1905 private laws – Ch. 32 Sec. 26

That H. J. Green, C. S. L.A. Taylor, Silas B. Washington, Samuel J. Caldwell, J. T. Sanders, J. Henry Warren, Ed. W. Butler, W. H. Houser, Louis Perry, Rufus Caldwell, S. B. Pride and Walker Hill and their successors be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the name of the Charlotte Publie Park Commission for Colored People, and shall have charge and control of the park or parks for colored people, with the same powers, duties, responsibilities, etc., as are conferred on the trustees before mentioned for white people in reference to their parks. The Board of Aldermen of the City of Charlotte shall provide a suitable place for a park or parks and the said trustees shall make all rules, regulations and by-laws for its government and have all the powers conferred on and be subject to the limitations imposed on the white trustees. All ordinances of the city of Charlotte that apply to the white parks shall apply to the colored park or parks.