1897_public laws_109_12
CHAPTER 108 An act to revise and improve the public school system of North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
It shall be the duty of the school committee to distribute and apportion the school money of their district so as to give each school in their district, white and colored, the same length of school term, as nearly as may be each year, and in making such apportionment the said committee shall have proper regard for the grade of work to be done and the qualifications of the teachers pouuincd : in each school, white and colored, within their district.