1923_public local laws_599_3
CHAPTER 602 AN ACT TO PROVIDE SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR THAT RACE OF PEOPLE IN GASTON TOWNSHIP, NORTHAMP- TON COUNTY, KNOWN AS THE PORTUGUESE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That after said building shall have been provided as aforesaid, the board of education for Northampton County is hereby empowered and directed to provide teachers for said school for said race, and said teacher or teachers shall be paid as other teachers in said county are paid without extra tax on said race of people, except as they may vote same upon themselves. The teachers of said school shall be either of the said race known as Portuguese or white persons, as in the discretion of the board of education for Northampton County it may deem proper.