1883_public laws_250_5
CHAPTER 249 An act to establish graded schools in Tarboro township in Edge- combe county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That George Howard, N. M. Lawrence, C. J. Austin, J. B. Coffield, T. H. Gatling, E. C. Farrar and R. C. Brown be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the whites; that said board shall have power to fill all 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 white children.