1876/77 private laws – Ch.36 Sec.1
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CHAPTER XXXVI. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE AND TWO OF CHAPTER THIRTY- SEVEN, PRIVATE LAWS OF ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO AND ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE, ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF OXFORD COLORED EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, OF GRANVILLE COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That section one, of the above entitled act, be amended so ss to read as follows: That Henry Hester, Lawson Wright, Grandison Young, Benjamin Ridley and Peter Royster, and their successors and associates, are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The Oxford Colored Educational Association, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with ; purchase and hold, in their corporate capacity, such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining a school for boys and girls at Oxford, in the county of Granville, with power by and with the consent of a majority of the members of the association, given at their annual meeting, to make all needful rules, by-laws and regulations for their own government, and the government oftheirschool; Provided, That no sectarian school shall be established under the provisions of this act.