1917 private laws – Ch.35 Sec.10
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CHAPTER 35 AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE SPECIAL-TAX DISTRICT No. 4, WHITE RACE, IN SADDLE TREE TOWNSHIP, AND SPECIAL-TAX DISTRICT No. 2, WHITE RACE, IN HOW- ELLSVILLE TOWNSHIP; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF SAIDSPECIAL DISTRICTS AND TO CREATE THE BARKER-TEN MILE GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AUTHORIZE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SAID DIS- TRICT TO ISSUE BONDS AND TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL SPECIAL-TAX. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the members of the board of education shall be each official members of the board of trustees of said Barker-Ten Mile Graded School District, and in addition thereto A. A. Bethune, J. W. Barker, N. A. Townsend, Spurgeon Jones, and J. H. Powers, are hereby constituted and appointed as the board of trustees of said Barker-Ten Mile School District. Spurgeon Jones and J. H. Powers shall hold their office for two years, and J. W. Barker and N. A. Townsend shall hold their office for four years, and A. A. Bethune shall hold his office for six years; and each trustee shall hold office until his successor shall be appointed and shall qualify in accordance with the provisions of this act; and the term of office of said trustee shall be considered as beginning on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.