1909 public laws – Ch.817 Sec.10
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CHAPTER 817 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A REFORMATORY OR MANUAL- TRAINING SCHOOL FOR THE DETENTION AND REFOR- MATION OF THE CRIMINAL NEGRO YOUTH OF THE STATE. Whereas it appears to this General Assembly that there are in this State many negro youths between the ages of seven and four- teen years who violate the criminal law, and that while such youths should be detained and punished and taught the doctrines of religion, good morals and how to work, it would be to the best interest of such youths and expedient that they be not associated with older and more hardened criminals, but that they should be kept separate therefrom: The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That it shall be the duty of the Governor of the State to visit said reformatory at least once in each year, and oftener if he deem it necessary, and to make such suggestions to said board of trustees as he may deem wise and for the best interests of the said school or reformatory; and the said reformatory shall be at all times under the visitorial jurisdiction of the Board of Public Charities of the State of North Carolina.