1907_private laws_15_38
CHAPTER 14 AN ACT TO REVISE, AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That it shall be the duty of the school commissioners to establish and maintain in the town graded schools, at least one for white children and one for colored children, and to appropriate the funds derived from the town taxes, levied and collected for education, and from all other sources for the maintenance of said schools, so as to equalize the school facilities between the races.