1903_public laws_747_8
CHAPTER 746 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH GRADED SCHOOLS IN MT, PROSPECT DISTRICT OF UNION COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER PUR- POSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That H. L. Yarbrough, R. P. Plyler, W. L. Preslar, P. W. Plyler, A. L. Helms, S. A. Lathan and P. V. Richardson are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the public graded school of Mt. Prospect School District, Union County, and they and their successors are hereby vested a body corporate under the name of trustees for the public schools of Mt. Prospect School District, Union County, and they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts of this State and the United States, have a common seal, make all by-laws and regulations necessary or expedient, as deemed by them for the purpose of their incorporation, purchase, sell and convey, lease, let and control all school property in said district, real and personal, proper and requisite for their corporate purposes, have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ and dismiss all officers and teachers of said schools and regulate their salaries, to elect one of their own number chairman and another secretary, and do and perform all acts proper and necessary for the best advantages of said schools.