1866/67 private laws – Ch.40 Sec.1
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CHAPTER XL. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE COLORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIA- TION, OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of th State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That James H. Harris, Handy Lockhart, Moses Patterson, W. H. Anderson, John R. Caswell, W. H. Matthews, Robert Wyche, Wilson Morgan, J. E. O’Hara, colored persons and residents of the county of Wake, and their successors and associates, are hereby incorporated into a body politic, under the name and style of The Colored Educational Association of North Carolina, with power and for the purpose of establishing Schools and encouraging and promoting generally Education among the colored children of the State, and may, for such purpose, receive donations and acquire and hold estate of any kind, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in value. .