North Carolina Jim Crow Laws

That the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) is hereby appropriated annually for the support and maintenance of the State Hospital for the Colored Race, located at Goldsboro; and the further sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) is hereby appropriated annually for years one thousand nine hundred and eleven and one thousand nine hundred and twelve, for fire-escapes and other necessary improvements. :

The sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000) is hereby appropriated annually for the support and maintenance of the Orphan Asylum for the Colored Race, located at Oxford.

Register of deeds shall make report to Auditor. 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 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 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 Auditor an 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 all railroad companies of one hundred miles or more in length doing business in whole or in part in the State of North Carolina are hereby required to provide and keep at all depots in cities or towns of two thousand and over in population as fixed by the United States Census of the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, two windows, opening in the waiting-room for passengers of the race using the greatest amount of mileage or coupon books, for the sale or exchange of fares on all passenger trains in North Carolina; one of said windows to be used for the sale of cash fares exclusively, and the other for the sale and exchange of mileage or coupon books. Each window to be attended by an agent whose duty it shall be to wait upon the traveling public, during the hours now prescribed, for the sale of cash-fare tickets and the sale and exchange of mileage or coupon books. And that over each such window the said railroad companies shall be and they are hereby required to place and keep a sign, painted in plain letters, Mileage Exchange and Cash Fares, respectively : Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any railroad company in North Carolina, as aforesaid, selling mileage or coupon books at a rate of not more than two cents per mile and pulling or taking the same on the train: Provided further, that all the provisions of this section shall apply to the following railroad junctions in this State, irrespective of population, namely: Dunn, Selma, Maxton, Hamlet, Norlina, and Sanford.

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 specify every cther subject of taxation, and the amount paid on the whole. At the same time the clerk shall return to the auditor an abstract of the lists of the poor, county and scliool taxes paid in his county, setting forth separately the tax levied on each poll and on each one 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 no person who may have committed any crime against or violation of the laws of the State of North Carolina, with the exception of rape, deliberate and wilful murder, arson and burglary, while a member of or officer or pretended officer of the Heroes of America, Loyal Union League, Red Strings, Constitutional Union Guard, White Brotherhood, Invisible Empire, Ku-Klux Klan, North Carolina State Troops, North Carolina Militia, Jay Hawkers, or any other organization, association, or assembly, secret or otherwise, political or otherwise, by whatever name known or called, in obedience to the commands, decrees or determinations, by whatever name called, of such organizations, associations or assemblies, or in obedience to the commands, orders or requests of any ohe exercising or pretending to exercise any authority or pretended authority by reason of his connection or attachment to any such organization, association or assembly, shall be held to answer criminally for any such crime against or in violation of the laws of the said State of North Carolina in fact committed or charged to have been committed preyious to the first day of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, but every such person shall have free and complete amnesty and pardon therefor: Provided, That all persons who were not personally present at and actually participating in the crimes of wilful murder, arson and burglary, or who were not present at, and did not assent to the decree or order for the same, shall have the benefit of this act.

The buildings of the House of Correction and Refuge shall be so constructed that the children of the white race shall be kept separate and apart, and the children of the colored race shall be kept separate and apart from the other race.

That the said board are hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the board of directors for the Institntion for the Deaf.and Dumb and Blind as many of the rick now at the penitentiary as may be necessary in the onstruction of the colored Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institution, and said board are directed to use as many convicts as practicable in the construction of such building.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That a lot of land belonging to the State of North. Carolina, situated in the city of Raleigh in the south-eastern part of said city, bounded on the west by Blood-worth street, on the north by Lenoir street, on the east by East street, and on the south by the lands of John W. B. Watson, containing about one acre, be and the same is. donated and appropriated to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind for the purpose of establishing thereon buildings for the accommodation of the colored pupils of said institution.

The clerk of the commissioners on or before the first Monday in September after the lists are returned, shail 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 andthe 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 hundred dollars value of real property for each purpose, and also the gross amount of taxes of every kind levied for county purposes.