1897_public laws_187_6
CHAPTER 186 An act to incorporate the United Brothers and Sisters Associ- ation. WHEREAS, certain citizens of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have associated themselves together, under the name and style of the  United Brothers and Sisters Association, with the intention and purpose of pro- moting charity, benevolence, morality, industry and intelli- gence; therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the private property of the members of the corporation shall be exempt from the debts of the corporation.