1891_public laws_303_2
CHAPTER 302 An act to define the words  swamp lands as the same are employed in the statutes of this state in respect to the entry and grant of lands and the lands appropriated and belonging to the state board of educa- tion. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the words  marsh and swamp land  employed in section twenty-seven hundred and fifty-one -2751 [of] The Code, and the words swamp lands employed in the statutes creating the literary fund and literary board of North Carolina and the state board of education of North Carolina, or in any act in relation thereto, shall be construed to include all those lands which have been or may now be known and called swamp or  marsh lands, * pocosin bay,  briary bay and savanna, and all lands which may be covered by the waters of any lake or pond.