1923_private laws_12_2
CHAPTER 11 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE SANFORD SPECIAL SCHOOL DIS- TRICT FOR THE COLORED RACE, LEE COUNTY, TO ISSUE BONDS TO BUILD AND EQUIP SCHOOLHOUSES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The board of trustees, committeemen or other governing body of the Sanford Special School District for the colored race are hereby authorized to issue bonds of said school district for the purpose of erecting, enlarging, altering and equipping school buildings and acquiring land for buildings of the said school district, or for any one or more of said purposes, and the board of county commissioners of Lee County is hereby authorized and directed to levy annually a special tax ad valorem on all taxable property in said school district for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of all bonds issued under this act as such principal and interest become due, which special tax shall be in an amount sufficient for said purpose and shall be in addition to all other taxes authorized to be levied in said school district. No bonds shall be issued under this act, however, nor said special tax levied unless and until the question of such issue and levy shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of said Sanford Special School District for the colored race at a special election to be held for the purpose and a majority of said qualified electors shall have voted in favor of issuing said bonds and levying said tax, as required by section seven of article seven of the Constitution of North Carolina.