North Carolina Jim Crow Laws

Be it / further enacte!, That said section be further auieadedias follows, to-wit : The Clerk of the County Court of the county, in which the feme resides, shall issue a license for the marriage of any person not in this chapter prohib ted, to any person applying for the same, directed to any ordained minister or Justice of Peace, in which license he shall state the names of the parties in full, and the parents of each, when known, and also whether the parties are white or colored.

Be it further enacted, That the school cammis- sioners of each corporation shall make a quarterly statement, to the town or city authorities, of the condition of the schools, and to be filed with the corporation records, and annually one month before the expiration of their term of office shall make a detailed report of all their operations, stating the number of white children in the corporation between the ages of 6 and 21, the sums expended for school purposes, the number and grade of the schools, the attendance on each, the salaries paid teachers, and such other tacts concerning the schools as may be important, which report shall be published, before the next election, in the papers of the corporation, and if there be none such, in pamphiets or hand bills, and a copy shall be filed with the Seeretary of the Board, and one, authenticated by the seal of office of the Clerk of County Court, sent to the Governor of the State.

Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of Lue Board of school commissioners of every town or city, to number the white children of the corporation between the ages of 6und 21, and as soon as they receive a statement of the amount of money appropriated for schools for any one year, to provide first for primary schools for all the. children who need them, and if, after such provision, there be other finds, they may be used for schools of higher grade, and all the white children of the corporation, between the ages of 6 and 21, shall be entitled to attend the publie schools which they are qualified to ent.r: Provided, That the grades in the schoo] shall regularly ascend, and the school commissioners shall be required to establish the lowest first, and next the schools of the next higher grade, and so on upward,

Beit further enacted, That the authorities of cities and incorporated towns, establishing Public Schools, according to the provisions of this Act, shall be required to sett apart all the funds of said corporation that can be spared from other purposes, required by their charters and laws, passed in accordance herewith, for educational purposes, and in addition to the powers of taxation, with which they are already invested, they shall be authorized to levy and collect a poll tax on every white male inhabitant of the corporation, over twenty-one years old, of not more than two dollars, to be wholly appropriated to the use of the Public Schools.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the aw thority of the same, That the Ist section of the 5th chapter of the Revised Code, entitled Apprentices, be amended by striking out the words also the children of free negroes where the parents, with whom such children may live, do not habitually employ their time in some honest, industrious occupation, and all free base born children of color, aftr the word mother, in the 14th line, and insert, in lieu thereof, the words and all base born children whose mothers may not have the means or ability to support them, and that the second section of said chapter be amended by striking out the words if white, but if colored, till twentyone, after the words eighteen years, in the fourth line.

When state taxes to be paid by sheriff : On or before the first day of October in each year every sheriff shall return on oath to the auditor of the state a duplicate account of all taxes collected by him, adding the sum apparently due from the tax list, the amounts collected for penalties for deliquents. The auditor shall deduct from the sum as returned: 1 The amount of taxes charged against any person whom the clerk of the commissioners shall certify to have appealed from a decision of the commissioners respecting his liability, and to have given the bond required: Provided, That the clerk of the court to which the appeal was taken shall certify that it is pending and undecided. The sum so unliquidated shall be carried forward by the auditor as a charge against the sheriff on his next years account from year to year until the decision of the appeal, after which they shall be collected and paid or balanced, if the final decision be in favor of the appellant. 2 All poll taxes and taxes on personal property certified by the commissioners of the county through their chairman or clerk to be insolvent and uncollectable. 3 Five per centum commissions on the amount collected and traveling expenses to and from the city of Raleigh, at the rate of ten cents per mile by the usual route of travel. 4 All payments duly made upon the order of the anditor of the state.

The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the tirst Monday in August after the lists are returned, shall return to the auditor 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 colored polls separately, and specify every other subject of taxation, and the amount as state and county tax paid on each subject, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the elerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and school taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That Rev. H. B. Hayes, M. McWilliams and Willis Moss, be and they are hereby authorized to remove said house to a lot westward of the executive mansion, there to be used as a house of worship by the colored people of MNaleigh known as Christians.

What to be declared void at all times: All marriages between a white person snd a negro, or _indian, or between a white person and a negro or indian descent, to the third generation inclusive, shal] be absol utely void to all intents and purposes, and shall be so held and declared by every court at all times, whether during the lives or atter the deaths of the parties thereto; and it shall not be lawful for the issue of any such marriage to be legitimated to the supposed father.

Who may not: All marriages between a white person and a negro or Indian, or between a white person and a person of negro or Indian descent, to the third generation inclusive, or between ny two persons nearer of kin than first cousins, or between a male person under sixteen years of age and any female, or between a female person under fourteen years of age and uny male, or between persons either of whom has a husband or wife living at the time of such marriage, or between persons either of whom is at the time thereof physically impotent, or is incapable of contracting from want of will or understanding, shall be void: Provided, That no marriage tollowed by cohabitation and the birth of issue shall be declared void after the death of either of the parties for any ef the causes stated in this section, except tor that one of the parties was a white person and the other a negro or Indian, or of negro or Indian descent to the third generation inclusive, and tor bigamy. (Id. s. 7, 8, 9.)