North Carolina Jim Crow Laws

It shall be the duty of the court herein given jurisdiction over such children as are described in this act to hold as far as practicable separate trials for the children, and if possible in a private office removed from all criminal features and surroundings, and also to keep and have kept what shall be known as the Juvenile Record which shall contain the names, ages, sexes, race, residence, if known, the offenses committed by the child, and his progress or reformation within the period of the probation fixed by the court, and the final disposition of the child.

That whenever any insane person shall be entitled to admission into any of the hospitals of the State the clerk of the superior court, justice of the peace or other officer authorized by law to find such person insane has so found and has been notified that such insane person will be admitted into such hospital, it shall be the duty of said clerk or justice of the peace forthwith to notify the superintendent of such hospital giving the race, name, sex and age, and it shall be the duty of such superintendent to send an attendant to bring such insane person to said hospital and such attendant shall have all such rights as the sheriff or other officer has heretofore had to convey such insane person to the hospital.

That section four thousand one hundred and eightysix of the Revisal of one thousand nine hundred and five and all laws amendatory thereto be and the same are hereby repealed. That there be annually appropriated for the maintenance of the State normal schools for the colored race the sum of sixteen thousand ($16,000) dollars, and the further sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars annually for the years one thousand nine hundred and fifteen and one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, for permanent improvements.

That the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty ($2,750) dollars is hereby appropriated annually for the support and maintenance of the Cherokee Indian School located in Robeson County, and there is appropriated the further sum of two ($2,000) dollars for a dormitory.

That the sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars is hereby appropriated annually for the support and maintenance of the Oxford Orphanage for the colored race located at Oxford, and the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is appropriated for the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, for the purpose of paying off the debts of said institution.

That the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars annually is hereby appropriated for the support and maintenance of the Oxford Orphanage for the white race located at Oxford.

That there be annually appropriated for the Negro Agricultural and Technical College at Greensboro the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars for maintenance and the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars annually for the years one thousand nine hundred and fifteen and one thousand nine hundred and sixteen for improvements.

The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the year one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and the sum of one hundred and five thousand dollars ($105,000) for the year one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, is hereby appropriated for the support and maintenance of the State Hospital for the colored race at Goldsboro, and there is appropriated the further sum of four thousand, four hundred and fifty-five dollars ($4,455) for permanent improvements to be expended as follows: changes in fire department, three thousand five hundred ($3,500) dollars; dry room for laundry, three hundred and seventy-five ($375) dollars, and washer for laundry, five hundred and eighty ($580) dollars. Any balance to the credit of this institution now in the hands of the Treasurer is to be used for maintenance.

That the following institutions, and all others sustained by appropriations from the state treasury be and they are required to furnish to the Commissioner of Labor and Printing not later than December fifteenth of each biennial period a duplicate of the report required to be furnished to the governor for his use and for the records of his office, for: inclusion in the public documents. Not to exceed two hundred copies of such report may be furnished to the executive head of such institutions; The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Raleigh; The North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh; The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, Greensboro; The North Carolina Institution for the Blind and the Deaf, Raleigh; The Normal Department of Cullowhee High School, Painter; The Appalachian Training School, Boone; The North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb, Morganton; The Central Hospital, Raleigh; The State Hospital, Morganton; The State Hospital (colored), Goldsboro; The State Prison, Raleigh; the Eastern Carolina Teachers Training School, Greenville; The State Board of Health, including the Bureau of Vital Statistics, the State Laboratory of Hygiene and the State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis, Montrose: Provided, that these reports shall carry only such matters as are essential to a proper understanding of the work and purposes of the institution, together with a financial statement covering the previous biennial period ending December first.

That W. D. Newsome, George Keen, C. 8 Brown, William Reid, I. Boone, Thomas Jernigan, James Rooks, Levi Brown, W. H. Smith,and their associates and successors in office, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of The Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford, for the education of colored people, and assuch they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of similar institutions. The trusteesand directors may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and may acquire and hold such personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain and operatea school of high grade, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, such property to be exempt from taxation.