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CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN GOLDSBORO TOWXK- SHIP IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That E. B. Boyden, J. A. Bonitz, H. L. Grant, H.5, Lee, W. A. Deans, Nathan Bogatt and B. F. Arrington, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the white children.
Section 5. That Hinton Sugg, Anestus Smith, William Crockett, Hillery Sears, Squire Hodges, Nathan Boyett, (colored,) and C. A. Scott, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children; that said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers, and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children.
Section 7. That the public school money which shall, from time to time, be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the colored children in said township shall be applied for keeping up the public graded school for the colored children, under the orders and directions of the board of trustees for said graded school for the colored children.
CHAPTER 149 AN ACT TO DONATE ONE ACRE OF STATE LAND TO SHAW UNI- VERSITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERECTING A COLORED MEDI- CAL COLLEGE. Wuereas, Certain philanthropists have contributed and placed in the hands of Henry M. Tupper, president of Shaw University, a sufficient sum of money to erect the necessary buildings for a colored medical college ; AND WHEREAS, It is very necessary to have said college located upon ground contiguous to said University; now therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That one square acre of ground, to be taken from the southeast corner of the lot on which the goy- , ernors mansion is now located, shall be and the same is hereby donated to the trustees of Shaw University, to be by them held in trust for the purpose of establishing a medical college for colored students.
CHAPTER 141 AN ACT TO CARRY INTO EFFECT CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE IN REGARD TO THE UNIVER. SITY. WHEREAS, The constitution of this state, by section sixth, chapter ninth, provides that the general assembly shall have authority to provide for the maintenance and management of the University of North Carolina; AND WHEREAS, By article ninth and section seventh of the constitution, it is made the duty of the general assem- bly, as soon as practicable, to provide that the benefits of the University shall be extended to the youth of the state free of charge for tuition ; AND WHEREAS, By article ninth, section fourteenth of the constitution, it is made the duty of the general assem- bly to establish and maintain in connection with the University, a department of agriculture, of mechanics, of mining and of normal instruction ; AND WHEREAS, Twelve years having elapsed since the adoption of the foregoing provisions of the constitu- tion, in the opinion of the general assembly, it is now practicable, and it therefore becomes their duty to the extent hereinafter mentioned, to carry the same into effect ; : AND WHEREAS, An efficient system of public schools cannot be obtained without competent teachers for the same, and it is of vast importance to the well-being of the state that its young men of all pursuits shall be able to secure the advantages of higher education as cheaply as possible ; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That the state board of education be directed to establish other normal schools than thosg at Fayetteville and the University, and that the sum of two thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated for such schools for white teachers, and the sum of two thonsand dollars for such schools for colored teachers authorized by this act, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for normal schools: Provided, however, That the number of schools shall not be less than four for each color.
CHAPTER 117 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. Assessment and valuation of lands :
Section 28. The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the firsts Monday in November, after the lists are completed by the commissioners and deposited with him, shall return to the auditor an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and tke value of town lots, and the number of white and colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount of state and county tax paid on each subject, and the ameunt paid on the whole. Atthesame time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the list of the poor, county and shool taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll, and on each one hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes. Penalty on clerk for default :
CHAPTER 50 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF GOLDSBORO, IN WAYNE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the city ; and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said county commissioners in said city at least ten days before the day of election herein provided fer; and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books, opposite the name of each person registering, the ward in which he resides and his place ef residence in such ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his wilful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to registration in such ward.
CHAPTER 40 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 5. Said registrars shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration hooks; and it shall be the duty of said registrars, appointed for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one and thereafter, to open their books at some convenient place in the ward for which they were appointedon or before the last Monday in March in such years, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration, and entitled to register and vote in that ward for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and designating on the registration book, opposite the names of each person registering, the place of his residence in his ward; and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward, his wilful failure to do so shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he is a citizen of North Carolina, and has resided in the city of Charlotte ninety days and in the ward for which he offers to register thirty days next preceding that date, or is otherwise entitled to register; and, if any person shall wilfully swear falsely in such affidavit, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars, and to be imprisoned sixty days in the county jail: Provided, That after the tirst registration shall have been made by virtue hereof, a new registration may not be made biennially, but such registration book shall be revised so as to show an accurate list of electors previously registered, and still residing in said city without requiring such electors to be registered anew. And such registrars shall, on or before the last Monday in March biennially, open said books for the registration of any electors entitled to registration, whose names have never before been registered in such ward, or do not appear in the revised list: Provided, however, That the board of aldermep may atany time order a new registration in the manner herein prescribed.
CHAPTER 37 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the charter of the town of Winston be amended by adding the following as a part thereof as contained in chapter one hundred and seventeen, acts of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven: that the commissioners of graded schools of the town of Winston shall be authorized to purchase lots and erect and furnish proper buildings for the graded schools, white and colored of said town, from taxes to be levied and collected on the assessed property and polls of said town for said purposes: Provided, Said taxes shall not exceed twentyfive cents on the one hundred dollars of property or seventy-five cents on the poll in any one year, and shall not be continued longer than two years.
CHAPTER 67 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF WINSTON AND THE AMENDMENTS THERETO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 33. The commissioners of the town shall provide for the establishment and support of a system of graded schools under the following conditions, to-wit:  1 No interest-bearing debt of the corporation shall be , created for this purpose. ; 2 The schools shall be open to all bona fide residents  of the town, of all races, between the ages of six and  twenty-one, but the white and colored schools shall be in  distinct and separate buildings and departments, and the schools shall have separate apartments for the higher  classes of males and females. 3 The fund raised by taxation shall be used only for the payment of the salaries of teachers. 4 No fee or tuition shall be exacted from or on behalf of any one entitled to the benefits of the schools of more ~ than fifty cents per annum, and at the same ratio for a  session of less time. 5 Persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the school from their homes, or as boarders,  on the payment of tuition fees to be fixed by the school  commissioners. 6 Suitable buildings, furniture and apparatus for the schools shall be provided by voluntary effort. 7 The tax for school purposes shall not exceed twenty   s_                                     feents on the hundred dollars of assessed property and polls; and twenty-five per cent. of the revenues raised ) ander sections fifteen, seventeen and eighteen, and by fines and forfeitures shall be paid to the graded school fund. _ 9 The schools shall not be established until the subject, with the conditions above, has been submitted to the qualified voters of the town on thirty days notice in the town papers and at the court house doors, and ratified by a majority of said voters at an election to be held as other town elections. : _ 10 The said proposition when voted down may be sub- mitted at other elections, but not oftener than once in peach year.
CHAPTER CCLXXII. AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE GUARD-
Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same companies, battalions or regiments. .
CHAPTER 265 An act to establish a normal school for the colored race in the town of Elizabeth City, in the county of Pasquotank. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the state board of education to establish a normal school at Elizabeth City, in the county of Pasquotank, for the teaching and training of teachers of the colored race to teach in the common schools of the state.
CHAPTER 209 An act to incorporate the Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That W. D. Newsome, George Keen, C. 8 Brown, William Reid, I. Boone, Thomas Jernigan, James Rooks, Levi Brown, W. H. Smith,and their associates and successors in office, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of  The Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford, for the education of colored people, and assuch they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of similar institutions. The trusteesand directors may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and may acquire and hold such personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain and operatea school of high grade, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, such property to be exempt from taxation.
CHAPTER 320 An act to provide for the general supervision of railroads, steamboat or canal companies, express and telegraph companies doing business in the state of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 23. That said commissioners shall have power, whenever they deem it expedint and practicable, to require any railroad corporation operating a railroad or part of a railroad in this state to provide separate and equal accommodations for the white and colored races on the passenger trains and also at the passenger stations or waiting rooms in this state, and for failure to comply with the orders of said commissioners made under this section the penalty prescribed in section twenty of this act shall be imposed.
CHAPTER 330 An act to establish a graded school in district number one in Cherokee county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of education of the eounty of Cherokee, state of North Carolina, shall and they are hereby authorized to, submit to the qualified voters of school district number one for the white race under such rules and regulations and at such time within twelve months after the ratification of this act as the board may prescribe, whether a tax shall be annually levied for the support of the school of said district provided for by this act at the election held under the provisions of this act. Those who favor the levying of such tax shall vote on written or printed ballots without device the words * For school, and those who are opposed to the levying of such tax shall vote on written or printed ballots without device the words ** Against school. The penalties for illegal and fraudulent voting in this election shall be the same as in the election for members of the general assembly. The county board of education shall give at least thirty days notice of the time of holding said election in one or more newspapers published in said district.
CHAPTER 360 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Said registrars shall be furnished with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrars to open their books at the time and place prescribed in chapter seventy-three of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five, which is made a part hereof, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and. entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrars to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters.
CHAPTER 313 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS OF THE CITY OF HICKORY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That for the purposes and benefits of this act, all the territory within the corporate limits of the city of Hickory, Catawba County, as is now or shall hereafter be prescribed, shall be and remain and is hereby constituted a public-school district for both white and colored children, and shall hereafter be known as the Hickory School District, and that a special tax for school purposes, to wit, twenty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of property and sixty cents on each taxable poll, shall continue to be levied and collected annually, to the same extent and in the same manner as the said tax is now and has been heretofore levied and collected in the Hickory Graded-school District: Provided, that if a majority of the registered voters of said city of Hickory shall vote in favor of the tax hereinafter provided for, then the tax for the use and benefit of the schools of said district shall be levied and collected in amounts, at times and in the manner hereinafter provided.
CHAPTER 306 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL, TO BE KNOWN AS SALEM GRADED SCHOOL, OF SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the board of county commissioners of the county of Surry are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the qualified voters of said Salem School District, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under such rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers, the question whether an annual tax shall-be levied therein for the support of a graded public free school for the white children and a graded public free school for the colored children therein, in said district. Hach voter shall vote a printed ballot with the words For Schools or No Schools thereon, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules as govern elections of county officers.
CHAPTER 298 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER AND EXTEND THE COR- PORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF MADISON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. That the registrar shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration book of the said town in such a manner that said: book shal! show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such town and still residing therein and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall, also. between the hours of seven oclock A. M. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March, up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the book for the registration of any electors residing in the town and entitled to registration whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who mmay apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said town, keeping the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters; and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years and in the town of Madison ninety days previous to the day of election, and that he is twentyone years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said town, as defined in section four of this act. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, on fifteen days notice before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary and proper.
CHAPTER 282 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE PEACHTREE HIGH SCHOOL, CHEROKEE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. The board of trustees provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in said district as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the public schools of both races in proportion to the number and advancement of the pupils, respectively.
CHAPTER 254 AN ACT TO APPOINT TRUSTEES FOR THE YANCEYVILLE PEMALE ACADEMY AND TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER SAID TRUSTEES TO SELL AND CONVEY IN FEE SIMPLE THE LOT UPON WHICH SAID ACADEMY IS SITUATED, AND TO TURN THE PROCEEDS OF SAID SALE OVER TO SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN FOR DISTRICT No. 388, FOR THE WHITE RACE, TO BE USED IN REPAIRING AND IM- PROVING DAN RIVER INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Whereas the Yanceyville Female Academy has been used for school purposes but for one year in the last past twentythree years; and whereas there are no trustees to hold said property; and whereas it is the desire of the people of Yanceyville and those who would naturally be the patrons of said academy, if used for school purposes, to sell the lot upon which said academy building is situated, and to use the proceeds of said sale, when made, in repairing and improving the school building located in said town of Yanceyville and known as Dan River Institute: now, therefore, G. A. Anderson, R. L. Mitchelle and Thomas P. Womack are hereby appointed trustees of said Yanceyville Female Academy, with power and authority to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, after due notice, the lot or parcel of land in the town of Yanceyville, Caswell County, whereon the Yanceyville Female Academy is situated, and generally known and designated as the Yanceyville Female Academy lot; and the said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to make a fee-simple deed for said lot to the purchaser; and the proceeds of said sale, after paying the costs of said sale, the trustees will turn over to F. W. Brown, N. C. Brandon and T. J. Florance, school committeemen for School District Number Thirty-eight, for the white race, in Caswell County, to be used by them and their successors in office in repairing and improving Dan River Institute, a school building situated in the town of Yanceyville, wherein the public school for the white race in said District Number Thirty-eight has been taught for the past twelve years.
CHAPTER 176 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WALNUT COVE GRADED- SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the territory embraced within the following bounds, to wit, beginning at a stake two and a quarter miles north of the schoolhouse in Walnut Cove, in the county of Stokes, and running west two miles to a stake; thence south to a stake in the Forsyth County line; thence east with said line four miles to a stake; thence north to a stake, two miles east of the beginning ; thence west two miles to a stake, at the beginning point, lying and being in the county of Stokes, shall be and is hereby constituted a public-school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Walnut Cove Graded-school District. The Board of County Commissioners of Stokes County shall cause the county surveyor to survey and run and locate the boundaries of said district, as herein set out, at least ten days before the election herein provided for, and to certify the same, with a plat thereof, to the board. The expense of such survey and plat shall be paid for out of the funds of said district.
CHAPTER 72 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: '
Section 9. Said registrars shall be furnished by said board of aldermen with registration books, and said registrars shall open their books at such places in the city of Winston as may be desig: nated by said aldermen, on the second Tuesday in April next preceding the election, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register or yote in the ward or precinct for which such registrar has been appointed, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and designating on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the place of his residence in his ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose the place of his residence in his ward his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to register in such ward. Any person offering to register shall be required to take an oath that he has been a bona fide resident of North Carolina for two years, of the city of Winston and of the ward in which he proposes to register for four months next pre ceding that date, and that he has not been convicted of any crime which by the laws of North Carolina disqualifies him from voting. In said oath he shall specify the place of his residence in such ward. If any person shall willfully swear falsely in such affidavit he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof be punished as for larceny: Provided, that after the first registration shall have been made, as provided for herein, a new registration shall not be biennially held unless the board of aldermen shall at their regular meeting in December determine that the same is necessary, and by due advertisement give notice of the same and the place where the books of registration shall be opened, but a revision of the registration books shall be made, beginning on Saturday next preceding each election to be held for said. city, in accordance with the provisions of the general law.
CHAPTER 53 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. _ The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 20. That said board of graded-school trustees shall establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said graded-school district, shall fix a curriculum of studies, adopt text-books, provide for instruction other than that included in the prescribed course, fix the rate of tuition to be charged therefor, and admit pupils residing without the limits of said graded-school district upon such terms as the said board of trustees may deem just and reasonable.
CHAPTER 58 _AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF BEAUFORT, CARTERET COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Beaufort, and also all the territory embraced and included as it is now laid out in the present Public School District Number Eighteen, in Beaufort Township, shall be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as the Beaufort Graded School District.
CHAPTER 387 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE J. C. BRASWELL AND J. W. SHER- ROD TO DISINTER AND REMOVE THE DEAD BODIES BURIED IN THE LOT ON CHURCH STREET, IN THE CITY OF ROCKY. MOUNT, KNOWN AS THE OLD METHODIST CHURCH LOT, AND THE LOTS ADJACENT THERETO, AND TO REINTER THEM ELSEWHERE, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That J. C. Braswell, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and J. W. Sherrod, of Hamilton, North Carolina, are authorized to disinter and remove the dead bodies buried in the lot on Church Street, in the city of Rocky Mount, known as the old Methodist Church lot, and in the lots adjacent thereto, as described in deed, recorded in book one hundred and two, at page two hundred and eleven, Nash County registry: Provided, that the bodies of white people there buried shall be decently buried in Pine View Cemetery, and the bodies of colored people there buried shall be decently buried in Unity Cemetery. i
CHAPTER 424 AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. Said registrar shall be furnished by said county commissioners with registration books at the expense of the town, and it shall be the duty of said registrar to open his books at the time and place designated by said county commissioners in said town, at least thirty days before the day of election herein provided for, and to register therein the names of all persons applying for registration and entitled to register and vote. It shall be the duty of the registrar to keep the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of colored voters, and he shall designate on the registration books opposite the name of each person registering the ward in which he resides and his place of residence in such ward, and if any applicant for registration shall not disclose his place of residence in his ward, his willful failure so to do shall be prima facie evidence that he is not entitled to registration in such ward.
CHAPTER 298 AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF WINDSOR TO CON- VEY CERTAIN SCHOOL PROPERTY TO THE WINDSOR GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Windsor, in Bertie County, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to convey by deed executed by said mayor and clerk of said town and all of the said commissioners the property on Queen Street, known as the Windsor Academy lot, together with all buildings thereon; which said property shall be held by the Trustees of the Windsor Graded School District for the purpose of a public school for the white race of said graded school district.
CHAPTER 297 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL TAX SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CASWELL COUNTY TO BE KNOWN AS SEMORA GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the following described territory, lying and being in Caswell County, in Milton Township, covering Milton School Districts Numbers Thirty-one and Thirty-two, bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stake in the Person County line at a point where it is intersected by the line of School District Number Thirty, near John W. Smiths residence; thence with said Person County line north to the Virginia and North Carolina State line; thence west along said Virginia and North Carolina State line to a stake near Miss Elizabeth Connellys; thence south along known lines of School Districts Thirty-one and Thirty-two to the corner stake in Leesburg Township line, near M. P. Hixs residence; thence east with the line of District Number Thirty to the beginning, near John W. Smiths, be incorporated into and established as a special tax school district for the   white race and colored race, to be known as Semora Graded School.
CHAPTER 237 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF CANTON TO ISSUE BONDS AMOUNTING TO $65,000  FOR A WATER SUPPLY. SEWERAGE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, A GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX TO MEET THE INTEREST AND PAY SAID BONDS, AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 15. That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish a graded school for the white children and one for the colored children of said town, if any; and to appropriate the funds derived from said special tax and all other sources for said graded schools for white and colored children so as to equalize school facilities between the two races.
Section 18. That the property, both real and personal, of the public schools of said town shall become the property of the said graded schools, and shall be vested in the said board of trustees and its successors in trust for said graded schools: Provided, that in the event of the discontinuance of said graded schools all the property thereto belonging shall revert to and become the property of the said public schools of said town: Provided further, that the said property belonging to or used for the graded school for white children shall revert to the public schools of said town for white children, and the property belonging to or used for the graded school for the colored children shall revert to the public school for colored children of said town.
CHAPTER 235 AN ACT TO AMEND THE AURORA GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That for the purposes of providing for and defraying the expense of the Aurora Graded School District for white and colored children, provided for in this act, the Board of Town Commissioners of the Town of Aurora shall annually and at the time of levying the municipal taxes levy and lay a particular tax on all persons, property and subjects of taxation within the limits of the Aurora Graded School District, as heretofore described, on which said board of town commissioners may now or hereafter be authorized to lay or levy taxes for any purpose whatsoever. The said particular taxes to be and remain the same as when the original Aurora graded school was first established, which is thirty cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation on all personal and real property of whatsoever kind and ninety cents on each taxable poll of said district.
CHAPTER 199 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WINDSOR GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN BERTIE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the following territory in Windsor Township, in Bertie County, State of North Carolina, to-wit: Beginning at Cashie River at the county farm at Austin; thence running along the southern line of said farm to Cashie Neck and Windsor public road; thence up said public road to the church and Reeves old railroad bed; thence along said old railroad bed to the public road leading from the Heckstall farm to the Windsor and Colerain public road; thence along said public road by J. B. Stokes residence to the Windsor and Colerain public road to Cashie bridge, at Cashie River to Hoddards mill; thence down Cashie River to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby constituted a public school district fer white and colored children, to be known as The Windsor Graded School District.
CHAPTER 189 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ROANOKE RAPIDS, IN HALIFAX COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 12. That it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to establish graded public schools for the white and colored children of said district: And said board of trustees shall appropriate and use the funds derived from said particular taxes and from other sources in such manner as shall be deemed just to both races, providing equal school facilities for each, due regard being paid, however, to the difference in the cost of maintaining said schools: Provided, that all donations to said schools shall be applied as directed by the donors.
CHAPTER 188 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN CAMERON DISTRICT, GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, MOORE COUNTY, AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORT OF THE SAME. ' The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: :
Section 11. It shall be the duty of the said board of trustees to establish and keep up a public graded school in said district for the white children, and one for the colored children of said district; and the said board shall use and appropriate the funds derived from the said special taxes and from all other sources, and shall be just and equitable to both white and colored races, giving each equal facilities, having due regard, however, to the relative cost of keeping up and maintaining the graded schools for both races.
Section 15. That said trustees may elect a principal for the graded school for white children (who may be superintendent), and shall elect a principal for the graded school for colored children annually, on the first Tuesday of June in each year, or subsequently, as the best interest of the schools may require. In the election of teachers preference shall be given to those applicants who attend some school or method in teaching.
CHAPTER 140 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF ELIZABETH CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory in Pasquotank County within the following boundaries, to-wit: All that portion of said county included in Elizabeth City Township and that portion of Nixonton ~ Township which is within the corporate limits of Elizabeth City, shall be and is hereby constituted a public school district for white and colored children, to be known as Elizabeth City Graded School District.
CHAPTER 343 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LUMBERTON. Whereas, numerous acts have been heretofore enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina relating to the town of Lum- berton, which now constitute the charter of said town; and whereas, it is deemed advisable by the authorities and citizens of said town that the numerous acts of assembly relating thereto should be revised, consolidated and amended to the end that the charter of said town shall be contained in one act of the General Assembly: therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 74. Any and all amounts which may be apportioned from the county school fund or from the State of North Carolina for Said district under the general school law of the State or under any other act of assembly or otherwise, shall be hereafter paid direct by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the said board of graded school trustees; and the said graded school district shall be entitled to receive a proportionate amount of all funds to the credit of the public school districts, white and colored, in which the town of Lumberton was located just prior to the pasSage of this act, which may be in the hands of the county treasurer at the time of the ratification of this act, such proportionate part of said funds to be determined in accordance as the number of children contained in the graded school district hereby established bears to the total number of children in the public school district in which said town of Lumberton was located just prior to the passage of this act, and the county treasurer shall at once ascertain such proportion and pay over such proportionate part of such funds to the treasurer of the said graded school district.
CHAPTER 58 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF HIGHLAND, CATAWBA COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 9. That the said board of school trustees shall apportion the money raised and received for educational purposes in said town as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the schools for both races, separate schools to be provided for each race. If the number for either race and the fund therefor is insufficient to maintain a graded school, the fund may be applied for a public free school for said race, under the control of the said board.
CHAPTER 140 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ASHE- VILLE, AND TO REPEAL ALL LAWS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ACT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER 1 ORGANIZATION.
Section 25. That each registrar shall be furnished by said board of commissioners with registration books, and it shall be his duty, after being qualified, to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law; to revise the existing registration books of the precinct for which he is appointed in such manner that said books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such precinct and still residing therein, and entitled to vote without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and sunset (Sunday excepted), from and including the last Monday in March up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in such city and entitled to registration, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for registration and who are entitled to vote in said city. Each registrar shall be required to be at the polling place for his precinct on Saturdays from seven a. m. until sunset during the period for registration. He shall keep the names of white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina two years, in Buncombe County six months, and in the precinct in which he offers to register four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said city. If any person willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and imprisoned sixty days in the county jail. But the board of commissioners on fifteen days notice, by publication in some newspaper of said city, before the opening of the books may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper. The registration books shall be closed at sundown on the second Saturday before the election, and after the same are closed no person shall be allowed to register, except those coming of age after the books closed and before or on election day, who are otherwise qualified electors of the city, and the books shall then be placed in the office of the city clerk, and may be inspected by any person so desiring, and the clerk shall mark the day on which they were received by him, and they shall not be taken from his custody until the day of election. Any registrar failing to deposit his registration book with the clerk, at the time prescribed, shall receive no compensation for making said registration, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
CHAPTER 336 AN ACT TO REVISE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF KERNERSVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER I. INCORPORATIONS.
Section 7. That the registrar shall be furnished by the board of aldermen with registration books, and it shall be his duty after being qualified to perform the functions of his office fairly, impartially and according to law, to revise the existing registration books of the said town in such manner that such books shall show an accurate list of electors previously registered in such town and still residing therein, and entitled to vote, without requiring such electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of eight oclock a. m. and sunset (Sundays excepted), from and ineluding the first Monday in April up to ten days previous to the election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in the town and entitled to register, whose names do not appear in the revised list, and he shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered, who may apply for registration, and who are entitled to vote in said town, keeping the names of the white voters separate and apart from those of the colored voters, and any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina twelv> months, and in the town of Kernersville four months previous to the day of election, and that he is twenty-one years of age, and that he is a qualified elector of said town as defined in section four of this act. If any person shall willfully swear falsely in taking such oath, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars or imprisoned thirty days in the county jail or town lockup, or both. But the board of aldermen, upon fifteen days notice before the opening of the books, may order an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it proper.
CHAPTER LXIX. AN_ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 68, REVISED CODE, PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES OF CLERKS IN ISSUING MARRIAGE LICENSE.
Section 2. Be it / further enacte!, That said section be further auieadedias follows, to-wit : The Clerk of the County Court of the county, in which the feme resides, shall issue a license for the marriage of any person not in this chapter prohib ted, to any person applying for the same, directed to any ordained minister or Justice of Peace, in which license he shall state the names of the parties in full, and the parents of each, when known, and also whether the parties are white or colored.
CHAPTER VI. AN ACT TO AMEND THE 5TH CHAPTER OF THE REVISED CODE, ENTITLED  APPRENTICES.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the aw thority of the same, That the Ist section of the 5th chapter of the Revised Code, entitled  Apprentices, be amended by striking out the words also the children of free negroes where the parents, with whom such children may live, do not habitually employ their time in some honest, industrious occupation, and all free base born children of color, aftr the word mother, in the 14th line, and insert, in lieu thereof, the words  and all base born children whose mothers may not have the means or ability to support them, and that the second section of said chapter be amended by striking out the words if white, but if colored, till twentyone, after the words  eighteen years, in the fourth line.
CHAPTER 380 AN ACT TO AMEND, REVISE, AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SANFORD. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 7. The registrar of each of said wards shall be furnished by the aldermen of said town with a registration book, and it shall be his duty to perform the duties of his office fairly, impartially, and according to law; to revise the existing registration book of his ward in such manner that said book shall show an accurate list of the electors previously registered in said ward and still residing therein, without requiring said electors to be registered anew; and such registrar shall also, between the hours of seven oclock a. m. and nine oclock p. m. for four successive Saturdays immediately preceding the day of election, keep open the books for the registration of any electors residing in his said   | } ward and entitled to register whose names have never before been registered in said ward or do not appear on said revised lists, and shall register in said books all names of persons not so registered who may apply for or are entitled to registration, keeping the names of white voters separate and apart from the names of colored voters. Any person offering to register may be required to take and subscribe an oath that he has resided in the State of North Carolina twelve months and in the town of Sanford for hinety days, next preceding the day of election, and that he is an actual-and bona fide resident of the ward in which he offers for registration, or is otherwise entitled to register, and that he is twenty-one years old; and if any person shall willfully swear falsely in taking such oath he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding sixty days in the county jail. But the board of aldermen, upon thirty days notice, may direct that there be an entirely new registration of voters whenever they may deem it necessary for a fair election. The new registration may, if the board so determine, be conducted by one of the registrars hereinbefore provided for, to be designated by the board, who shall keep all the registration books of the town at a place to be designated by said board.
CHAPTER 280 AN ACT TO CREATE THE CROSS CREEK CEMETERY COM- MISSION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A CEMETERY IN THH CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 30, PRIVATE LAWS 1873-74. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the objects of said corporation shall be to provide for, maintain, and control suitable burial-grounds for the white race of the city of Fayetteville; and to this end it is authorized and empowered to take by deed, will, or otherwise any real and personal property, and to hold and use the same for such purpose; and to pass and enforce reasonable rules, regulations, and by-laws as from time to time may be deemed necessary and proper to maintain such property in good and improved condition and to protect and preserve the same from injury and trespass.