1927_public laws_132_5
CHAPTER 131 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Upon certification to the Board of County Commissioners, or in case the territory in which the vote is to be taken lies entirely within a city or town, upon certification to the governing body of such city or town such board or body shall call and hold an election for voting a local tax to supplement the funds provided for the maintenance of the minimum school term under the constitution, at which election there shall be submitted to the voters of the entire new district the question of whether a maximum rate of tax, which shall not exceed fifty cents (50) on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, shall annually be levied upon the entire district: Provided, however, that in lieu of submitting such question to the voters of the entire new district at one election, there may be submitted to the voters of any component district or districts or component part or parts of a district separately or in combination the question of whether there shall be levied annually upon such district, districts, part or parts, a maximum rate of tax at the same rate, not exceeding fifty cents (50) on the one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, which was theretofore voted by any other component district or districts component part or parts of the new district.