1883_private laws_101_2
CHAPTER 100 An act to incorporate Central Institute for Young Ladies. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : .
That Thomas W. Harris, Sterling Johnston, J. W. Heptinstall, E.C. Thorne, W. C. Johnston, C. L. Sledge, W. E. Spruill, N. E. Jenkins, M. E. Newsom, W. H. Thorne, B. R. Browning, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created a joint stock company, a body politic and corporate, for the purpose of maintaintaining a school of high grade near the town of Littleton, in the county of Warren, for the intellectual, moral and religious development and training of young ladies under the name and style of Central Institute for Young Ladies, and in that name may sue and be sued, may plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, aoquire, hold and convey in their corporate capacity property personal and real, and exercise all acts in relation thereto incident to the ownership of personal proper and real estate.