1903 public laws – Ch.384 Sec.8
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CHAPTER 384 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN THE TOWN OF EDENTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the Board of Trustees provided for by this act i I a s shall have entire charge and exclusive control of the public schools and property in said district; shall prescribe rules and regulations for their own government, and the government of the schools, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shail employ and fix the compensation of officers and teachers of the public schools in said district; shall make an accurate census of the school population of the district as required by the general school law of the State, and do all other acts that may be just and lawful in the management of the public school interest in said district: Provided, that all children resident in said district between the age of six -6 and twenty-one -21 years old shall be admitted into said schools free of tuition charges, and the Board of Trustees may permit attendance, upon the said schools, of children residing without the territory embraced in said graded school district upon such terms as the Board of Trustees may prescribe.