1921 extra session public laws – Ch.8 Sec.6
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CHAPTER 8 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER TO BORROW NOT EXCEEDING $710,000 FOR THE STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND. Whereas the special session of the General Assembly of one thousand nine hundred and twenty, chapter ninety-one, section one, Public Laws, provided a State tax of thirteen cents for the purpose of paying one-half the annual salary of the county super- intendents and three months salary of all teachers of all sorts eat) van employed in the public schools of the county, including the teach- ers of city, town, township, and all special chartered schools, and one-third of the annual salary of all city superintendents, accord- ing to section five thousand four hundred and eighty-two of the Consolidated Statutes; and, Whereas great progress was made in the improvement of teach- ers during the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty and one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, the total number haying been increased in one year from fifteen thousand nine hundred ninety-three to seventeen thousand five hundred twenty- three, or ten per cent, and the number of trained teachers having been increased within one year from seven thousand four hundred ninety-one to ten thousand one hundred forty-one, or thirty-five per cent, thus making considerably heavier demands on the public school fund than was anticipated; and, Whereas the amount to be derived from the thirteen-cent tax was insufficient to provide for the payment of the salaries of teachers and school officials in accordance with section five thou- sand four hundred and eighty-two of the Consolidated Statutes, the amount of the State public school fund, together with the balance brought forward from one thousand nine hundred and nineteen and one thousand nine hundred and twenty amounts to four million eleven thousand two hundred fifty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents, provided no further reductions in the settlement of taxes is allowed, and the total cost of all teachers and school officials, in accordance with law, amounts to four million seven hundred fifteen thousand eight hundred eighty-two dollars and ninety-two cents, thus leaving a balance due the counties of seven hundred four thousand six hundred twenty-three dollars and fifty- nine cents: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
In view of the fact in drawing An act to issue bonds of the State for the permanent enlargement and improvement of the States educational and charitable institutions, chapter one hundred sixty-five, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, the Pembroke Normal School for the Indians received only two thousand dollars for buildings and permanent improvements; and in view of the fact that the buildings and equipment of said Pembroke Normal School are totally inadequate and seriously dilapidated, being unsuitable even for a medium rate elementary school, there is hereby appropriated a sum of money not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars out of the funds accruing to the State as a result of the sale of the bonds authorized in section six, chapter one hundred sixty-five, Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, to be expended by the State Board of Education for buildings and repairs, and purchase of a principals home and other purposes.