1879 private laws – Ch.8 Sec.1

That D. B. Black, D. Shaw, A. H. Padison, EK. Porter and A. H. Williams, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Trustees of Burgaw Male and Female Academy, and in that name may sue and be: sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold, enter upon and possess in their corporate capacity property real and personal, such as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining aschool of high grade in the town of Burgaw, in the county of Pender, with power to make all needful rules and regulations for their own government and that of said academy, and shall have continual succession in such capacity : Provided, there shall be an annual election by the stockholders of ; trustees, whose number shall never exceed nine nor be less than three.