1883_public laws_149_3
CHAPTER 148 An act to provide for local assessments in aid of public schools, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
In case a majority of the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of such assessment, the board of commissioners shall direct their clerk to make out from the tax list of the township in which such district is situate a list of all the taxable property and poll of the white or colored tax payers, as the case may be, in such district, and it shall be the duty of the school committee of such district to aid the clerk in making out said list, and said flerk shall deliver said list to the sheriff of the county with an order signed by him commanding the sheriff to collect said assessment in like manner as provided for the eollection of state and county taxes, and said sheriff shall collect and pay over the same to the county treasurer. And said sheriff's official bond shall be liable therefor, as provided in case of county school tax.