1909_private laws_255_2
CHAPTER 254 AN ACT TO APPOINT TRUSTEES FOR THE YANCEYVILLE PEMALE ACADEMY AND TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER SAID TRUSTEES TO SELL AND CONVEY IN FEE SIMPLE THE LOT UPON WHICH SAID ACADEMY IS SITUATED, AND TO TURN THE PROCEEDS OF SAID SALE OVER TO SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN FOR DISTRICT No. 388, FOR THE WHITE RACE, TO BE USED IN REPAIRING AND IM- PROVING DAN RIVER INSTITUTE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Whereas the Yanceyville Female Academy has been used for school purposes but for one year in the last past twentythree years; and whereas there are no trustees to hold said property; and whereas it is the desire of the people of Yanceyville and those who would naturally be the patrons of said academy, if used for school purposes, to sell the lot upon which said academy building is situated, and to use the proceeds of said sale, when made, in repairing and improving the school building located in said town of Yanceyville and known as Dan River Institute: now, therefore, G. A. Anderson, R. L. Mitchelle and Thomas P. Womack are hereby appointed trustees of said Yanceyville Female Academy, with power and authority to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, after due notice, the lot or parcel of land in the town of Yanceyville, Caswell County, whereon the Yanceyville Female Academy is situated, and generally known and designated as the Yanceyville Female Academy lot; and the said trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to make a fee-simple deed for said lot to the purchaser; and the proceeds of said sale, after paying the costs of said sale, the trustees will turn over to F. W. Brown, N. C. Brandon and T. J. Florance, school committeemen for School District Number Thirty-eight, for the white race, in Caswell County, to be used by them and their successors in office in repairing and improving Dan River Institute, a school building situated in the town of Yanceyville, wherein the public school for the white race in said District Number Thirty-eight has been taught for the past twelve years.