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1909_public laws_450_11

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CHAPTER 449 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) 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 four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars ($4,350) is hereby annually appropriated for the years one thousand nine hundred and nine and one thousand nine hundred and ten for repairs, improvements and sewerage of said institution.

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CHAPTER 449 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) is hereby annually appropriated for the support and maintenance of the State Hospital at Goldsboro for the colored race.

1909_public laws_396_23

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CHAPTER 395 AN ACT TO GRANT A NEW CHARTER TO THE CITY OF HIGH POINT, GUILFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, REPEALING ALL LAWS OR PARTS OF LAWS IN CON- FLICT HEREWITH The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Public Free Schools.tThe city of High Point shall constitute an independent public-school district, for both white and colored, to be known and designated as the High Point Gradedschool District, subject to the general laws of the State, except where in conflict with this act, and the city shall have authority to levy and collect taxes and appropriate funds for the support and maintenance of the public schools within its limits. School CommissionersThe commissioners to constitute the school board of said city, as constituted and established under the Public Laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, chapter three hundred and ninety-two, shall be appointed by the city council and shail have entire and exclusive control of the said school property, and shall employ and fix compensation of officers and teachers, and shall do all other acts that may be necessary, just ahd lawful for the successful management of the said graded schools: Provided, that the school commissioners now in office shall continue to serve till the expiration of their respective terms; and all vacancies caused by death, resignation or in any other manner shall be filled by appointment in the same manner for the unexpired term. The regular terms of members of the school board shall be three years, and the regular appointment of members shall be made at the first meeting of the council in June of each year or as soon thereafter as practicable, and the necessary number of school commissioners shall be appointed to take the places of those whose terms have expired. ae ae ee See pee 8 er ee How Funds are to be Paid Out.No school funds shall be paid out except upon pay rolls or warrants signed by the chairman of the school board. No member of the school board shall receive any compensation for his services in any capacity whatever nor be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with or claim or demand of any character against the school board of the city of High Point. Any such contract, claim or demand shall be void, and any member of said board who shall become interested in any such contract, claim or demand, or shall buy or sell any school warrants or obligations of said school board, shall be subject to removal by the city council. Financial Statement of School Board.It shall be the duty of the school board to make a financial statement to the mayor of the city, on or before first day of June of each year, giving a full and complete report of their operations for the previous year. The provisions of chapter three hundred and ninety-two of the Public Laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, as amended by chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and one, shall be considered a part of this act.

1909_public laws_338_2

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CHAPTER 337 AN ACT TO VALIDATE A CERTAIN SPECIAL SCHOOL-TAX ELECTION AND TO APPROPRIATE CERTAIN MONEYS TO THE SCHOOL FUND IN SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1, MADI- SON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That-a certain special school-tax election held in Marshall School District, Number One, Madison County, for the white race, on the twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, wherein a majority of the qualified voters of said school district voted for special tax, be and the same is hereby validated, ratified and confirmed in all respects, and is declared to be of full force and effect.

1907_public laws_857_2

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CHAPTER 856 AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS ; FOR THE COLORED RACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section four thousand one hundred and eightytwo of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five of North Carolina be and the same is hereby amended as follows: In line two thereof, after the words a board of and before the word directors, strike out the word five and insert the word six. In line eight, after the word education, strike out the words and in the State Board of Examiners. Add at the end of section four thousand one hundred And eighty-two the following: Two members of these boards of directors shall serve two years, and two six years; and they shall be appointed in May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and thereafter as vacancies occur by the expiration of the term of office of each, his successor shall be appointed by the State Board of Education for a term of six years, and vacancies occurring by resignation or death, or otherwise, of any member of said Board of Directors before the expiration of his term of office, shall be filled by the State Board of Education for the unexpired term. The Boards of Directors of each school shall elect one of their number chairman, one secretary and one treasurer. All accounts or bills must be approved by the chairman and secretary before being paid by the treasurer. The State Board of Education may elect a Superintendent of these colored normal schools and of the Croatan Normal School, and shall fix his salary; his duties shall beoutlined by the State Board of Education, and he shall perform such other duties in the educational department of the State as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may direct; his salary and expenses shall be paid out of the annual appropriations for the State normal schools for the colored race upon the requisition of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

1907_public laws_821_14

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CHAPTER 820 AN ACT TO STIMULATE HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE AND TEACHER TRAINING. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the object in establishing and maintaining said school shall be to give to young white men and women such education and training as shall fit and qualify them for teaching in the public schools of North Carolina. And the Board of Trustees hereinafter provided for in prescribing the course of study of said school shall lay special emphasis on those subjects taught in the public schools of the State, and in the art and science of teaching. And in no event shall they prescribe a curriculum beyond that which would fit and prepare astudent for unconditional entrance into the freshman class of the University of North Carolina.

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CHAPTER 820 AN ACT TO STIMULATE HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE AND TEACHER TRAINING. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That there shall be established and maintained at some suitable point in eastern North Carolina a teachers training school for the training of young white men and women under the corporate name of the East Carolina Teachers Training School.

1911_public laws_122_8

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CHAPTER 121 AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) is hereby appropriated annually for the support and maintenance of the State Hospital for the Colored Race, located at Goldsboro; and the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) is hereby appropriated annually for years one thousand nine hundred and eleven and one thousand nine hundred and twelve, for fire-escapes and other necessary improvements. :

1917_public laws_178_2

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CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND INSTITUTE CONDUCTORS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

There shall be and is hereby constituted a State] Board of Examiners and Institute Conductors, which shall consist of six membersthree men and three womenof recognized ability, character, professional training, and successful experience in teaching or in supervising schools, to be designated as Institute Conductors, who shall be appointed by the Governor of the State, . three for a term of two years, three for a term of four years, and | their successors for a term of four years. All vacancies occurring in the membership of said board by death or resignation or otherwise shall be filled in the same manner for the unexpired term. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be ex officio chairman of said board, and the State Supervisor of Teacher-Training and Superintendent of the State Normal Schools for the Colored Race and the Cherokee Indians shall be ex officio secretary. The salary of each institute conductor shall be fixed by the State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the executive committee of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly, at a sum not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per year exclusive of expenses. For immoral conduct, incompetency, failure to perform duty, or other good and sufficient cause, the State Board of Education may remove from office any member of said Board of Examiners and Institute Conductors, after due notice in writing to said member of the charges, who shall be given at least five days to appear and answer and offer evidence, and who shall have the right of appeal from the action of the State Board of Education to the courts of the State.

1917_public laws_178_9

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CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND INSTITUTE CONDUCTORS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Said Board of Examiners and Institute Conductors shall plan, direct, and the six members of the board designated herein as institute conductors shall conduct, biennially in each county in North Carolina a county teachers institute for not less than two weeks for the public school teachers of said county, at such time and place therein as may be designated by said board, having due regard .in fixing the time and place to the convenience of the teachers and the recommendations of the county board of education and county superintendent. All public school teachers of the State, rural and urban, including all public high school teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents, are hereby required to attend biennially some county institute continuously for two weeks or some summer school for teachers accredited by said board, continuously for one entire term of such summer schools, unless excused from attendance by said board for sickness evidenced by the certifigate of a physician, or for other cause adjudged by the board to be providential. Failure to attend such institute or accredited summer school, unless so excused, shall debar any person so failing from teaching or supervising in any public school, high school, urban or rural, until such person shall have attended some county institute or summer school as herein required; and said board is authorized to cancel the certificate of any person failing to comply with the provisions of this section. Said board shall provide for separate county institutes for the teachers of each race, and is further authorized to provide for joint county institutes for two or more counties for the teachers of either race, and to provide for holding the county institute of any county in which an accredited summer school is conducted in conjunction with said summer school. Said board is hereby authorized to employ competent negro teachers to assist in conducting the county institutes for negro teachers and to fix their compensation, which shall be paid out of the funds provided in this act. That the schedule of institutes shall be arranged annually so as not to interrupt the regular session of the public schools, rural or urban, in any county, except with the consent of the county board of education, or the trustees of urban schools operated under special charters.

1919_public laws_103_7

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CHAPTER 102 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SIX MONTHS SCHOOL TERM IN EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE STATH IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 3, ARTICLE 9, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

On or before the first Monday in May of each year the county board of education shall submit an itemized county school budget to the county commissioners, setting forth the amount of money heeded to maintain the public schools of the county six: months for the succeeding school year. Said budget shall also set forth the number of teachers (white and colored) employed in xach district and the sulary fixed for each teacher, and such other information as may be required by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the blanks to be furnished by him to each county board of education. Said budget shall be sworn to and subscribed by the chairman of the county board of education and the county superintendent of schools. A copy thereof shall also be filed in the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. It shall then be the duty of the board of county commissioners, after deducting the amount to be received from the State Public School Fund, to levy annually a special tax on all property, real and personal, and on all taxable polls, subject to the constitutional limitation of the poll tax, in said county, sufficient to supply the deficiency shown by said budget to be needed for the support and maintenance of the public schools of said county for six months in each school district. The said tax shall be annually levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other county taxes are levied and collected. and the funds derived therefrom, together with other school funds in their hands, shall be apportioned and expended by the county board of education for maintaining one or more public schools in each school district for a term of six months in each year: Provided, that no county shall be compelled to levy a special county tax of more than thirty-five cents on every one hundred dollars valuation of property, real and personal, and a corresponding tax on every taxable poll for said purpose, except as provided in section seven of this act: and after every county shall have levied and collected the special county tax to the limit stated above, if the funds derived therefrom may be insufficient therefor, said county shall receive from the State Public School Fund an apportionment sufficient to bring the school term in every school district to six months.

1913 extra_private laws_107_2

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CHAPTER 106 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS BY THE TABOR SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 11, FOR THE WHITE AND COLORED RACES OF COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of commissioners of Columbus County, upon a written application of a majority of the board of trustees of the Tabor Supplemental School District, Number Eleven, for the white and colored races, hereinafter called the Tabor District, is authorized and directed to submit, on the first Tuesday in January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, to the qualified voters of said Tabor District, under such rules and regulations as now exist or may be hereafter established for the election of members of the General Assembly, the question of issuing bonds for the erection of a suitable school building in said district, to take the place of the present building, which is inadequate for present needs, and at such election each voter shall be entitled to vote a written or printed ballot with the words For Building Bonds or Against Building Bonds thereon.

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CHAPTER 29 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 2 OF PRIVATE LAWS OF 1911, RELATIVE TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF GREENSBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the said library for the colored race shall have a separate board of managers, to be appointed in the manner hereinbefore provided.

1921 extra_public laws_71_2

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CHAPTER 70 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF STATE TO APPLY THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO A REFORMATORY FOR THE NEGRO RACE TO THE COLORED OXFORD ORPHANAGE AT OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA. Whereas the General Assembly of North Carolina at the regular session of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars annually for the support and maintenance of the Colored Reformatory or the Colored Industrial and Training School; and, Whereas the General Assembly has also appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the erection of a building for such reformatory or training school, the location of the same to be decided upon; and, Whereas the location of the said reformatory has not been decided upon and the said reformatory has not been constructed and cannot be constructed for some time; and, Whereas the Oxford Colored Orphanage at Oxford, North Caro- lina, is now taking care of certain negro boys and girls who can- not properly be disposed of by the court under present conditions : Therefore, eS ee ee The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the Governor and Council of State be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to apply such amount of the sum appropriated for the support and maintenance of the Colored Reformatory or the Colored Industrial and Training School to the Oxford Colored Orphanage, at Oxford, North Carolina, as the Governor and Council of State may deem wise and advisable.

1941_public laws_324_3

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CHAPTER 323 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN NORMAL SCHOOL OF ROBESON COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Section three of Chapter two hundred and seventy-six of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out in line four of said section the word principal and inserting in lieu thereof the word president; and that said section be further amended by striking out in line five the words Cherokee Indian State Normal School and inserting in lieu thereof the words, Pembroke State College for Indians.

1941_public laws_242_2

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CHAPTER 241 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE, AS AMENDED, AND CHAPTER THREE HUNDRED AND SIX OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE, AS AMENDED, TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES - OF THE MORRISON TRAINING SCHOOL FROM EIGHT TO TEN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Chapter one hundred and ninety of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, as amended by Chapter three hundred and six of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and Chapter three hundred and six of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, as amended by Chapter sixty-three of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, insofar as they relate to the Morrison Training School, be further amended by increasing the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Morrison Training School from eight to ten.

1941_public laws_108_16

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CHAPTER 107 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MAIN- TENANCE OF THE STATES DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: GENERAL FUND

The appropriations made to the Oxford Colored Orphanage under Title V-sixteen, Section one, of this Act shall be available only if and when the expenditure shall be recommended by the trustees of the institution appointed by the Governor of the State, and the expenditures shall be under the supervision of said trustees.

1939_public laws_311_54

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CHAPTER 310 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LISTING AND VALUING OF ALL PROPERTY, REAL, PERSONAL AND MIXED, AT ITS TRUE VALUE IN MONEY, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE TAXATION THEREOF BY COUNTIES, MUNI- CIPALITIES AND OTHER LOCAL TAXING AUTHORI- TIES UPON A UNIFORM AD VALOREM BASIS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS

Making up the tax records. The list takers for their respective townships, or such other persons as the commissioners may designate, shall make out, on forms approved by the State Board of Assessment, tax records which may consist of a scroll designed primarily to show tax valuations and a tax book designed primarily to show the amount of taxes or may consist of one record designated to show both valuations and taxes. Such records for each township shall be divided into four parts: -1 White individual taxpayers (including lists filed by corporate fiduciaries for white individual beneficiaries) ; -2 colored individual taxpayers (including lists filed by corporate fiduciaries for colored individual beneficiaries) ; -3 Indian individual taxpayers (including lists filed by corporate fiduciaries for Indian individual beneficiaries); and -4 corporations, partnerships, business firms and unincorporated associations. Such records shall show at least the following information: (a) The name of each person whose property is listed and assessed for taxation, entered in alphabetical order. (b) The amount of valuation of real property assessed for county-wide purposes (divided into as many classes as the State Board may prescribe). (c) The amount of valuation of personal property assessed for county-wide purposes (divided into as many classes as the State Board may prescribe). (d) The total amount of real and personal property valuation assessed for county-wide purposes. (e) The amount of ad valorem tax due by each taxpayer for county-wide purposes. (f) The amount of poll tax due by each taxpayer. (zg) The amount of dog tax due by each taxpayer. (h) The amount of valuation of property assessed in any special district or subdivision of the county for taxation. (i) The amount of tax due by each taxpayer to any special district or subdivision of the county. (j) The total amount of tax due by the taxpayer to the county and to any special district, subdivision or subdivisions of the county. All changes in valuations affected between the close of the listing period and the meeting of the Board of Equalization and Review shall be reflected on such records, and so much of such records as may have been prepared shall be submitted to the board at its meetings. Changes made by said board shall also be reflected upon such records, either by correction, rebate or additional charge.

1939_public laws_148_2

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CHAPTER 147 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED NINETEEN BY STRIKING OUT SECTION THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN AND INSERTING IN LIEU THEREOF A NEW SECTION RELATIVE TO THE SEPAR- ATE ACCOMMODATION OF WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS UPON STREET CARS AND OTHER PAS- SENGER VEHICLES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Amend Volume one of the North Carolina Consolidated Statutes of one thousand nine hundred nineteen by striking out all of Section three thousand five hundred thirty-seven, and by inserting in lieu thereof a new section to read as follows: 3537. Passengers to Take Certain Seats: Violation of Requirement Misdemeanor.Any white person entering a street car or other passenger vehicle or motor bus for the purpose of becoming a passenger therein shall, in order to carry out the purposes of the preceding section, occupy the first vacant seat or unoccupied space nearest the front thereof, and any colored person entering a street car or other passenger vehicle or motor bus for a like purpose shall occupy the first vacant seat or unoccupied space nearest the rear end thereof, provided, however, that no contiguous seat on the same bench shall be occupied by white and colored passengers at the same time, unless and until all the other seats in the car have been occupied. Upon request of the person in charge of the street car or other passenger vehicle or motor bus, and when necessary in order to carry out the purpose of providing separate seats for white and colored passengers, it shall be the duty of any white person to move to any unoccupied seat toward or in the front of the car, vehicle or bus, and the duty of any colored person to move to any unoccupied seat toward or in the rear thereof, and the failure of any such person to so move shall constitute prima facie evidence of an intent to violate this section. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. Any such person may also be ejected from the car, vehicle or bus by the person charged with the operation thereof. Each person now or hereafter charged with the operation of any such street car, passenger vehicle or motor bus is hereby invested with police powers and authority to carry out the provisions of this section.

1939_public laws_66_3

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CHAPTER 65 AN ACT TO PROVIDE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL COURSES FOR THE NEGROES OF NORTH CAROLINA. WHEREAS, the number of negroes in North Carolina who de- sire graduate and professional courses is increasing; and WHEREAS, it is the duty of the State of North Carolina to provide for such needs: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The Board of Trustees of the North Carolina College for Negroes is authorized and empowered to establish Departments of Law, Pharmacy and Library Science at the above-named institution whenever there are applicants desirous of such courses. That said Board of Trustees of the North Carolina College for Negroes may add other professional courses from time to time as the need for the same is shown, and the funds of the State will justify. And the Board of Trustees of the Negro Agricultural and Technical College at Greensboro may add graduate and professional courses in agricultural and technical lines as the need for same is shown and the funds of the State will justify, and to establish suitable departments therein.

1938 extra_public laws_2_8

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CHAPTER 1 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND NOTES OF THE STATE FOR PERMANENT IMPROVE- MENTS OF STATE INSTITUTIONS, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES AND CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The proceeds of such bonds and bond anticipation notes shall be disbursed as herein provided, in the following amounts and for the following purposes: For the permanent improvement, enlargement and equipment of the following institutions, departments and agencies and buildings of the State, and acquiring sites therefor: EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill $ 234,850 For the following specific purposes: Renovation of and addition to old Medical Building $ 182,000 Equipment old Medical Building 20,000 Equipment new Medical Building ... 75,000 Renovation of Alumni Building 100,000 Renovation of Bynum Building 25,000 ~~~" Renovation of Gerrard Building Total Purposes . Less: P. W. A. grant 25,000 427,000 192,150 NorTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND ENGINEERING OF THE UNIVERSITY or NortH CAROLINA, Raleigh For the following specific purposes: Animal husbandry building, dairy plant and laboratories Equipment for Chemistry Building . Textile Building 250,000 Less: Appropriation available under Chapter 296 of 1937 45,000 Equipment for Textile Building and reinstallation of present textile equipment Renovation of old Textile Building for Vocational Shop work Vocational Shop equipment Total Purposes . Less: P. W. A. grant WoMANs COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY oF NorTH CAROLINA, Greensboro For the following specific purposes: General Science Building General! Science equipment Renovation of McIver Building for general classroom purposes General classroom equipment for McIver Building Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant East CAROLINA TEACHERS COLLEGE, Greenville For the following specific purposes: General classroom building General classroom equipment Garage Additions to Laundry Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant 50,000 30,000 205,000 45,000 50,000 6,000 386,000 173,700 270,000 30,000 20,000 5,000 325,000 146,250 $ 300,000 25,000 3,000 6,000 $ 334,000 150,300 N.C. State College of Agriculture and Engineering, Raleigh. $ 212,300 Woman's College of the University $178,760 of North Carolina, Greensboro. Eastern Carolina Teachers College, $ 183,700 Greenville. 2GRO AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL CoLLeGe, Greensboro For the following specific purposes: Vocational Trades building Vocational Trades equipment Auditorium Equipment for Auditorium Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant ESTERN CAROLINA TEACHERS COLLEGE, Cullowhee _.. For the following specific purposes: Completing Physical Education Building Physical education equipment Dormitory for men (capacity 160) Dormitory equipment . Student Union building Equipment for Student Union Remodeling old Training School building for general classroom use General classroom equipment Auditorium (capacity 900) Equipment for Auditorium Infirmary Equipment for Infirmary Extension of water system Renovation and enlarging heating plant Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant *PALACHIAN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, Boone For the following specific purposes: General Science building General Science equipment Equipment for boys dormitory Equipment for Administration Building Equipment for High School Equipment for Elementary School Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant i1EROKEE INDIAN NORMAL SCHOOL, Pembroke For the following specific purposes: 109,000 18,000 100,000 10,000 237,000 106,650 23,000 7,000 123,000 7,000 30,000 6,000 24,000 6,000 68,000 7,000 30,000 5,000 25,000 20,000 381,000 157,950 117,600 22,400 5,600 4,400 14,300 4,200 168,500 75,825 $ 130,350 $ 223,050 $ 92,675 $ 24,695 ~~~ General science equipment | Laundry Building Laundry equipment : Home Economics Building . Home economics equipment Gymnasium Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant ORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, Morganton For the following Jicities purposes: Coal storage and heating equipment Calf and horse barns Switchboard Electric lines Home Economics Building Repairs to Superintendents residence Completing basement Main Building Rebuilding school building ee by fire Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant CATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND THE Dear, Raleigh For the following specific purposes: Sewage filter plant (Colored department) Dairy Barn and well (Colored department) _. Dairy equipment (Colored department) Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant 10,000 15,000 5,000 45,000 20,000 230,000 103,500 11,750 86,400 36,755 21,000 31,000 4,000 56,000 25,200 $ 49,645 $ 30,800 CHARITABLE AND CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS raTE HospPItaL AT RALEIGH, Raleigh For the following specific purposes: Fireproofing East and South mer of main building . Fireproofing Center building . Replacing Erwin building Replacing epileptic building for men Replacing epileptic building for women Replacing Adams building 164,200 105,200 110,000 123,300 123,300 123,300 $ 704,275 Replacing part of infirmary _. 23,000 Replacing tubercular building for men... _ 46,000 Replacing tubercular building for women 46,000 Building for women _ 143,620 Equipment for building for women 3,000 Addition to criminal insane building 59,880 Equipment for criminal insane building . 1,800 Additions to nurses home 0 39,200 Equipment for nurses home 1,500 Building for attendants : 121,900 Equipment for attendants building 3,300 Storeroom and cold storage : 37,000 Remodeling present storeroom for sewing room . 5,000 Total Purposes 1,280,500 Less: P. W. A. grant 576,225 STATE HOSPITAL AT MORGANTON, Morganton $ 735,075 For the following specific purposes: Fireproofing center building 747,300 Fireproofing Harper building 143,380 Fireproofing ward no. 27 42,525 Fireproofing Scroggs building 40,200 Fireproofing dining room no. 2 23,900 Fireproofing Yates building 36,645 Fireproofing old laundry for patients use 57,525 Replacing tubercular ward for men and women 91,875 Building porches on patients buildings 35,000 Superintendents home 15,750 Laundry and equipment 77,900 Chlorinating equipment 2,500 Booster pump for water system 2,000 Elevated tank (capacity 250,000 gal) 20,000 Total Purposes 1,336,500 Less: P. W. A. grant 601,425 State HospPitaL AT GOLDSBORO, Goldsboro . $ 535,500 For the following specific purposes: Replacing main building . 264,000 Replacing buildings for female patients 80,000 Replacing buildings for male patients 220,900 Replacing buildings for epileptic patients. 220,900 Renovation power plant and steam lines 38,600 Superintendents residence 13,120 Staff house Six cottages for white employes uh Six cottages for negro employes . Laundry equipment Kitchen equipment Renovating water system Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant ASWELL TRAINING SCHOOL, Kinston For the following specific purposes: Renovating buildings Dairy barns Fertilizer house Gas storage house Silo Potato house Building and equipment for problem children Laundry equipment Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant ORTH CAROLINA ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL, Gastonia For the following specific purposes: Assembly hall and equipment Addition to dining room Cold storage improvements Equipment Improvements to heating plant Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant ORTH CAROLINA SANATORIUM, Sanatorium For the following specific purposes: Vocational training school building and equipment Renovation of basement white nurses home Renovation of basement colored nurses home Two cottages for employes Cottage for negro employes Air conditioning unit for operating room 59,750 27,055 12,000 9,450 2,625 17,500 965,900 430,400 48,000 25,000 1,000 700 1,000 3,500 15,000 4,000 98,200 42,390 25,000 3,500 3,700 11,500 5,050 48,750 16,760 10,000 6,800 3,000 6,000 1,000 $ 55,810 $ 31,990 $ 76,790 Building for negro patients 100,000 Equipment for negro building 10,000 Total Purposes 138,800 Less: P. W. A. grant 62,010 WESTERN NorTH CAROLINA SANATORIUM ee Black Mountain 7s For the following specific purposes: Five houses for colored employes 5,200 Extension to kitchen 6,000 Three houses for white employes 10,500 Furniture for administration building 1,200 Furniture for patients building 1,600 Air conditioning unit for operating room 1,000 Roads and landscaping 8,000 Total Purposes 33,500 Less: P. W. A. grant 9,765 STONEWALL JACKSON TRAINING SCHOOL, eee raining School, Concord $ 8,085 Concord. For the following specific purposes: Poultry houses 7 2,000 Brooder house 1,200 Remodeling laundry 2,500 Storage and work room 3,000 Canning shed and storage 3,000 Hay storage 3,000 Total Purposes 14,700 Less: P. W. A. grant 6,615 State HOME AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL State Home and For GIRLS, Eagle Springs $ 4,260 for Girls, Eagle For the following specific purposes: aa cor Roof replacement 1,130 Laundry equipment 2,755 Renovation of sewerage system 1,090 Telephone extension 280 Total Purposes 5,255 Less: P. W. A. grant 995 MORRISON TRAINING SCHOOL, Hoffman $ 5,885 Morrison Training 4 School, Hoff z For the following specific purposes: ~ oR Renovating McLean, Varser, Parsons, and Kate Burr Johnson buildings Less: P. W. A. grant ASTERN CAROLINA TRAINING SCHOOL, Rocky Mount For the following cern purposes: Roads _.... Maternity barn Sewage treatment system Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant .. TATE INDUSTRIAL FARM COLONY FOR WomeN, Kinston For the following specific purposes: Industrial building Equipment for industrial building Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant INFEDERATE WOMENS HOME, Fayetteville For the following specific purposes: Sprinkler system Less: P. W. A. grant 10,700 4,815 2,000 2,000 4,000 8,000 3,600 15,000 17,500 7,875 8,000 3,600 $ 4,400 $ 9,625 $ 4,400 PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER PURPOSES OARD OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS For the following specific purposes: Enlarging and renovating central heating plant for State office buildings Sprinkler system for Capitol Department of Justice building and land State office building on Caswell Square for Unemployment Compensation Commission Total Purposes Less: P. W. A. grant EPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENTDIVISION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES, Morehead City ... 122,505 15,000 692,000 200,000 1,029,505 384,795 $ 644,710 $ 8,260 For the following specific purposes: Purchase of two boats to patrol commercial fishing waters = 15,000 Less: P. W. A. grant . 6,750 NortH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION, Raleigh _. ; $ 27,500 For the following specific purposes: Equipment for housing and displaying historical documents and records 50,000 Less: P. W. A. grant 22,500

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CHAPTER 305 AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE STATE SCHOOL COMMISSION TO PROVIDE HIGH SCHOOL FACILITIES FOR OCRACOKE ISLAND, HYDE COUNTY. Whereas, there are one hundred and ninety children of school age on Ocracoke Island, Hyde County: and Whereas, one hundred and thirty-two of these are enrolled in the one school located on the islandone hundred and five in the elementary school and twenty-seven in the high school; and Whereas, Ocracoke Island is separated from the mainland by Pamlico Sound, making it impossible for the children on said island to attend school at any other point; and Whereas, there are not a sufficient number of children com- pleting the elementary grades to permit the establishment of a high school under the general school law: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the State School Commission be authorized, directed and empowered to provide high school teachers for the children of Ocracoke Island sufficient for standard high school instruction.

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CHAPTER 291 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LISTING AND VALUING OF ALL PROPERTY, REAL, PERSONAL AND MIXED, AT ITS TRUE VALUE IN MONEY, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE TAXATION THEREOF BY COUNTIES, MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER LOCAL TAXING AUTHORITIES UPON A UNIFORM AD VALOREM BASIS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS

Making up the Tar Records. The list takers for their respective townships, or such other persons as the commissioners may designate. shall make out, on forms approved by the State Board of Assessment, tax records which may consist of a scroll designed primarily to show tax valuations and a tax book designed primarily to show the amount of taxes or may consist of one record designated to show both valuations and taxes. Such records for each township shall be divided into four parts: -1 White individual taxpayers (including lists filed by corporate fiduciaries for white individual beneficiaries) ; -2 colored individual taxpayers (including lists filed by corporate fiduciaries for colored individual beneficiaries) ; -8 Indian individual taxpayers (including lists filed by corporate fiduciaries for Indian individual beneficiaries) ; and -4 corporations, partnerships, business firms and unincorporated associations. Such records shall show at least the following information: (a) The name of each person whose property is listed and assessed for taxation, entered in alphabetical order. (b) The amount of valuation of real property assessed for county-wide purposes (divided into as many classes as the State Board may prescribe). (c) The amount of valuation of personal property assessed for county-wide purposes (divided into as many classes as the State 3oard may prescribe). (d) The total amount of real and personal property valuation assessed for county-wide purposes. (e) The amount of ad valorem tax due by each taxpayer for county-wide purposes. (f) The amount of poll tax due by each taxpayer. () The amount of dog tax due by each taxpayer. (h) The amount of valuation of property assessed in any special district or sub-division of the county for taxation. (i) The amount of tax due by each taxpayer to any special district or sub-division of the county. (j) The total amount of tax due by the taxpayer to the county and to any special district, sub-division or sub-divisions of the county. All changes in valuations effected between the close of the listing period and the meeting of the Board of Equalization and Review shall be reflected on such records, and so much of such records as may have been prepared shall be submitted to the board at its meetings. Changes made by said board shall also be reflected upon such records, either by correction, rebate or additional charge.

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CHAPTER 455 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PUB- LIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE FOR THE TERM OF EIGHT MONTHS WITHOUT THE LEVY OF AN AD VALOREM TAX THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Principals Allowed. In all schools with fewer than fifty teachers allowed under the provisions of this act, the principal shall be included in the number of teachers allowed. In schools with fifty or more teachers, one whole-time principal shall be allowed; and for each forty teachers in addition to the first fifty, one additional whole-time principal, when and if actually employed, shall be allowed: Provided, that in the allocation of State funds for principals, the salary of white principals shall be determined by the number of white teachers employed in the white schools; and the salary of colored principals shall be determined by the number of colored teachers employed in the colored schools.

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CHAPTER 455 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PUB- LIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE FOR THE TERM OF EIGHT MONTHS WITHOUT THE LEVY OF AN AD VALOREM TAX THEREFOR. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Objects of Expenditure. The appropriation of State funds, as provided under the provisions of this act, shall be used for meeting the costs of the operation of the public schools, as determined by the State School Commission, for the following items: 1 General Control Salaries of superintendents Travel of superintendents Salaries of clerical assistants for superintendents Office expense of superintendents Per-diem county boards of education in the sum of one hundred dollars to each county f. Audit of school funds 2 Instructional Service a. Salaries for white teachers, both elementary and high school b. Salaries for colored teachers, both elementary and high school c. Salaries of white principals d. Salaries of colored principals e. Instructional supplies 8 Operation of Plant a. Wages of janitors b. Fuel c. Water, light and power d. Janitors supplies e. Telephone expense 4 Auxiliary Agencies a. Transportation -1 Drivers; and contracts -2 Gas, oil, and grease -3 Mechanics -4 Parts, tires, and tubes pag rp ) -5 Replacement busses -6 Compensation for injuries and/or death of school children as now provided by law b. Libraries In allotting funds for the items of expenditure hereinbefore enumerated, provision shall be made for a school term of only one hundred sixty days, and for those employees, only, who are paid wholly or in part from State funds, in accordance with the provisions of this act. The State School Commission shall effect all economies possible in providing State funds for the objects of General Control, Operation of Plant, and Auxiliary Agencies, and after such action shall have authority to increase or decrease on a uniform percentage basis the salary schedule of teachers, principals, and superintendents in order that the appropriation of State funds for the public schools may insure their operation for the length of term provided in this act. It shall be unlawful for any ad valorem taxes to be levied for the operation of the public school term except as hereinafter provided. The objects of expenditure designated as Maintenance of Plant and Fixed Charges shall be supplied from funds required by law to be placed to the credit of the public school fund of the county and derived from fines, forfeitures, penalties, dog taxes, and poll taxes, and from all other sources except State funds: Provided, that when necessity shall be shown, the State School Commission may approve the use of such funds in any administrative unit to supplement any object or item of the current expense budget; and in such cases, the tax levying authorities of the county administrative unit shall make a sufficient tax levy to provide the necessary funds for Maintenance of Plant, Fixed Charges, and Capital Outlay: Provided, further, that the tax levying authorities in any county administrative unit, with the approval of the State School Commission, may levy taxes to provide necessary funds for teaching vocational agriculture and home economics and trades and industrial vocational subjects supported in part from Federal Vocational Education funds: Provided, that nothing in this act shall prevent the use of Federal and/or privately donated funds which may be made available for the operation of the public schools under such regulations as the State Board of Education may provide.

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CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE TEACHING OF BLIND AND DEAF AND DUMB INDIANS IN THE CHEROKEE INDIAN NORMAL SCHOOL OF ROBESON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That the board of trustees of the Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County be and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to employ some person trained in the teaching of the deaf and dumb or blind and to provide a department in said school in which said deaf, dumb and/or blind Indian children of Robeson and surrounding counties may be taught, no provisions being now made for the teaching of said children, the said teacher to be employed in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations governing other teachers in the said school.

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CHAPTER 276 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE, PUBLIC LAWS ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWENTY- ONE, AND TO AMEND SECTION FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OF THE CONSOLI- DATED STATUTES, RELATING TO THE SUPERVISION OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, PEMBROKE, BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Notwithstanding the provisions contained in sections one and two of this act, the State Board of Education shall make all needful rules and regulations concerning the expenditure of funds, the selection of principals, teachers and employees of said Cherokee Indian State Normal School. The State Board of Education shall control and supervise said school to the same extent substantially as that provided for the organization, control and supervision of the white normal and training schools; and it may change the organization to suit conditions in so far as the needs of the school and the funds appropriated demand such change.

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CHAPTER 265 AN ACT RELATIVE TO DIVISION OF TERRITORY AND TRANSFERS OF PATIENTS OF THE STATE HOSPIT- ALS FOR THE INSANE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The State Hospital at Raleigh and the State Hospital at Morganton shall be exclusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the white insane of the State, and the State Hospital at Goldsboro shall be exclusively for the accommodation, maintenance, care and treatment of the colored insane and inebriates of the State. The line heretofore agreed upon by the Directors of the State Hospital at Raleigh and the State Hospital at Morganton shall be the line of division between the territories of said hospitals, and white insane persons settled in counties east of said line shall be admitted to the State Hospital at Raleigh, and white insane persons settled in counties west of said line shall be admitted to the State Hospital at Morganton, epileptics shall be admitted as now provided by law. White inebriates shall be admitted to the State Hospital at Raleigh.

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CHAPTER 195 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 426, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS 1921, AND CONSOLIDATED STATUTES 5847 RE- LATING TO THE INDIANS OF ROBESON COUNTY, AND TO CODIFY AND PRESCRIBE THE RACIAL QUALIFICATION OF THOSE SEEKING ADMISSION INTO CHEROKEE INDIAN NORMAL SCHOOL, AT PEMBROKE, AND IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF ROBESON COUNTY FOR THE INDIAN RACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The qualifications for admission to the common schools of Robeson County for the education of the Indian race only, shall hereafter be as follows: Persons of the Indian race of Robeson County who are descendants of those that were determined to constitute those who were within the terms and contemplation of chapter fiftyone, Laws one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and within the census taken pursuant thereto by the County Board of Education of Robeson County, of either sex, resident in Robeson County, North Carolina, who are of school age, and otherwise qualified, may attend the common schools of Robeson County for the education of the Indian race only, and no others shall be admitted to said schools.

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CHAPTER 195 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 426, PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS 1921, AND CONSOLIDATED STATUTES 5847 RE- LATING TO THE INDIANS OF ROBESON COUNTY, AND TO CODIFY AND PRESCRIBE THE RACIAL QUALIFICATION OF THOSE SEEKING ADMISSION INTO CHEROKEE INDIAN NORMAL SCHOOL, AT PEMBROKE, AND IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF ROBESON COUNTY FOR THE INDIAN RACE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That in case of a vacancy on said committee by death, resignation, or otherwise, the remaining members of said committee shall appoint a member of the Indian race who is a resident of Robeson County to fill such vacancy.

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CHAPTER 23 AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION 6740 OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES, RELATIVE TO REQUIRING COLORED NURSES FOR COLORED PATIENTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section six thousand seven hundred and forty of the Consolidated Statutes, with reference to requiring colored nurses for colored patients, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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CHAPTER 165 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE DANGEROUS INSANE AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE COM- MISSION AND CARE AND CURE OF SUCH INSANE AT OTHER STATE HOSPITALS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section six thousand two hundred and thirty-six be, and the same is hereby amended by striking out in line seven thereof the words to the hospital for the dangerous insane and substituting therefor to the State Hospital at Raleigh, if the alleged criminal is white, or to the State Hospital at Goldsboro if the alleged criminal is colored, and if the alleged criminal is an Indian from Robeson County, to the State Hospital at Raleigh, as now provided for insane Indians from Robeson County.

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CHAPTER 162 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A BOND ISSUE FOR THE PER- MANENT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE STATES INSTITU- TIONS. Whereas the States educational institutions and the State's charitable institutions are inadequate to meet the demands of the people of the State, and it is necessary that the States institutions be permanently enlarged and improved in order that they may properly be sufficient for the purpose of their creation, and adequate to the demands and necessities of the people of the State; and Whereas it is necessary to open certain inlets and to encourage the fish industry of North Carolina: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The proceeds derived from the sale of said bonds shall be used for the permanent improvement and equipment as hereinafter set out for the following institutions of the State, and in the following amounts, to wit: State Hospital, Raleigh, N. C. ~-------_---------- $ 394,000.00 State Hospital, Morganton, N. C. ~----------------- 415,000.00 State Hospital, Goldsboro, N. C. ~----------------- 313,000.00 Caswell Training School (to complete a plant to care for 400 inmates, and to. provide for the payment of outstanding notes in the amount of $75,598.00 incurred on a previous building ac- @OUNT)) iW l20 oe Sete eee ee ee ee 500,000.00 School for the Deaf at Morganton ~-------------- 23,000.00 School for the Blind and Deaf at Raleigh_-------_- 326,000.00 State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis__ 219,000.00 Orthopedic Hospital _.._._--_-_-2.----------------- 25,000.00 Stonewall Jackson Training School plant for 400 Students)i4;=22s2etscathos eet ae Se 135,000.00 Home and Industrial School for Girls and Women (plant for 350 students) ~---~--YY nS ath ater ates oh 232,500.00 Colored Reformatory and Training School. (In lieu of $25,000.00 provided in chapter one hundred sixty-five, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one) ~--------------------- $ 50,000.00 SOMES MElOM Gs. = 2 oot Oe tere ee ee ee ee 5,000.00 University of North Carolina ~_______---__-----_--- 1,650,000.00 State College of Agriculture and Engineering ____~_- 1,350,000.00 North Carolina College for Women ___~_-_--------- 1,350,000.00 East Carolina Teachers College _-_-_--------------- 1,025,000.00 The Negro Agricultural and Technical College __--- 455,000.00 Board of Education for Teachers Training School __~ 1,194,000.00 Distribution of Appropriation for Teachers Training Schools to be as follows: Slater Normal School, Winston-Salem ~__-_-_-_--- 173,000.00 Negro Normal School, Elizabeth City, N. C.------ 178,000.00 Negro Normal School, Fayetteville, N. C. ---------- 123,000.00 Cherokee Indian Normal ___-_--____---_------_--- 37,000.00 Appalachian Training School _-------------------_ 300,000.00 Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School ~__----- 388,000.00 Total for Teachers Training Schools ___---_- $1,194,000.00 School Buildings for Cherokee Indians, to be expended under the direction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the purpose of building, equipping, repairing and enlarging school buildings for the Indians of Robeson County at the Dial School in Saddle Creek Township, Prospect School, Green Grove School, Laurel Institute, also called Union Chapel, and such other schools for the Indians in Robeson County as may be directed by said superintendent, including the purchase of lands and other equipment for said schools _-__--_---= NS ala cpeph Se EL SE 30,000.00 Completion and equipment of the Agricultural building, and the remodeling of the State Museum buildingequipment to include furnishing of the Legislative committee rooms ___----------- 100,000.00 Permanent office equipment for the Library Commission's: ,OfiCes 2-222 2-Feb 522 5.224 fs Seo ete 8,000.00 For Eastern Carolina Industrial Training School -- 25,000.00 Additional story, to Agricultural building to provide for offices for Department of Revenue __-___-_-- 125,000.00 Fisheries Commission -___-_--_-__--_---_---------- 500,000.00 (Or so much thereof as may be necessary to open inlets, plant oysters, build hatcheries, provide equipment, and for such other necessary improvements of the fish and sea-food industry of the State). To provide buildings for the criminal insane if removed from the State Penitentiary as provided in House Bill 596, Senate Bill 98 (now pending) : State Hospital, Raleigh ---.---_-_._---_------------- $ 50,000.00 State Hospital, Goldsboro ~__---------------------- 50,000.00 To provide buildings for prisoners and employees quarters at the Caledonia farm _~______------_--- 50,000.00 To build sanatorium for tubercular prisoners as provided in House Bill 1010, Senate Bill 94 (now pending! 22-22-22 2.8 eS eee 50,000.00

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CHAPTER 169 AN ACT TO REQUIRE SANITARY CONDITIONS IN ICE- CREAM PLANTS, CREAMERIES, AND CHEESE FACTO- RIES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That for the protection of the health of the people of the State, all places where ice-cream is made for sale, all creameries, butter and cheese factories, when in operation, shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition. The floors, walls, and ceilings of all work rooms where the products of plants named herein are made, mixed, stored, or handled shall be such that same can be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. All windows, doors, and other openings shall be effectively screened during fly season. Suitable wash rooms shall be maintained, and if a toilet is attached, it shall be of sanitary construction and kept in a sanitary condition. No person shall be allowed to live or sleep in such factory unless rooms so occupied are separate and apart from the work or storage rooms. No horses, cows, or other animals shall be kept in such factories or close enough to contaminate products of same unless separated by impenetrable walls without doors, windows, or other openings.

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CHAPTER 24 An act to remove the colored normal school now tocated in Warrenton, Warren county, to Franklinton, Frankl county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Me She _

That the State Board of,Education are boxset to remove the normal school for the golored race now | vat Warrenton, Warren county, and re ish it at Franklinton, Franklin county: Provided, the citi Hranklinton shall furnish or cause to be furnished suitable buildings to conduct the 3 exercises of said school. te

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CHAPTER CLVIL. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE PENITENTIARY.

That the said board are hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the board of directors for the Institntion for the Deaf.and Dumb and Blind as many of the rick now at the penitentiary as may be necessary in the onstruction of the colored Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institution, and said board are directed to use as many convicts as practicable in the construction of such building.

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AN ACT TO ORGANIZE A MILITIA OF NORTH CAROLINA,

That the white and colored members of the detailed militia shall not be compelled to serve in the same sections.

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CEAPTE RR. CoeOee by... AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact as follows: BOARD OF EDUCATION.

It shall be the duty of the School Committee to take in the month of June an exact census of all children and youth between the ages of six and twenty-one years, In their returns they shall distinguish between males and females, and between white and colored: they shall take specifically and separately a census of all Indian children between the aforesaid ages, especially of those who live under the guardianship of white persons, with the names of such guardians. All children who may be absent from home attending colleges, boarding schools, and any private or public seminary of learning, shall be included by the Committee in the census list of the Township in which their parents or guardians reside, and shall not be taken by the School Committee of the locality where they may be attending such private institutions of learning. /The Committee shall further report such other statistics as may be required by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or Township Committees; they shall make a full and sworn return thereof on the blanks furnished for that purpose to! the County Examiner, on or before the first day of July next after their appointment,land deliver a copy to the School Committee of the Township. ) a

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CHAPTER 120 An act to ineorporate the town of Morganton and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The commissioners shall provide separate cemeteries for the white and the colored people, and the fines and fees paid by the white people shall be used in that cemetery provided for them, and those paid by the black people in that cemetery provided for them, and the money accruing from sale of lots in said cemetery shall be used by the commissioners for the keeping up and improving said cemeteries after paying for the same.

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POH Ae TER 40:00:00 Av act to amend the charter of the town of Statesville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books; and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in the ward for which they were appointed on or before the last Monday in March in such years, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in that ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters and designating on the registration book opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward ; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is aacitizen of North Carolina and has resided in the city of Statesville ninety days and in the ward for which he offers to register thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register ; and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof a new registration may not be made biennially, but such registration book shall be revised so as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered and still residing in safd city without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrars shall on or before the last Monday in March biennially, open saic books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in such ward or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the board of aldermen may at any time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed.

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CHAPTER 38 An act to repeal the general laws of the State in regard to towns and cities so far as the town of Kinston, in the county of Lenoir, is concerned, inconsistent with this act; to repeal all special laws and charters in relation thereto, and to re-charter the said town. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the said town, and it shall be.the duty of the said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by him in his notice of registration at least ten days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar and he is hereby authorized to administer an oath to all applicants for registration touching their qualification to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not declare his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward.

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CHAPTER 32 An act to enable the commissioners of the town of Hickory to issue bonds to raise money to purchase a site for and to erect thereon a town hall, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That with the money arising from the sale of said bonds, together with such other money and material as may be donated by private individuals, said board of special commissioners shall, so soon as they shall deem it practicable, proceed to purchase a site for and to erect thereon a suitable public building to be used as a town hall, and to take a deed of conveyance therefor to the commissioners of the town of Hickory ; to purchase grounds to be used for two public cemeteries of the town of Hickory, the one for white and the other for colored persons, and to take deeds of conveyance therefor to the commissioners of the town of Hickory; to erect at the most convenient point across the Catawba river a substantial high-water bridge that shall be free to the traveling public; and also after and not before said bridge shall have been built and completed, said board of special commissioners shall have power, whenever they shall deem it expedient, to contract for and to purchase and make free to the traveling public the bridge that is now across the Catawba river at Ramsours mills, and shall in each case take deeds of conveyance therefor to the commissioners of the town of Hickory.

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CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. 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 colored children in said school district shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children.

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CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the board of county commissioners of Duplin county shall appoint five persons to act as trustees of the graded school for the colored children, and said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children.

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CHAPTER 415 An act to establish a graded school in Magnolia, Duplin county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That Dr. M. K. Devane, G. W. Brinkley, Henry Hollingsworth, H. E. Newley, Dr. McMillain, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children.

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CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That if a majority of the qualified voters of the town of Washington shall vote for school, the said trustees herein named for the white and colored graded schbols shall be and are hereby created respectively bodies politic and corporate, entitled respectively The Washington White Graded School and The Washington Colored Graded School, and each may sue and be sued, have acorporate seal, and purchase and hold real and personal property.

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CHAPTER 330 An aci to establish graded schools in the counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That W. W. Parker, J. P. Doughtry, A. W. Arrington, 8S. L. Hart, Jr., Henry Lindsey, Samuel MeLin and A. J. Bryant, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded public school for the colored children ; that said board of trustees shall elect a treasurer, who shall hold his office for two years, and he shall give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of three thousand dollars, to be approved and accepted by the board of commissioners of Nash county, who shall record and file the same as other official bonds. That said board of trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded publie school for the colored children.

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CHAPTER 318 An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Northamp- ton county to order the treasurer of said county to pay certain amounts due to teachers of public schools. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That said amounts, if ordered by said board to be paid, shall be paid out of the school funds in the hands of said treasurer due the districts respectively before named for the white race, and that the school committees of said district respectively shall regulate the schools in said districts so as to spare the amount or amounts due from said districts respectively.

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CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ;

That said board shall organize each year by the election of a_president, a secretary and a treasurer, who shall hold their places at the option of said board, and the treasurer shall give bond, to be approved by said board, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and his compensation shall be two and a-half per cent. of funds received by him, and he shall have charge of the tuition paid for non-resident pupils, and of all donations, gifts and contributions of every kind, made for the benefit of said school or for the white race of said school district, except the public funds in the custody of the county treasurer.

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CHAPTER 292 An act to establish a graded school in Lumberton school district, number seventy, for white children. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That Berry Goodwin, J. A. McAllister, James S. McNeill, Alfred pina A. W. McLeod, Robert D. Caldwell, Durham Lewis, W. J. Cooley, O. C. Norment, C. B. Townsend and E K. Proctor, Jr., be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded schoo] for the whites in school district number seventy, and are incorporated by the name of the Lumberton Graded School, and may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase and hold real and personal property not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value;shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ and dismiss teachers and regulate their salaries, shall have power to suspend or expel any pupil, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school. They shall elect one of their number chairman, and one as secretary, and prescribe their duties. |

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CHAPTER 282 An act to establish a graded school in Shoe Heel school districts number one and two for white children, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That J. C. McCaskill, E. L. McCormac, W. B. Harker, J. D. Croone, J. C. McLean and David McCall, in schoo] district number one, and J. B. Wilkinson, L. R. Townsend, R. M. McNair, A. C. Wilkinson and Murdoc McKintire, in schoo! district number two, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites in school district numbers one and two, and are incorporated by the name of the Shoe Heel Graded School, and may sue and be sued, have a common seal, purchase and hold real and personal property, not exceeding ten thousand dollars in value, shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board; to employ and dismiss teachers, and regulate their salaries; shall have power to suspend and expel any pupil, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school. They shall elect one of their number chairman, and one as secretary, and prescribe their duties.

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CHAPTER 255 An act to establish graded schools in Lenoir township, in Caldwell county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Moses Sudderth, Henry Harper, Henry Bower, James Gaither, Anthony Jones, John Anderson, Edney Norwood be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, toemploy teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children.

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CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That John C. Dancy, H.C. Cherry, Victor E. Howard, Benjamin Norfleet, Edward Zoella, Henry S. Spragins and W. H. Knight be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children.

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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 the public school money which shall from time to time be apportioned under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said township, shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children under the orders and dirctions of the board of trustees, for said graded school for the colored children.

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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 John Tull, Dr. John A. Pollock, S. H. Abbott, James A. Pridgen, W. F. Stanley, J. W. Grainger, J. K. Davis, A. D. Parrott and L. Harvey, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ hers, and to do all such acts as shall be necessary to on said graded school for the white children. _

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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 the board of commissioners of Lenoir county are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of Kinston township, in said county, on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children and a graded public school for the colored children in said territory. Each voter shall votea written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly.

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CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That for the election provided for in the first section of this act, the municipal authorities shall provide two ballot boxes, in one of which the white voters shall deposit their ballots, and in the other the colored voters shall deposit their ballots. _

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CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That all white children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, residents of such town, shall be entitled to [be] educate[d] at the white graded school free of charge ; and all colored children between the ages of six and twenty-one, residents of such town, shall be entitled to be educated at the colored graded school free of charge,

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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 all public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school Jaw for the colored race of said school district, and all special school taxes which may from time to time be collected from colored persons in said school district, shall be applied for keeping up said graded school for colored children, under the orders and directions of said board of graded school trustees for the colored race.

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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 William Heath, Hannibal Badham, Philip McDonald, Elijah Hathaway, J. W. Draper, London Johnson and G. W. Lane be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored race, which shall be free to the colored children of both sexes of said schoo] district.

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CHAPTER 292 An act to establish a graded school in Lumberton school district, number seventy, for white children. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the board of county commissioners of Robeson county shall submit to the qualified voters of Lumberton school district known as district number seventy for white children in said county, on the third Thursday in April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual assessment shall be levied therein for the support of a graded public school for the white children in said school district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words, for school or no school. And said election shall be conducted under the same rules as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly.

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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 all public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for the white race of said schoof district, and all special school taxes which may from time to time be collected from white persons in said sehool district, shall be applied for keeping up the said graded school for white children under the orders and direction of said board of graded school trustees for the white race.

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CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -

That all the territory embraced within the bounds of white school district number forty, in Smithfield township, Johnston county, shall be and is hereby constituted the Smithfield Graded School District for white and colored. :

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CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -

That J. J. Harper, L. E. Kirkman, Dr. J. G. Rose, P. T. Massey, S. R. Morgan, D. W. Fuller, W. N. Benton, Seth Woodall, Robert Sanders, E. W. Pou, E. Redford and R. D. Lunceford, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the white race; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies in said board, to employ teachers, and to do all such acts as may be necessary to carry on said school for the white children.

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CHAPTER 321 An act to incorporate Shiloh Institute. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That Isaac Alston and Mansfield F. Thornton of Warren county, and M. F. Hawkins of Franklin county, and .B. Harper of Halifax county, Henry Hester of Granville county, and O. Bullock of Vance county, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate for educational purposes under the name and style of Shiloh Institute, an institution of learning situated at Warrenton in the county of Warren and state of North Carolina, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold the buildings, grounds and all appurtenances belonging thereto situated in the said town of Warrenton, and which is now vested in the said parties above named as trustees by virtue of a deed from W. S. Davis and wife to the trustees of Shiloh Baptist Missionary Association of North Carolina of date of February, one thousand eight hundred and eightyfour, and registered in the registrars office of Warren county in book forty-nine, page eight hundred and thirty-seven, to acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, real, personal and mixed property for the purpose of maintaining and carrying on a school of high grade, as well as of elementary learning, for the colored race in said town of Warrenton, and to make such by-laws and regulations and rules for the government of said institution as they and their successors may deem best.

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CHAPTER 307 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

The aldermen of the city shall provide for the establishment and support of a system of graded schools under the following conditions, to-wit: First, no interest-bearing debt of the corporation shall be created for this purpose ; second, the school shall be open to all bona fide residents of the city of all races between the ages of six and twenty-one, but the. white and colored schools shall be distinct and separate buildings and departments, and the schools shall have separate apartments for the higher classes of males and females; third, the fun&raised by ad valorem taxation shall be used only for the payment of the salaries of teachers; fourth, persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the school from their homes or as boarders on the payment of tuition fees, to be fixed by the school commissioners; fifth, the tax for school purposes shall not exceed twenty cents on the hundred dollars of assessed property and sixty cents on the poll, and the license and privilege taxes as hereinbefore provided, and also not less than twenty-five per centum of the fines and forfeitures shall be paid to the graded school fund.

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CHAPTER 307 An act to consolidate and revise the charter of the city of Winston. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the Winston commissioners of graded schools shall be and are hereby authorized to receive and use the money herein provided for, and to apply the same in such way as they may deem best for the benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said city, whether for suitable buildings and furniture for said schools or for repairs of the same, for salaries of teachers or for other incidental expenses. ,

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CHAPTER 362 [An] act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within certain localities. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of, with a view to remuneration, any spirituous liquors, wines or medicated bitters, or any other liquors or substance by whatsoever name it may be called which produces or may produce intoxication, within two -2 miles of the following places: Ashe county.Healing Springs Baptist church, Bethel church, Union Baptist church, Red Hill school-house, Little Lautel Methodist church, Baptist church at Three Forks, Methodist church at Arnold school-house, Mount Pleasant Baptist church, Southerland seminary and chapel, Brushy Fork M. E. church, in Ashe county. Alamance.Long Chapel church, Crossroad Presbyterian church, Fairview Methodist Protestant church, Hawfields Presbyterian church; and within one mile of the village church at Haw River, Alamance county. Alexander.Stony Point M. E. church, Macedonia Baptist church, Salem Evangelical Lutheran church, in Alexander county. Burke.Bouldings M. E. church, Abees chapel (Baptist church), McL, Raths A. M. E. camp-ground, Willow Tree A. M. E. church, in Burke county. Beaufort.Trinity church, Chocowinity precinct, in Beaufort county. Bertie.Indian Woods Baptist church, Indian Gallows (white) school-house, Cedar Landing, Sandy Run Baptist church, St. Francis Church of the Disciples, district 54, white race, Bertie county. Columbus.Hebron M. E. church, Bogue Chapel Baptist church, Shiloh M. E. church, Fair Bluff M. E. church, Fair Bluff Baptist church. Fair Bluff high school, Porters Swamp Baptist church, Salem Colored Baptist church, in Columbus county. Caldwell.Laurel Hill Buffalo Baptist church, Harris chapel, in Caldwell county. Cumberland.Hope Mills church, the Episcopal church in Hope Mills village, Cumberland county. Clay.Pine Log Baptist church, in Clay county. Cleveland.Union Baptist church, in Cleveland county. Chatham.Osgood church, Hickory Mountain Baptist church, Bells Baptist church, Ebenezer M. E. church, Sandy Branch Baptist church and Merry Oaks Baptist church, in Chatham county. Cherokee.Liberty church, Notly Baptist church, Shoal Creek church, in Cherokee county. Carteret.Morehead City, in Carteret county. Catawba.Smyrna German Reformed church, in Catawba county. Duplin.Faison academy. Durham.Fletcher Chapel M. E. church; Robinsoa Grove Baptist church, Bethsaidia Baptist church, in Durham county. Franklin.New Hope Christian church, in Franklin county. Granville.Banks chapel and Union (colored) Concord church, South Union African M. E. church; and within one mile of Bullock M. E. church and Corinth Baptist church, in Granville county. Guilford.Goshen M. E. church, in Guilford county. Greene.Grimsly Baptist church, Lebanon M. E. church, Free Union church, Hookerton Collegiate Institute, New Berne Baptist church, Mount Hermon M. E. Church, South, in Greene county. Gates.Eureka Baptist church, Methodist Episcopal church, Parkers Methodist church, in Gates county. Gaston.Mount Tabor Baptist church, Long Creek Presbyterian church, in Gaston county. Haywood.Lines Creek Methodist Episcopal church, in Haywood county. Harnett.Cokesbury Methodist church, in Harnett county. Hertford.Bethlehem Baptist church, in Hertford county. Hyde.Shadesville M. E. church, Rusk academy and Elm Grove seminary; Christian church at Swan Quarter, Soules M. EB. church near Lake Comfort, Amity M. E. church, M. E. church at Mount Pleasant, M. E. church, Englehard, Christian church at Springfield, Baptist church near Stencil House, M. E. church at Fairfield, Christian church at New Laurel, Neals chapel, St. Johns Episcopal church at Makelyville, in Hyde county. & Iredell._New Bethany Baptist church, Sharon Lutheran church, Granite Hill village, Shiloh Presbyterian church in Shiloh township, Bethlehem M. E. church, _Connolley s Chapel Methodist church, in Tredell county. Johnston.Corinth M. E. church, Clydes chapel, New Hope and Antioch churches, in Johnston county. Jones.Friendship Baptist church, in Jones county. Moore.Union Presbyterian church, Presbyterian church at Cameron, Manly Baptist church, Sanford M. E. church, in Moore county. McDowell.Capernaum M. E. church, Carson Chapel M. E. church, Dysartsville Baptist church, Murphys chapel, New River academy, Ebenezer and Salem churches, Bethel and Bethlehem M. E. churches, Cherry Springs and Bethlehem Baptist churches, Salem M. E. church, View Mountain school-house, in McDowell county. Mecklenburg.Derita school-house in Mallards Creek township, public school-house in school district No. 27, Long Creek township, Mecklenburg county. Madison.Grapevine Baptist church, each and every church in No. 2, Sheton Laurel township, Madison county. Macon.M. EK. church andWatauga Baptist church, in Macon county. Nash.Hilliards Chapel M. P. church, Rehobeth Missionary Baptist church, Sharon M. E. church, in Nash county: Provided, the prohibition in Nash county is not to extend into or operate to prevent the sale of liquors in Halifax county. Orange.Bethany Christian church, Mount Moriah Baptist church, in Orange county. Pender.Lake Chapel Baptist church, in Pender county Person.Bethel Baptist church and high school and Bethany Baptist church, in Person county. Rutherford._Mountain Creek Baptist church, in Rutherford county. Rowan.Oak Grove M. E. church, Ebenezer M. E. church, Christian Evangelical Lutheran church, Eureka Lodge 213, in Rowan county. Rockingham.Lowes M. E. church, Protestant M. E. church, Troy M. E. church, in Rockingham county: Provided, that the incorpora-tion of Troy'M. E. church in Rockingham county shall not interfere with the corporation of the town of Grogansville, in said county. Richmond.Baptist church in Roberdel, M. E. church in Roberdel, the M. E., Presbyterian and Baptist churches in Mineral Springs. township, in Richmond county. Stanly.Mineral Springs Baptist church, in Stanly county. Stokes.Stokesburg M. E. church, Stokes county. Surry.Pilot Mountain academy, in Surry county. Swain.Bryson Baptist church in Bryson City, Whittier M. E.. church in Whittier, Swain county. Tyrrell.Sharon church, in Tyrrell county. Union.A. M. E. Zion church, in Union county. Wake.Baptist church at Rolesville, Wakefield Classical and. Mathematical school, Olive Baptist church, White Stone church, Beulah Christian church, Hepzibah Baptist church, Auburn Alliance: No. 41, school-house in St. Marys township, Olive Branch church, Sydney Chapel M. E. church, Midway Baptist church, in Wake county.. Watauga.Friendship M. E. church, Union Baptist church, Thomas school-house and Thomas chapel, Austins school-house, Antioch Baptist church, Mount Pleasant Lutheran church, Brushy Fork Baptist church, Cove Creek Baptist church, Hatfield Mount Calvary Baptist church, in Watauga county. Wayne.Whitehall school-house and Whitehall Presbyterian church, in Wayne county. Warren.Mt. Auburn Christian church, in Warren county. This prohibition in Warren not to extend into Halifax county. Wilson.Ashpen Grove Free-Will church, in Wilson county. Yadkin.Cross Roads Missionary Baptist church, in Yadkin county.

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CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the per capita part of the school fund of the county raised under the general school law shall be applied to keeping up the public schools established by this act in said district, and shall be by said board of trustees disbursed and equally divided between the schools for the white and colored racesone-half for a school for the white race and one-half for a school for the colored race. The trustees and the principals of the said schools shall make to the county superintendents the reports required by the general school law to be made by committees and teachers.

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CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the board of commissioners of Warren county, on the written application of a majority of the board of trustees of said school district, is hereby authorized [and] directed to submit, on the first Monday in May, 1889, to the qualified voters of said school district embraced in said county of Warren, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of said schools for white and colored of said district. Such voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school thereon, and said election, shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the General Assembly.

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CHAPTER 254 An act to establish public schools for the town of Littleton, with a special tax supplemental thereto. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That the board of commissioners of Halifax county, upon the written application of a majority of the board of trustees of said school district, is hereby authorized and directed to submit, on the first Monday in May, 1889, to the qualified voters of said school district embraced in said county of Halifax, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of supplemental public schools for white and colored of said district. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words for school or no school thereon, 1889.CHaApTER 254 and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election for members of the General Assembly. e

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CHAPTER 199 An act to amend the public school law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section two thousand five hundred and sixty of The Code, as amended by the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, is amended to read as follows: The treasurer of the county board of education of each county shall report to the State superintendent of public instruction on the first Monday of July of each year the entire amount of school money received and disbursed by him during the preceding school year, designating by items the amounts received respectively from property tax, poll-tax, liquor licenses, fines, forfeitures and penalties, auctioneers, estrays, from State treasurer, and from all other sources. He shall also designate by items the sums paid to teachers of white and colored children respectively, and for school houses and school house sites in the several districts, and for all other purposes, specifically and in detail by items, and on the same day he shall file a duplicate of said report in the office of the county board of education. He shall make such other reports as the board of education of the county may require from time to time.

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CHAPTER 169 An act in relation to indigent and other apprentices. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That indigent children when apprenticed in this State shall be indentured in the name of the superior court clerk of the county where they reside, of the first part, and the employer or employers to whom apprenticed, of the other part, which shall be recorded and filed in the office of said clerk ; but no white child shall be bound to a colored person in this State.

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CHAPTER 20 An act to amend chapter 27 of the laws of the special session of 1880, it being an act entitled ** An act to authorize the establish- ment of graded schools for the town of Salisbury, &ec. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That all money now in the hands of said committee unappropriated, whether to the credit of the white graded school or the colored graded school, shall be held as a common fund for the purposes herein provided.

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CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -

That the board of commissioners of Johnston county are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said Smithfield Graded School District in said county on the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of graded public schools for white and colored of said district; each voter shall vote written or. printed ballot with the words For School or No School thereon, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election for members of the General Assembly.

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CHAPTER 240 An act to amend the charter of the town of Wilkesboro. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eightynine, and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in 1889.PrivaTECHa4PTER 240 _ the town of Wilkesboro on or before the last Monday in March in such y years, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the town of Wilkes- boro, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from _ those of colored voters, and designating on the registration book opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in the town, and if any applicant for registration shall not _ disclose the place of his residence in the town, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register _inthetown. Any person offering to register may be required [to] _ take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and | has resided in the county of Wilkes for ninety days and in the town of Wilkesboro for thirty days next preceding that date, and is otherwise entitled to register, and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding fifty _ dollars and to be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days in the county jail: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof, a new registration may not be made annually, but such registration books shall be revised, so as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered and still residing in said town without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrar shall, on before the last Monday in March annually, open said books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in the town of Wilkesboro, or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the town commissioners may at any time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed.

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CHAPTER 62 An act te incorporate the Farmers Co-operative School of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That J. T. Eaton, T. C. Davis, A. C. Davis, J. J. Royal, W.L. Arendell, T. D. Webb, A. S. Willis, Silas Webb and Daniel Bell, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate for the purpose of maintaining a school of high grade in or near the town of Morehead City, county of Carteret, State of North Carolina, for the intellectual development and training of the white children, under the name and style of the Farmers Co-operative School Company,.and in that name may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property, personal and real, and exercise all acts in relation thereto incident to the ownership of personal property and real estate.

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CHAPTER 424, An act in relation to the public school of Reidsville school district, Rockingham county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of Novih Carolina do enact:

The school committee created by this act shall elect annually a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children if the same shall be established. The superintendent of said schools shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in the said schools and issue certificates to the same, which certificates shall be valid for one year from date, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said committee.

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CHAPTER 400 An act to establish a normal school in the county of Robeson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

Provided, that no person shall be admitted into said school as a student who has not attained the age of fifteen years; and that all those who shall enjoy the privileges of said school as students shall previously obligate to teach the youth of the Croatan race for a stated period.

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CHAPTER 400 An act to establish a normal school in the county of Robeson. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That W. L. Moore, James Oxendine, James Dial, Preston Locklear, and others who may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, for educational purposes, in the county of Robeson, under the name and style of the Lrustees of the Croatan Normal] School, and by that name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and to hold school property, including buildings, lands and all appurtenances thereto, situated in the county of Robeson, at any place in said county to be selected by the trustees herein named, provided such place shall be located between Bear swamp and Lumber river in said county; to acquire by purchase, donation or otherwise, real and personal property for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a school of high grade for teachers of the Croatan race in North Carolina.

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CHAPTER 397 An actin relation to the public schools in the city of Asheville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact;

The school committee created by this act may elect annually a superintendent of the schools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children if the same shall be established. The said superintendent shall examine al} applicants for teachers positions in the said schools and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said school committee.

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CHAPTER 86 An act in relation to the public schools in the town of Durham. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

The school committee created by this act may elect annually a superintendent of theschools established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded school for white children, if the same shall be established. The said superintendent shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in the said schools, and issue certificates to the same, and shall do and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said school committee.

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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:

Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in the town of Taylorsville on or before the last Monday in March in such years and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote in the town of Taylorsville, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters and designating on the registration book opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in the town, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in the town, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in the town. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina and has resided in the county of Alexander for ninety days and in the town of Taylorsville for thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register, and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made by virtue hereof a new registration may not be made annually, but such registration book shall be revised so.as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered and still residing in said town without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrar shall on or before the last Monday in March annually open said books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration whose names have never before been registered in the town of Taylorsville or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, that the town commissioners may at any time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed.

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CHAPTER: 17 \ An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate The Biddle University, ratified the tenth day of February, A. D. eightcen hundred and seventy-sever, and amendments thereto. WHEREAS, It is desirable to promote useful knowledge among the, freedmen ; and whereas, an institution of learning for their benefit has been established near the city of Charlotte, in the county of Mecklen- burg, by the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, under a charter granted in pursuance of sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter twenty-six of the Revised Code of North Carolina, said insti- tution being known and designated in said charter as Biddle Memorial Institute ; and whereas, a charter was obtained from the general as- sembly of this state incorporating the same under the name and style of The Biddle University, ratified the tenth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the provisions of which are incomplete, by reason of which and for a more efficient organization of said university, it is desirable to obtain further legislation from the state of North Carolina; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall be able and capable in law to bargain, sell, grant, convey and confirm to the purchaser or purchasers such lands, rents, tenements and hereditaments aforesaid, when the condition ofthe grant to them, or the will of their devisor, does not forbid it; and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be held in trust for the use and benefit of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, for the education of men of the colored race and others for the minSe tie 2 tl tae fect a Ni Li Met lt istry, for teachers, and for catechists; and further, that the said cor-- poration may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in all courts of record or otherwise whatsoever, in all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, matters and demands.

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CHAPTER 349 An act to amend sections thirty-two hundred and sixty and thirty- two hundred and sixty-one of The Code, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

That section three thousand two hundred and sixty-one of The Code be stricken out and the following substituted therefor: Two or more white companies or two or more colored companies may form a battalion and elect a major ; five or more white or five or more colored companies may form a regiment, not to exceed ten companies, and elect a colonel, lieutenant-colonel and major. Each battalion or regiment shall be designated by number, and each company by letter, and a record thereof made in the office of the adjutant-general. The commander-in-chief may in his discretion organize the State Guard into one or more brigades and divisions, and appoint brigadier and major-generals to command the same, who shall hold their commissions at the pleasure of the commander-in-chief, and whenever commander-inchief shall form a battalion or regiment of the State Guard he shall order an election to be held for the field officer or officers of such battalion or regiment, such election to be conducted as hereinafter provided.

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CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -

That the public school money which may from time to time-be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said district, shall be applied to keeping up the graded school (public) for white children under the orders and direction of the board of trustees for said graded public school for white children, and the public school money so collected for public school purposes for the colored children in said district shall be applied to the keeping up of the graded public school for the colored children, under the rules and directions of the board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children, subject to the supervision of the county superintendent of public instruction.

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CHAPTER 239 An act to amend the charter of the town of Murphy, in Cherokee county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books, and it shall be the duty of said registrars appointed for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and thereafter, to open their books in some convenient place in the town. on or before the last Monday in March, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled fo register and vote, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of . North Carolina and has resided in the town of Murphy ninety days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register; and if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be mae TE DPT al ae FO RT ae ee eee Aa - 1889.PrivateCHAPTER 239 Dtccrnsd: guilty of the crime of perjury, and upon conviction shall be _ punished as provided by law in such cases.

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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 said board of graded school trustees for the white race shall have power to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school, and shall be the custodian of all public school property for the white race of said school district.

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CHAPTER 48 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 207, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1923, AMENDING CHAPTER 55, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1889, RELAT- ING TO THE TOWN OF SPRING HOPE, IN THE COUNTY OF NASH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That section two of chapter two hundred and seven, Private Laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, amending chapter fifty-five, Private Laws of eighteen hundred and eightynine, relating to the town of Spring Hope, in the county of Nash, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out that portion of line nine of said section beginning with the word to and all of line ten and inserting in lieu thereof the following: and biennially thereafter, and by striking out all of that portion of line thirteen of said section beginning with the word to and all of line fourteen and all of line fifteen and inserting in lieu thereof the words and biennially thereafter.

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CHAPTER 192 An act to establish graded schools in Wilson township, Wi!son county. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The board of trustees for the graded school for the white children, and the board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children, shall at the first regular meeting after the establishment of said schools, and annually thereafter, elect a treasurer of the respective schools.. Tie person so elected shall execute a bond, with at least three sureties, who shall justify before the clerk of the superior court of Wilson county, and be approved by the president of the board of trustees of the school for which he shall have been elected, in an amount double ihe amount of tax levied for such school. The said bond shall be payable to the state of North Carolina and conditioned for the payment of and accounting for all money or other property which shall come into his hands as treasurer. The said bond shall be filed in the office of the register of deeds of Wilson county as other official bonds, and in the event of a breach of the conditions thereof,@n action may be prosecuted by the board of trustees of the school of which the person giving such bord is treasurer.

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CHAPTER 431 AN ACT TO FIX THE SALARIES FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, AND TO INCREASE THE SCHOOL FUND. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

The Sheriff of Rockingham County may appoint one or more deputies in each township in the county, and may allow such deputies the fees made and collected by them in serving summons, subpcenas, notices and processes of all kinds, and all fees and commissions made and collected by them from executions.

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CHAPTER 352 An act to amend and consolidate the charter of the town of Monroe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

The board of aldermen shall have the right to ievy and eause to be collected the following additional taxes, viz: -1 On every omnibus carrying persons for hire, a license tax not exceeding twenty dollars per annum; on every hack, ecarriage, wagon, express wagon, dray or other vehicle carrying or transporting persons, freight, baggage, merchandise or other articles for hire, a license tax not exceeding ten dollars per annum; and in fixing the amount of license tax on the above enumerated vehicles, the aldermen shall discriminate between cnehorse, two horse and four horse vehicles and the different kind of vehicles, as shall seem just to them. The taxes herein enumerated shall be fixed by the aldermen at their meetings in June of each year and the amount of license tax so fixed on every vehicle shall be paid in advance by any person intending to engage in such business, and a license shall be issued by the clerk of the board of aldermen upon the exhibiting and filing with such elerk a receipt from the tax collector for the taxes so levied. Any person desiring to use the vehicles herein enumerated may pay the tax fora shorter term than twelve months, not less than three months, by the payment of the proportionate part of said tax for the desired time. Any person who shall use any of the vehicles herein enumerated without having first obtained the license from the city treasurer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days. -2 On every saddle horse kept for hire in said city a license tax not exceeding five dollars per annum, said license to be obtained in the same manner as for vehicles as above enumerated and subject to the same fine or imprisonment for failure to so obtain the license. -5 On every delivery wagon or other vehicle delivering goods, wares or merchandise, except those used exclusively by resident citizens in delivering merchandise from their own stores, a license tax not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum. -4 On every express company, telegraph company, gas company, electric light company, power company, street railroad company doing business or having an office in said city, a license tax not exceeding in amount one-fourth of one per centum of its gross receipts on its business in said city received during the preceding year up to and including the thirty-first day of May next before the date of fixing such license tax; and the manager or agent in charge of the business of any such company in said city on the first day of June in every year shal! on that day, or if that day be Sunday or a legal holiday, on the next day thereafter, make to the clerk of the board of aldermen, who shall in such case have power to administer oaths, a written return under oath signed by him of the amount of such gross receipts. The failure or refusal of any manager or agent to make such returns on the day fixed for that purpose shall make such manager or agent guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days. The amount of such tax, on the failure or refusal of such manager or agent to make the returns as herein required, shall be determined by the board of aldermen at their next meeting after the day on which said return should have been made or at some other meeting thereafter before the first of August of each year, and they shal! fix the amount of such gross receipts as nearly as they can do so, and they shall levy one-fourth of one per centum thereof as the amount of the license tax. -5 On all itinerant merchants, peddlers or persons vending from any stand on the streets, offering to vend in said city, a privilege tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars a year, in addition to a tax not exceeding one per centum on the amount of their purchases respectively; and among such itinerant merchants or peddlers shall be included all itinerant venders of medicines or other articles. -6 On every shooting gallery, billiard table, bagatelle table, pool table or place of any other game or play, bowling alley or alley of like kind, with or without a name, kept for profit or kept in a house where spirituous, vinous or malt liquor is sold, or in a house used or connected with such a house, or used or connected with a hotel or restaurant, a privilege tax not exceeding one hundred dollars. -7 On every hotel, restaurant or eating-house a privilege tax not exceeding fifty dollars. The board of aldermen shall have the power to classify into as many classes as to them from time to time shall seem just, such hotels, restaurants and eating-houses according to the character and amount of business done by them and the class to which each may belong and prescribe a different tax for every class, not to exceed in any case the sum of fifty dollars. -8 On every circus, company of circus riders, performers or exhibitors or showmen, by whatever name called, who shall exhibit within said city or within one-half mile thereof, a license tax not exceeding one hundred dollars for every performance or separate exhibition, and on every side-show connected therewith a license tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each performance or exhibition. If the tax herein levied is not paid before performance, it shall be double the amount levied for such license. -9 Ou every person or company exhibiting within said city or one-half mile thereof, any stage or theatrical! plays, sleight-ofhand performance, rope-walking, wire-waiking, a license tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars for every twelve hours allowed for such exhibition. The tax, if not paid in advance, shall be double. -10 On every opera house a tax not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum: Provided, if a license is levied on opera houses, no license tax, as allowed in the preceding subsection nine, shall be required of the exhibitors therein. -11 On every flying jenny, merry-go-round or mechanical contrivance for amusement within said city or one-half mile thereof, run for profit, a tax of five dollars fur each and every day it is run. I[f the tax is not paid in advance it shall be doable. -12 On every exhibition of artificial or natural curiosities for reward a tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars. -13 On every show, exhibition or performance of any kind, not othewise enumerated herein, and on every concert for reward, unless given by a religious, charitable or educational company, and on every strolling musician within said city, a license not exceeding ten dollars. -14 The board of aldermen may aiso levy, at their discretion, an annual privilege tax as follows: On dentists, local or itinerant, not exceeding ten dollars; on photographers, not exceeding twenty-five dollars; on hucksters stands, not exceeding twentyfive dollars; on itinerant dealers in lightning rods, not exceeding twenty-five dollars; on venders or agents of patent articles, not exceeding twenty-five dollars; on banks, banking business or bank agents, not exceeding one hundred dollars; on note shayers, money-lenders, brokers and real estate agents, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, on retail dealers in fresh meats, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, on dealers in fish and oysters, not exceeding ten dollars; on boarding houses, not exceeding ten dollars; on ice cream saloons, a tax not exceeding ten dollars; on dealers in fertilizers, not exceeding twenty-five dollars; on skating-rinks, not exceeding ten dollars; on dogs, not exceeding five dollars; on dealers in carriages, buggies, wagons, sewing machines, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, bicycles, cotton yarn not manufactured in Union county, not exceeding twenty-five dollars; on every person, company, firm or corporation selling pistols, bowie-knives, dirks, sling-shots, brass or metallic knuck!es or other deadly weapons of like character, in addition to all other taxes, a license tax not exceeding one hundred dollars. -15 On every itinerant physician, surgeon, dentist, chiropodist, optician, oculist, a tax not exceeding twenty-five dollars. * -16 On every person, company or firm selling spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, a license tax for every place in which such business is or is to be conducted, whether by wholesale or retail, one thousand dollars, to be paid semi-annually in advance on the first days in January and July of each year, one-half at each payment. Every person desirous of engaging in such business in said city shall apply to said board of aldermen at its first meeting in June or December in any year for license to do so, and the said board of aldermen may in its discretion direct or decline to direct the tax collector to issue such license tc any such appli: cant or for any place in said city where license is sought to be obtained for the conduct of said business. Upon the direction of the board of aldermen so to do, and the payment of the license tax therefor, it shall be the duty of the tax collector to issue to the person, company or firm named in said direction a license to conduct the business specified in said direetion at the place therein named for the period of six months, to commence on the first day of Fanuary or July next after the date of such direction to the tax collector. Any license issued by the county commissicners of Union county for the sale of liquors in the city of Monroe, without a license first issued by the board of aldermens direetion to the tax collector, shall be void. Any person, company or firm having such license who shall within the period therein le named at any time fail, neglect or refuse to comply with any rule or regulation theretofore or within such period prescribed by such board of aldermen for the conduct, control or regulation of such business, shall thereby forfeit such license, and upon such i forfeiture being declared by the hoard of aldermen, such person, company or firm shall no longer be entitled to engage in said business within said period or under said license, nor shall such person, company or firm be entitled to have refunded to him, them, or it any part of the license tax paid for such license. Any person who shall sell or aid in selling or offer to sell in said city any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors without having a license therefor, or after his license shall have been declared forfeited by the board of aldermen, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof sha!l be fined not more than fifty dollars or be imprisoned not more than thirty days. -17 They shall levy the taxes specified in subsection sixteen for the sale of liquors upon the granting of an order for license, and no license issued by the county commissioners shali be valid unless the tax specified above shall have been paid by the applicant for license: Provided, that this charter shall not have the effect to repeal the act prohibiting the sale of liquors in Union county by a dispensary, being chapter four hundred and forty-nine of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

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CHAPTER 160 n act to amend the charter of the town of Gastonia. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

If the board of commissioners shall deem it advisable to establish and maintain public schools in said town, they shall so declare by an ordinance duly adopted, in which shall be set out the maximum rate of taxation which, in their opinion, shall be levied for that purpose, and also the number of school commissioners who shall be elected. The ordinance shall fix a day, not earlier than thirty days after its adoption, when an election shall be held to ascertain the will of the people of the town upon the subject, and it shall be published for four weeks before said election in some newspaper published in said town. At said election those in favor of levying the tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be the words, for graded schools, and those opposed to levying the tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be the words against graded schools. The inspectors shall meet as soon as the polls are closed and shall declare the result, and certify the same to the secretary of the board, who shall record the same. If a majority of the qualified voters of the town shall vote in favor of said school, it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners to levy and collect annually for the use of said school a tax, the rate of which shall be fixed by the school commissioners, not however to exceed the rate mentioned in the aforesaid ordinance. This tax shall be collected as other town taxes, and shall be paid to the treasurer of said town, who shall be ea officio secretary and treasurer of the board of school commissioners. The mayor shall be the president of such board. Within ten days after their election the board shall meet and organize ; they shall hold office until the next regular municipal election, and until their successors are qualified. At the said regular election school commissioners shall be elected under the same rules and regulations as may be provided for the election of commissioners of the town. The board of school commissioners of the town of Gastonia, as herein provided for, shall be a corporation, and shall have power to acquire and hold all such personal and real property as may be needed for the schools to be maintained and established by them under the provisions of this act. They shall employ teachers, fix their pay, and make all rules and regulations for the government of said schools: Provided, however, that the said board must establish and maintain separate schools for the children of the white race, and for the children of the colored race. It shall be the duty of the schoo) commissioners of the county of Gaston, as soon as the schools herein provided for are established, to lay off, as one of the school districts of said county, all that part of said county which is within the limits of the said town of Gastonia, to be known as Gastonia school district ; and all moneys apportioned to said district under the provisions of the school laws of the state shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the board of school commissioners of said town, to be by them expended in the maintenance of said schools: Provided, that the privilege of attending is granted to all children who would be entitled to attend the public schools of the state.

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CHAPTER CXXXIX. AN ACT CONCERNING THE TOWN OF GOLDSBORO.

Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town; and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the court-house in said town at least ten -10 days before the day of election, herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters ; and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides, and his place of residence in such ward ; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do, shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward.

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CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HERTFORD AND TO ISSUE BONDS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That it shall be the duty of said board of graded school trustees to establish graded schools for the white and colored children of said graded school district. And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes, and from other sources, in such manner as may be deemed just to both races, providing equal facilities to each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools, and to the usual habits and environments of the two races: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors.

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CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :

It shall be the duty of the school committee of each district to take and return to the county superintendent of public instruction, on or before the first day of September in every year, a full and accurate census of the children between the ages of six and twenty-one, designating the race and sex. And the said committee shall also report to the said county superintendent the number of public school-houses and the value of all public school property for each race, separately.

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CHAPTER 136 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES AND TO CODIFY THE LAWS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Whereas the acts of the General Assembly relating to public education are for the purpose of aiding all the people, and espe- cially school officials, in maintaining and conducting a system of public schools and in providing revenue for the same; and Whereas a great need is apparent for collecting all the laws relating to public education and codifying them in such a way as to set forth as clearly as possible the legal duties, powers, and responsibilities of the several school officials, in order to give them and all other friends of public education a clearer concep- tion of their duties in maintaining and conducting public schools in accordance with the needs of the people and the provisions of the Constitution: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: PART I ARTICLE I. INTERPRETATIONS

Board shall provide schools for Indians in certain counties. It shall be the duty of the county board of education to provide separate schools for Indians as follows: The persons residing in Robeson and Richmond counties supposed to be descendants of a friendly tribe once residing in the eastern portion of the State, known as Croatan Indians, and who have heretofore been known as Croatan Indians, or Indians of Robeson County, and their descendants, shall be known and designated as the Cherokee Indians of Robeson County; and the persons residing in Person County supposed to be descendants of a friendly tribe of Indians and Whites Lost Colony, once residing in the eastern portion of this State, and known as Cubans, and their descendants, shall be known and designated as the Indians of Person County. NotEFor separate schools for Indians in Scotland County, see 1909, 2 720 For separate schools in Cumberland County, see 1907, c. 499, and for Sampson County, see 1917, c. 509 The Indians mentioned above and their descendants shall have separate schools for their children, school committees of their own race and color, and shall be allowed to select teachers of their own choice, subject to the same rules and regulations as are applicable to all teachers in the general school law, and there shall be excluded from such separate schools all children of the negro race to the fourth generation. (C. S. 5546, 5547.) ArT. 4 ScHOOL OFFICIALS SELECTED BY OR RESPONSIBLE TO THE BoaRD OF EDUCATION

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CHAPTER 742 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 807, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1905, AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR MECK- LENBURG COUNTY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That chapter eight hundred and seven of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by adding after section seven of said chapter the following: Sec. 7a. That for the purpose of extending to the people of Meck-: lenburg County the privileges of the free public library in the city | of Charlotte, known as the Charlotte-Carnegie Public Library, the. Board of Education for said county may appropriate annually out of the educational funds of said county ard pay to the treasurer of said public library such sum as may be sufficient to secure from the board of trustees of said library to the white citizens of Mecklenburg County the privileges and use of the books of said library, said appropriation not to exceed in any one year the sum of five hundred dollars. That whenever any such appropriation shall be made and accepted, the privileges of said library shall be extended to all white citizens within said county, under the rules and regulations adopted by said board of trustees, ,and the use of said books and the enjoyment of said privileges shall continue for such term as shall be agreed upon between the Board of Education for said county and the board of trustees for said library.

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CHAPTER 100 An act to incorporate Central Institute for Young Ladies. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : .

That Thomas W. Harris, Sterling Johnston, J. W. Heptinstall, E.C. Thorne, W. C. Johnston, C. L. Sledge, W. E. Spruill, N. E. Jenkins, M. E. Newsom, W. H. Thorne, B. R. Browning, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a joint stock company, a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of maintaintaining a school of high grade near the town of Littleton, in the county of Warren, for the intellectual, moral and religious development and training of young ladies under the name and style of Central Institute for Young Ladies, and in that name may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, aoquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property personal and real, and exercise all acts in relation thereto incident to the ownership of personal proper and real estate.

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CHAPTER 663 AN ACT TO AMEND (CHAPTER 775 OF THE PUBLIC-LOCAL LAWS OF 1913, ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROHIBIT DIS- ORDERLY CONDUCT, PREVENT PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, AND PROTECT CERTAIN CHURCHES AND ASSOCIA- TIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

That chapter seven hundred and seventy-five of the Public-Local Laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, entitled An act to prohibit disorderly conduct, prevent public drunkenness, and protect certain churches and associations, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: In section four, line two, after the word highways insert the words, or on any railway train; in lime five of said section strike out the word fifteen and insert the word fifty; also in line five strike out the word fifty and insert the words one hundred; in line six strike out the word five and insert the word thirty; also in line six strike out the word thirty and insert the word sixty. This act shall apply only to Yancey County.