North Carolina Jim Crow Laws

It shall be the duty of the secretary of the county board of education tor each county to report to the superintendent of public instruction on or before the fifteenth day of October of every year, full and accurate statistics, showing the number of free schools in the county, the length of the term ot each, the race, sex, number, and average attendance of pupils, as reported to him under the provisions of the twenty-ninth section of this act, and the race, sex and number of teachers 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-seven of this act. And if any secretary of a vounty board ef 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. vy

Every teacher or principal of a school to ee 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 grades in scholarship shall be indicated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; one representing the first or highest grade, and five 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 of a two or four munths school, and also on or before the first day of October of every year, every teacher of a free school shall deliver to the secretary ot the eounty board of education, a catalogue of the pupils ot the school, in which the average attendance, the scholarship, and the deportment of each pupil shall be shown, by three columns of numbers parallel to the column of names. He shall also give an abstract statement of the length of the term of the school, of the race, number, sex and average attendance of the pupils, also the township and district in which his school is situated.

The school committee shall conenlt the convenience of the white residents in settling the boundaries of districts for white schools, and of colored residents in settling the boundaries ot districts tor colored schools. The schools of the two races shall be separate ; the districts may be the same or not, according to the convenience of the #NAME? concerned. In cases where there are two sets of districts in a township, they shall be designated as School District; No. 1, 2, 8, &e., for white schools, or School District, No. 1, 2, 3, &e., for colored schools, as the case may be, of township ot , &e., as before stated.

The eounty examiner 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 he gave certificates during the year, also an abstract statement of the number, race, and sex of the teachers. It shall be the duty of the secretary to file away the catalogue, and record the abstract statement. The examiner shall also state in writing the days he was employed in examining teachers.

The clerk of the commissioners, on or before the first Monday in September 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 specity 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 clerk shall return 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 one hun. dred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes.

That the board of trustees of the Oxford Graded Schools is hereby authorized to receive said property for the benefit of the colored school children of the town of Oxford, and to use the same for the benefit of said colored school children in any way the said board may see fit or to sell and convey the same by a deed in fee simple and use the proceeds of the sale of said property after paying off any encumbrances thereon and expenses incurred by any person for the upkeep or maintenance or benefit of said property for the benefit of colored school children of said town of Oxford, either in making additions to the public school for colored children in said town or in purchasing other property for the benefit of said school and children.

That FE. T. Smith and J. H. A. Jenkins be and they are hereby appointed and constituted trustees of the property of said Oxford Colored Educational Association, and they are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed, as such trustees, to convey and deliver all the real and personal property of said association to the said board of trustees of the Oxford Graded Schools within sixty days after the ratification of this act.

That the said institution shall have the power and authority necessary to the control, management, and discipline of any youth of the colored race that may be assigned to it by the judges or juvenile court of any county in this State; the principal and superintendent thereof, having such power of discipline and control of such youth as will be necessary to the proper correction, training, reformation, and control of the black race as should be committed it by the juvenile courts of the State as is hereinafter provided for.

That all the judges of the State and counties shall have the power to commit to said institution as a reformatory such youth of the black race, within the ages of juvenile jurisdiction, for such time and on such terms as to discipline, training, education and reformation as in their discretion they deem wise, and with the power of modifying any such commitment at any time and in any way as may find necessary.

That the said institution shall be under the control and management of the following fifteen named, constituting a board of trustees: Spencer Burnett, N. S. Hargraves, P. T. Everett, J. H. MeNair, and H. B. Moore shall hold for a term of one year; Cc. N. Brown, S. R. Riddick, N. G. Edmond, J. A. G. MeNair, and Ed. R. Cooper shall hold for a term of two years; J. W. Williams, T. W. C. Moore, A. J. Wynn, J. A. Taylor, and I. S. Riddick shall hold for a term of three years; and the successors for each above respective class shall be named by the Middle Ground Baptist Association at its regular annual meetings for terms of three years each, and in addition to the said trustees, there may be an advisory membership of said board of trustees, composed of three members appointed for a term of three years by the Roanoke Baptist Association for the white people; the latter class of trustees have no voting power and cannot hold any office in or under the said board.