1893_public laws_213_2
CHAPTER 212 An act to authorize the board of commissioners of Edgecombe county to submit to the voters of Tarboro township the levying of a tax for the ' schools of said township. : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the board of commissioners of the county of Edgecombe be and they are hereby authorized and required to submit to the qualified voters of Tarboro township in said county on the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe, whether an annual tax shall be levied therein for the support of public schools for the children in said township. Each voter shall vote a written or printed ballot with the words  For schools or  Against schools, and said election shall be conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by law for the election of members of the general assembly. The board shall submit such amount of taxation as the Tarboro school-board shall by resolution request, not to exceed twenty cents on the one hundred dollars of property and sixty cents on the poll, the said tax to be in lieu of the present special tax.