Square ; and whereas, said building has long since ceased to be used as a house of worship ; therefore Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That Rev. H. B. Hayes, M. McWilliams and Willis Moss, be and they are hereby authorized to remove said house to a lot westward of the executive mansion, there to be used as a house of worship by the colored people of MNaleigh known as Christians. 1869/70 Public Laws Ch. 225 Sec. 21 Identified by: model CHAPTER CCXXYV. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND BY THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE, ON PROPERTY, POLLS AND INCOME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 21 The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the tirst Monday in August after the lists are returned, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount as state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the elerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1869/70 Public Laws Ch. 225 Sec. 33 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CCXXYV. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND BY THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE, ON PROPERTY, POLLS AND INCOME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 33 When state taxes to be paid by sheriff : On or before the first day of October in each year every sheriff shall return on oath to the auditor of the state a duplicate account of all taxes collected by him, adding the sum apparently due from the tax list, the amounts collected for penalties for deliquents. The auditor shall deduct from the sum as returned: 1 The amount of taxes charged against any person whom the clerk of the commissioners shall certify to have appealed from a decision of the commissioners respecting his liability, and to have given the bond required: Provided, That the clerk of the court to which the appeal was taken shall certify that it is pending and undecided. The sum so unliquidated shall be carried forward by the auditor as a charge against the sheriff on his next years account from year to year until the decision of the appeal, after which they shall be collected and paid or balanced, if the final decision be in favor of the appellant. 2 All poll taxes and taxes on personal property certified by the commissioners of the county through their chairman or clerk to be insolvent and uncollectable. 3 Five per centum commissions on the amount collected and traveling expenses to and from the city of Raleigh, at the rate of ten cents per mile by the usual route of travel. 4 All payments duly made upon the order of the anditor of the state. 1870/71 Public Laws Ch. 195 Sec. 22 Identified by: model CHAP TER'CXCY: AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE ON PROPERTY, POLLS AND INCOME, RATIFIED THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 22 The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in September after the lists are returned, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every cther subject of taxation, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and scliool taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 49 Sec. 22 Identified by: model CHAPTER XILIX. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE ON PROPERTY, POLLS AND INCOME. Sec. 22 The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the first Monday in September after the lists are returned, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specity every other subject of taxation, and the amount as state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return the auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hun. dred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 15 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXXXIX. AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS AND TO PROVIDE FOR A 8YSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. - Sec. 15 The eounty examiner shall deliver to the secretary of the county board of education, on or before the first day of October of every year, a catalogue of all the teachers to whom he gave certificates during the year, also an abstract statement of the number, race, and sex of the teachers. It shall be the duty of the secretary to file away the catalogue, and record the abstract statement. The examiner shall also state in writing the days he was employed in examining teachers. 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 20 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CLXXXIX. AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS AND TO PROVIDE FOR A 8YSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. - Sec. 20 The school committee shall conenlt the convenience of the white residents in settling the boundaries of districts for white schools, and of colored residents in settling the boundaries ot districts tor colored schools. The schools of the two races shall be separate ; the districts may be the same or not, according to the convenience of the #NAME? concerned. In cases where there are two sets of districts in a township, they shall be designated as School District; No. 1, 2, 8, &e., for white schools, or School District, No. 1, 2, 3, &e., for colored schools, as the case may be, of township ot , &e., as before stated. 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 29 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXXXIX. AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS AND TO PROVIDE FOR A 8YSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. - Sec. 29 Every teacher or principal of a school to ee aid shall be given under the provisions of this act, shall keep a daily record of all absences of pupils, and of the grade in scholarship and deportment of each. The grades in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; one representing the first or highest grade, and five the lowest, and the three intermediate numbers, the three intermediate grades. The grades in deportment shall be represented by the same numbers and in the same order. At the end of every term of a two or four munths school, and also on or before the first day of October of every year, every teacher of a free school shall deliver to the secretary ot the eounty board of education, a catalogue of the pupils ot the school, in which the average attendance, the scholarship, and the deportment of each pupil shall be shown, by three columns of numbers parallel to the column of names. He shall also give an abstract statement of the length of the term of the school, of the race, number, sex and average attendance of the pupils, also the township and district in which his school is situated. 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 39 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXXXIX. AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS AND TO PROVIDE FOR A 8YSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. - Sec. 39 It shall be the duty of the secretary of the county board of education tor each county to report to the superintendent of public instruction on or before the fifteenth day of October of every year, full and accurate statistics, showing the number of free schools in the county, the length of the term ot each, the race, sex, number, and average attendance of pupils, as reported to him under the provisions of the twenty-ninth section of this act, and the race, sex and number of teachers as reported to him under the provisions of the fifteenth section of this act. And also the number of school children in the county, as reported to the county board of education under the provisions of section forty-seven of this act. And if any secretary of a vounty board ef education shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section at the time above stated, he shall. be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in the superior court of his county; he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than two hundred dollars. vy 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 193 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER OCOXCITTI. AN ACT CONCERNING MARRIAGES, MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS AND THE CONTRACTS OF MARRIED WOMEN. Sec. 2 Who may not: All marriages between a white person and a negro or Indian, or between a white person and a person of negro or Indian descent, to the third generation inclusive, or between ny two persons nearer of kin than first cousins, or between a male person under sixteen years of age and any female, or between a female person under fourteen years of age and uny male, or between persons either of whom has a husband or wife living at the time of such marriage, or between persons either of whom is at the time thereof physically impotent, or is incapable of contracting from want of will or understanding, shall be void: Provided, That no marriage tollowed by cohabitation and the birth of issue shall be declared void after the death of either of the parties for any ef the causes stated in this section, except tor that one of the parties was a white person and the other a negro or Indian, or of negro or Indian descent to the third generation inclusive, and tor bigamy. (Id. s. 7, 8, 9.) 1871/72 Public Laws Ch. 193 Sec. 34 Identified by: expert CHAPTER OCOXCITTI. AN ACT CONCERNING MARRIAGES, MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS AND THE CONTRACTS OF MARRIED WOMEN. Sec. 34 What to be declared void at all times: All marriages between a white person snd a negro, or _indian, or between a white person and a negro or indian descent, to the third generation inclusive, shal] be absol utely void to all intents and purposes, and shall be so held and declared by every court at all times, whether during the lives or atter the deaths of the parties thereto; and it shall not be lawful for the issue of any such marriage to be legitimated to the supposed father. 1872/73 Private Laws Ch. 37 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER XXXVII. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF OXFORD COL- ORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANVILLE COUNTY. Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That Henry Hester, Lawson Wright, Grandison Young, Benjamin Ridley and Peter Hurst, and their successors are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Oxford Colored Educational Association; and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, purchase and hold in their corporate capacity such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining a school for boys and girls at Oxford, in the county of Granville, with power to make all needful rules, by-laws and regulations for their own government and the government of their school: Provided, That no sectarian school shall be established under the provisions of this act. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 15 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 15 The board of examiners shall deliver to the secretary of the county board of education on or before the first day of October of every year, a catalogue of all the teachers to whom they gave certificates during the: year, also an abstract statement of the number, race and sex of the teachers, and report the same to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 20 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 20 The school committee shall consult the conyenience of the white residents in settling the boundaries of districts for white schools, and of colored residents in settling the boundaries for colored schools. The schools of the two races shall be separate; the districts the same or not, according to the convenience of the parties concerned. In cases where there are two sets of districts in a township they shall be designated as school districts numbers one, two, three, etc., for white schools, or school districts, numbers one, two, three, ete., for colored schools, as the case may be, of township of etc., as before stated. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 28 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 28 Every teacher or principal of a school to which aid shall be given under the provisions of this act, shall keep a daily record of all absences of pupils and of the grade in scholarship and deportment of each. The grade in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; 1 representing the highest or first grade, and 5 the lowest, and the three intermediate numbers. the three intermediate grades. The grades in deportment shall be represented by the same numbers and in the same order. At the end of every term every teacher of a public school shall deliver to the county treasurer a statement of the length of the term of the school, of the race, number, sex and average attendance of pupils, and the name of the district and township in which the school was taught. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 30 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 30 The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday of February of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, apportion among the several townships in the county, according to the number of children in each between the ages of six and twentyone years, (which number shall be ascertained by a census to be taken by the school committee and reported to the county board of education,) all school funds which may then be in the possession of or due to the county treasurer, specifying how much thereof is apportioned to the children of each race, and give notice thereof to the school committees of the several townships of the county. And the school committees in the several townships shall apportion the same in like manner among the several school districts, and publish the same by an advertisement posted on the court-house door of each county. The sums thus apportioned to the several townships shall be subject to the orders of the school committees thereof for payment of the school expenses mentioned in section nine as amended in this act: Provided, however, That in no case shall the school fund thus apportioned to either race be expended for the education of the other race: And provided further, That so much of said school fand as shall not be expended in any school district for the education of the race for which it was apportioned in any year, shal be added to the final apportionment to said race in said school districts for the succeeding year. If the pupils of any public school reside in different townships, the school committes of each shall give an order to the teacher for such part of the amount due him as is proportionate to the number of pupils attending his school from their township. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 31 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 31 The county treasurer of each county shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the first day of July of each year, the entire amount of school money received by him during the preceding school year, the several sources from which it was derived and the disbursements thereof made by him, designating the sums paid for schools for the white and colored children respectively, for school-house sites in the several townships. At the same time the secretary of the county board of education shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction the number of public schools taught in the county during the year for each race, the number of pupils of each race, their average attendance, the number of males and the number of females, according to the reports made to him by the provisions of this act. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 38 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 38 It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board of education for each county to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the first day of July of every year, full and accurate statistics, showing the number of public schools in the county, the length of term of each, the race, sex, number and average attendance of pupils, as reported to him under the provisions of the fifteenth section of this act; and also the number of school children in the county, as reported to the county board of education under the provisions of section forty-five of this act. And if any secretary of a county board of education shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section at the time above stated, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the Superior Court of his county, he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than one month, or more than six ve in the discretion of the court. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 90 Sec. 45 Identified by: model CHAPTER XC. AN ACT TO AMEND THE SCHOOL LAW, RATIFIED THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEV- ENTY-TWO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That an act to consolidate the school laws and to provide for a system of public instruction, ratified the twelfth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as follows : Sec. 45 It shall be the duty of the school committee of each township to take and return to the county board of education on or before the first day of August in every year a full and accurate census of the children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, giving the number in public schools, and the number who attended no school, designating the race and sex in all cases. They shall also report the number of public school-houses and the number of private school-houses, and the number of aeademies and colleges in each township. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 115 Sec. 22 Identified by: model CHAPTER CXY. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES BY THE STATE AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE STATE ON PROPERTY, POLLS AND INCOME, (KNOWN AS THE MACHINERY ACT.) Sec. 22 The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in September after the lists are returned, shail return to the Auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation andthe amount as State and county tax paid on each subject and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return the Auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 134 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER CXXXIV. AN ACT TO MAKE A DONATION OF A LOT BELONGING TO THE: STATE AND AN APPROPRIATION OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS: FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING AN INSTITUTION FOR THE COLORED DEAF AND DUMB AND BLIND. Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That a lot of land belonging to the State of North. Carolina, situated in the city of Raleigh in the south-eastern part of said city, bounded on the west by Blood-worth street, on the north by Lenoir street, on the east by East street, and on the south by the lands of John W. B. Watson, containing about one acre, be and the same is. donated and appropriated to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind for the purpose of establishing thereon buildings for the accommodation of the colored pupils of said institution. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 157 Sec. 8 Identified by: expert CHAPTER CLVIL. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE PENITENTIARY. Sec. 8 That the said board are hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the board of directors for the Institntion for the Deaf.and Dumb and Blind as many of the rick now at the penitentiary as may be necessary in the onstruction of the colored Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institution, and said board are directed to use as many convicts as practicable in the construction of such building. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 163 Sec. 14 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXIII. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A HOUSE OF CORRECTION AND RE- FUGE IN THE COUNTY OF NEW HANONER. Sec. 14 The buildings of the House of Correction and Refuge shall be so constructed that the children of the white race shall be kept separate and apart, and the children of the colored race shall be kept separate and apart from the other race. 1872/73 Public Laws Ch. 181 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER CLXXXI. AN ACT FOR AMNESTY AND PARDON. WHEREAS, It is believed that a strict enforcement of the criminal law in reference to many offences committed within the limits of the State since the close of the late civil war would result in greater detriment to the State of North Carolina than a policy based upon mercy and for- giveness, therefore, Sec. 1 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That no person who may have committed any crime against or violation of the laws of the State of North Carolina, with the exception of rape, deliberate and wilful murder, arson and burglary, while a member of or officer or pretended officer of the Heroes of America, Loyal Union League, Red Strings, Constitutional Union Guard, White Brotherhood, Invisible Empire, Ku-Klux Klan, North Carolina State Troops, North Carolina Militia, Jay Hawkers, or any other organization, association, or assembly, secret or otherwise, political or otherwise, by whatever name known or called, in obedience to the commands, decrees or determinations, by whatever name called, of such organizations, associations or assemblies, or in obedience to the commands, orders or requests of any ohe exercising or pretending to exercise any authority or pretended authority by reason of his connection or attachment to any such organization, association or assembly, shall be held to answer criminally for any such crime against or in violation of the laws of the said State of North Carolina in fact committed or charged to have been committed preyious to the first day of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, but every such person shall have free and complete amnesty and pardon therefor: Provided, That all persons who were not personally present at and actually participating in the crimes of wilful murder, arson and burglary, or who were not present at, and did not assent to the decree or order for the same, shall have the benefit of this act. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 24 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 24 An act to remove the colored normal school now tocated in Warrenton, Warren county, to Franklinton, Frankl county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Me She _ Sec. 1 That the State Board of,Education are boxset to remove the normal school for the golored race now | vat Warrenton, Warren county, and re ish it at Franklinton, Franklin county: Provided, the citi Hranklinton shall furnish or cause to be furnished suitable buildings to conduct the 3 exercises of said school. te 1893 Public Laws Ch. 50 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 50 An act for the relief of J. A. Cole of Johnston county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Johnston county be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to J. A. Cole the sum of sixty dollars ($60) out of the funds now apportioned to school district number twenty-nine, white ; and if the funds now so apportioned to said district shall be insufficient to pay said amount, the said treasurer is directed to pay so much as is now available for that purpose, and to pay the balance then remaining out of the funds next hereafter apportioned to said district. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 50 Sec. 2 Identified by: model CHAPTER 50 An act for the relief of J. A. Cole of Johnston county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the said payment shall be made upon the vale of the school committee of said district number twenty-nine, white, or a majority of the same ; and thesaid order, countersigned by J. A. Cole, shall constitute a valid voucher in the hands of the said treasurer in all settlements of the school fund with the county board of educatipn or other body. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 122 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 122 An act to authorize the payment of school order of Miss Nannie Bingham out of the school funds of Randolph County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Randolph County is hereby authorized and empowered to pay Miss Nannie Bingham the sum of eleven dollars and seventy-five cents, the balance due her as teacher in district number forty-eight (white race), Randolph County, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, out of any school funds now due or may hereafter be due said district. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 123 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 123 An act to protect the owners of live stock from the depredations of thieves. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the Brunswick Bridge and Ferry Company, its agents, lessees or assigns, are hereby required to take and keep in a book provided for that purpose, the ear mark, color, brand and sex of any and all live stock which May be transported by it or them across the ferry owned by said company at Wilmington, and the date at which the same were delivered to it for transportation, and shall take and record the name and color of the person or persons bringing the same for transportation. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 189 Sec. 6 Identified by: model CHAPTER 189 An act to amend chapter one hundred and fifty-seven of the acts of the general assembly of North Carolina in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 6 That the special taxes thus levied and collected shall be expended in keeping up separate public graded schools for the white and colored children in said township between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the schools for each race herein provided ro) shall have the same length of school terms. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 224 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 224 An act to provide for the North Carolina institution for the deaf, dumb and the blind. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That the sum of five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the repairs and improvements necessary at both the white and colored departments of said institutions for the fiscal year beginning December first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and ending November thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three; and the same amount is hereby appropriated for repairs and improvements of said institutions for the year beginning December first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and ending November thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 252 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 252 An act to provide funds for the completion of the pgricsthieade and RS Mechanical College, colored. = The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : vey, Sec. 1 That the sum of five thousand dollars per year for tha ay years of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and-eighteen hundred and ninety-four is hereby appropriated from fupds in the publice ; treasury of this state not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of completing, erecting and furnishing said building for the use of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College for the colored race. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 257 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 257 Po, - f ~ . An act to pay D. B. Johnson, of Rutherford county, a certain school Be claim. f _ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : _ Sec. 1 That John L. Yelton, E. A. Melton and Joseph Brandle, _ committee of school district number forty-seven -47 for the white _ race in Rutherford county, North Carolina, be and are hereby author- _ ized to draw an order on the treasurer of said county in favor of __D. B. Johnson for services as teacher in said district in the year one _ thousand eight hundred and eighty-six (1886). _ 1893 Public Laws Ch. 296 Sec. 32 Identified by: model CHAPTER 296 An act to provide for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 32 The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in November after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of-real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 298 Sec. 10 Identified by: model CHAPTER 298 [FROWN FER? An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquor in various localities. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : _ Sec. 10 It shall be unlawful to sell or dispose of any spirituous liquors with a view to remuneration within one and one-half miles of Antioch Baptist church in Burke county. Camden.Sawyers Creek Baptist church: Provided, this shall not apply to Camden Court-house. MooreTurners Chapel and Page's Chapel (colored). Randolph.Providence (Friends) church. Rockingham.Any church in Leaksville, Transylvania.Brevard Baptist church, Rocky Hill Baptist church. - 1893 Public Laws Ch. 298 Sec. 11 Identified by: model CHAPTER 298 [FROWN FER? An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquor in various localities. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : _ Sec. 11 It shall be unlawful to sell or dispose of any spirituous liquors with a view to remuneration within one mile of the following places : Alexander.Mt. Olive Baptist and Salem Lutheran churches. Ashe.Scotsville post-office. Burke.Antioch church. Forsyth.Tabernacle church. Halifax.Neal station. Lincoln.Trinity Methodist church. | Martin.Weir's chapel. Mitchell.Pine Grove Methodist church. Polk.Nelsons chapel camp-ground. Randolph.Pleasant Hill Methodist church, Bethel M. P. church, Rowan,.Trading Ford, St. Matthew's E. L. church and Liberty M. E. church, number three public school-house (white), Morris chapel colored church, Pillsbury Presbyterian colored church, South River Methodist church. Wayne.M. E. church at Saulston cross-roads. Wilkes.Center Baptist church, Wrights school-house, Gwyns Chapel Episcopal church, Mt. Carmel Baptist church, Fishing Creek Arbor church and Union M. E. church and Fair Plains church. Wiilson.Buckhorn church. Cherokee.It shall be unlawful to make or sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors within one mile of the Notla Masonic hall, the public school-house in district thirty-nine, New Liberty Baptist church and Macedonia church in Cherokee county. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 302 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 302 An act in aid of the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb at Morganton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the sum of thirty-five thousand ($35,000) dollars for each of the years one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four be and the same is hereby appropriated for the support, completion and improvement of the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb located at Morganton, North Carolina: Provided, that if the white deaf and dumb children shall be removed to said Morganton institution before the close of the fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the board of directors of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind at Raleigh shall pay to the board of directors of the Institution at Morganton the sum of five hundred dollars per month until the close of said fiscal year. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 374 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 3874 Aa act to establish and provide for the militia and for the support and maintenance of the state guard. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 2 That the white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled and shall never be compelled to serve in the same companies, battalions, regiments or brigades. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 414 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 414 An act to establish a normal institution for the training of white teachers in Robeson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 1 That the board of education of Robeson county be and the same are hereby authorized to hold annually in the county of Robeson a teachers normal institute for the special instruction and training of white teachers, to be known as the Teachers Normal Institute. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 484 Sec. 1 Identified by: model CHAPTER 484 An act authorizing the treasurer of Randolph county to pay certain teachers. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That the treasurer of Randolph county be and he is hereby authorized to pay Martha Redding twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) out of the public school funds due district number eighty-five -85 white race as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety; M. O. Hammond ten dollars and thirtythree cents ($10.33) out of the public school fund due district number forty-nine -49 white race as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety; H. A. Albright eight dollars and sixty-eight cents ($8.68) out of the public school funds due district number fiftyseven -57 white race as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; Pattie J. Delk twelve dollars ($12) out of the public school funds due district number forty-eight -48 white race as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; R. B. Ridge ten dollars and sixty-five cents ($10.65) out of the public school funds due district number forty-nine -49 white race as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; and to R. B. Ridge five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50) out of public school funds due district number forty-three -43 white race as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said district during the school year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 515 Sec. 2 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 515 Anact to amend chapter sixty, section three, of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 2 That persons of the Croatan race of either sex who are not under thirteen years of age may attend the normal school for the Croatans: Provided, that children not under eleven years of age may be admitted who can stand an approved examination in spelling, reading, writing, primary geography and the fundamental rules of arithmetic. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 526 Sec. 6 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 526 An act to establish graded schools in Lexington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 6 For the purposes and benefits of this act the town of Lexington shall be and constitute a public school district for both white _and colored; and all public school funds derived from the state and said county for tHe use and benefit of the public school district so constituted shall be paid to said town treasurer by the treasurer of said county for the use and benefit of said graded school. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 526 Sec. 7 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 526 An act to establish graded schools in Lexington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Sec. 7 That it shall be the duty of said graded school board to establish a graded school for white and one for colored children of said town, and apportion the funds derived from said special taxes or from any other sources whatsoever between said schools for white and colored. 1893 Public Laws Ch. 527 Sec. 1 Identified by: expert CHAPTER 527 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount, counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Sec. 1 That all that portion of the county of Nash and all that portion of the county of Edgecombe lying within the corporate limits of the town of Rocky Mount, together with house and lot now used by Israel D. Hargett for his colored school, together also with all that portion of Edgecombe county which is bound by the corporate limits and by the Tarboro