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CHAPTER 978 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE MEMBERS OF THE EAST- ERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TO HOLD, INHERIT AND ALIENATE PROPERTY, AND FURTHER SECURING TO THEM THE RIGHT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.  The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Subject only to restrictions and conditions now existing or hereafter imposed under Federal statutes and regulations, or treaties, contracts, agreements, or conveyances between such Indians and the Federal Government, the several members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians residing in Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Jackson and other adjoining counties in North Carolina, and the lineal descendants of any bona fide member of such Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, shall inherit, purchase, or otherwise lawfully acquire, hold, use, encumber, convey and alienate by will, deed, or any other lawful means, any property whatsoever as fully and completely in all respects as any other citizen of the State of North Carolina is authorized to inherit, hold, or dispose of such property.
CHAPTER 422 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A RENTAL SYSTEM FOR TEXT- BOOKS USED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE STATE AND TO PROMOTE ECONOMY AND EFFIC- IENCY IN THE ADOPTION OF TEXTBOOKS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. Powers and duties of Commission. The said Textbook Purchase and Rental Commission is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to: (1). Acquire by contract, and/or purchase, such textbooks. and instructional supplies, which are, or may be on the adopted list of the State Standard Course of Study, as the Commission may find necessary to supply the needs of the children in the Public Schools of the State. (2). Provide a system of distribution of said textbooks and supplies to the children in the Public Schools of the State, and shall distribute such books as are provided under the rental system without the use of any depository other than some agency of the State. (3). Provide for uniform rental charge for said textbooks and supplies to the children in attendance upon the Public Schools of the State. Said rental charge shall be collected annually in an amount not to exceed one-third of the cost of said textbooks and supplies: Provided nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the purchase of textbooks from said Commission needed for any child in the public schools of the State, by any parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis. (4). Provide for the use of said textbooks without charge to the indigent children of the State. (5). Adopt, provide and distribute all blanks, forms and reports necessary to Keep a careful check and record of ail the books, supplies distributed, rentals collected, indigents furnished, condition and repairs of books, and such other information as said Commission may require, to the end that an accurate and complete inventory of the affairs of said Commission may be available at all times to the Governor and Council of State. (6). Cause an annual audit to be made of the affairs of the said Commission and a certified copy of same to be furnished the Governor and Council of State. (7). Books shall not be interchangeable between the white and colored schools, but shall continue to be used by the race first using same.
CHAPTER 172 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO, PUBLIC LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE, AND ALL ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF AND AD- DITIONAL THERETO; AND CHAPTER ONE HUN- DRED THIRTY OF THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES AND ALL ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF AND AD- DITIONAL THERETO; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE PRISON DEPART- MENT AND STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION INTO A SINGLE DEPARTMENT TO BE KNOWN AS STATE HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 25. The Commission shall provide separate sleeping quarters and separate eating space for the different races and the different sexes; and, in so far as it is practical to. do so, shall provide for youthful convicts to segregate to themselves.
CHAPTER 306 AN ACT TO PROVIDE UNIFORMITY IN THE APPOINTMENT OF BOARDS OF TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS AND MANAGERS OF VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS MAINTAINED BY THE STATE, AND TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE CON- SOLIDATED STATUTES RELATING THERETO, AND TO REPEAL CERTAIN STATUTES NOW IN FORCE RELATING THERETO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. Trustees for Elizabeth City State Normal School at Elizabeth City; the Fayetteville State Normal School at Fayetteville; Cherokee Indian Normal School at Pembroke; State Teachers College for Negroes at Winston-Salem. The Governor shall appoint for each of the following institutions: The Elizabeth City State Normal School at Elizabeth City, the Fayetteville State Normal School at Fayetteville; Cherokee Indian Normal School at Pembroke; State Teachers College for Negroes at Winston-Salem, nine -9 trustees, five of whom shall be appointed within thirty days from the passage of this act and four of whom shall be appointed within six months from the passage of this act. At the time of making such appointment the Governor shall name which of the present boards are to be succeeded by his appointees. The terms of the said trustees shall be four years from the date of their appointment. The Governor shall fill all vacancies. The Governor shall transmit to the Senate at the next session of the General Assembly following his appointment the names of persons appointed by him for confirmation. Sec. 9 (a). Trustees or directors of the North Carolina College for Negroes at Durham. There shall be twelve -12 trustees for the North Carolina College for Negroes at Durham. Within thirty days from the passage of this act the Governor shall appoint seven -7 members for each of said boards and within six months from the passage of this act the Governor shall appoint five -5 members for each of said boards. At the time of making such appointments he shall designate the members of the present board who are to be succeeded by his appointees.< All vacancies are to be filled by the Governor. The Governor shall transmit to the Senate at the next session of the General Assembly following his appointment the names of the persons appointed by him for confirmation.
Section 13. Each of the directors, trustees, managers or other persons whose appointments are herein provided for shall hold office until his or her successor or successors have been appointed and qualified according to law.
Section 14. The Governor shall have the power to remove any member of any of the boards of the institutions herein named, by whatsoever name called, whenever in his opinion it is to the best interest of the State to remove such person, and th yovernor shall not be required to give any reason for such removal.
CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE THE MILITARY LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND TO INCREASE THE EFFI- CIENCY OF THE MILITIA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. White and Colored Enrolled SeparatelyThe white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same organization. No organization of colored troops shall be permitted where white troops are available, and while permitted to be organized, colored troops shall be under command of white officers.
CHAPTER 123 AN ACT TO RESTORE TO THE INDIANS RESIDING IN ROBESON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES THEIR RIGHTFUL AND ANCIENT NAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. Neither this act nor any other act relating to said Cherokee Indians of Robeson County shall be construed so as to impose on said Indians any powers, privileges, rights or immunities, or #NAME? limitations on their power to contract, heretofore enacted with reference to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians residing in Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Jackson and other adjoining counties in North Carolina, or any other band or tribe of Cherokee Indians other than those now residing, or who have, since the Revolutionary War, resided in Robeson County, nor shall said Cherokee Indians of Robeson County, as herein designated, be subject to the limitations provided in sections nine hundred and seventy-five and nine hundred and seventy-six of The Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five of North Carolina. ; >
CHAPTER 83 5 ; I AN ACT TO COMPEL ALL PERSONS AND CORPORATIONS ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING OR OTHER BUSINESS ENTERPRISES WHERE MALE AND FEMALE EMPLOYEES ARE EMPLOYED TO PROVIDE SEPARATE AND DISTINCT TOILETS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That it shall be the duty of the persons or corporation mentioned under this act to locate their toilets for males and females, white and colored, in separate parts of their buildings or grounds, in buildings hereafter erected, and in those now erected, all closets shall be separated by substantial walls of brick or timber, and any employee who shall willfully intrude or use any toilet not intended for his or her sex or color shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined five dollars.
CHAPTER 384 An act to promote the comfort of travellers on railroad trains, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. That when any coach or compartment of a car for either race shall be completely filled at a station where no extra coach or car can be had and the increased number of passengers could not be foreseen, the conductor in charge of such train is hereby authorized to assign and set apart a portion of a car or compartment assigned for passengers of one race to passengers of the other race.
Section 5. That any railroad company failing to comply in good faith with the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars per day, to be recovered in an action brought against such company by any passenger on any train or boat of any railroad or steamboat company which is required by: this act to furnish separate .accommodations to the races, who has been furnished accommodations on such railroad train or steamboat in only a car or com partment with a person of a different race in violation of the provisions. of this act.
CHAPTER 83 5 ; I AN ACT TO COMPEL ALL PERSONS AND CORPORATIONS ENGAGED IN MANUFACTURING OR OTHER BUSINESS ENTERPRISES WHERE MALE AND FEMALE EMPLOYEES ARE EMPLOYED TO PROVIDE SEPARATE AND DISTINCT TOILETS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all persons and corporations employing males and females in any manufacturing industry, or other business employing more than two males and females in towns and cities having a population of one thousand persons or more, and where such employees are required to do indoor work chiefly, shall provide and keep in a cleanly condition separate and distinct toilet rooms for such employees, said toilets to be lettered and marked in a distinct manner, so as to, separate the white and colored males and females of both sexes: Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to cases where toilet arrangements cr facilities are furnished by said employer off the premises occupied by him.
CHAPTER 503 An act relating to the State Library. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the State Librarian be and he is hereby authorized to fit up a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the Library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals.
CHAPTER 1004 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 975 OF THE REVISAL OF 1905, TO PROVIDE FOR THE INCREASE OF POWER OF CHEROKEE INDIANS AND OTHERS TO TRADE, CON- TRACT OR BARTER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section nine hundred and seventy-five of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section, after the word same, the following: Provided, that this section shall not apply to any person of Cherokee Indian blood or any Cherokee Indian who understands the English language and who can speak and write the same intelligently.
CHAPTER 850 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SEPARATE ACCOMMODA- TION OF WHITE AND COLORED PASSENGERS UPON STREHT CARS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSBES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 8. That no street, suburban or inter-urban railway company, its agents, servants or employees, shall be liable to any person on account of any mistake in the designation of any passenger to a seat or part of such car set apart for passengers of the other race. ,
CHAPTER 370 AN ACT TO PROVIDE BETTER EDUCATIONAL AD- VANTAGES FOR MEMBERS OF THE INDIAN RACE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NOT OTHERWISE PRO- VIDED FOR. WHEREAS, there are no provisions now made by the State for the education of certain Indian children of Eastern North Carolina beyond the high school grades; and WHEREAS, there are Indian schools in the Counties of Samp- son, Hoke, Scotland, Cumberland, Bladen, Person, and Harnett; and WHEREAS, the Indian children enrolled in these schools have no place provided by the State to pursue their education beyond the eleventh grade and in some instances not even past the elementary grades; and WHEREAS, ample provisions have been provided by the State for higher education and teacher training of the other races; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of the department of education that better educational advantages be provided for the Indian chil- dren, including courses of instruction in teacher training and vocational education in order that equal justice under the Con- stitution may be done toward these people: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the State Board of Education be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to establish a vocational and normal school at any place it may deem most suitable for teaching and training the young Indian men and women not otherwise provided for.
Section 2. That in said vocational and normal school so created there shall be provided such courses of instruction in vocational education, teacher training and higher education as the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may deem necessary and proper in order to furnish said Indians the necessary and proper educational facilities. A preparatory department may be established in connection with any such school, and the said State Board of Education shall have the power and authority to remove or close any such school established under the authority contained in this Act.
CHAPTER 162 AN ACT RELATING TO THE ORGANIZATION AND CON. TROL OF THE COLORED ORPHANAGE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Whereas, by chapter forty-seven, Private Laws of one thou- sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the colored Orphar Asylum of North Carolina was created a body corporate under and by which an orphanage for the care and maintenance, anc the mental, moral and industrial education and training of colored orphan children was established at Oxford, in Granville County; and, Whereas, the General Assembly has heretofore made ap- propriations to said institution and such appropriations have increased from year to year; and, Whereas, it is desired that the charter of said corporation be amended so that it may more readily conform to the desires of the General Assembly with respect to the expenditure of the funds appropriated by it to said institution; Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the corporation created by chapter fortyseven, Private Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, be, and it is hereby, continued as a body corporate for a period of sixty years from the date of the ratification of this act under the name and style of The Colored Orphanage of North Carolina. The said corporation shall have power to receive, purchase, and hold property, real and personal, not to exceed in value one million dollars, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to receive gifts, donations and appropriations, to contract and be contracted with, and to do all other acts usual and necessary in the conduct of such corporation, and to carry out the intent and purposes thereof under and as subscribed by the laws of North Carolina.
CHAPTER 381 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INSTITUTION FOR THE CARE OF DELINQUENT NEGRO GIRLS IN NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. An institution, to be known and designated as State Training School for Negro Girls, is hereby created, and such institution is authorized and empowered to accept and use donations and appropriations and do all other things necessary and requisite to be done in furtherance of the purpose of its organization and existence as hereinafter set forth.
CHAPTER 821 AN ACT AUTHORIZING MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS TO ACQUIRE, MANAGE AND CONTROL CERTAIN LANDS FOR CEMETERY PURPOSES, AND AUTHORIZ- ING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUCH PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. In the event said property has been heretofore used exclusively for the burial of members of the negro race, then said cemetery or burial ground so established shall remain and be established as a burial ground for the negro race. In the event said property has been heretofore used exclusively for the burial of members of the white race, then said cemetery or burial ground so established shall remain and be established as a burial ground for the white race. ;
CHAPTER 978 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE MEMBERS OF THE EAST- ERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TO HOLD, INHERIT AND ALIENATE PROPERTY, AND FURTHER SECURING TO THEM THE RIGHT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.  The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. Any person who is a lineal descendant of any kona fide member of such Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians who is a member of said band and who is domiciled on the lands of the said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians shall be eligible to hold any elective or appointive office or position within the tribal organization, including the position of Chief, and may be elected or appointed and shall thereafter serve in such manner and for such time as a majority of the accredited membership of such Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians may decide at any election held for such purpose or appointment made by the accredited officials of said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
384 CHAPTER 1132 AN ACT TO DEFINE, CLASSIFY AND REGULATE MO- TOR CARRIERS OF PASSENGERS OVER THE HIGH- WAYS OF THE STATE FOR COMPENSATION: CON- FERRING UPON THE UTILITIES COMMISSION THE POWER TO GRANT CERTIFICATES AND PERMITS OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY; TO FIX RATES, TARIFFS AND SCHEDULES; TO REQUIRE THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PAS- SENGER STATIONS; TO PRESCRIBE AND ENFORCE RULES FOR THE SAFETY AND PROTECTION OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC AND GENERALLY TO REGU- LATE, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, MOTOR CARRIERS OF PASSENGERS OPERATING IN THIS STATE; AND TO REPEAL ARTICLE 6, CHAPTER 62 OF THE GEN- ERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA OF 19438 Ai The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 29. Separation of races. The commission shall require: every common carrier by motor vehicle to provide separate but substantially equal accommodations for the white and colored races at passenger stations or waiting rooms where the carrier receives passengers of both races, and on all common carriers by motor vehicles operating on a route or routes over which such carrier transports passengers of both races. Provided that any requirement as to separate accommodation for the races shall not apply to specially chartered motor vehicles or to negro servants and attendants and their employers, or to officers or guards transporting prisoners.
CHAPTER 952 AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISEASES AND TO PROVIDE FOR COMMITTING SUCH PERSONS TO INSTITUTIONS FOR OBSERVATION TO DETER- MINE THEIR MENTAL CONDITION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 53. That Section one hundred and twenty-two eightythree of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by striking out the word insane in the catch line and in lines two, four, nine and fifteen and inserting in lieu thereof the words mentally disordered.
CHAPTER 370 AN ACT TO PROVIDE BETTER EDUCATIONAL AD- VANTAGES FOR MEMBERS OF THE INDIAN RACE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NOT OTHERWISE PRO- VIDED FOR. WHEREAS, there are no provisions now made by the State for the education of certain Indian children of Eastern North Carolina beyond the high school grades; and WHEREAS, there are Indian schools in the Counties of Samp- son, Hoke, Scotland, Cumberland, Bladen, Person, and Harnett; and WHEREAS, the Indian children enrolled in these schools have no place provided by the State to pursue their education beyond the eleventh grade and in some instances not even past the elementary grades; and WHEREAS, ample provisions have been provided by the State for higher education and teacher training of the other races; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of the department of education that better educational advantages be provided for the Indian chil- dren, including courses of instruction in teacher training and vocational education in order that equal justice under the Con- stitution may be done toward these people: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the Governor of the State of North Carolina shall have the power to appoint a board of six trustees for any school created under the provisions of this Act, which board shall have the general management of such school and such other powers for the management thereof as are not vested in the State Board of Education or the State Superintendent. In addition to the six members above: provided for, the State Superinendent of Public Instruction shall be ex officio a member of said board of trustees and chairman thereof. Two members of the board of trustees shall be appointed for a term of two years, two for four years, and two for six years, and thereafter, as vacancies occur by the expiration of the term of office of each, his successor shall be appointed for a term of six years. Vacancies occuring by resignation or death, or otherwise, of any member of said board of trustees before the expiration of his term of office, shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term. The original appointments shall be made by the Governor in the month of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one. The members of the board of trustees shall receive no compensation for their services other than actual expenses while attending meetings of the board. The board of trustees shall elect one of its members as secretary. Said board shall have the power, subject to the approval of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to elect the teachers who shall teach in any such school.
CHAPTER 41 AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE RAILROADS OF NORTH CARO- LINA TO SUPPLY ADDITIONAL FACILITIES AT DEPOTS TO EXCHANGE MILEAGE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all railroad companies of one hundred miles or more in length doing business in whole or in part in the State of North Carolina are hereby required to provide and keep at all depots in cities or towns of two thousand and over in population as fixed by the United States Census of the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, two windows, opening in the waiting-room for passengers of the race using the greatest amount of mileage or coupon books, for the sale or exchange of fares on all passenger trains in North Carolina; one of said windows to be used for the sale of cash fares exclusively, and the other for the sale and exchange of mileage or coupon books. Each window to be attended by an agent whose duty it shall be to wait upon the traveling public, during the hours now prescribed, for the sale of cash-fare tickets and the sale and exchange of mileage or coupon books. And that over each such window the said railroad companies shall be and they are hereby required to place and keep a sign, painted in plain letters, Mileage Exchange and Cash Fares, respectively : Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any railroad company in North Carolina, as aforesaid, selling mileage or coupon books at a rate of not more than two cents per mile and pulling or taking the same on the train: Provided further, that all the provisions of this section shall apply to the following railroad junctions in this State, irrespective of population, namely: Dunn, Selma, Maxton, Hamlet, Norlina, and Sanford.
CHAPTER 390 . n act to amend an act to establish and provide for the militia and for | the support and maintenance of the state guard, ratified March sixth, | eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Phe General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. 1 That section two be amended to read as follows: Phat the white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, ut shall never be compelled to serve in the same organization: yovtded, that no organization of colored troops shall be permitted while white troops are available and that when permitted to be organized colored troops shall be under command of white  officers. : i
CHAPTER 817 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A REFORMATORY OR MANUAL- TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE DETENTION AND REFOR- MATION OF THE CRIMINAL NEGRO YOUTH OF THE STATE. Whereas it appears to this General Assembly that there are in this State many negro youths between the ages of seven and four- teen years who violate the criminal law, and that while such youths should be detained and punished and taught the doctrines of religion, good morals and how to work, it would be to the best interest of such youths and expedient that they be not associated with older and more hardened criminals, but that they should be kept separate therefrom: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the said trustees are empowered to purchase, at some suitable and convenient point in this State, not less than twenty-five acres nor more than five hundred acres of land, whereon to erect and operate a school] for the training and moral and industrial development of the criminally delinquent negro children of the State; and when such school shall have been organized the said trustees may in their discretion receive therein such delinquent and criminal children under the age of fourteen years as may be sent or committed thereto under any order or commitment by the judges of the Superior Courts or the recorders or other presiding officers of the city or criminal courts, and shall have the sole right and authority to keep, restrain and control them during their minority or until such time as they shall deem proper for their discharge, under such proper and humane rules and regulations as may be adopted by said trustees.
CHAPTER 720 AN ACT TO PROVIDE SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR THE INDIAN RACE IN SCOTLAND COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the children of the white race in Scotland County shall be taught in public schools provided for them exclusively ; and no child of negro blood, however remote the strain, or of Indian blood to the eighth degree, inclusive, shall attend a public school provided for the white race in said county; and all children of the negro race shall be taught in the public schools of said county provided for the negro race exclusively; and all children of Indian blood, other than Croatan Indians, to the eighth degree, inclusive, shall be taught in the public schools of Scotland County provided for the Indian race, other than Croatan Indians, exclusively; and no child of negro blood, however remote the strain, shall attend the public schools provided for the Indian race in said county; but there shall be no discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race: Provided, that the children of the Croatan Indian blood shall attend public schools provided for them exclusively, no discrimination being made either in their favor or to their prejudice: Provided further, that the Board of Yducation of Scotland County shall not exclude children of Indian blood, other than Croatan Indians, from attending any public school provided for the white race, except upon petition of a majority of the patrons of said school.
CHAPTER 168 AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE TRUSTEES OF THE INDIAN NORMAL SCHOOL OF ROBESON COUNTY TO TRANSFER TITLE TO PROPERTY OF SAID SCHOOL BY DEED TO STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES FOR SAID SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That the board of trustees of said Indian Norma! School of Robeson County shall have the power to employ and discharge teachers, to prevent negroes from attending said school, and to exercise the usual functions of control and management of said school, their action being subject to the approval of the State Board of Education.
CHAPTER 507 An act to regulate elections. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 12. If the applicant for registration is an Indian, his name shall appear in a separate column from the column for the names of the white and colored persons.
CHAPTER 832 AN ACT FOR THE SEPARATION OF WHITE AND COLORED PRISONERS IN THE STATE PENITENTIARY AND IN THE COUNTY JAILS AND CONVICT CAMPS DURING SLEEPING AND EATING HOURS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That white and colored prisoners shall not be confined or shackled together in the same room of any. building or tent, either in the State penitentiary or at any State or county convict camp during the eating or sleeping hours, and at all other times the separation of the two races shall be as complete as practicable.
CHAPTER 60 An act to amend the laws of 1885 and 1887 so as to provide additional educational facilities: for the Croatan Indians, citizens of Robesen county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter fifty-one, section two, of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five be amended by adding after the word law in the last line of said section the words, and there shall be excluded from such separate schools for the said Croatan Indians all children of the negro race to the fourth generation.
CHAPTER 98 AN ACT TO. INCORPORATE THE CHADBOURN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the said corporation may acquire and hold by purchase, gift, or otherwise as much land as may be necessary for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a cemetery near the town of Chadbourn, Columbus County, and may sell or dispose of land and suitable burial lots to be used exclusively for a place of burial for the dead of said town and all such other people as the officers of said association may permit to be buried therein: Provided, no negro or any person of African descent shall be buried on any lot belonging to said association.
CHAPTER 215 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE INDIANS IN ROBESON COUNTY AND TO PROVIDE FOR SAID INDIANS SEPARATE APARTMENTS IN THE STATE HOSPITAL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the school situated near the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, known as Croatan Indian Normal School, shall hereafter be known and designated as The Indian Normal School of Robeson County, and in that name shall be entitled to all of the privileges and powers heretofore conferred by any law of the State of North Carolina or any laws hereafter enacted for the benefit of said school.
Section 5. That the Board of Directors for the State Hospital for the Insane at Raleigh are hereby authorized and directed to provide and set apart at said hospital, as soon after passage of this act as practicable, suitable apartments and wards for the accommodation of any of said Indians of Robeson County who may be entitled under the laws relating to insane persons to be admitted to said hospital.
Section 6. That the sheriff, jailer, or other proper authorities of Robeson County shall provide in the common jail of Robeson County and in the Home for the Aged and Infirm of Robeson County separate cells, wards, or apartments for the said Indians of Robeson County, in all cases where it shall be necessary under the laws of this State to commit any of said Indians to said jail or County Home for the Aged and Infirm.
CHAPTER 575 AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE INDIAN PUBLIC ~SCHOOLS OF ROBESON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. To protect the public schools established in Robeson County for the education of the Indian race only, that the following persons of the Indian race residing in Robeson County shall be appointed a committee, to wit, J. B. Oxendine, J. E. Woodell, H. T. Lowrie, O. H. Lowrie, and W. B. Wilkins, and that all questions as to the race of those applying for admission into said Indian public school shall be submitted, that no one shall be admitted to said schools unless approved by a majority of said cominittee: Provided, that an appeal shall lie from the action of said committee to the county board of education of Robeson County, which shall have authority to review, investigate, and finally determine the matter.
CHAPTER 63 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BENSON, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 47. That the commissioners may establish and regulate all public buildings necessary and proper for the town, and may preyent the erection or building of wooden buildings or structures in any part of the town where the same may increase the danger of fire, or where they may deem such buildings improper; that the said board of commissioners may also regulate and prescribe certain streets, blocks, and lots thereon on which negroes may reside, and certain streets, blocks, and lots on which white people may reside within the town.
CHAPTER 284, AN ACT TO REGULATE THE EMPLOYMENT OF COLORED NURSES. IN HOSPITALS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That in every public and private hospital, sanatorium, and institution in North Carolina where colored patients are admitted for treatment and where nurses are employed it shall be mandatory upon the management of every such hospital, sanatorium and institution to employ colored nurses to care for and wait upon said colored patients.
CHAPTER 406 AN ACT TO AMEND SUBDIVISION 20, CHAPTER 89, RE- VISAL OF 1905, RELATING TO THE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, WHITE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That said subdivision be amended to read as follows, viz.: The appropriations made or which may hereafter be made by the Congress for the benefit of colleges of agricultural and mechanical arts shall be divided between the white and colored institutions in this State in the ratio of the white population to the colored, as ascertained by the preceding National census.
CHAPTER 215 AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE INDIANS IN ROBESON COUNTY AND TO PROVIDE FOR SAID INDIANS SEPARATE APARTMENTS IN THE STATE HOSPITAL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That in all laws enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina relating to said Indians subsequent to the enactment of said chapter fifty-one of the Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the words Croatan Indians be and the same are hereby stricken out and the words Indians of Robeson County inserted in lieu thereof.
CHAPTER 218 AN ACT TO COMPEL ATTENDANCE OF INDIANS AT SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That nothing in this act shall apply to any child, parent or guardian with less than one-eighth Indian blood.
CHAPTER 276 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF BRUNS- WICK, SURRY AND EDGECOMBE COUNTIES TO PAY CERTAIN SCHOOL CLAIMS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the board of education of the counties of Brunswick, Surry and Edgecombe shall at the time required by law for distribution of the public school funds for the counties in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, ascertain the amount of outstanding and unpaid school drafts that have been issued for teachers wages prior to March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and which have been audited by said board; and shall notify the school committee of the several districts by advertisement at the court houses the amount of claims outstanding against each several districts, together with the amount then due the same, haying regard to the distinction between the white and colored schools; and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to pay off the said old drafts out of any school money in his hands belonging to the district upon which such draft or drafts were drawn. And where new districts have been formed or the boundaries changed the payment of the drafts shall be made by the board in the most equitable manner possible.
CHAPTER 32 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CHARLOTTE PARK AND TREE COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 26. That H. J. Green, C. S. L.A. Taylor, Silas B. Washington, Samuel J. Caldwell, J. T. Sanders, J. Henry Warren, Ed. W. Butler, W. H. Houser, Louis Perry, Rufus Caldwell, S. B. Pride and Walker Hill and their successors be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Charlotte Publie Park Commission for Colored People, and shall have charge and control of the park or parks for colored people, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, etc., as are conferred on the trustees before mentioned for white people in reference to their parks. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte shall provide a suitable place for a park or parks and the said trustees shall make all rules, regulations and by-laws for its government and have all the powers conferred on and be subject to the limitations imposed on the white trustees. All ordinances of the city of Charlotte that apply to the white parks shall apply to the colored park or parks.
CHAPTER 254, An act to amend section one thousand eight hundred and ten of The Code. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That section one thousand eight hundred and ten of The Code of North Carolina be amended by adding thereto the words: That all marriages between an Indian and a Negro or between an Indian and a person of Negro descent to the third generation inclusive shall be utterly void: Provided, this act shali only apply to the Croatan Indians.
CHAPTER 160 An act for the relief of certain citizens of Rowan county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That all the citizens of the white race entitled by law to the benefit of the public school fund, living and resident within one and a half miles of Thyatira church, in Rowan county, be and they are hereby allowed and permitted to use and enjoy that portion of the public school fund apportioned to them by law for the payment of tuition and other expenses in attendance at Thyatira academy, in Rowan county.
CHAPTER 582 An act to incorporate Newton Female Seminary, Catawba county.. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. The purpose of this institution is for the education of females of the white race, and no person of color shall own stock therein, and any stock transferred to a person of color shall be forfeited to said corporation.  ;
CHAPTER 141 An act in reference to the public schools in Raleigh township, Wake county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : That in order that the public school interests of Raleigh township, Wake county, may: be more efficiently and con- veniently conducted, the following shall be the law for the government of the said interests in said township:
Section 6. The school committee provided for in this act. shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in Raleigh township as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up the public schools for both races.
CHAP THR lk An et to establish a graded school in the town of Brevard in Tran- sylvania county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The special tax thus collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons shall be applied and expended exclusively to the purpose of a graded public school which shall be free to all white persons within the school age living within the corporate limits of said town of Brevard; and for the education of colored persons within the school age living in said town, as hereafter provided.
Section 3. And the special tax collected from the property and polls of colored persons shall be expended exclusively for the education of colored children of both sexes within the school age residents in said town, by the same persons and as other free common school funds are or may be by law expended.
Section 5. That said board of education of the town of Brevard may sue and be sucd, have a common seal, purchase and hold real estate for the purpose of said corporation as herein expressed, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in value, and may adopt rules for its government, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State; and the said board shall receive and apply to the purpose of said graded school all public moneys from whatsoever source arising, which are or may hereafter be applicable to the common school education of white children within the school age, and residents within the town of Brevard.
CHAPTER 87 An act to authorize the town of Durham to issue bonds. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That the bonds shall not be sold for less than their face value, and that the proceeds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be expended by the Durham graded school committee in the purchase and erection of suitable grounds and buildings for the Durham graded or public schools for white children: Provided, however, that this act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town for their ratification or rejection at an election to be held in said town at such a time as the commissioners may appoint within twelve months from the ratification of this act. .Th said election shall| be advertised byithe;commissioners of said: town for thitty days prior to the.day of election in,at least. tworpapers published an said.town. i-Those,who,are in favor,of issuing; said bonds shall, vote -{For, school bonds, those, whozare opposed shall vote Ne school, bonds..5:Dhat,the number, of. votes bast,for and against said (honds shall be deposited sinya special box, counted and; duly certified .by ithe inspectors pf said, election and returned to the:commissioners.of said town, who,shall, certify theoresultpef said selection ol ithe Secretary! of State,and toithe register.of deeds of Durham county. df a, majorityoof themotes cast) shall-bei d+Kor school, bonds,,then ; said,com missioners) shall proceed: at once to issuesand sellthe bonds,:but; d a, miajority; of ithe votes, cast shall be .against,on!{ Novschool, bonds, then this act shallbe; ofi;mo\ force arid effect. . The anspectors shall, be, appointed and the election shall. be: held: as-all otherselections inj the:town. 19b10 [[ede madivd to awot od
CHAPTER 51 An to provide for separate schools for Croatan Indians in Robeson county. Wuersas, the Indians now living in Robeson county claim to be descendants of a friendly tribe who once re- sided in eastern North Carolina on the Roanoke river, known as the Croatan Indians; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That said Indians and their descendants shall have separate schools for their children, school committees of their own race and color, and shall be allowed to select teachers of their own choice, subject to the same rules and regulations as are applicable to all teachers in the general school law.
CHAPTER 831 An act to amend the charter of the town of Winston, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That all moneys levied and collected by the board of commissioners or corporate government of said town of Winston as privilege taxes, that is to say, as licenses of all descriptions on all trades, occupations, professions, exhibitions and business, shall be paid to the treasurer of the Winston commissioners of graded schools for the use and benefit of the graded schools, white and colored, of said town.
CHAPTER 7 An Act to establish the Edenton Graded School. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact ;
Section 1. That a graded school is herehy incorporated to be known as the Edenton Graded School for school district number three of Chowan county, for the white race, and that B. F. Elhott, T. C. Bradham, G. H. Coke, J. A. Harrell, H. De B. Hooper, W. Y. Warren and T. White, A. are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the same until July first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter stated, and said school shall be free to all the white children between six and twenty-one years of age, who are residents of said school district, and shall be the public school of said district.
CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That Charles M. Brown, Charles K. Gallagher and George V. Credle, W. C. Mallison, Charles F. Warren, Jos. L. Winfield, E.S. Hoyt, W. A. Blount and W. T. Farrow, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites, and that Henry Basco, Hampton Bonner, Haywood Hunter, Henry S. Jones, Charles Blackledge, J. W. Peyton, J. M. Williams, Sylvester Dibble and Romeo Little, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the colored: school. The first three trustees named herein for each school shall hold office for one year, the second three for two years, and the third three for three years, from the first Monday in May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. That any vacancy occurring in said board shall be filled by the appointment of the board of commissioners of [the] town of Washington, and when any trustees term of office has expired, the said board of town commissioners shall appoint his successor, who shall hold office for three years: Provided always, that all the trustees for white schools shall be white persons, and the trustees for colored schools shall be colored.
CHAPTER 282 An act relating to graded schools in Guilford county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That upon the written application of fifty white tax payers or of a like number of colored tax payers, citizens of any incorporated town in Guilford county, asking the establishment of a graded school or schools in such town, the whites asking for a white graded school and the colored asking for a colored graded school, it shall be the duty of the mayor or other chief officer of such town to submit the question of a graded school for white children to the white qualified voters of said town, or of a graded school for colored children to the colored qualified voters of said town, as the case may be, at the first regular election thereafter held in said town for mayor and commissioners thereof, first giving four weeks notice thereof in some newspaper published in said town, or if there be no such newspaper, then by printed notice posted at five public places in said town for thirty days immediately preceding the day of such election.