1883 private laws – Ch. 110 Sec. 1
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CHAPTER 110 An act to incorporate the Colored Orphan Home of Eastern North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That George T. Wassom, John A. Savage, Louis H. Fisher, George H. White, John C. Dancy, J. H. Mattocks, P. W. Casey, W. C. Coleman, C. H. Johnson, W. W. Arrington and Richard Bunn, and their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name of the Colored Orphans Home of Eastern North Carolina, with power to receive, purchase and hold proprty, both real arid personal, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, to sue and to be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, to contract and to be contracted with, and to do all other acts and things which may be necessary for the convenient and efficient management of the business of said corporation and for the carrying out the intentions of the same.