1897 public laws – Ch. 438 Sec. 2
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CHAPTER 438 An act to create a public school district of the town of Rock- ingham, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
H.C. Dockery, W. N. Everitt, W. L. Parsons, J. M. Smith and 8S. T. Cooper, are hereby appointed committee for the said public school district of the town of Rockingham, to hold until the school committees are regularly appointed by the commissioners acting as board of education of the various counties as provided by the general school law of the state, and said commissioners acting as board of education at that time shall elect five -5 school committeemen to succeed those herein named for the term prescribed by law, and the public schools for the white and colored shall be under the control and management of said committee, and said committee shall provide school terms of equal length for the two races.