1909_private laws_307_3
CHAPTER 306 AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRADED SCHOOL, TO BE KNOWN AS SALEM GRADED SCHOOL, OF SURRY COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the board of county commissioners of the county of Surry are hereby authorized and directed to submit to the qualified voters of said Salem School District, on the first Monday in May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, under such rules and regulations as prevail in the election of county officers, the question whether an annual tax shall-be levied therein for the support of a graded public free school for the white children and a graded public free school for the colored children therein, in said district. Hach voter shall vote a printed ballot with the words For Schools or No Schools thereon, and the result of the election shall be declared by the same rules as govern elections of county officers.