1883_public laws_149_5
CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of white persons, shall be expended in aiding to keep up the public school in said district for white children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years; and the assessment thus levied and collected from the taxable property and polls of colored persons shall be expended in aiding to keep up the public school in said district for colored children of both sexes between the ages of six and twenty-one years. e