1909 public laws – Ch.817 Sec.9
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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 the superintendent employed by the said board shall have the right and is hereby authorized to require obedience from all the inmates of said school, and is hereby entrusted with the authority for correcting and punishing any inmate thereof, to the same extent as a parent may under the law impose upon his own child, and the said trustees shall have the right to discharge at any time said superintendent for cause.