1917_private laws_128_2
CHAPTER 127 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUING OF BONDS BY THE WHITEVILLE SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 1, FOR THE WHITE AND COLORED RACES OF COLUMBUS COUNTY. The General ASsembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the board of commissioners of Columbus County, upon a written application of a majority of the board of trustees of Whiteville Supplemental School District, Number One, for the White and (Colored Races, hereinafter called the Whiteville District, is authorized and directed to submit on the fourth Tuesday in April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, to the qualified voters of said Whiteville District, under such rules and regulations as now exist or may be hereafter established for the election of members of the General Assembly, the question of issuing bonds for the erection, repairing, and equipping of suitable school buildings in said district; and there shall _be an entirely new registration under the provisions of the general election laws of the State of all voters who are entitled to register in Whiteville School District, and only such persons who register under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to vote in said election; and at such election each voter shall be entitled to vote a written or printed ballot with the words For Bonds or Against Bonds thereon. 