1883_public laws_319_3
CHAPTER 318 An act to authorize the board of county commissioners of Northamp- ton county to order the treasurer of said county to pay certain amounts due to teachers of public schools. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That said amounts, if ordered by said board to be paid, shall be paid out of the school funds in the hands of said treasurer due the districts respectively before named for the white race, and that the school committees of said district respectively shall regulate the schools in said districts so as to spare the amount or amounts due from said districts respectively.