1909_private laws_314_2
CHAPTER 313 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE SCHOOL LAWS OF THE CITY OF HICKORY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That for the purposes and benefits of this act, all the territory within the corporate limits of the city of Hickory, Catawba County, as is now or shall hereafter be prescribed, shall be and remain and is hereby constituted a public-school district for both white and colored children, and shall hereafter be known as the Hickory School District, and that a special tax for school purposes, to wit, twenty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of property and sixty cents on each taxable poll, shall continue to be levied and collected annually, to the same extent and in the same manner as the said tax is now and has been heretofore levied and collected in the Hickory Graded-school District: Provided, that if a majority of the registered voters of said city of Hickory shall vote in favor of the tax hereinafter provided for, then the tax for the use and benefit of the schools of said district shall be levied and collected in amounts, at times and in the manner hereinafter provided.