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CHAPTER XLVI. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LIL- LINGTON ACADEMY, IN THE COUNTY OF PENDER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That 8 8 Satchwell, Andrew J. McIntire, Gratton Williams, b. C. Bordeaux, Bruce Williams, L. Souther land and G. F. Walker, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the  Lillington Academy, and in that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold and convey, in their corporate capacity, property real and personal, such as may be necessary and suitable for maintaining a school of high grade; shall have perpetual succession; may have and use a common seal; have power to elect their officers, consisting of a chairman, secretary and treasurer, and to establish such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the cause of education and maintaining said school, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state.