1880 public laws – Ch.22 Sec.1

That the board of education of Edgecombe, Brunswick, Pender and Washington counties shall at the time prescribed by law for distribution of the public school funds for said counties in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, ascertain the amount of outstanding and unpaid school drafts that have been issued for teachers wages prior to the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, in accordance with law; and shall notify the school committees of the several districts by advertisement at the court house of the amount of claims outstanding against each several district, together with the amount then due the same, having regard to the distinction between the white and colored schools; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer of said counties to pay the said old drafts out of any school money in his hands belonging to the district or districts upon which said draft or drafts were drawn.