1883 public laws – Ch. 412 Sec. 8
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CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the town of Washington shall constitute a school district for white persons and a school district for colored persons. That the public school money which shall be from time to time collected under the general school law for public school purposes for the white children in said district shall be applied to keeping up the public graded school for the whites under the order and direction of the board of trustees for said graded school for white children: that the public schoo] money which shall from time to time be collected under the general school law for public school purposes for colored children in said district shall be applied to keeping up the public graded school for colored children under the order and direction of the board of trustees for said graded school for colored children.