1897_private laws_210_2
CHAPTER 209 An act to incorporate the Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That W. D. Newsome, George Keen, C. 8 Brown, William Reid, I. Boone, Thomas Jernigan, James Rooks, Levi Brown, W. H. Smith,and their associates and successors in office, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of  The Chowan Educational Association in the county of Hertford, for the education of colored people, and assuch they shall have all the corporate powers, rights and immunities of similar institutions. The trusteesand directors may plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and may acquire and hold such personal property as may be necessary and suitable to maintain and operatea school of high grade, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, such property to be exempt from taxation.