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1919_public laws_93_33 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 92 | 32 | CHAPTER 92 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 231, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1917, IN RELATION TO THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY AND THE COLLECTION OF TAXES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: ARTICLE I Boarp OF STATE TAX COMMISSIONERS | Where to list real estate, mineral, and quarry lands. All real property subject to taxation shall be listed in the township in which said property is situated on the first day of May. When the fee of the soil of any tract, parcel, or lot of land is in any person or persons, natural or artificial, and the right to any m... |
1901_public laws_517_16 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 516 | 15 | CHAPTER 516 An act to establish a dispensary for the town of Mayodan, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict of [with] the provisions of this act are hereby repealed: Provided, that this act shall. not be construed so as to repeal any prohibitory laws already in force, and section three thousand one hundred and eleven of The Code shall not apply to this act. |
1909_private laws_291_16 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 290 | 15 | CHAPTER 290 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | On the second Saturday before each election the registration books shall be kept open at the polling place in the precinct for the inspection of the electors of the precinct, and any of such electors shall be allowed to object to the name of any person appearing on said books: Provided, nothing in this section shall pr... |
1909_private laws_124_2 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 123 | 1 | CHAPTER 123 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF RAMSEUR TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the board of Commissioners of the town of Ramseur is hereby authorized and empowered to submit to the qualified voters of said town, at an election as hereinafter provided for, the question of issuing bonds of the town of Ramseur in the amount of five thousand dollars, and of levying and _ collecting a special tax... |
1967_session laws_1260_8 | project experts | 0 | session laws | 1,259 | 7 | CHAPTER 1259 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE WINSTON-SALEM TRANSIT AUTHORITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Funds. The establishment and operation of a Transit Authority as herein authorized is a governmental function and a_ public purpose and the City of Winston-Salem is hereby authorized to appropriate funds to support the establishment and operation of the Transit Authority. The City of Winston-Salem may also dedicate, se... |
1897_public laws_187_6 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 186 | 5 | CHAPTER 186 An act to incorporate the United Brothers and Sisters Associ- ation. WHEREAS, certain citizens of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have associated themselves together, under the name and style of the United Brothers and Sisters Association, with the intention and purpose of pro- mo... | That the private property of the members of the corporation shall be exempt from the debts of the corporation. |
1925_public laws_74_16 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 73 | 15 | CHAPTER 73 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1915, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 1079 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1917, RELATING TO CREDIT-UNIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That in line two -2 of section fifty-two twenty-four (5224), article nine (9), subchapter three -3 of the Consolidated Statutes, the words four-fifths of the entire membership of a corporation shall be stricken out and the following substituted in lieu thereof: three-fourths of the members present and represented. |
1913_public local laws_663_8 | project experts | 0 | public local laws | 662 | 7 | CHAPTER 662 AN ACT TO REGULATE PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN BEAU- FORT COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN THE INCORPORATED CITIES OR TOWNS THEREIN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Challenges shall be made, heard, and determined, respectively, in the same manner as in the laws governing elections in North Carolina or the cities and towns in the county of Beaufort, as the case may be. The registration books in all primaries under this act shall be open for a period of ten days, and shall close on ... |
1915_public local laws_37_19 | project experts | 0 | public local laws | 36 | 18 | CHAPTER 36 AN ACT TO CREATE A HIGHWAY COMMISSION FOR WAR- RENTON TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY OF WARREN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The stock and road implements and machinery belonging to the township and turned over to the highway commission may be used both upon the permanent and repair work of the road of the township, and the highway commission is empowered to purchase additional road machinery, stock, and other machinery, and tools used in ro... |
1919_public laws_146_11 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 145 | 10 | CHAPTER 145 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000 ) is hereby appropriated for the years one thousand nine hundred and nineteen and one thousand nine hundred and twenty for the support and maintenance of the East Carolina Teachers Training School. |
1921_public laws_35_23 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 34 | 22 | CHAPTER 34 AN ACT TO RAISE REVENUE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | Taxpayer to show his income on list. ~~ The taxpayer shall list his income for the year ending January first, 1921, from any and all sources from salaries, fees, trades, and professions in excess of one thousand dollars for unmarried persons and fifteen hundred dollars for married persons and widows and widowers having... |
1957_session laws_825_8 | project experts | 0 | session laws | 824 | 7 | CHAPTER 824 AN ACT CREATING THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION. WHEREAS, the great County of Pitt will in the year 1960 celebrate its 200th Anniversary, and in order that its citizens may properly and ade- quately prepare for said celebration: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. |
1887_private laws_87_39 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 86 | 38 | CHAPTER 86 An act to amend the charter of the town of Taylorsville. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That if the real estate sold as aforesaid shall not be redeemed within the time required by law, the corporation shall convey the same in fee to the purchaser or his assigns; and the recital in such conveyance, or in any other conveyance of Jand sold for taxes due the town, that the taxes were due, or of any other matt... |
1891_private laws_44_9 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 43 | 8 | CHAPTER 43 An act to incorporate the Bank of Commerce at Fayetteville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The corporation may loan money on a pledge or mortgage of real or personal estate: Provided, it shall not loan on mortgage of real estate exceeding twenty per cent. of the capital stock paid in. |
1907_private laws_376_6 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 373 | 5 | CHAPTER 373 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WINSTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That section fifty-five of the charter of Winston be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the words Elks auditorium, in said section, the words or the Young Mens Christian Association. That said section fifty-five is further amended by striking out the word less, in line ten, and inserting in lieu thereof the... |
1879_public laws_72_10 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 71 | 9 | CHAPTER 71 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LEVYING AND COLLECTION OF TAXES. Assessment and valuation of lands: | The list shall state all the property of the person giving in, and also the age of the party, with reference to his liability to a poll-tax, and shall refer to the first day of June in that year. 1 The quantity of land owned in the township; the land shall be described by name, if it has one; otherwise in such way that... |
1915_public local laws_508_3 | project experts | 0 | public local laws | 507 | 2 | CHAPTER 507 AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE OFFICE OF COUNTY TREAS- URER IN HARNETT COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said bank or trust company appointed and acting as the financial agent of Harnett County shall be appointed for a term of two years, and shall be required at its or their own expense to execute the same bonds for the safe keeping and proper accounting of such funds as may come into its or their possession and belo... |
1911_private laws_263_7 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 262 | 6 | CHAPTER 262 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF GREENSBORO, RATIFIED THE SEVEN- TEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUN- DRED AND ELEVEN. Whereas, the act passed by the General Assembly of North Caro- lina at its session of one thousand nine hundred and eleven, ratified on the seventeenth... | That section fifty-two of the said act, which was ratified on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, be amended by inserting in line one of said section, after the word office and before the word may, the words except judge of the municipal court. |
1901_public laws_451_10 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 450 | 9 | CHAPTER 450 An act to prevent live stock from running at large in certain parts of Wayne County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That whenever said committee shall report to the Board of Commissioners of Wayne County that said territory or so much thereof as does not adjoin other territory in which the stock law prevails is enclosed by a sufficient fence, with gates across all highways leading into the same, it shall be the duty of the chairman ... |
1915_private laws_342_122 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 341 | 121 | CHAPTER 341 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELIZABETH CITY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The owner of any land sold under the provisions of this charter and amendments, or any person acting for such owner, may redeem the same within one year after the sale by paying to the purchaser the sum paid by him and twenty-five per cent additional to the amount of taxes and expenses, and the purchaser shall thereupo... |
1899_private laws_148_41 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 147 | 40 | CHAPTER 147 An act to amend the charter of The Town of Columbia. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That if the lot, real estate, or interest in real estate, sold as aforesaid, shall not be redeemed within the time specifled, the collector or his successor, under the direction of the mayor of the town, shall convey the same to the purchaser, or to his assigns in fee. In the event the town is the purchaser, the collec... |
1907_public laws_459_3 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 458 | 2 | CHAPTER 458 AN ACT TO PERMIT RAILROAD COMPANIES TO ACQUIRE LANDS FOR DOUBLE-TRACKING. | The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That no yard, garden or dwelling-house shall be condemned under the provisions of this act, unless the Corporation Commission, upon petition filed by the railroad seeking to condemn, shall, after due inquiry, find that the railroad company cannot make the desired improvement without condemning the yard, garden or dwell... |
1913_public laws_147_3 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 146 | 2 | CHAPTER 146 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE: MAINTENANCE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all laws and clauses of laws in cofiflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. : |
1927_private laws_28_12 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 27 | 11 | CHAPTER 27 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 160, OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF 1925, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the town of Mount Airy, through its mayor and board of commissioners, shall have and is granted authority to condemm lands for streets, alleys, or public buildings, or other lawful municipal purposes in the same manner as is provided hereinbefore for the condemnation of property for the water supply or water works... |
1957_session laws_1456_10 | project experts | 0 | session laws | 1,455 | 9 | CHAPTER 1455 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH PLANNING, ZONING, BUILDING REGU- LATIONS, AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS POWERS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND FOR A DESCRIBED TERRITORY BEYOND THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FAY- ETTEVILLE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | If any Section, subdivision, clause, or provision of this Act shall be adjudged invalid, such adjudication shall apply only to such Section, subdivision, clause, or provision so adjudged, and the remainder of the Act shall be deemed valid and effective. |
1905_private laws_15_32 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 15 | 31 | CHAPTER 15 AN ACT TO CREATE A CHARTER FOR ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The chief of the fire department shall use his best endeavors to have the engine at each fire, and for that purpose he may use such means and aid as he deems best. And the board of aldermen are hereby authorized and permitted to make appropriations from the amount collected from the special tax mentioned in section twe... |
1883_public laws_368_6 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 367 | 5 | CHAPTER 367 An act to amend chapter two hundred and forty-seven, acts of one thousand elght hundred and eighty-one, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That Dr. R. H. Speight, J. Q. Bryan and M. H. Wetherbee be and they are hereby appointed fence commissioners in and for that part of said territory lying and being in the county of Edgecombe, with power to contract for the erection of a substantial fence upon the boundary above described, so as to connect with the Nash... |
1931_private laws_79_10 | project experts | 0 | private laws | 78 | 9 | CHAPTER 78 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE OF THE PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOU- SAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN OF NORTH CAROLINA, RELATIVE TO ELECTIONS IN THE CITY OF SALISBURY, AND DEFINING CERTAIN RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE CITY COUNCIL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The chairman of the County Board of Elections of Rowan County, within five days after the results of such primary election have been declared, shall certify under his hand and seal to the city clerk of Salisbury the names of the successful five nominees of the respective political parties for councilmen of said city. A... |
1883_public laws_221_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 220 | 1 | CHAPTER 220 Aun act to establish graded schools at Edenton, Chowan county, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That Henry A. Bond, James A. Woodward, W. D. Pruden, Geo. H. Coke, W. G. Warren, Moses Hobbs, W. H. Coffield, W. R. Skinner, P. F. White, W. E. Bond, A. T. Bush, H. DeB. Hooper, C. W. Cason, R. B. Perkins, A. M. Moore, J. H. Garrett, J. R. B. Hathaway and G. W. White be and they are hereby constituted a board of truste... |
1883_public laws_237_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 236 | 6 | CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That L. H. Fisher, Owen Parrott, Wiley Lowry, Spencer Smith, Peter Brem, Henry Green, Richard Whitfield, Squire M. Jones and Peter Williams, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children. That said board shal] have power to fill a)l vacancies occurring in said boa... |
1903_public laws_300_12 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 299 | 11 | CHAPTER 299 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF WILLIAMSTON, N. C. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School Trustees of Williamston; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire by gift, purchase or... |
1903_public laws_264_4 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 263 | 3 | CHAPTER 263 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said Board of Trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district; the said Trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof published in some newspaper publis... |
1903_public laws_245_4 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 244 | 3 | CHAPTER 244 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN CERTAIN SPECIFIC TERRITORY IN ALAMANCE COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said Board of Trustees shall, on the first Monday in May next ensuing, submit to the qualified voters of said district above created the question of establishing a graded school in said district. The said Trustees shall give thirty days notice of said election by a notice thereof published in some newspaper publis... |
1901_public laws_763_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 762 | 1 | CHAPTER 762 An act to aid the Colored Orphan Asylum at Oxford, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Treasurer of North Carolina be an d he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Orphan Asylum for children of the colored race, at Oxford, North Carolina, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. |
1901_public laws_738_8 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 737 | 7 | CHAPTER 727 An act to make appropriations for the State Institutions. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That five thousand dollars be appropriated to the Colored Agricultural and Mechanical College of Greensboro for each of the years 1901 and 1902 in addition to its standing appropriation. This appropriation shall not be paid if the State Board of Education shall transfer to said school an equal amount of the appropriati... |
1901_public laws_737_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 736 | 1 | CHAPTER: 736 An act to consolidate the Webster and Dillshoro Schooi Districts for the colored race. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the school districts of Webster and Dillsboro | Townships in Jackson County for the colored race, be and the same are hereby consolidated into one district to be known as the Webster District for the colored race, and that the school-house for said consolidated districts shall be the present school-house of the We... |
1901_public laws_498_8 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 497 | 7 | CHAPTER 497 ~.. An act to establish graded schools in the town of Greenville, N. C. Wye The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That if the Trustees of the graded school herein appointed shall deem the grounds on which Pitt Academy is now located a suitable place for the location of the graded school building for the white children of the said district then the said graded school may be located there by and with the consent of the Trustees of t... |
1901_public laws_471_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 470 | 2 | CHAPTER 470 An act for relief of E. W. Hyman. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said sum shall be paid out of any funds apportioned to the colored race for Enfield Township in said county. |
1901_public laws_422_15 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 421 | 14 | CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said Board of Trustees are authorized and empowered to sell and convey the old Davis school lot and the buildings situated thereon, lying and being on the Prices Mill Road near the residence of J. D. Davis, which sale may be at public or private sale and the proceeds of said sale shall be applied in-the erecti... |
1901_public laws_422_9 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 421 | 8 | CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school laws for the white and for the colored children of said Wesley Chapel School District shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the High Schools provided for in this act under the orders and directions of said Boar... |
1903_public laws_341_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 340 | 1 | CHAPTER 340 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS {N PLYMOUTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all that territory embraced within the following limits, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Connaby Creek where it empties in the Roanoke River, thence with the various courses of said creek and Peacock swamp to the dividing line of the lands of A. T. Tetterton and the Windley heirs, thence with said line to the line ... |
1901_public laws_422_8 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 421 | 7 | CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That J. N. Price, H. L. Price, E. M. Moore, L. G. Howie and R. H. Howie are hereby constituted a Board of Trustees for the public graded schools of Wesley Chapel School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a hody corporate under the name of Trustees for the Public Schools of Wesley Ch... |
1901_public laws_332_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 331 | 1 | CHAPTER 331 An act to establish a supplementary school district in Williams Town- ship, Craven County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: - | That all territory embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersection of Peacock Road and Beaver Dam Swamp, and runs south with Peacock Road to Thomas Worleys well; from said Worleys well by the old sawmill site on Emanuel Wright's land to Gum Swamp; thence down Gum Swamp to the mouth of Kates Branch; ... |
1901_public laws_326_11 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 325 | 10 | CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That Board of Trustees of the graded school for whites in said district are authorized and empowered to purchase and hold for the purpose of said school, a building and suitable grounds within the limits of said district. |
1901_public laws_326_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 325 | 6 | CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That Ashley W. Smith, Hardy Atkinson, George McIntyre, Levy Dublin and E. Russell Whitley, be and they are hereby appointed and constituted a Board of Trustees for the graded school for colored persons; that said board shall have the power to fill all vacancies, to employ teachers, and to do all such acts as may be nec... |
1901_public laws_326_5 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 325 | 4 | CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the special taxes thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in maintaining and keeping up a graded public free school in said district for white persons of both sexes, whose names are on the school census list in said district, between the ages of six and twe... |
1901_public laws_326_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 325 | 2 | CHAPTER 325 An act to establish a graded school at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Commissioners of the county of Johnston are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the qualified voters of said Smithfield Graded School District, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and one, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, the question whether an annual ... |
1901_public laws_325_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 324 | 1 | CHAPTER 324 An act to establish supplemental school district No. 3 in Chadbourn Township in Columbus County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all territory embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the intersections of Bacon Branch and the north margin of the W. C. and A. Railroad and runs west with said railroad to Greens Branch, thence about southwest so as to strike the north line of the Sanka Frink place, thence following the north line to ... |
1901_public laws_222_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 221 | 1 | CHAPTER 221 s An act to establish a supplementary school district in White House Town- ship, Robeson County. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory embraced within the limits hereinafter described, in White House Township, Robeson County, shali be and is hereby constituted a school district for the white and colored children, to be known and designated as The Olivet School District, beginning at the mile post standing in the main run of Ashp... |
1901_public laws_54_12 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 53 | 11 | CHAPTER 353 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors, shall be, and are hereby constituted, a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School ' Trustees of Rocky Mount; and by that name may sue and be , sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, ' acquire by gift, pu... |
1901_public laws_54_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 53 | 1 | CHAPTER 353 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Rocky Mount, and all that portion of Nash County not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, | towit: Beginning at that point where the southern boundary line of said town intersects the ... |
1901_public laws_5_71 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 4 | 70 | CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The State Board of Education shall elect biennially a State Board of Examiners, which shall consist of three professional teachers and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall be ex officio the chairman of said board. The said Board of Examiners shall have the entire management and control of the Color... |
1901_public laws_422_2 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 421 | 1 | CHAPTER 421 An act te establish high schools in Wesley Chapel School District of Union County and for otber purposes The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all of the territory embraced within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at J. R. Dees plantation, where he now resides, at a point where his line touches the Davis Mine Road, near Hudsons School-House, and running said Dees line to and including the lands of B. F. Houstons old home place, thence to and in... |
1901_public laws_5_44 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 4 | 43 | CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That it shall be the duty of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction to require of the School Committee, in enumerating the number of school children, to make a statement in the report of the number of deaf, dumb and blind between the ages of six and twenty-one years, designating the race and sex, and the addre... |
1903_public laws_341_5 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 340 | 4 | CHAPTER 340 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS {N PLYMOUTH. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Sheriff shall pay over to the Treasurer of the town of Plymouth all moneys collected under said act, who shall keep a separate book and account of same and shall pay the same out for the purposes of the said schools on the order of the Chairman of Board of Trustees, who shall be appointed by the Board, and the... |
1903_public laws_385_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 384 | 1 | CHAPTER 384 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory in Chowan County and in the town of Edenton embraced within the following boundaries is hereby constituted a Public School District for white and colored children to be known as the Edenton Graded School District: Beginning on the Albemarle Sound at the run of a swamp (the .line between Cherrys P... |
1905_public laws_557_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 556 | 1 | CHAPTER 556 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Mooresville, Iredell County, and all that portion of Iredell County contiguous thereto embraced in the following boundaries: Beginning at the Davidson Township line near John Honeycutts, thence to John Honeycutts house; thence to the public road... |
1905_public laws_516_12 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 515 | 11 | CHAPTER 515 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE : INSTITUTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is hereby annually appropriated for the support and maintenance of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race at Greensboro. And the further sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the purposes of building a dormitory an... |
1905_public laws_461_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 460 | 1 | CHAPTER 460 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF A. P. BORDERS, SCHOOL- ' TEACHER. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Treasurer of Gaston County be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay A. P. Borders, colored, in settlement for teaching school one month in District Number Three for the colored race in Cherryville Township in said county in the year one thousand nine hundred and three the sum of twenty-five dollars o... |
1905_public laws_238_6 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 237 | 5 | CHAPTER 237 a AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SYSTEM FOR THE KEEPING UP, MAKING, BUILDING AND REPAIRING OF THE PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES IN PAMLICO COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The said township board shall keep a list of all male persons residing in their respective townships between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years of age, and they shall revise said list at each of their regular meetings held on the last Saturdays of April, July, October and January in each year, and shall transm... |
1905_public laws_125_12 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 124 | 11 | CHAPTER 124 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the board of trustees of the said graded school shall have power to secure, by purchase, rent or otherwise, from the stockholders of the Fremont High School Company the high school property, and to secure from the county board of education such reasonable assistance as may be needed to enlarge the school buildings... |
1905_public laws_125_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 124 | 1 | CHAPTER 124 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF FREMONT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory embraced within the following bounds, including the town of Fremont, to-wit: Beginning on Nahunta swamp at the mouth of Mill branch in the line between J. W. Aycock and the heirs of Jesse Aycock and running thence up said branch north, or nearly north, to the road near W. G. Peacocks; thence with... |
1905_public laws_110_6 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 109 | 5 | CHAPTER 109 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL AT PINNACLE, STOKES COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said board of graded school trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the. name and style of The Board of Trustees of Pinnacle Graded School, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire by gifts, purchase or ... |
1903_public laws_766_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 765 | 6 | CHAPTER 765 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF TRUSTEES OF KINSTON GRADED SCHOOLS, AND FOR THE APPROPRIA- TION OF FINES, PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES IN SAID TOWN. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Trustees of Kinston Graded Schools be and are hereby authorized and fully empowered to sell and convey in fee-simple to the purchaser or purchasers the lands and premises on Lenoir street, in said town of Kinston, adjoining the lands of J. W. Grainger and others, now occupied and used by the graded sc... |
1903_public laws_747_9 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 746 | 8 | CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school laws for the white and colored children of said Mt. Prospect School District shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the graded school provided for in this act, under the orders and direction of said board of tru... |
1903_public laws_747_8 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 746 | 7 | CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That H. L. Yarbrough, R. P. Plyler, W. L. Preslar, P. W. Plyler, A. L. Helms, S. A. Lathan and P. V. Richardson are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the public graded school of Mt. Prospect School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a body corporate under the name of truste... |
1903_public laws_383_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 382 | 1 | CHAPTER 382 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN CROSS CREEK TOWNSHIP, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, AND TO ISSUE BONDS AND TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX FOR THE ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORT OF SAME. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That Cross Creek Township, in the county of Cumberland, shall be and in hereby constituted a public school district for both white and colored schools, to be known as Cross Creek Graded School District. : |
1903_public laws_747_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 746 | 2 | CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Commissioners of Union County are authorized and required to order an election to be held in the said Mt. Prospect School District for the whites and colored of Union County, on the first Monday in May next, and at said election to submit to the qualified voters of said district the question of levyin... |
1903_public laws_458_10 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 457 | 9 | CHAPTER 457 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF CLINTON, SAMPSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or secured for educational purposes in said district as shall be just to the white and colored races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the ... |
1903_public laws_458_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 457 | 2 | CHAPTER 457 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF CLINTON, SAMPSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Commissioners of Sampson County are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said school district within three months after the ratification of this act, under such rules and regulations as they prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of grad... |
1903_public laws_452_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 451 | 1 | CHAPTER 451 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN THE TOWN OF SCOTLAND NECK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Scotland Neck shall be and is hereby constituted the public school district for white and colored children, to be known as The Scotland Neck Graded School District. |
1903_public laws_442_12 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 441 | 11 | CHAPTER 441 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF TROY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said Board of Graded School Trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of the Board of Graded School Trustees of Troy, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire by gift, purchase or devise... |
1903_public laws_436_28 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 435 | 27 | CHAPTER 435 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 4, LAWS OF 1901, RELATING TO THE SCHOOL LAW, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 4 of the Public Laws of 1901, being an act to re- vise and consolidate the Public School Law, is hereby amended as follows: | Amend section 70 by striking out in lines 5 and 6, after the word Examiners, the words shall have the entire management and control of the Colored Normal Schools of the State, and inserting after the word for, in line 7, in lieu of the words the same, the words the Colored Normal Schools. |
1903_public laws_408_8 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 407 | 7 | CHAPTER 407 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL IN CASWELL COUNTY, TO BE KNOWN AS PELHAM GRADED SCHOOL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That said Trustees shall have the power to employ all teachers and select all officers necessary for said graded school and to fix their compensation. They shall have the right and power to buy, sell, or hold real and personal property that may be necessary for the use of said school; and they shall have the right and ... |
1903_public laws_406_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 405 | 1 | CHAPTER 405 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH RAEFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR A WHITE RACE, INCLUDING PORTIONS OF CUMBER- LAND AND ROBESON COUNTIES. WHEREAS, the town of Raeford, in which Raeford Institute is located, includes portions of Cumberland and Robeson counties; and, WHEREAS, the patrons of said Institute in both of said counti... | That the territory lying and being in the following boundaries be and the same is hereby created and established a special school district for the white race, known as the Raeford School District, to-wit: Beginning at the point on Big Rockfish Creek where the line between Cumberland and Robeson counties, going westward... |
1903_public laws_404_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 403 | 1 | CHAPTER 403 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF SPRING HOPE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all the territory lying within the corporate limits of the town of Sping Hope, and all that territory not embraced within said corporate limits, but lying contiguous thereto within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning in Bear Branch on Nashville Road; thence down said branch to Sapony Creek; thence down sai... |
1903_public laws_403_13 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 402 | 12 | CHAPTER 402 AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE INSTITU- TIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is annually appropriated to the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race at Greensboro; and all other appropriations heretofore made are hereby revoked. |
1903_public laws_385_4 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 384 | 3 | CHAPTER 384 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Councilmen of the town of Edenton are hereby required to submit to the qualified voters of the said Public School District for the white and colored races on the first Monday in May, 1908, at an election to be held for said School District in the town of Edenton, N. C., the question whether an annual ... |
1903_public laws_719_5 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 718 | 4 | CHAPTER 718 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A GRADED SCHOOL IN THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the special taxes so levied and collected, and all other funds which may be paid over to the trustees of said graded school or to the Treasurer of said town for educational purposes, shall be expended only on the warrant of the said board of trustees in the erection of graded school buildings, and in the conduct a... |
1905_public laws_557_11 | project experts | 0 | public laws | 556 | 10 | CHAPTER 556 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE MOORESVILLE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the said board of graded school trustees and their successors shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of The Board of Graded School Trustees of Mooresville, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and Pub. 36 be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, by gift, pu... |
1901_public laws_5_42 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 4 | 41 | CHAPTER 4 An Act to Revise and Consoliaate the Public School Law. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent of Schools in each county, on or before the first Monday in July of every year, to report to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction an abstract statement of the number, grade, race, and sex of the teachers examined and approved by him during the year; also, the ... |
1899_public laws_562_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 561 | 2 | CHAPTER 561 An act to incorporate the Slater Industrial and State Normal School of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. WHEREAS, it appears to the general assembly that under and by virtue of articles of incorporation, signed by 8 G. Atkins and others, filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Fo... | That the purposes of said Slater Industrial and State Normal School shall be as follows: For the instruction of youth ef the colored race in the various common school, academic and eollegiate branches, the best methods of teaching the same and 48 the best mode of practical industry in its application to agrioultural an... |
1897_public laws_113_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 112 | 6 | CHAPTER 112 An act to establish a system of graded schools in Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the following named persons, Harrison Wortham, L. D. Mayo, Joseph H. Satterwhite, Julius Speed and M. M. Peace and their successors in office be and the same are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the colored children belonging to said township. ; That said board of trustees shall be a body politic, and sh... |
1897_public laws_113_6 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 112 | 5 | CHAPTER 112 An act to establish a system of graded schools in Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the following named persons: Robert Bunn, Alex. T. Barnes, James Kelly, Lee Howard and W. H. Jenkins, and their successors in office, shall constitute a board of trustees for the graded school for the white children. The said board of trustees shall be a body politic, and shall be known as The Board of Trustees o... |
1897_public laws_109_14 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 108 | 13 | CHAPTER 108 An act to revise and improve the public school system of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | The school committee of each district shall on the second Monday in January each year, meet at such a place in their district as the chairman may designate for the purpose of apportioning the school fund of their district to the various schools, white and colored, iu their districts in the manner hereinbefore provided ... |
1897_public laws_49_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 48 | 6 | CHAPTER 48 An act relating to School District No. 30, for the white race in Nash county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the present school committee of district number thirty -80 for the white race in Nash county are hereby appointed school committee of the aforesaid district as constituted above to hold as such until the next regular appointment of school committees for the county. |
1897_public laws_24_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 23 | 1 | CHAPTER 23 An act to pay J. A. McRae money due by Randoiph county for teaching of District School No. 27 The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Treasurer of Randolph county be and he is hereby authorized to pay to J. A. McRae seventeen dollars and fifty cents $17.50 out of the public school fund due District number Twenty-seven 27 for the colored race, as a residue for services rendered as teacher in said District during the school year ending 1896 |
1895_public laws_430_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 429 | 6 | CHAPTER 429 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the school committee created under this act shall elect annually a superintendent of schools, established under this act, who shall be the principal of the graded schools for the white children, if the same shall be established ; and the said superintendent shall examine all applicants for teachers positions in th... |
1895_public laws_430_4 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 429 | 3 | CHAPTER 429 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That if the inspectors of said election shall certify that a majority of the votes cast are in favor of said tax the same shall be levied by the county commissioners and collected by the sheriff under the same rules and regulations under which other school taxes are levied and collected, and the sheriff shall be subjec... |
1895_public laws_430_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 429 | 2 | CHAPTER 429 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Clinton, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the board of commissioners of Sampson county are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said school district within three months after the ratification of this act, under such rules and regulations as they prescribe, the question whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of grad... |
1895_public laws_267_8 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 266 | 7 | CHAPTER 266 An act to provide for a graded school in the town of Hender- sonville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the money arising from the special assessment herein provided for collected from the property and polls of colored persons shall, as soon as collected, be paid over to the treasurer of Henderson county, and held by him subject to the orders and directions of the board of trustees of said public graded school for t... |
1895_public laws_267_5 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 266 | 4 | CHAPTER 266 An act to provide for a graded school in the town of Hender- sonville, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the present board of trustees of the Hendersonville Academy, and their successors, and the school committee of Hendersonville public school district number twenty-two (22), and their successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the white children: That said board s... |
1897_public laws_113_9 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 112 | 8 | CHAPTER 112 An act to establish a system of graded schools in Henderson, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the Board of Trustees for the white school, and the Board of Trustees of the colored school, shall meet annually on the second Tuesday in August, when they shall receive applieations for teachers in said schools; which applications shall be accompanied by a certificate from the County Examiner, dated within the sc... |
1895_public laws_226_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 225 | 1 | CHAPTER 225 * An act to establish the Warsaw. graded school. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the board of commissioners of Duplin county are hereby authorized and required to submit to the qualified voters of the following territory, lying in Warsaw township, Said county, viz.: beginning at Wilmington & Weldon Railroad trestle over Turkey swamp, and thence down Turkey swamp to a point where the Clinton an... |
1893_public laws_527_5 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 527 | 4 | CHAPTER 527 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount, counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That the public school money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white and for the colored children in said territory shall be paid to said treasurer, and by him applied under the orders and directions of said board of trustees. |
1893_public laws_527_2 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 527 | 1 | CHAPTER 527 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Rocky Mount, counties of Nash and Edgecombe. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That all that portion of the county of Nash and all that portion of the county of Edgecombe lying within the corporate limits of the town of Rocky Mount, together with house and lot now used by Israel D. Hargett for his colored school, together also with all that portion of Edgecombe county which is bound by the corpor... |
1893_public laws_526_8 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 526 | 7 | CHAPTER 526 An act to establish graded schools in Lexington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That it shall be the duty of said graded school board to establish a graded school for white and one for colored children of said town, and apportion the funds derived from said special taxes or from any other sources whatsoever between said schools for white and colored. |
1893_public laws_526_7 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 526 | 6 | CHAPTER 526 An act to establish graded schools in Lexington, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | For the purposes and benefits of this act the town of Lexington shall be and constitute a public school district for both white _and colored; and all public school funds derived from the state and said county for tHe use and benefit of the public school district so constituted shall be paid to said town treasurer by th... |
1893_public laws_515_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 515 | 2 | CHAPTER 515 Anact to amend chapter sixty, section three, of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: | That persons of the Croatan race of either sex who are not under thirteen years of age may attend the normal school for the Croatans: Provided, that children not under eleven years of age may be admitted who can stand an approved examination in spelling, reading, writing, primary geography and the fundamental rules of ... |
1893_public laws_374_3 | project experts | 1 | public laws | 374 | 2 | CHAPTER 3874 Aa act to establish and provide for the militia and for the support and maintenance of the state guard. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : | That the white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled and shall never be compelled to serve in the same companies, battalions, regiments or brigades. |
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