North Carolina Jim Crow Laws

It shall be the duty of the school committee of each township to take and return to the county board of education on or before the first day of August in every year a full and accurate census of the children between the ages of six and twenty-one years, giving the number in public schools, and the number who attended no school, designating the race and sex in all cases. They shall also report the number of public school-houses and the number of private school-houses, and the number of aeademies and colleges in each township.

It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board of education for each county to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the first day of July of every year, full and accurate statistics, showing the number of public schools in the county, the length of term of each, the race, sex, number and average attendance of pupils, as reported to him under the provisions of the fifteenth section of this act; and also the number of school children in the county, as reported to the county board of education under the provisions of section forty-five of this act. And if any secretary of a county board of education shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section at the time above stated, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the Superior Court of his county, he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than one month, or more than six ve in the discretion of the court.

The county treasurer of each county shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the first day of July of each year, the entire amount of school money received by him during the preceding school year, the several sources from which it was derived and the disbursements thereof made by him, designating the sums paid for schools for the white and colored children respectively, for school-house sites in the several townships. At the same time the secretary of the county board of education shall report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction the number of public schools taught in the county during the year for each race, the number of pupils of each race, their average attendance, the number of males and the number of females, according to the reports made to him by the provisions of this act.

The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday of February of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, apportion among the several townships in the county, according to the number of children in each between the ages of six and twentyone years, (which number shall be ascertained by a census to be taken by the school committee and reported to the county board of education,) all school funds which may then be in the possession of or due to the county treasurer, specifying how much thereof is apportioned to the children of each race, and give notice thereof to the school committees of the several townships of the county. And the school committees in the several townships shall apportion the same in like manner among the several school districts, and publish the same by an advertisement posted on the court-house door of each county. The sums thus apportioned to the several townships shall be subject to the orders of the school committees thereof for payment of the school expenses mentioned in section nine as amended in this act: Provided, however, That in no case shall the school fund thus apportioned to either race be expended for the education of the other race: And provided further, That so much of said school fand as shall not be expended in any school district for the education of the race for which it was apportioned in any year, shal be added to the final apportionment to said race in said school districts for the succeeding year. If the pupils of any public school reside in different townships, the school committes of each shall give an order to the teacher for such part of the amount due him as is proportionate to the number of pupils attending his school from their township.

Every teacher or principal of a school to which aid shall be given under the provisions of this act, shall keep a daily record of all absences of pupils and of the grade in scholarship and deportment of each. The grade in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; 1 representing the highest or first grade, and 5 the lowest, and the three intermediate numbers. the three intermediate grades. The grades in deportment shall be represented by the same numbers and in the same order. At the end of every term every teacher of a public school shall deliver to the county treasurer a statement of the length of the term of the school, of the race, number, sex and average attendance of pupils, and the name of the district and township in which the school was taught.

The school committee shall consult the conyenience of the white residents in settling the boundaries of districts for white schools, and of colored residents in settling the boundaries for colored schools. The schools of the two races shall be separate; the districts the same or not, according to the convenience of the parties concerned. In cases where there are two sets of districts in a township they shall be designated as school districts numbers one, two, three, etc., for white schools, or school districts, numbers one, two, three, ete., for colored schools, as the case may be, of township of etc., as before stated.

The board of examiners shall deliver to the secretary of the county board of education on or before the first day of October of every year, a catalogue of all the teachers to whom they gave certificates during the: year, also an abstract statement of the number, race and sex of the teachers, and report the same to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That Henry Hester, Lawson Wright, Grandison Young, Benjamin Ridley and Peter Hurst, and their successors are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Oxford Colored Educational Association; and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, purchase and hold in their corporate capacity such real and personal property as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining a school for boys and girls at Oxford, in the county of Granville, with power to make all needful rules, by-laws and regulations for their own government and the government of their school: Provided, That no sectarian school shall be established under the provisions of this act.

Register of deeds shall make report to State Tax Commission. The clerk of the board of commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday in November, after the lists are deposited with him * by the board of commissioners, return to the State Tax Commission an abstract of the same, showing the number of acres of land and their value, and the value of town lots, and the number of white and negro polls, separately, and specify every other subject of taxation and the amount of State and county tax paid on each subject and the amount paid on the whole. At the same, time the clerk shall return to the State Tax Commission ant abstract of the list of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one hundred dollars value of real and personal property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes.

That in addition to the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ($2,250), appropriated by the General Assembly of North Carolina, session of nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the maintenance of the Indian Normal School of Robeson County, the further sum of five hundred-dollars is hereby annually appropriated for the years one thousand nine hundred and thirteen and one thousand nine hundred and fourteen for the support and maintenance of said school.