1909_private laws_177_2
CHAPTER 176 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE WALNUT COVE GRADED- SCHOOL DISTRICT. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the territory embraced within the following bounds, to wit, beginning at a stake two and a quarter miles north of the schoolhouse in Walnut Cove, in the county of Stokes, and running west two miles to a stake; thence south to a stake in the Forsyth County line; thence east with said line four miles to a stake; thence north to a stake, two miles east of the beginning ; thence west two miles to a stake, at the beginning point, lying and being in the county of Stokes, shall be and is hereby constituted a public-school district for white and colored children, to be known as the Walnut Cove Graded-school District. The Board of County Commissioners of Stokes County shall cause the county surveyor to survey and run and locate the boundaries of said district, as herein set out, at least ten days before the election herein provided for, and to certify the same, with a plat thereof, to the board. The expense of such survey and plat shall be paid for out of the funds of said district.