1883_public laws_237_6
CHAPTER 236 An act to establish a graded school in the town of Kinston, in Lenoir county. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That John Tull, Dr. John A. Pollock, S. H. Abbott, James A. Pridgen, W. F. Stanley, J. W. Grainger, J. K. Davis, A. D. Parrott and L. Harvey, be and they are hereby constituted a board of trustees for the graded school for the whites. That said board shall have power to fill all vacancies occurring in said board, to employ                  hers, and to do all such acts as shall be necessary to on said graded school for the white children. _