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1919_public laws_93_33

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CHAPTER 92 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 231, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1917, IN RELATION TO THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I Boarp OF STATE TAX COMMISSIONERS

Where to list real estate, mineral, and quarry lands. All real property subject to taxation shall be listed in the township in which said property is situated on the first day of May. When the fee of the soil of any tract, parcel, or lot of land is in any person or persons, natural or artificial, and the right to any minerals, quarry, or timber therein is in another or others, the same shall be valued and listed, agreeable to such ownership, in separate entries, specifying the interest listed, and shall be taxed to the parties owning the different interests, respectively. In listing mineral, quarry, or timber interests the owner thereof shall describe the same in his list, together with the separate value of each separate tract or parcel of land in or on which the same shall be situated or located, and the list-taker shall be particular to enter the same on the tax list according to the returns. An owner of separate timber interests shall list the same, whether the timber shall be attached to or detached from the soil. 99 D>.

1901_public laws_517_16

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CHAPTER 516 An act to establish a dispensary for the town of Mayodan, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict of [with] the provisions of this act are hereby repealed: Provided, that this act shall. not be construed so as to repeal any prohibitory laws already in force, and section three thousand one hundred and eleven of The Code shall not apply to this act.

1909_private laws_291_16

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CHAPTER 290 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

On the second Saturday before each election the registration books shall be kept open at the polling place in the precinct for the inspection of the electors of the precinct, and any of such electors shall be allowed to object to the name of any person appearing on said books: Provided, nothing in this section shall prohibit any elector from challenging or objecting on the day of election to any person offering to vote.

1909_private laws_124_2

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CHAPTER 123 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF RAMSEUR TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of Commissioners of the town of Ramseur is hereby authorized and empowered to submit to the qualified voters of said town, at an election as hereinafter provided for, the question of issuing bonds of the town of Ramseur in the amount of five thousand dollars, and of levying and _ collecting a special tax, as hereinafter provided. for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, for the purpose of working, improving and making streets and sidewalks in said town. Said bonds shall be ten in number and five hundred dollars each in amount. They shall bear interest from the date thereof at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum, and the interest shall be payable semiannually. Said bonds shall be payable, one in three, one in six, one in eight, one in ten, one in twelve, one in fourteen, one in sixteen, one in eighteen, one in twenty, and one in twenty-two years, respectively. They shall have interest coupons attached. The bonds shall be numbered, and shall be executed on behalf of the town by the mayor, and attested by the clerk, and shall have the corporate seal attached, and shall be in all other respects of such form and tenor and payable at such dates and places as shall be determined by the board of commissioners and designated in the bonds themselves. None of said bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than par, and a record shall be kept, showing to whom each and all of said bonds shall be issued.

1967_session laws_1260_8

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CHAPTER 1259 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE WINSTON-SALEM TRANSIT AUTHORITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Funds. The establishment and operation of a Transit Authority as herein authorized is a governmental function and a_ public purpose and the City of Winston-Salem is hereby authorized to appropriate funds to support the establishment and operation of the Transit Authority. The City of Winston-Salem may also dedicate, sell, convey, donate or lease any of its interest in any property to the Authority. Further, the Authoritv is hereby authorized to establish such license and regulatory fees and charges as it may deem appropriate, subject to the approval of the Board of Aldermen. If the Board of Aldermen finds that the funds otherwise available are insufficient, it may call a special election without a petition 1899 and submit to the qualified voters of the City the question of whether or not a special tax shall be levied and/or bonds issued, specifying the maximum amount thereof, for the purpose of acquiring lands, buildings, equipment and facilities and for the operations of the Transit Authority.

1897_public laws_187_6

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CHAPTER 186 An act to incorporate the United Brothers and Sisters Associ- ation. WHEREAS, certain citizens of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have associated themselves together, under the name and style of the United Brothers and Sisters Association, with the intention and purpose of pro- moting charity, benevolence, morality, industry and intelli- gence; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the private property of the members of the corporation shall be exempt from the debts of the corporation.

1925_public laws_74_16

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CHAPTER 73 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1915, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 1079 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1917, RELATING TO CREDIT-UNIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That in line two -2 of section fifty-two twenty-four (5224), article nine (9), subchapter three -3 of the Consolidated Statutes, the words four-fifths of the entire membership of a corporation shall be stricken out and the following substituted in lieu thereof: three-fourths of the members present and represented.

1913_public local laws_663_8

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CHAPTER 662 AN ACT TO REGULATE PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN BEAU- FORT COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE INCORPORATED CITIES OR TOWNS THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Challenges shall be made, heard, and determined, respectively, in the same manner as in the laws governing elections in North Carolina or the cities and towns in the county of Beaufort, as the case may be. The registration books in all primaries under this act shall be open for a period of ten days, and shall close on the second Saturday preceding the day for holding any primary, and challenge shall be made, heard, and determined during the week preceding the day for holding the primary: Provided, the foregoing provisions shall not be construed to prevent any elector from challenging any one who offers to vote on the primary day: Provided further, in the event there is no registration, that the board of elections or the governing body of any city or town, as the case may be, shall appoint two poll-holders for each political party entering said primary. Any person offering to vote may be challenged by any elector, and if the party affiliation of the voter is in doubt, he shall be required to make oath of such affiliation. Any person otherwise qualified who has not voted in the last two general elections shall have the right to elect his party affiliation: Provided, he does not yote against any candidates of the party in whose primary he enters at the ensuing general election. The test in all cases shall be the party affiliation of the person subject to the foregoing provisions in the last general election, and any person who voted in said general election for candidates of one political party mentioned in this act and who desires to enter the primary of another political party shall make oath, upon being challenged, either to support the candidates of the political party that he enters in the ensuing general election or that he will not vote in opposition to any candidate of that party. No person shall be allowed in said primaries to vote for candidates of but one political party.

1915_public local laws_37_19

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CHAPTER 36 AN ACT TO CREATE A HIGHWAY COMMISSION FOR WAR- RENTON TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY OF WARREN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The stock and road implements and machinery belonging to the township and turned over to the highway commission may be used both upon the permanent and repair work of the road of the township, and the highway commission is empowered to purchase additional road machinery, stock, and other machinery, and tools used in road building from time to time as the same may be needed for keeping the roads of the township in good condition, and also for doing permanent work, and may dispose of such machinery and stock as they may deem necessary for the best interest of the public roads.

1919_public laws_146_11

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CHAPTER 145 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000 ) is hereby appropriated for the years one thousand nine hundred and nineteen and one thousand nine hundred and twenty for the support and maintenance of the East Carolina Teachers Training School.

1921_public laws_35_23

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CHAPTER 34 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Taxpayer to show his income on list. ~~ The taxpayer shall list his income for the year ending January first, 1921, from any and all sources from salaries, fees, trades, and professions in excess of one thousand dollars for unmarried persons and fifteen hundred dollars for married persons and widows and widowers having minor child or children.

1957_session laws_825_8

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CHAPTER 824 AN ACT CREATING THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION. WHEREAS, the great County of Pitt will in the year 1960 celebrate its 200th Anniversary, and in order that its citizens may properly and ade- quately prepare for said celebration: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

1887_private laws_87_39

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CHAPTER 86 An act to amend the charter of the town of Taylorsville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That if the real estate sold as aforesaid shall not be redeemed within the time required by law, the corporation shall convey the same in fee to the purchaser or his assigns; and the recital in such conveyance, or in any other conveyance of Jand sold for taxes due the town, that the taxes were due, or of any other matter required to be TRUE or done before the sale might be made, shall be prima facie evidence that the same was TRUE and done.

1891_private laws_44_9

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CHAPTER 43 An act to incorporate the Bank of Commerce at Fayetteville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The corporation may loan money on a pledge or mortgage of real or personal estate: Provided, it shall not loan on mortgage of real estate exceeding twenty per cent. of the capital stock paid in.

1907_private laws_376_6

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CHAPTER 373 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section fifty-five of the charter of Winston be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the words Elks auditorium, in said section, the words or the Young Mens Christian Association. That said section fifty-five is further amended by striking out the word less, in line ten, and inserting in lieu thereof the words not exceeding.

1879_public laws_72_10

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CHAPTER 71 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. Assessment and valuation of lands:

The list shall state all the property of the person giving in, and also the age of the party, with reference to his liability to a poll-tax, and shall refer to the first day of June in that year. 1 The quantity of land owned in the township; the land shall be described by name, if it has one; otherwise in such way that it may be identified, and shall be valued as herein prescribed. 2 The number of horses, mules, jacks, jennies, goals, cattle, hogs and sheep, separately, with the value thereof, and they shall be returned at their TRUE value. 3 The TRUE value, without specifying the articles, of farming utensils, tools of mechanics, household and kitchen furniture, provisions, arms for muster, libraries and scientific instruments. 4, Money on hand, including all funds invested within thirty days before in United States bonds or other bonds or stocks, or any non-paying property whatever. 5 The amount of solvent credits, including accrued | interest uncollected, owing to the party, whether in or out of the State, whether owing by mortgage, bond, note, bill of exchange, certificate, check, open account, or due and payable, or whether owing by any state or government, county, city, town, or township, individual or company or corporation. Any certificate of deposit in any bank, whether in or out of the State, certificate of stock in any corporation or trust company, whether in or out of the State, and the value of cotton, tobacco or other property in the hands of commission merchants or agents, ini or out of the state, shall be deemed solvent credits within the meaning of this act. If any credit be regarded as not entirely solvent it shall be given in at its TRUE current or market value. Theparty may deduct from the amount of promissory notes and accounts owing to him the amount of such notes and accounts owing by him. 6 Stocks in national, state and private banks, and stocks in any incorporated company or joint stock association, railroad, telegraph or canal company, with their TRUE value; and every cashier or treasurer of any bank, corporation or association shall furnish a list of its stockholders and depositors resident in the several counties of this state, on the first day of June each year, to the county commissioners of the county in which such stockholders or depositors resides, and shall also state the TRUE value of such stock and the amount of deposits. 7 All other personal property whatever, including therein all cotton in seed or lint, tobacco, either in leaf or manufactured, turpentine, rosin, tar, brandy, whiskey, medical instruments, goods, wares and merchandise of all kinds, plated and silver ware, and the watches and jewelry possessed by the party, his wife or any minor child. 8 The income of the party for the twelve months next preceding the first day of June in the current year, with a statement of the source or sources from which it was derived. That the property mentioned in sub-division two, three and seven of this section shall be valued at its TRUE value, estimated at what it would bring at a voluntary sale. 9 If the party be a non-resident of the county, and owns land therein, it shall state his address, and may name any agent in the county to whom notices may be given respecting his taxes.

1915_public local laws_508_3

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CHAPTER 507 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF COUNTY TREAS- URER IN HARNETT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said bank or trust company appointed and acting as the financial agent of Harnett County shall be appointed for a term of two years, and shall be required at its or their own expense to execute the same bonds for the safe keeping and proper accounting of such funds as may come into its or their possession and belonging to said county, and for the faithful discharge of its or their duties as are now required by law of the county treasurer.

1911_private laws_263_7

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CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, RATIFIED THE SEVEN- TEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUN- DRED AND ELEVEN. Whereas, the act passed by the General Assembly of North Caro- lina at its session of one thousand nine hundred and eleven, ratified on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, with reference to the city of Greensboro, was to become effective if ratified by a majority of votes passed at an election pro- vided for in said act; and, Whereas, at such election a majority of the voters voted a ticket For commission form of government, and a minority of the voters voted a ticket Against commission form of government; now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section fifty-two of the said act, which was ratified on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, be amended by inserting in line one of said section, after the word office and before the word may, the words except judge of the municipal court.

1901_public laws_451_10

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CHAPTER 450 An act to prevent live stock from running at large in certain parts of Wayne County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That whenever said committee shall report to the Board of Commissioners of Wayne County that said territory or so much thereof as does not adjoin other territory in which the stock law prevails is enclosed by a sufficient fence, with gates across all highways leading into the same, it shall be the duty of the chairman of the board immediately to give notice by advertisement in the Goldsboro Argus and on January 1, 1902, and after the publication of said notices, all the provisions of this act shall be in full force, and to defray the expenses of building said fence, the County Commissioners shall levy an assessment upon all the farming lands within said territory, including wood or timbered lands and all improvements thereon and cause the same to be collected by the Sheriff and paid over to the County Treasurer to be by him disbursed upon their order. The official bonds of the Sheriff and Treasurer shall be responsible for the faithful accounting for said funds as for public moneys.

1915_private laws_342_122

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CHAPTER 341 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The owner of any land sold under the provisions of this charter and amendments, or any person acting for such owner, may redeem the same within one year after the sale by paying to the purchaser the sum paid by him and twenty-five per cent additional to the amount of taxes and expenses, and the purchaser shall thereupon convey to him all his interest in said land.

1899_private laws_148_41

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CHAPTER 147 An act to amend the charter of The Town of Columbia. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That if the lot, real estate, or interest in real estate, sold as aforesaid, shall not be redeemed within the time specifled, the collector or his successor, under the direction of the mayor of the town, shall convey the same to the purchaser, or to his assigns in fee. In the event the town is the purchaser, the collector, or his successor, shall convey to the corporation of Columbia, and the recitals in such conveyance or in any other conveyance, made by any tax collector of said town, shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the same and can not be attacked, except on the ground that the taxes were not due and unpaid at the date of sale.

1907_public laws_459_3

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CHAPTER 458 AN ACT TO PERMIT RAILROAD COMPANIES TO ACQUIRE LANDS FOR DOUBLE-TRACKING. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That no yard, garden or dwelling-house shall be condemned under the provisions of this act, unless the Corporation Commission, upon petition filed by the railroad seeking to condemn, shall, after due inquiry, find that the railroad company cannot make the desired improvement without condemning the yard, garden or dwelling-house, except at an excessive cost.

1913_public laws_147_3

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CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE: MAINTENANCE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all laws and clauses of laws in cofiflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. :

1927_private laws_28_12

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CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 160, OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1925, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the town of Mount Airy, through its mayor and board of commissioners, shall have and is granted authority to condemm lands for streets, alleys, or public buildings, or other lawful municipal purposes in the same manner as is provided hereinbefore for the condemnation of property for the water supply or water works of the town of Mount Airy.

1957_session laws_1456_10

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CHAPTER 1455 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PLANNING, ZONING, BUILDING REGU- LATIONS, AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS POWERS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND FOR A DESCRIBED TERRITORY BEYOND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FAY- ETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

If any Section, subdivision, clause, or provision of this Act shall be adjudged invalid, such adjudication shall apply only to such Section, subdivision, clause, or provision so adjudged, and the remainder of the Act shall be deemed valid and effective.

1905_private laws_15_32

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CHAPTER 15 AN ACT TO CREATE A CHARTER FOR ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The chief of the fire department shall use his best endeavors to have the engine at each fire, and for that purpose he may use such means and aid as he deems best. And the board of aldermen are hereby authorized and permitted to make appropriations from the amount collected from the special tax mentioned in section twenty-nine, to be disbursed and used as they direct. COMPENSATION OF FIRE CHIEF.

1883_public laws_368_6

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CHAPTER 367 An act to amend chapter two hundred and forty-seven, acts of one thousand elght hundred and eighty-one, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Dr. R. H. Speight, J. Q. Bryan and M. H. Wetherbee be and they are hereby appointed fence commissioners in and for that part of said territory lying and being in the county of Edgecombe, with power to contract for the erection of a substantial fence upon the boundary above described, so as to connect with the Nash county territory, with gates at every crossing of a publie road; that they hold their office during good behavior, and upon a vacancy occurring by death or resignation or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled by the board of county commissioners of Edgecombe county.

1931_private laws_79_10

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CHAPTER 78 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOU- SAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN OF NORTH CAROLINA, RELATIVE TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF SALISBURY, AND DEFINING CERTAIN RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE CITY COUNCIL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The chairman of the County Board of Elections of Rowan County, within five days after the results of such primary election have been declared, shall certify under his hand and seal to the city clerk of Salisbury the names of the successful five nominees of the respective political parties for councilmen of said city. And only those who have been so certified as the nominees of their political party shall have their names printed on the official ballot for that respective political party to be voted for at the next general municipal election for said city. The nominees of each political party shall be printed on a separate ballot for each political party for the general municipal election, said ballots to be of different colors of paper. The Democratic ballots shall be printed on white paper, and the Republican ballot on blue paper. Upon the face of the Democratic ballot near the top shall be printed in heavy black type the word: DEMOCRATIC. The emblem of an eagle shall be printed under the word, democratic; and under the eagle shall be printed a circle, with the instructions: For a straight ticket mark within this circle. Upon the face of the Republican ballot shall be printed in heavy black type the word: REPUBLICAN. The emblem of an elephant shall be printed under the word, republican; and under the elephant shall be printed a circle, with the instructions: For a straight ticket mark within this circle. Upon each ballot for city councilmen shall be printed the words: For city councilmen. Vote for five. And each ballot shall contain the following instructions: INSTRUCTIONS 1. To vote a straight ticket make a cross (x) mark in the circle of the party you desire to vote for. 2. To vote for some but not all the candidates of one party, make a cross (x) mark in the square at the left of the name of every candidate printed on the ballot for whom you wish to vote. If you mark any one candidate, you must mark all for whom you wish to vote. A mark in the circle will not be counted if any one candidate is marked. A square shall be printed to the left of the name of each candidate in which the voter may make a cross (x) mark indicating his choice for each candidate. The city clerk shall cause ballots for the general municipal election of said city to be printed as herein provided, authenticated with a facsimile of his signature. The ballots for the general municipal election shall contain only the names of all candidates who have been put in nomination by the primary election hereinabove provided, and shall be delivered by the city clerk to the several registrars of the city. Upon the back of each ballot shall be printed the following endorsement, the blanks being properly filled: Official City Ballot for General Municipal Election. Salisbury, North Carolina. (Date of city election.) (Facsimile of signature of city clerk of Salisbury.)

1883_public laws_221_2

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CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

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.

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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 :

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.

1903_public laws_300_12

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CHAPTER 299 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF WILLIAMSTON, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School Trustees of Williamston; 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 property, hold, exchange, mortgage or sell the same, and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations. And said corporation shall have a corporate seal which it may break and change at pleasure.

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CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

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 elections of county officers. The said election shall be held at the school-house for the white race in said territory.

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CHAPTER 244 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

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 pollholders 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.

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CHAPTER 762 An act to aid the Colored Orphan Asylum at Oxford, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Treasurer of North Carolina be an d he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Orphan Asylum for children of the colored race, at Oxford, North Carolina, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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CHAPTER 727 An act to make appropriations for the State Institutions. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That five thousand dollars be appropriated to the Colored Agricultural and Mechanical College of Greensboro for each of the years 1901 and 1902 in addition to its standing appropriation. This appropriation shall not be paid if the State Board of Education shall transfer to said school an equal amount of the appropriations for the Colored Normal Schools of the State.

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CHAPTER: 736 An act to consolidate the Webster and Dillshoro Schooi Districts for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the school districts of Webster and Dillsboro | Townships in Jackson County for the colored race, be and the same are hereby consolidated into one district to be known as the Webster District for the colored race, and that the school-house for said consolidated districts shall be the present school-house of the Webster District for the colored race. ;

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CHAPTER 497 ~.. An act to establish graded schools in the town of Greenville, N. C. Wye The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That if the Trustees of the graded school herein appointed shall deem the grounds on which Pitt Academy is now located a suitable place for the location of the graded school building for the white children of the said district then the said graded school may be located there by and with the consent of the Trustees of the said academy; but if they shail deem another location more suitable then the Board of Trustees of the 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 a good title to the purchasers and invest the proceeds of such sale in a location and buildings for a graded school for the whites of said district.

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CHAPTER 470 An act for relief of E. W. Hyman. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said sum shall be paid out of any funds apportioned to the colored race for Enfield Township in said county.

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CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said Board of Trustees are authorized and empowered to sell and convey the old Davis school lot and the buildings situated thereon, lying and being on the Prices Mill Road near the residence of J. D. Davis, which sale may be at public or private sale and the proceeds of said sale shall be applied in-the erection of a school building for the whites in the said Wesley Chapel School District, and they are authorized and empowered to use such fund of the special tax so levied for the purpose of erecting and equipping such school buildings #NAME? either race, as they may deem necessary.

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CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school laws for the white and for the colored children of said Wesley Chapel School District shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the High Schools provided for in this act under the orders and directions of said Board of Trustees.

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CHAPTER 340 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS {N PLYMOUTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all that territory embraced within the following limits, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Connaby Creek where it empties in the Roanoke River, thence with the various courses of said creek and Peacock swamp to the dividing line of the lands of A. T. Tetterton and the Windley heirs, thence with said line to the line between the Newberry farm and the land of W. F. Lucas, and with said line to the western line of the right-of-way of The Washington and Plymouth Railroad Company, thence with said western line of the said right-of-way to the western line of the right-of-way of the railroad used by the Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company for conveying logs to the mill of said lumber company, thence with said last named western line of said railroad to Welches Creek, thence with said creek to the Roanoke River, thence with the said river to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a graded school district for the white and colored races.

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CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That J. N. Price, H. L. Price, E. M. Moore, L. G. Howie and R. H. Howie are hereby constituted a Board of Trustees for the public graded schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a hody corporate under the name of Trustees for the Public Schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union 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, make all by-laws and regulations necessary or expedient as deemed by them, for the purposes of their incorporation, purchase, sell and convey, lease, let and control all school property in said district, 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 ot said schools, and regulate their salaries, to elect one of their own number chairman, another secretary, and do and perform all acts proper and necessary for the best advantages of said schools.

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CHAPTER 331 An act to establish a supplementary school district in Williams Town- ship, Craven County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -

That all territory embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersection of Peacock Road and Beaver Dam Swamp, and runs south with Peacock Road to Thomas Worleys well; from said Worleys well by the old sawmill site on Emanuel Wright's land to Gum Swamp; thence down Gum Swamp to the mouth of Kates Branch; thence up said branch to the Big Branch; thence with Big Branch to Beaver Dam Swamp; thence up Beaver Dam Swamp to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district, and shall be called the Lebanon Supplemental Public School for the White and Colored Races.

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CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Board of Trustees of the graded school for whites in said district are authorized and empowered to purchase and hold for the purpose of said school, a building and suitable grounds within the limits of said district.

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CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Ashley W. Smith, Hardy Atkinson, George McIntyre, Levy Dublin and E. Russell Whitley, be and they are hereby appointed and constituted a Board of Trustees for the graded school for colored persons; that said board shall have the power to fill all vacancies, to employ teachers, and to do all such acts as may be necessary to keep up the school for colored persons.

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CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in maintaining and keeping up a graded public free school in said district for white persons of both sexes, whose names are on the school census list in said district, 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 maintaining and keeping up a graded public school in said district for colored persons of both sexes, whose names shall be on the school census list in said district, between the ages of six and twenty-one years.

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CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Board of Commissioners of the county of Johnston are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the qualified voters of said Smithfield Graded School District, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and one, 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 free school for the white children, and a graded public free school for the colored children therein, in said district. Each voter shail vote a 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.

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CHAPTER 324 An act to establish supplemental school district No. 3 in Chadbourn Township in Columbus County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all territory embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersections of Bacon Branch and the north margin of the W. C. and A. Railroad and runs west with said railroad to Greens Branch, thence about southwest so as to strike the north line of the Sanka Frink place, thence following the north line to the corner and parallel with said line across Porter Swamp so as to include F. D. Pages home farm, thence with James Tylers line so as to include said Tylers premises, thence with said northeast line across the mill pond to Suggs west line, thence southwest Sugegs and Tylers line to C. M. Nobles northwest line, thence following the same to the Colony line, thence with said line to the east margin of the W. C. and A. Railroad, thence north along the east margin of said railroad to Bacon Branch, thence with said branch to the beginning, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district and shall be called Chadbourn supplemental school district number three for the white and colored races.

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CHAPTER 221 s An act to establish a supplementary school district in White House Town- ship, Robeson County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory embraced within the limits hereinafter described, in White House Township, Robeson County, shali be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as The Olivet School District, beginning at the mile post standing in the main run of Ashpole Swamp on the old stage road, running from Lumberton to Marion, and run with said road to the South Carolina line at old MHolmesville, thence with said State line about south 45 degrees east to the main run of Ashpole Swamp, thence up the main run of the said Ashpole Swamp to the beginning.

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CHAPTER 353 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors, shall be, and are hereby constituted, a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School ' Trustees of Rocky Mount; and by that name may sue and be , sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, ' acquire by gift, purchase or dvise, real and personal property, hold, exchange, mortgage or sell the same, and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations. And said corporation shall have a corporate seal, which it may break and change at pleasure.

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CHAPTER 353 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Rocky Mount, and all that portion of Nash County not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, | towit: Beginning at that point where the southern boundary line of said town intersects the western boundary line of Hilliard street; thence southward along an extension of the boundary line of said street to that point where said line would intersect the new river road; thence eastward along said road to that point where the said line intersects the boundary line between the land of Jno. D. Bulluck and the land of the Davis heirs; thence southeastward along said line to that point where said line intersects the main line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad; thence northward along the line of said railroad to the southern boundary line of said town; thence westward along said line to the beginning, shall be, and are hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Rocky Mount Graded School Distrct. -

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CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The State Board of Education shall elect biennially a State Board of Examiners, which shall consist of three professional teachers and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall be ex officio the chairman of said board. The said Board of Examiners shall have the entire management and control of the Colored Normal Schools of the State, shall prepare a course of study for the same, elect teachers therein, fix all salaries and provide for Summer School of not less than two weeks duration, which all teachers in said Normal School shall be required to attend. One member of said Board of Examiners shall visit each of said Colored Normal Schools annually, inspect the work and report in writing to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall have the reports printed and submitted to the General Assembly on or before January twentieth, 1903 Meetings of the State Boards of Examiners shall be held at the call of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the members shall receive no compensation other than travelling expenses and board while attending upon their official duties, an itemized statement of which shall be kept in the books of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

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CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all of the territory embraced within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at J. R. Dees plantation, where he now resides, at a point where his line touches the Davis Mine Road, near Hudsons School-House, and running said Dees line to and including the lands of B. F. Houstons old home place, thence to and including the Wm. Hudson old home place, thence to and including L. G. Howies home place, where he now resides, thence to and including R. H. Howies home place, thence to and including Wm. Fowlers home place, thence the Molly Branch to the Potter Road, thence a straight line to and including R. A. Hudsons plantation where Wm. Helms now lives, thence up Twelve Mile Creek to the first line of J. M. Prices land and including said Prices land, thence to and including D. W. Reids home place to a point where said Reid's land adjoins J. D. Davis land, thence his southern and western lines to and including A. J. Prices late home place, thence a straight line to the Biggers Mill Road where it crosses the Ridge Road, thence a straight line to and including J. R. Dees home place to the beginning, constitutes a ublic school district for the whites and colored, to be known as Wesley Chapel School District, Union County.

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CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That it shall be the duty of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction to require of the School Committee, in enumerating the number of school children, to make a statement in the report of the number of deaf, dumb and blind between the ages of six and twenty-one years, designating the race and sex, and the address of the parent or guardian of said children; and the County Superintendents of Public Instruction are hereby required to furnish such information to the principals of the deaf, dumb and blind institutions, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in preparing blanks, as directed in I'he Code, sec. 3370, shall include questions, answers to which will furnish the information as aforesaid.

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CHAPTER 340 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS {N PLYMOUTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Sheriff shall pay over to the Treasurer of the town of Plymouth all moneys collected under said act, who shall keep a separate book and account of same and shall pay the same out for the purposes of the said schools on the order of the Chairman of Board of Trustees, who shall be appointed by the Board, and the said Treasurer shall enter into bond before receiving the said money, and at the end of each term shall render a full report to said Board. That the Chairman of said Board shall preside at the meeting of the Board and shall have a casting vote in case of a tie. The said Board shall elect a principal for said schools and as many teachers as shall be necessary and fix the salaries of the same, and the principal of the white school shall be required to examine also the condition of the colored school from time to time and report the same to the Board and make such recommendations as he may think needful. He shall be required to report on the condition of his said school to the Board of Trustees, a copy of which shall be annually certified to the Board of Education of the State as the Board may deem just and necessary. Any teacher or principal may, for inefficiency of service, be removed by the Board. The said Board shall be a body corporate under the name of The Board of Trustees of Plymouth Graded School, and entitled to sue and be sued in law or in equity, and shall, by the consent of the Board of Aldermen of the town of Plymouth and by assignment from them, succeed to any and all rights in law or equity that said Board of Aldermen may possess for the purpose of obtaining and having possession of any building for the purpose of said school, and any action that may be commenced by them for this purpose shall be brought in any county in the First Judicial District of this State as the said Board may elect and shall stand for trial on the docket of said Court at the return term of the summons, provided the same has been served thirty days before the call of said case for trial, and shall take precedence of all civil causes at said term. The said Board of Trustees shall consist of seven, who shall be in favor of public education, to be elected by the said Board of Aldermen on ist Monday in June, 1908, two for six years, two for four years and three for one year. They shall be called together by the Chairman as often as the necessities of the said schools shall demand, and shall serve without compensation. They may require the Sheriff to collect and pay over as much as one-fourth of the said taxes within thirty days from the time the books shall come to his hands. They and their successors may have and use a corporate seal, and shall have power to own and hold real and personal property, sell and convey the same and receive grants and donations and to prosecute and defend actions and pay the expenses of the same from the fund accruing to said schools in the hands of the Treasurer. It shall be their duty to establish schools for each race separately and apart (provided the levy herein authorized shall be sustained by: a majority vote at the election aforesaid) on or before the first Monday in October, 1903, or ag soon after any election herein authorized as practicable, and shall apply the said funds to the support of the said schools relatively in such manner as may be just to each race, due regard being had to the cost of supporting each in a practical and efficient manner.

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CHAPTER 384 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory in Chowan County and in the town of Edenton embraced within the following boundaries is hereby constituted a Public School District for white and colored children to be known as the Edenton Graded School District: Beginning on the Albemarle Sound at the run of a swamp (the .line between Cherrys Point tract of land and the Belvedre farm belonging to Mrs. Annie W. Pruden) thence running northeastwardly with the swamp and branch, its various courses to the sound side road, thence northwardly with that road to the Yeopim road, thence with that road towards the town of Edenton to the nearest gate of the Perkins farm owned by Mrs. Minnie S. Speight, thence northwardly with the path through the Perkins farm (embracing both the old Perkins residence and the present residence of said Speight) to the field gate on Hertford road, thence southwardly with that road to Church street, the eastern limits of the town of Edenton, thence westwardly with Church street to Okum street, thence northwardly with Okum street 200 feet, thence westwardly parallel with Church street to a point 150 feet east of Main street, thence northwardly parallel with Main street to Carteret street, thence eastwardly with Carteret street to a point 500 feet from Main street, thence northwardly parallel with Main street 200 feet, thence westwardly parallei with Carteret street to a point 100 feet east of Main street, thence northwardly parallel with Main street to Freemason street, thence westwardly with Freemason street to a point 150 feet west of Main street, thence southwardly parallel with Main to a point 200 feet north of Church street, thence westwardly parallel with Church street to Mosely street, thence northwardly with Mosely to the right of way of Norfolk and Southern Railroad, thence with the southern side of the right of way of said railroad to the northern limits of the town of Edenton, thence eastwardly with the northern line of the said town to Okum street, thence eastwardly with the northern line of the said town to Okum street, thence northwardly with that street extended, to M. Makelys line, thence eastwardly with M. Makelys line to the spur of Norfolk and Southern Railroad leading to the Edenton Cotton Mills, thence northwardly with that spur to J. S. Privotts line, thence eastwardly with said Privotts line to the Hertford road, thence with Hertford road to the southern line of Allen and Henry Powells, Wynn-Coke farm, thence eastwardly with line of that farm of its back line, thence northwardly following back lines of said Powell, Wynn-Coke farm, Dr. Hoskins farm, Elihu Lanes farm and the Turner Elmwood tract to the first branch, thence westwardly with branch to Hertford road, thence southwardly with that road to lane leading to J. S. Privotts residence, thence with that lane around said Privotts residence to western line of his barn lot, thence following lane through his field out through the brick yard to the main road, thence with that read across the Norfolk and Southern Railroad to the back line of J. W. Spruills Dillard track, thence westwardly with back lines of said lines of said Spruills Dillard track, I. L. Moore farm and Griffin and Twines Dillard farm to the Skinner quarter path, thence southwardly with that path to Virginia road, thence westwardly with that road to the western line of Mrs. Fannie R. Warren, thence following western line of her farm to western limit of the town, thence eastwardly in straight line to Granville street, extended, thence southwardly with Granville street to the northern side of the right-of-way of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad, thence with that railroad to a point opposite Church street, thence eastwardly across the said railroad and with Church street to Mosely street, thence southwardly with that street to Queen street, thence westwardly with that street to N. and T. R. R. track, thence southwardly with that R. R. to Magnolia street, thence westwardly with that street extended across the Albania track to Machamacomic Creek, thence westwardly with that creek to its mouth, thence eastwardly a straight course to the nearest line of Cherrys Point track, thence the Sound shore to beginning.

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CHAPTER 556 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Mooresville, Iredell County, and all that portion of Iredell County contiguous thereto embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the Davidson Township line near John Honeycutts, thence to John Honeycutts house; thence to the public road two hundred yards north of Bb. W. Brawleys tenanthouse, where J. P. Howell now lives; thence to Barringer Township line at David Oliphants; thence with boundary line of District Number Three, known as Oak Grove District; thence with Linwood District Number Five, to the line of Hickory Hill District; thence with Hickory Hill District Number Four to Mount Mourne District Number One, Davidson Township; thence with said line to Davidson Township line; thence with said line to the beginning shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Mooresville Graded School District.

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CHAPTER 515 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE : INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is hereby annually appropriated for the support and maintenance of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race at Greensboro. And the further sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the purposes of building a dormitory and making the necessary sewerage connections, of which sum three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be available in the year one thousand nine hundred and five and. three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be available in the year one thousand nine hundred and six. And all other appropriations heretofore made are hereby revoked.

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CHAPTER 460 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF A. P. BORDERS, SCHOOL- ' TEACHER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Treasurer of Gaston County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay A. P. Borders, colored, in settlement for teaching school one month in District Number Three for the colored race in Cherryville Township in said county in the year one thousand nine hundred and three the sum of twenty-five dollars out of any moneys which may now be in the hands of said treasurer or which may hereafter come into his hands, belonging to the Public School District Number Three for the colored race in Cherryville Township in said county.

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CHAPTER 237 a AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SYSTEM FOR THE KEEPING UP, MAKING, BUILDING AND REPAIRING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES IN PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The said township board shall keep a list of all male persons residing in their respective townships between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years of age, and they shall revise said list at each of their regular meetings held on the last Saturdays of April, July, October and January in each year, and shall transmit to the clerk of the county board a copy of the revised list, to be returned to the first meeting of the county board to be held thereafter. The revised list shall show the names of all who have died, removed, moved into, or become of age since the return of the last list. The list shall also specify the race or color of each person, as white or black. The clerk of the township board shall for this service receive one-half cent for each name the list contains, to be paid out of the road tax fund herejnafter created, upon a proper voucher of the county board of road supervisors.

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CHAPTER 124 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of trustees of the said graded school shall have power to secure, by purchase, rent or otherwise, from the stockholders of the Fremont High School Company the high school property, and to secure from the county board of education such reasonable assistance as may be needed to enlarge the school buildings of the graded schools.

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CHAPTER 124 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory embraced within the following bounds, including the town of Fremont, to-wit: Beginning on Nahunta swamp at the mouth of Mill branch in the line between J. W. Aycock and the heirs of Jesse Aycock and running thence up said branch north, or nearly north, to the road near W. G. Peacocks; thence with said road nearly northwest to Applewhite branch where it crosses the road at Jack Flowers; thence down said branch to Aycocks swamp; thence down said swamp to the eastern line of BH. G. Pippins farm; thence north, or nearly north, with the said Pippins line to John Moores line; thence with said Moores eastern line to Bass swamp; thence down said swamp to the western boundary line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company; thence south with said boundary line to the line between J. C. Hooks and A. J. Edmundson; thence west, or nearly west, to Burnt swamp; thence up Burnt swamp to a ditch, the line between J. G. Hooks and John Floars; thence with said ditch to the road near Richard Wards; thence south, or nearly south, to the head of Copelands branch, thence down said branch to Nahunta swamp; thence down said 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.

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CHAPTER 109 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT PINNACLE, STOKES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said board of graded school trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the. name and style of The Board of Trustees of Pinnacle Graded School, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire by gifts, purchase or devise real and personal property, hold, exchange or sell the same, and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations.

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CHAPTER 765 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF TRUSTEES OF KINSTON GRADED SCHOOLS, AND FOR THE APPROPRIA- TION OF FINES, PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES IN SAID TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Board of Trustees of Kinston Graded Schools be and are hereby authorized and fully empowered to sell and convey in fee-simple to the purchaser or purchasers the lands and premises on Lenoir street, in said town of Kinston, adjoining the lands of J. W. Grainger and others, now occupied and used by the graded schools of said town for white children; and also to sell and convey in fee-simple to the purchasers the Jands and premises now occupied by the public graded schools for colored children, situate corner: of McLeweane and Shine streets, in said town of Kinston; and that the purchase money and proceeds of the lands and premises referred to in this section be paid to the Treasurer of said town, to be expended and disbursed under the direction of the Board of Trustees of Kinston Graded Schools for maintaining the public graded schools of said town, or for the erection or equipment of the public graded school building now in process of erection under the direction of said board of trustees on Peyton avenue, in said town of Kinston.

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CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school laws for the white and colored children of said Mt. Prospect School District shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the graded school provided for in this act, under the orders and direction of said board of trustees.

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CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That H. L. Yarbrough, R. P. Plyler, W. L. Preslar, P. W. Plyler, A. L. Helms, S. A. Lathan and P. V. Richardson are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the public graded school of Mt. Prospect School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a body corporate under the name of trustees for the public schools of Mt. Prospect School District, Union 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, make all by-laws and regulations necessary or expedient, as deemed by them for the purpose of their incorporation, purchase, sell and convey, lease, let and control all school property in said district, 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 schools and regulate their salaries, to elect one of their own number chairman and another secretary, and do and perform all acts proper and necessary for the best advantages of said schools.

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CHAPTER 382 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN CROSS CREEK TOWNSHIP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, AND TO ISSUE BONDS AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORT OF SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Cross Creek Township, in the county of Cumberland, shall be and in hereby constituted a public school district for both white and colored schools, to be known as Cross Creek Graded School District. :

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CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Board of Commissioners of Union County are authorized and required to order an election to be held in the said Mt. Prospect School District for the whites and colored of Union County, on the first Monday in May next, and at said election to submit to the qualified voters of said district the question of levying an annual special tax on the property and polls of white and colored persons in said district for the purpose of supporting and maintaining public schools for the whites and colored children in said school district.

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CHAPTER 457 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF CLINTON, SAMPSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or secured 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. ;

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CHAPTER 457 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF CLINTON, SAMPSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Board of Commissioners of Sampson County are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said school district within three months after the ratification of this act, under such rules and regulations as they prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of graded public schools for white and colored in said district; each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot without device the words For Schools, if in favor of levying said tax, and those who are opposed to levying said tax shall vote on written or printed ballot without device the words Against Schools. 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 Commissioners shall give at least thirty days notice of the time of holding said election in the newspaper published in said school district.

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CHAPTER 451 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN THE TOWN OF SCOTLAND NECK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Scotland Neck shall be and is hereby constituted the public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Scotland Neck Graded School District.

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CHAPTER 441 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF TROY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of the Board of Graded School Trustees of Troy, 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 estate and personal property, hold, exchange, mortgage or sell the same and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations. And said corporation shall have a corporate seal which it may break and exchange at pleasure.

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CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 4, LAWS OF 1901, RELATING TO THE SCHOOL LAW, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 4 of the Public Laws of 1901, being an act to re- vise and consolidate the Public School Law, is hereby amended as follows:

Amend section 70 by striking out in lines 5 and 6, after the word Examiners, the words shall have the entire management and control of the Colored Normal Schools of the State, and inserting after the word for, in line 7, in lieu of the words the same, the words the Colored Normal Schools.

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CHAPTER 407 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL IN CASWELL COUNTY, TO BE KNOWN AS PELHAM GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said Trustees shall have the power to employ all teachers and select all officers necessary for said graded school and to fix their compensation. They shall have the right and power to buy, sell, or hold real and personal property that may be necessary for the use of said school; and they shall have the right and power to do all things necessary for the successful conduct of said school. The Trustees shall have the power upon such terms as they may deem just to allow children outside of said territory to attend said school.

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CHAPTER 405 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH RAEFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR A WHITE RACE, INCLUDING PORTIONS OF CUMBER- LAND AND ROBESON COUNTIES. WHEREAS, the town of Raeford, in which Raeford Institute is located, includes portions of Cumberland and Robeson counties; and, WHEREAS, the patrons of said Institute in both of said counties are desirous of receiving at Raeford Institute the benefit of the | public school fund to which they are entitled; THEREFORE, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

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, known as the Raeford School District, to-wit: Beginning at the point on Big Rockfish Creek where the line between Cumberland and Robeson counties, going westwardly, leave said creek and runs thence a direct line to the east corner of H. McC. Curries land in Robeson County; thence with the line of his land in a southerly direction to the Nelson road; thence with the Nelson road westwardly to the line of John Chisholms land; thence with his line in a southerly direction to line of John W. Chisholms land; thence with J. W. Chisholms line westwardly to the line of J. H. Tysons land; thence with his line and including all of the land of said Chisholm and Tyson to the Nelson road; thence with Nelson road to Tonys Creek; thence up the various courses of Tonys Creek to the Cumberland County line; thence with said line due west to Beaver dam Creek; thence up the various courses of said Beaver Dam Creek to its source; thence a direct line to the head of McKenzie Mill Creek; thence down the various courses of said creek to Big Rockfish Creek; thence a direct line to the head of Beaver Creek near the western plank road; thence down the various courses of said creek to the east boundary of Gilbert McDuffies land; thence a direct line to the east boundary of Jno, Blacks land; thence a direct line to the east, Blacks land, including the same to Big Rockfish Creek; thence up the various courses of said creek to the beginning.

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CHAPTER 403 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SPRING HOPE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Sping Hope, and all that territory not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning in Bear Branch on Nashville Road; thence down said branch to Sapony Creek; thence down said creek to N. E. corner of J. W. Floyds home tract of land; thence southward with Floyds line to old Spring Hope Road; thence southwesterly a straight line to a point in the road in front of W. H. Abernathys residence; thence southward along said road to Abe Allens line; thence westward along said Allens and Abernathys line to Tar River; thence up Tar River to Turkey Creek, above Webbs bridge; thence up said Turkey Creek to mouth of Christmans Still Branch; thence a straight line to a point in Louisburg Road at which Whitnell Hopkins and Thomas Woods line crosses said road; therice with said Hopkins line to his N. E. corner; thence a straight line to beginning, shall be and are hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Spring Hope Graded School District.

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CHAPTER 402 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITU- TIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is annually appropriated to the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race at Greensboro; and all other appropriations heretofore made are hereby revoked.

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CHAPTER 384 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Board of Councilmen of the town of Edenton are hereby required to submit to the qualified voters of the said Public School District for the white and colored races on the first Monday in May, 1908, at an election to be held for said School District in the town of Edenton, N. C., the question whether an annual tax shall be levied for the support of the Graded School in said School District.

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CHAPTER 718 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the special taxes so levied and collected, and all other funds which may be paid over to the trustees of said graded school or to the Treasurer of said town for educational purposes, shall be expended only on the warrant of the said board of trustees in the erection of graded school buildings, and in the conduct and operation of graded schools for the education of the children in said town between the ages of six and twenty-one years.

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CHAPTER 556 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said board of graded school trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School Trustees of Mooresville, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and Pub. 36 be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, by gift, purchase or devise, real and personal property, hold, exchange, mortgage or sell the same and exercise such other rights and privileges as are incident to other corporations, and may have a corporate seal.

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CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent of Schools in each county, on or before the first Monday in July 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 of public schools taught in the county during the year for each race; the number of children of school age in each school district; the number enrolled in each district; the average daily attendance in each district by race and sex and the number of all persons in the county between the ages of twelve and twenty-one who can not read and write. He shall also report by race and sex the number of pupils of each race enrolled in all the schools, their average attendance; the average length of terms of said schools, and the average salary, respectively, for the teachers of each race; the number of school districts for each race, and any new school districts laid out during the year shall be specified in his report. He shall also report the number of public school-houses and the value of public school property for each race; the number of Teachers Institutes held; the number of teachers attending such institutes, together wtih such suggestions as may occur to him promotive of the school interest of the county. The County Superintendent of the Schools shall record in his book an accurate copy of his report to the State Superintendent of Punlic Instruction. If any County Superintendent of Schools fails or refuses to perform any of the duties required of him by this act he shall be subject to removal from his office by the County Board of Education upon the complaint of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

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CHAPTER 561 An act to incorporate the Slater Industrial and State Normal School of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. WHEREAS, it appears to the general assembly that under and by virtue of articles of incorporation, signed by 8 G. Atkins and others, filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Forsyth county, North Carolina, on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and on the same day said persons, their associates and successors, were de- elared by the clerk duly incorporated in pursuance of law, as eontained in chapter sixteen of The Code, under the name of the Slater Industrial Academy, and that said institution is possessed of vaiuable Jands, dormitories, shops and a large and commodi- ous building thereon, situated near the corporate limits of Win- ston Salem, North Carolina, and that the same has been provided and equipped for industrial and normal training of students and teachers of both sexes for the colored race; and WHEREAS, by different acts of the general assembly of North Carolina the same has been recognized, established and supported as one of the state normal schools for the colored race; and 5 WHEREAS, it appears that a more perfect and comprehensive plan of incorporation is required to provide for the proper growth and government of the same; therefore be it enacted and The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the purposes of said Slater Industrial and State Normal School shall be as follows: For the instruction of youth ef the colored race in the various common school, academic and eollegiate branches, the best methods of teaching the same and 48 the best mode of practical industry in its application to agrioultural and mechanic arts; and for the carrying out of these purposes the said trustees may establish any departments or schools in the said institution and issue any scholarships, certificates and diplomas and confer any degrees of merii and honor which they may determine upon, and to these ends cooperate with other institutions of like character.

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CHAPTER 112 An act to establish a system of graded schools in Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the following named persons, Harrison Wortham, L. D. Mayo, Joseph H. Satterwhite, Julius Speed and M. M. Peace and their successors in office be and the same are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the colored children belonging to said township. ; That said board of trustees shall be a body politic, and shall be known as The Board of Trustees for the graded school for the colored children, Henderson, North Carolina, and by that name may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded within any court of the State. Are hereby empowered to purchase property, to sell such school property as may seem wise to a majority of said board ; may receive sites for school purposes by gifts or donations ; May accept any gifts fortheschool ; shall have power to employ teachers, and to fix their pay; to fill vacancies in said Board, and to do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children in said township.

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CHAPTER 112 An act to establish a system of graded schools in Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the following named persons: Robert Bunn, Alex. T. Barnes, James Kelly, Lee Howard and W. H. Jenkins, and their successors in office, shall constitute a board of trustees for the graded school for the white children. The said board of trustees shall be a body politic, and shall be known as The Board of Trustees of the graded school for the white children, Henderson, North Carolina, and by that name may sue and be sued, may buy and sell school property, may accept gifts, donations and any money or other valuables for the school, and shall have full power to employ teachers, and to fix their pay, and may use for the first two years not more than one-third of the funds of said school in buying lands, buildings and repairing such school houses, as may be necessary in the judgment of the Board of Trustees, for the carrying on said school: Provided, the same shall be first legally apportioned for the graded school for the white children.

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CHAPTER 108 An act to revise and improve the public school system of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The school committee of each district shall on the second Monday in January each year, meet at such a place in their district as the chairman may designate for the purpose of apportioning the school fund of their district to the various schools, white and colored, iu their districts in the manner hereinbefore provided for; and the other meetings of the committee for the purpose of selecting teachers for the schools in their district and for the transaction of such other business as pertains to their office shall be at such time and place as the chairman may designate.

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CHAPTER 48 An act relating to School District No. 30, for the white race in Nash county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the present school committee of district number thirty -80 for the white race in Nash county are hereby appointed school committee of the aforesaid district as constituted above to hold as such until the next regular appointment of school committees for the county.

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CHAPTER 23 An act to pay J. A. McRae money due by Randoiph county for teaching of District School No. 27 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Treasurer of Randolph county be and he is hereby authorized to pay to J. A. McRae seventeen dollars and fifty cents $17.50 out of the public school fund due District number Twenty-seven 27 for the colored race, as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said District during the school year ending 1896

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CHAPTER 429 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the school committee created under this act shall elect annually a superintendent of schools, established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded schools for the white children, if the same shall be established ; and the said superintendent 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 the date thereof, and do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said committee.

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CHAPTER 429 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That if the inspectors of said election shall certify that a majority of the votes cast are in favor of said tax the same shall be levied by the county commissioners and collected by the sheriff under the same rules and regulations under which other school taxes are levied and collected, and the sheriff shall be subject to the same liabilities for the collections and disbursement of said taxes as he is or-may be for other school taxes, and he shall receive as compensation for such service two per centum commission: Provided, that special taxes so levied and collected shall not exceed sixty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation of property and one dollar and eighty cents on the poll. That the school committee whose appointment is hereinafter provided for shall establish graded schools in said district for the white and for the colored children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and the school for each race herein provided for shall have the same length of school terms, and the tax levied and collected under the provisions of this act shall be applied exclusively for the establishment and maintenance of said schools, and shall not be appropriated or expended for any other purpose.

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CHAPTER 429 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of commissioners of Sampson county are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said school district within three months after the ratification of this act, under such rules and regulations as they prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of graded public schools for white and colored in said district ; each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot without device the words for school if in favor of levying said tax, and those who are opposed to levying said tax shall vote on written or printed ballot 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 commissioners shall give at least thirty days notice of the time of holding said election, in the newspaper published in said school district.

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CHAPTER 266 An act to provide for a graded school in the town of Hender- sonville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

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 Henderson county, 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 said colored district number three (8).

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CHAPTER 266 An act to provide for a graded school in the town of Hender- sonville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the present board of trustees of the Hendersonville Academy, and their successors, and the school committee of Hendersonville public school district number twenty-two (22), and their successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the white children: That said board shall have power to employ teachers, and to use, for the first two years, not exceeding one-third of the aggregate funds in repairing and equipping the Hendersonville Academy : Provided, the same shall first be legally appropriated for said graded school, and shall have power to do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children.

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CHAPTER 112 An act to establish a system of graded schools in Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Board of Trustees for the white school, and the Board of Trustees of the colored school, shall meet annually on the second Tuesday in August, when they shall receive applieations for teachers in said schools; which applications shall be accompanied by a certificate from the County Examiner, dated within the school year (July ist): Provided, that the Board must give twenty days notice of such meeting of such Board, in some public newspaper published in Vance county, if there be one, and if not, then by written or printed notices at the four voting precincts in said town, and one at the Court House door and in the Post Office.

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CHAPTER 225 * An act to establish the Warsaw. graded school. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of commissioners of Duplin county are hereby authorized and required to submit to the qualified voters of the following territory, lying in Warsaw township, Said county, viz.: beginning at Wilmington & Weldon Railroad trestle over Turkey swamp, and thence down Turkey swamp to a point where the Clinton and Warsaw public road crosses said Turkey swamp ; thence south with said road to the Duplin old court-house; thence with the Wilmington public road to the crossing on the Clinton & Warsaw Railroad; thence a straight line to the two-mile post on the public road leading from Warsaw to Henry Bests house; thence a straight line to 8 M. Carltons avenue ; thence the public road to Clarks ford on Stewarts creek, thence up Stewarts creek to the intersection of Johnsons Church branch; thence up said branch to the public road crossing near Johnsons old church site; thence a straight line to the Dolly Meare ford on the Grove swamp; thence up the lane between the lands of James A. Beyette and D. C. Middleton to the old gate on the Hinton Bayett place; thence a straight line to the intersection of the Faison and Keanonsville and Williams public roads; thence up said road north to R. J. Williams gate; thence up the Bowdens station road two miles from said gate, to a stake; thenee a straight line to the beginning,on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, 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 and colored children in said district. Each voter shall vote a printed or written ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations, and penalties as are now or may be prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly.

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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:

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 and for the colored children in said territory shall be paid to said treasurer, and by him applied under the orders and directions of said board of trustees.

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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:

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 county road to Sodens eastern line on said county road; thence to the east boundary of the Rocky Mount Improvement and Manufacturing Company and with the same to Tar river; and all that portion of Rocky Mount township, Nash county, lying on east side of Rocky Mount Mills railroad and including the settlement known as Little Raleigh, be and the same are hereby constituted one school digtrict for the children of both races.

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CHAPTER 526 An act to establish graded schools in Lexington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

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.

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CHAPTER 526 An act to establish graded schools in Lexington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

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.

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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:

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.

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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 :

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.