1911 public laws – Ch.122 Sec.3
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CHAPTER 122 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A REFORM AND MANUAL TRAIN- ING SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTHS. Whereas it appears to the General Assembly that there are in this State many negro youths between the ages of seven and six- teen years who violate the criminal law, and that while such youths should be detained and punished and taught the doctrine of religion, good morals, and how to work, it would be to the best interest of such youths and criminals 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:
Trustees, how chosen. The trustees named and the seven other persons shall be divided into three classes: -1 ……… 5 Mee Pats Sc lit icls sree art ory selva , to serve for six years; (2)………. MMOS bio: 5 fact wiaty ale ic heb steles to serve for four years; -3 ……… MUEMME NERA Noidre) 3 oid)iha) o ‘s’a d.avele eta che , to serve for two years. At the expiration of the terms of office of each class of trustees, if the State shall at such time be appropriating to the support of the said institution a sum of not less than five thousand dollars per annum, the Governor shall have the right to fill by appointment two of the vacancies so occurring, and the board to fill the other three by election of such persons as they may see fit, and all vacancies in said board shall continue to be filled in the above manner; but in ease the State shall refuse to appropriate at least the aforesaid sum, then the State shall forfeit all right to appoint any trustees or require any account or statements as provided by law, and said school shall then be governed by the general laws applicable to charitable institutions of like character not receiving State appropriations, and said board may fill all vacancies therein by election. If, however, the General Assembly shall at its present session of one thousand nine hundred and eleven vote an appropriation to said school, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to call, not later than the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, a meeting of the trustees herein named, at his office in Raleigh, and at such meeting the said trustees shall proceed to the election of a treasurer, superintendent for said school, and such other officers for said board and said school as they may deem proper. The seven other trustees not herein selected shall be selected in the following manner: If the General Assembly shall make an appropriation to the school, the said seven other trustees as mentioned heretofore shall be selected by the Governor, by and with the advice of the eight trustees named above; but if the General Assembly shall refuse to vote such appropriation, then the eight trustees named shall have the power and right to select the said seven other trustees.