1885 public laws – Ch. 253 Sec. 1

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CHAPTER 258 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Smithfield. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: -

That all the territory embraced within the bounds of white school district number forty, in Smithfield township, Johnston county, shall be and is hereby constituted the Smithfield Graded School District for white and colored. :

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