1883_public laws_237_7
CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That L. H. Fisher, Owen Parrott, Wiley Lowry, Spencer Smith, Peter Brem, Henry Green, Richard Whitfield, Squire M. Jones and Peter Williams, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the colored children. That said board shal] have power to fill a)l vacancies occurring in said board, to employ teachers and do all such acts as shall be necessary to carry on said graded school for the colored children.