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CHAPTER 398 An act to provide a local board of managers of the State Colored Normal School at Fayetteville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. Said local board of managers shall have entire supervision and control of the funds and property of said State Colored Normal School at Fayetteville; shall be the sole judges of the fitness and character of the superintendent and teachers therein, who shall be employed only with the consent of a Majority of said board, and for good cause may dismiss the superintendent or any teacher and employ another person to fill the same place; may fix the number and salaries of the teachers in said school and the salary of the superintendent; adopt rules for the government of the superintendent, teachers and pupils, and generally shall do all things necessary to the prone maintenance of said school.
CHAPTER 397 An act to provide for trustees of the Colored Normal School at Goldsboro. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That J. M. Powell, D. J. Broadhurst, Sol. Weil, J. W. Gardner and W. H. Sugg be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Colored Normal School at Goldsboro and as such shall elect the superintendent and teachers of said school, fix the salaries of the same and superintend and manage said school.
CHAPTER 362 An act in relation to public schools in the town of Maxton. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 6. It shall be the duty of the said school committee to distribute and apportion the school moneys placed to their credit so as to give each school in the town, white and colored, the same length of schoo! term as nearly as may be each year, and in making expenditures the committee shall have proper regard for the grade of work to be done and the qualifications of the teachers required in each school, white and colored, in said town.
CHAPTER 267 An act in relation to the public school in the town of Mount Airy, and providing for the levying of a tax to support the same. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 5. That the school committee provided for by this act shall have entire and exclusive control of the public school interests and property of the town of Mount Airy, shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall employ and fix the compensation of officers and teachers of the public school or graded public school annually, subject to removal by the said school committee; shall make an accurate census of the school population of the town as required by the general school law of the state, and do all other acts that may be just and lawful to conduct and manage the public school interests in said town: Provided, all the children resident in the town of Mount Airy between the ages of six and twenty-one years shall be admitted into the said schools free of tuition charges: Provided, persons living beyond the limits of the corporation may attend the schools from their homes or as boarders on the payment of tuition fees to be fixed by the said school committee.
CHAPTER 113 An act to consolidate public school districts No. 19 and 20 for the colored race in Wilson county. The General Assembiy of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That Public School Districts No. 19 and 20 for the Colored Race in Wilson county, be and the same are hereby consolidated into one District, to be known as the * Elm City Public School for the Colored Race.
CHAPTER 112 An act to provide for the management of the Colored Normal School at Franklinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 2. That H. C. Kearney, T. C. Joyner, R. B. White, H. E. Pearce and J. A. Thomas be and they are hereby appointed | trustees of said Colored Normal School, who shall hold said position from the date of the ratification of this act until the first day of June, nineteen hundred and one, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. That thereafter the terms of the sueceessors of said trustees shall begin on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and one, and each successive two years thereafter and continue for two years and until the appointment and qualification of their successors.
CHAPTER 96 An act to create graded schools in the town of Kinston. North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 3. That for the purpose and benefits of this act the city of anston. shall be a graded school district for both white and colored children and is hereby named and designated as the Kinston graded school district.
CHAPTER 36 An act to appoint a committee to investigate the condition and manage- ment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the colored race at Greensboro, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That a joint committee of three, of one on the part of the senate and two on the part of the house be appointed to investigate the condition and management of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the colored race at Greensboro, North Carolina.
CHAPTER 520 An act to provide for the support, maintenance and other purposes of the state hospital at Morganton, the North Carolina Insane Asylum at Raleigh, and the eastern hospital at Goldsboro. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of forty thousand dollars for the benefit, care, maintenance, repairs and support of the state hospital for the colored insane at Goldsboro, and this amount is hereby annually appropriated for the benefit of said institution.
Section 9. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act the board of directors of the penitentiary are hereby authorized and directed to employ, to the exclusion of any current work, any skilled labor to be found among the convicts in remodeling and arranging such portions of the penitentiary building as, after due inquiry, shall be deemed necessary to provide for the humane eare of the insane persons herein mentioned. It shall be the duty of the penitentiary authorities to provide separate quarters for the sleeping, eating and exercising of the two sexes, and also for the white and colored patients, and all insane persons in their charge shall be kept absolutely apart from the sane convicts. The physicians of the penitentiary, under the directions of the physician of the Raleigh insane asylum, as herein provided, shall be the medical superintendent of the insane wards herein provided for.
CHAPTER 3815 An act to incorporate the New Hanover society for the pre- vention of crime. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 5. That all colored children, resident in New Hanover county, of fourteen -14 years old or under, without parents or homes, shall be eligible to admission into said childrens home, so long as there may be sufficient accommodations for them.
CHAPTER 265 An act to charter the Eastern hospital for the colored insane and the Western hospital for the insane and North Carolina insane asylum at Raleigh, and to provide for their govern- ment. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 4. That the Eastern hospital for the colored insane, the Central hospital for the insane and the Western hospital for the insane hereby incorporated and shall be under the management of nine trustees to be nominated by the governor and confirmed by the senate, who shall hold their offices for the term of four years from and after their appointment and the provisions of chapter 2, Vol. 2, of The Code, applicable to the directors of the North Garolina insane asylum not in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby made applicable to the board of trustees of the State hospitals for the colored insane and the Central hospital for the insane and the Western hospital for the insane Bee as modified by this act hereby re-enacted.
CHAPTER 261 An act to establish graded schools in the district herein specified, and to be known as Chapel Hill schoel districts, number twenty-four, Orange county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the Board of Commissioners of Orange county are authorized and required to order an election to be held in the said Chapel Hill districts, number twenty-four, for the whites and colored of Orange county, on the first Monday in May next, and at the said election to submit to the qualified voters of said districts the question of levying an annual special tax on the property and polls of white and colored persons in said districts for the purpose of supporting and maintaining public graded schools for the white and colored children in said school districts.
Section 4. That if a majority of the qualified voters of said schoo! districts shall vote  for schools, the county authorities of Orange county, legally authorized to levy taxes, shall, in addition to other taxes laid upon said school districts, annually compute and levy, at the time of levying other taxes, a sufficient special tax upon the property and polls of the white and colored persons of said school districts to raise such a sum of money as the trustees hereinafter named of said school districts shall deem necessary, and shall report annually to said authorities, to support and maintain said schools, which sum shall be not less than one-fourth of one per centum on the property and seventy-five cents on the poll, nor more than one-half of one per centum on the property and one hundred and fifty cents on the polls annually of white and colored persons in said districts. Said trustees hereinafter mentioned shall immediately after the elections herein provided for, report to the county authorities empowered to levy taxes what sum said trustees deem necessary to support and maintain said schools during the first year, and annually thereafter said trustees, thirty days prior to the time for levying county taxes, shall report to said authorities what sum of money is necessary to support said schools during the next year. And the taxes for the support of said schools shall be annually collected as other taxes are ecollected and paid over by the sheriff or other collecting officers to the county treasurer, which officers shall give good and sufficient bonds to be approved by the said commissioners for the safe keeping and proper distribution of said taxes, and the taxes levied and collected for these purposes shall be kept sacred, separate and distinet from other taxes by the officers in charge and shall be used only for the purposes for which they were levied and collected.
CHAPTER 255 An act to establish a school for the training of colored 5 teachers. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That as soon as the institution shall have been located and the directors elected the president shall call a meeting of the directors, who shall make rules and regulations and provide for the opening of the institution: Provided, that the board of directors shall make such regulations about the admission of pupils as will not discriminate against any county as to the number of pupils allowed it, in case all applicants cannot be accommodated: Provided, further, that each county shall have representation in proportion to its colored population if it desires it, and should any county fail to avail itself of its proportionate number, the board of directors may recognize applicants from counties which already have their proportionate representation.
Section 9. That it shall be the duty of the faculty of the institution to extend its influence and usefulness as far as possible to persons who are unable to avail themselves of its advantages as resident students; having respect to the claims of each county in the State. To this end they shall arrange a course of reading and study which may be pursued by others than those resident at the institution. Upon application of any colored teacher for examination, at the institution, upon this course, an examination shall be held, and if such examination prove satisfactory, the regular certificate of the institution shall be granted.
CHAPTER 112 An act to provide for the management of the Colored Normal School at Franklinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 1. That the State Colored Normal School located at Franklinton, North Carolina, shall be under the control and management of a board of trustees, to be composed of five persons who shall be biennially appointed by the general assembly.
CHAPTER 699 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SANDY RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, No. 10, WHITE RACE, IN BUFORD TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the following boundaries shall constitute a public school district, to-wit: Beginning at J. J. Lockharts plantation on the Plyler Mill road near Emeline Milton, including said J. J. Lockharts plantation; thence to and including L. C. Bickett place; thence to and including the A. A. Laney place, known as the Mine tract; thence to and including S. M. Rogers place; thence to and including Thomas E. Williams place; thence to and including T. N. Gay, Jr.s, place; thence to and including John Broom place, thence to and including Mrs. Queen Helms place; thence to and including J. H. Edwards place; thence to and including Miss Julia and Patterson Belks heirs land; thence with a straight line to and including S. H. Rogers place; thence to and including Columbus Belks place; thence to and including the J. J. Lockhart and C. H. Richardson place; thence to and including J. P. Aycoth place; thence to and including A. Cooks place, known as the Jacob Starnes place; thence to and including C. L. Youngblood place, known as the Simpson and Sikes place; thence to and including W. S. Brantley place; thence to and including W. L. Griffin place; thence with the Plyler Mill road and Mount Prospect school district line to the beginning. The said territory so.bounded shall constitute a public school district for the white race, to be known as the Sandy Ridge School District, Number Ten, in Buford Township, Union County, North Carolina.
CHAPTER 509 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A REFORMATORY OR MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE DETENTION AND REFOR- MATION OF THE CRIMINAL YOUTH OF THE STATE. Whereas, it appears to this General Assembly that there are in this State many youths between the ages of seven and sixteen years who violate the criminal law, and that while such youths should be detained and punished and taught the doctrines of relig- ion, good morals and how to work, it would be to the best inter- est 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 one hundred 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 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 sixteen years as may be sent or committed thereto under any order or comumitment 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.
Section 3. That all moneys received by said trustees by private gifts, donations or otherwise shall be expended in the establishment, operation and maintenance of the school for the training and the moral and industrial development of such delinquent children, and in securing homes for them; and in case the said trustees receive or are allowed any State aid for said school, it shall be their duty to duly account for all moneys so received by Pub.48 them and to make report of the manner of its expenditure and of the work done by them as hereinafter more particularly provided for.
CHAPTER 57 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE LEAKSVILLE TOWN- SHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, TO CREATE A BOARD OF TRUSTEES WITH POWERS AND DUTIES INCIDENT TO THE OPERATION OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE DISTRICT IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That all rights, benefits, privileges, powers, and duties which now reside in the district through its committeemen shall remain with the district, and furthermore that all rights, benefits, privileges, powers, and duties that may in the future be granted the public schools in North Carolina shall not be abridged nor withholden from the district by this act. It is further provided that the following powers and duties are hereby granted and imposed upon the aforesaid trustees, and authorization for the performance and execution of the said powers and duties is hereby granted and imposed upon the said trustees of the said Leaksville Township Public School District, and their successors in office, to wit: (a) To establish and maintain within the district as far as means will permit a complete and adequate system of elementary and secondary schools for both white and negro races, such as will meet the standards and recommendations for the public elementary and secondary schools in North Carolina as now are, or as may be established hereafter, by the State Department of Education. (b) To employ a superintendent, principals, teachers and other officials and employees, including an executive secretary, as may be deemed advisable, fix their compensation and order their salaries paid in accordance with the public school law of North Carolina, and to dismiss such employees in accordance with the provisions of the law. (c) To provide and maintain, as means may permit or necessity require, special instruction for delinquent or defective children, kindergartens, evening schools, vocational education, and such other educational instruction and facilities as the said board of trustees may deem advisable. (d) To have power to acquire land for school purposes by purchase of condemnation under the general school law of the State, or under the general law for condemnation of property as set forth in chapter thirty-three of the Consolidated Statutes of North Carolina, entitled Eminent Domain. (e) To adopt and enforce, for the conduct of the schools, rules and regulations not inconsistent with law, and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education. (f) To have such other powers and functions. as may be assigned to them in the future by act of the General Assembly, or by rule or regulation of the State Board of Education made in conformity with the law.
CHAPTER 213 AN ACT TO PROVIDE SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR THE CHEROKEE INDIANS IN COLUMBUS COUNTY. Whereas, the Indians now living in Columbus County claim to be descendants of a friendly tribe residing in Eastern North Carolina and in Robeson County, North Carolina, known as the Cherokee Indians: Therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. The Indians mentioned in section one of this act and their descendants shall have separate schools for their children, school committee 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 public school law, and there shall be excluded from such separate schools all children of the negro race to the fourth generation.
CHAPTER 14 AN ACT TO AMEND AND RE-ENACT THE CHARTER OF GASTONIA GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the city of Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, shall be and the same is hereby created and continued as a school district for white and colored children, to be known as Gastonia Graded School District, with the right as such to receive its proportion of the general school fund from the county board of education, or from any other source.
Section 11. That said board of school commissioners shall establish graded public schools for the white and colored children for said graded school district, and shall appropriate and use the funds derived from special taxes or other sources, in such manner as it may deem best for both races.
CHAPTER 161 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF HAMILTON LAKES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION
Section 27. The council may establish separate libraries for the use and benefit of the white and colored races of said town, or either, and may appropriate from the public funds such amounts as may be necessary for the support and maintenance of the same.
CHAPTER 18 AN ACT INCORPORATING THE HIGGS ROANOKE INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That said corporation shall be the property of the Middle Ground Baptist Association of the colored race of Eastern North Carolina, and it shall be controlled by a board of trustees named by the said association as hereinafter set forth, and the said corporation shall have the right to buy, sell, and own real and personal property, to sue and to be sued, to adopt and use a common seal, to execute mortgages and liens, and enter contracts of all kinds, and in general to do any and all acts necessary and proper in the conduct and management of an educational institution for the education and training of the colored youth in manual, industrial, agricultural, classic, and religious education.
CHAPTER 602 AN ACT TO PROVIDE SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR THAT RACE OF PEOPLE IN GASTON TOWNSHIP, NORTHAMP- TON COUNTY, KNOWN AS THE PORTUGUESE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the race of people known as Portuguese in Gaston Township, Northampton County, shall have a separate school from the white or colored schools in said county: Provided, said Portuguese shall furnish a suitable building situate in Gaston Township for said school, said building to be approved by the county board of education for said county of Northampton.
Section 2. That after said building shall have been provided as aforesaid, the board of education for Northampton County is hereby empowered and directed to provide teachers for said school for said race, and said teacher or teachers shall be paid as other teachers in said county are paid without extra tax on said race of people, except as they may vote same upon themselves. The teachers of said school shall be either of the said race known as Portuguese or white persons, as in the discretion of the board of education for Northampton County it may deem proper.
CHAPTER 422 AN ACT TO PROVIDE SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR INDIANS IN AVERASBORO AND DUKE TOWNSHIPS, HARNETT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the Indians mentioned above and their descendants shall have separate schools for their children, and there shall be excluded from such separate schools all children of the negro race to the fourth generation.
CHAPTER 253 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE MONROE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PURCHASE PROPERTY OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR SCHOOL PUR- POSES. Whereas the Monroe Graded School District is coterminous with the city of Monroe; and whereas the trustees of said school have bargained to purchase a certain lot of land, a part of which is in the Monroe Graded School District and a part without the said school district; and whereas this is the most suitable place for the erection of a school building for the colored race; and whereas the trustees desire to erect said school building on that part of the property that is without the said school district and without the corporate limits of the city of Monroe: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of trustees of the Monroe Graded School District be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase a site for a school building for the colored race in said school district and erect thereon suitable buildings outside the corporate limits of the city of Monroe and outside the limits of said Monroe Graded School District.
CHAPTER 119 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 182, PRIVATE LAWS OF 1897, AND TO INCORPORATE OXFORD ORPHANAGE. Whereas the Oxford Orphan Asylum was established by the Grand Lodge of North Carolina in February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three; and Whereas said orphan asylum has been in successful operation since its establishment; and Whereas the Superior Court of Granville County, on the eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, granted a charter to said Oxford Orphan Asylum for a period of thirty years; and Whereas the General Assembly of North Carolina, chapter one hundred and thirty-two, Private Acts session of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, confirmed and amended the said charter granted by the Superior Court of Granville County; and Whereas it is desirable that the said charter be amended, and that its corporate existence be made perpetual: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That the business of the corporation which is a purely charitable and educational one, shall be the continuance of the present institution known as The Oxford Asylum and its incorporation, without the change of purpose or identity for the maintenance and support of an orphanage or a home for indigent white orphans of tender years, citizens of the State of North Carolina, to be selected and received as the directors, hereinafter provided for, shall determine without discrimination as to sex, religious denominations or localities within the State and the support and education of such orphans, including their religious, moral, mental and physical training and their instruction in the useful arts.
CHAPTER 37 AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, TO DEFINE ITS CORPORATE LIMITS AND TO PROVIDE FOR ITS GOVERNMENT; TO REPEAL THE CHARTER OF THE PRESENT CITY OF GREENSBORO, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED HEREIN; TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTROL AND SUPPORT OF THE PRESENT GREENSBORO SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: DEFINITIONS. The following words and phrases as used in this act shall, unless a contrary intention clearly appears, have the following meanings, respectively: City of Greensboro, the new corpora- tion created by this act; old corporation of Greensboro, the city of Greensboro heretofore created and now existing under that name, comprising a part of the territory embraced in the new corporation created by this act; new city limits, the boundary of the new municipality created by this act; old city limits, the boundary of the old corporation of Greensboro; new territory, the territory embraced in the new corporation created by this act, but not embraced in the old corporation of Greensboro; Greens- boro school district, the special tax school district heretofore created and haying the same boundary as the old corporation of Greensboro; board of education or board of education of the city of Greensboro, the school board or school committee of the Greensboro School District. CHAPTER IORGANIZATION
Section 47. That the council may establish or continue separate libraries for the use and benefit of the white and colored races of said city, and may appropriate from the public funds such amounts as may be necessary for the support and maintenance of the same. One of the two libraries shall be known and designated as Greensboro Public Library for the Colored Race.
CHAPTER 143 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 138 OF THE LAWS OF 1901, INCORPORATING THE TRUSTEES OF LINCOLN HOS- PITAL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the board of trustees of Lincoln Hospital shall consist of fifteen members and shall hold office for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified, elected as follows: One by the board of aldermen of the city of Durham and one by the county commissioners of Durham County; one by Mr. James Buchanan Duke during his life, and after his death by his nearest blood relative, who is above seventeen years of age; one by Mr. Benjamin N. Duke during his life, and after his death by his: nearest blood relative over seventeen years of age; one by the white Medical Society of the city of Durham; one by the faculty of the National Training School; one by the members of the graded schools of the city of Durham; one by the colored Ministerial Association of Durham; two by the directors of the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company; two by the directors of the Royal Knights of King David, and three by the colored Medical Society of the city of Durham. That the trustees shall serve from January following their election, which election shall take place not later than December thirty-first. In the event that either of the various bodies or organizations hereinbefore designated shall fail to elect a trustee or trustees as above required and requested, the board of trustees of Lincoln Hospital shall elect such trustees as they may see fit.
CHAPTER 35 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ROCKINGHAM GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR WHITE AND COLORED CHIL- DREN, RICHMOND COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. No bonds shall be issued hereunder unless a majority of the qualified voters of said school district shall yote in favor of the issuance of the same, at an. election to be called by said board of commissioners after a petition requesting said election and signed by a majority of the board of trustees of the Rockingham Graded School District for the white and colored children, or their duly elected officers, has been filed with the said board of commissioners. It shall not be necessary to submit to the yoters any other details of said bonds than the amount or maximum amount of the issue, with a statement of such purpose as stated herein and the fact that a tax for the payment of the bonds and interest will be levied. No other or further notice of said election shall be required except a publication, not more than forty days and not less than twenty days before said election, in a newspaper published in the town of Rockingham and circulating within the said district, such publication to state the question or questions as herein provided for, as well as the day of election and the place or places at which the polls will be open. The board of commissioners. may order.a new registration of voters if the petition of the board of trustees of said district requests. same. No further or other notice of such new registration shall be required than a publication at least thirty days before the closing of the registration books, in a newspaper published in the town of Rockingham and circulating within said district, such publication to state the days on which the books of registration will be open and the place or places on which they will be open on Saturdays. The board of commissioners shall appoint the registrars and judges of election and fix the polling places and canvass the election and, except as herein otherwise provided, the provisions of the law then applicable to elections in the town of Rockingham, shall be applicable to the registration and election hereunder.
CHAPTER 549 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A REFORMATORY FOR A MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE DETENTION OF THE CRIMI- NAL YOUTH OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY. WHEREAS, it appears to the General Assembly that there are in the county of Buncombe a number of youths between the ages of seven and sixteen years who violate the criminal law, and that while such youths should be detained and punished, and at the same time taught the doctrines of religion, good morals and in- dustry, it would be to the best interest of such youths and ex- pedient that they be not associated with older and more hard- ened criminals, but that they be kept separate, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 11. That in the event the governing body of said insti- .tution shall determine to accept colored children in the same, they shall provide suitable quarters for them, which shall in no event be nearer than one-half mile to the school established for white children. The white children and colored children shall at all times be kept and worked entirely separate and by separate officers: Provided, however, that one superintendent may have general supervision over both schools; but the advisability of having one or two superintendents shall be and remain in the discretion of the governing board of said institution.
CHAPTER 115 AN ACT INCORPORATING THE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF GASTONIA, NORTH CAROLINA, AND PRE- SCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS THEREOF. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the city of Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina, shall be and the same is hereby created and continued as a school district for white and colored children, to be known as Gastonia graded school district.
CHAPTER 631 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COUNTY INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 4. That the board of managers shall have the general superintendence, management, and control of the said institution; of the grounds and buildings, offices, and employees thereof; of the inmates therein and all matters relating to the government, discipline, contracts, and fiscal concerns thereof, and may make such rules and regulations as may seem to them necessary for carrying out the purposes of the institution... And the board shall have the right to keep, restrain, and control the inmates of the institution until such time as the board may deem proper for their discharge under such proper and humane rules and regulations as the board may adopt. The board shall endeavor, as far as possible, to classify the inmates and keep the different classes in separate wards or divisions, so as to produce the best results in the reformatory work. The board of managers shall constitute a board of parole of the institution, and shall have the power to parole and discharge the inmates under such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe; that no person shall be admitted or discharged from said institution except upon the certificate of the physician as to her mental and physical condition. It is provided, however, that both white and colored shall be taken care of in said institution, but the races shall be kept separate and apart.
CHAPTER 509 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR THE CROATAN INDIANS OF SAMPSON COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 3. That to said Croatan Indian schools shall be annually apportioned their pro rata part of the public school funds of the county, including their pro rata part of fines, forfeitures, penalties, and funds derived from the State and other sources whatsoever, so that they may share equally with the other races of the county according to their requirements and the grade of their schools, as now provided for the apportionment of the school funds between the white and colored race in Sampson County.
Section 5. That all of the Croatan Indian children of school age residing in that territory or section in Sampson County designated and allotted to the Shiloh Indian School District shall be assigned to Shiloh Indian School of Dismal Township, and all Croatam children of school age residing in that territory or section in Sampson (County designated and allotted to New Bethel Indian School District shall be apportioned to New Bethel Indian School of Herrings Township; and the trustees of Shiloh Indian School shall annually, at the time provided by law for taking the census of the other school children of the county, take the census of all the Croatan Indian children between the ages of six and twenty-one years residing in said county in Shiloh district, and the trustees of New Bethel Indian School of Herrings Township shall annually at the time of taking the census of the other school children as provided by law, take the census of all the Indian school children between the ages of six and twentyone years residing in the New Bethel district in Sampson County; and there shall be excluded from such census and from said schools for the Croatan Indians of Sampson County all children of the negro race to the fourth generation, and the action of the trustees of these Indian schools as to who shall be admitted or excluded from said schools shall be final, and not appealable to the county board of education, but no one shall be precluded from instituting legal proceedings im the proper courts of the State.
CHAPTER 182 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF BURKE COUNTY TO ORDER AN ELECTION FOR THE MORGANTON GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO VOTE ON BONDS. Whereas chapter forty-eight, Private Laws one thousand nine hundred and twenty, extra session, authorized an election in the Morganton Graded School District on a bond issue of seventy-five thousand dollars for the purpose of enlarging the graded school building for white children, the erection of a high school building for white children and the erection of a school building for the colored children of said district, together with the purchase of lots or sites for such buildings; and Whereas the cost of erecting of such buildings and the purchase of necessary lots therefor far exceeded the estimated costs thereof, and the funds on such bond issue have been exhausted and no school building for colored children has been erected, and the high school building for white children has no auditorium as contem- plated; and Whereas it will require some thirty-five thousand dollars to fully carry out and complete the objects mentioned as necessary in said chapter forty-eight as aforesaid: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. That the board of trustees of said school district. may in its discretion sell the old colored school building and site, either at public or private sale, when the new building for the colored school children is erected and ready for occupancy.
CHAPTER 127 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS BY THE WHITEVILLE SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 1, FOR THE WHITE AND COLORED RACES OF COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General ASsembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the board of commissioners of Columbus County, upon a written application of a majority of the board of trustees of Whiteville Supplemental School District, Number One, for the White and (Colored Races, hereinafter called the Whiteville District, is authorized and directed to submit on the fourth Tuesday in April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, to the qualified voters of said Whiteville District, under such rules and regulations as now exist or may be hereafter established for the election of members of the General Assembly, the question of issuing bonds for the erection, repairing, and equipping of suitable school buildings in said district; and there shall _be an entirely new registration under the provisions of the general election laws of the State of all voters who are entitled to register in Whiteville School District, and only such persons who register under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to vote in said election; and at such election each voter shall be entitled to vote a written or printed ballot with the words For Bonds or Against Bonds thereon.
CHAPTER 504 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOSPITAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AF- FECTED WITH SPASTIC AILMENTS. WHEREAS, in compliance with a request of the Governor of North Carolina, a commission composed of Dr. Lenox D. Baker, Dr. J. S. Gaul, Dr. W. M. Roberts, Dr. Ellen Winston, Honor- able Thomas OBerry, and Honorable George Ross Pou investi- gated the need of an institution for the treatment of children af- fected with cerebral palsy (spastic) ailments and has made their report to the Governor, recommending the establishment of such a hospital to be operated separate and distinct from any institution for the treatment of the feeble-minded or insane; and WHEREAS, it appears from said report that there are over one thousand children in the State suffering from spastic ail- ments and that the interest of the State would be best served by a hospital being established for the treatment of such cases: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 6. The board of directors shall appoint a superintendent of the institution, who shall be a person of professional training and experience in the care and treatment of spastic ailments, and may fix the compensation of the superintendent, subject to the approval of the Budget Bureau, and may discharge the superintendent at any time for cause.
CHAPTER 15 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF WADESBORO. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That section one of chapter five hundred and thirteen, Private Laws, one thousand nine hundred and seven, defining the corporate boundaries of the town of Wadesboro, be and the same is hereby amended so as to extend the southern corporate boundary of said town to the following lines, or boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the southwest corner of the corporate limits of said town, near the southern side of the White Store road, and running thence south sixty-six-thirty east fourteen hundred feet to a stake in the eastern edge of the Chesterfield road; then north fifty-four east six hundred and eight feet to the present: southern corporate boundary of said town.
CHAPTER 644 AN ACT ESTABLISHING TOWNSHIPS IN PITT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That all that portion of Pitt County heretofore known as Contentnea Township, Number Two; the portions of Chicod Township, Greenville Township, and that portion of what has heretofore been Contenthnea Township, Number One, and embraced within the following boundary lines set forth in this section, shall be known and designated as Winterville Township, towit: Beginning at Contentnea Creek, the northwest corner of HE. HE. Dails Tucker land, running eastward with the said H. H. Dails line to the western terminus of the Renston or J. B. Speight road to Kinston road in front of Lorenzo McLawhorns residence; then northward with the said Kinston road to a bridge between HE. E. Dails and C. H. Langstons residences; thence eastward with southern boundary of lines of the lands of C. H. Langston, Charles McLawhorn, H. C. Beddard, B. T. Cox, and the Franklin Tripp heirs, to Swift Creek Swamp in a southerly direction to the Scuffleton or Ayden road; then with the said road eastwardly to the Kinston road near Hancock Church; then a continuous line across the field of the tract of land upon which Josephus Cox now resides, to Fork Swamp; then northwardly to the Taft road at Kinsaul Crossing; then eastwardly with the said Taft road to the Beaufort County Lumber Company tramroad; then northwardly with the said tramroad to the C. A. White road; then westward with the said White road to the land of Mrs. Louvenia Jackson; then northward and westward with the eastern and northern lines of the said Mrs. Louvenia Jackson and W. B. Stocks to Fork Swamp; then up the said Fork Swamp northward to Willoughby branch; then up said branch westward to the A. C. L. Railroad; then a. straight line westwardly to the Kinston road at the north corner     of M. G. Moyes land; then westward with his northern line and B. T. Smith northern and western lines to the B. T. Smith road at the Anderson place; then westward with the said B. T. Smith road to the Frog Level road; then southward and westward with the Beaver Dam Township line to Contentnea Creek; then down said creek to the beginning.
CHAPTER 131 AN ACT TO CREATE CANE CREEK TOWNSHIP IN MITCHELL COUNTY. 5 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: _
Section 1. That a new township to be named and called Cane | Creek Township be and is hereby created in Mitchell County bi the boundaries of which township shall be as follows: Beginnins _ On top of Lick Ridge Mountain, thence with the Little Rock Creel _ Township line to the top of the Little Yellow Mountain wher _ the Avery and Mitchell County line joins; thence with said Avery a County line to the top of the White Rock Mountain; thence witl me, Snow Creek Township line to the top of Bear Creek Mountain thence with Bakersville Township line to Moses Youngs mill on the waters of Cane Creek; thence with said Bakersville TO line to the beginning.
CHAPTER 229 AN ACT TO CREATE A NEW TOWNSHIP IN NASH COUNTY, TO BE KNOWN AS RED OAK TOWNSHIP. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 2. That the boundary lines of said Red Oak Township shall be as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Parkers Creek, on Swift Creek; thence up said Parkers Creek to the Nashville and Hilliardston Road; thence along the Nashville and Hilliardston Road to where the White Stone Branch crosses said Nashville and Hilliardston Road; thence down said White Stone Branch to where it empties into Pig Basket Creek; thence down said Pig Basket Creek to the Nashville and Red Oak Road; thence along the Nashville and Red Oak Road to where the Rocky Mount and Hunters Hill Road enters said Nashville and Red Oak Road; thence along said Rocky Mount and Hunters Hill Road to a point in said road where a public path leading from the Rocky Mount and Red Oak Road by P. A. Mays intersects said Rocky Mount and Hunters Hill Road, just below J. J. Dickens; thence along said public path to P. A. Mays store; thence with a public path leading from P. A. Mays store by Joel Prices place to the Rocky Mount and Red Oak Road; thence up said road to a line dividing the estate of George Price and George Gay; thence with said line to the Horse Pen Branch; thence down the various courses of said Horse Pen Branch and Bynums mill run to Swift Creek; thence up the yarious courses of said creek to the beginning.
CHAPTER 550 AN ACT TO PROTECT THE STOCK IN THE VICINITY OF WINTERVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any live stock to run at large within the following boundaries: Beginning at Black Bottom, near the town line, and running northwardly with line fence to A. G. Coxs fence; then eastwardly with said A. G. Coxs fence and a direct line across the railroad near the colored lodge, with a ditch to A. G. Coxs fence; then northwardly and eastwardly with said A. G. Coxs fence to the northeast corner of his field; then southwardly with his fence to the Winterville public road; then westwardly with said road and said Coxs fence to A. G. Coxs pasture fence; then southwardly a direct line, crossing Blount Street to a point near an old mulberry tree near Sylva Street, extended ; then westwardly with the street and direct line to Rowan Coopers fence; then with Rowan Coopers fence to the beginning. That any person owning land on the outside of the line mentioned above in this section shall have the privilege of bringing his or her lands within the provisions of this act by building and extending the fence in the manner they may choose: Provided, that such persons shall pay the extra expense that shall be caused for widening or extending the fence territory, or shall construct the fence without cost to any of the parties living within the boundaries mentioned above; but when the fence is constructed it shall come within the purview of this act, and the outward lines of the fence as so extended shall be repaired under the general provisions of this act: Provided, the extension as aforesaid shall be only applicable to the lands that are adjacent to the lines specified in section one (1).