1913 private laws – Ch.47 Sec.1

That W. R. Cox, James L. Crouse, Joseph H. Armfield, Samuel Thompson, and Annie L. Hollady and their successors be and are hereby declared a body politic and corporate under the name and style of The Apostolic Holiness University, an institution of learning for the intellectual, moral, religious, and industrial development and training of boys and girls of the white 1913Cuarrter 47 [| Extra race, said university to be situated in Greensboro, North Carolina, Guilford County, conducted under the auspices of the Apostolic Holiness Church. This institution under the aforesaid name and style shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with; shall receive, take, and possess all moneys, goods, chattels, and bonds or other property which may be given them, and shali apply the same according to the desires of the donors to the purpose herein declared; and they shall have power by purchase or otherwise to take, demand, hold and possess rents, lands, machinery, appliances, tenements and hereditaments in special trust and confidence, and apply the same, together with the benefits arising therefrom, for the use or support of said institution.