1883_public laws_413_7
CHAPTER 412 An act to establish graded schools in the town of Washington, North . Carolina, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That if a majority of the qualified voters of the town of Washington shall vote for school, the said trustees herein named for the white and colored graded schbols shall be and are hereby created respectively bodies politic and corporate, entitled respectively The Washington White Graded School and The Washington Colored Graded School, and each may sue and be sued, have acorporate seal, and purchase and hold real and personal property.