Proviso. Persons connected with city schools shall not accept employment as agent of book company. Penalty. Children who shall be admitted same in its discretion; shall prescribe the time, for which such officers and teachers shall be employed from time to time, and the times and places at which such schools shall be kept open and conducted; shall designate the character of such schools respectively, and shall do all other acts necessary for the proper conduct or management, government, regulation and control of said public schools, public school interests, and public school property, and the mayor of said city shall be ex-officio chairman of said school committee: Provided, that no person connected with said city schools as committeeman, officer, teacher or otherwise shall accept employment in any manner from any publisher, person or book concern publishing or selling or dealing in school books, school supplies or school furniture; any person violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days, and such conviction shall, ipso facto, work a forfeiture of any office or position held by said offender in said schools in said city, and such offender shall be forever disabled from holding any office or position in any manner connected with said city schools. SEC. 95. All children, who are bona fide residents of said city, to public schools. between the age of six years and twenty-one years, shall be admitted into said schools as pupils therein, free of tuition charges, and said school committee shall be exclusive judges of the bona fides of such residents. Separate schools shall be maintained for the races. Committee shall apportion school money. School committee shall make annual report to aldermen. School committee a body cor. porate. SEC. 96. Said schools shall be separated and kept separate in such a manner that only white children shall be admitted to the white schools and other children to other schools, and the said school committee shall be the exclusive judges of whether or not any applicant for admission to any of said schools is entitled to enter or attend the same under the provisions of this section. SEC. 97. The school committee provided for by this act shall apportion the money raised or received for educational purposes in the City of Salisbury as shall be just to the white and other races, without discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race, due regard being paid to the cost of keeping up and maintaining the different schools for the different races. SEC. 98. That said school committee shall make to the board of aldermen of the said city annually, at such time as is required under the general school laws of the state, a report containing an accurate census of the school population of said city, showing the work done and money expended under their direction in the City of Salisbury on account of the public schools therein. The school committee hereby created shall be a body corporate by the name and style of the school committee of the City of Salisbury, and by that name shall exercise all the powers and author ers. ity conferred upon them, and perform all the duties required of Corporate pow. them for the purpose of carrying out the full intent and meaning of this act. The officers of the committee shall consist of a chairman, a secretary, and such other officers as they may deem necessary. Said corporation shall have a corporate seal, which it may alter or change at pleasure. That said school committee shall not have power to transfer, sell, mortgage or convey any of the property, real or personal, now held or hereafter to be held by the City of Salisbury for school purposes, and shall not contract any debt in any fiscal year, as fixed by the charter of said city, in excess of the amount of the school funds received, or to be received by the treasurer of said city for school purposes in such fiscal year. The treasurer of said city shall be the treasurer of the school committee. An act for Treasurer of schools. SEC. 99. The following acts are hereby repealed: the incorporation of the town of Salisbury, ratified the twentyseventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; three acts to amend the charter of the town of Salisbury, ratified respectively on the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; on the seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; also an act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Salisbury and to amend the charter of said town, ratified on the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and chapter sixty-nine of the private laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three; chapter thirty-four of the private laws of eighteen hundred and eightyfive, ratified on the twenty-third day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; chapter sixty-nine, private laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ratified on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and chapter fifty-two, private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ratified on the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-three; chapter two hundred and one, private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ratified on the eight day of March, 1897. But the repeal of said act shall not revive any other act relating to said town. SEC. 100. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act Conflicting laws are hereby repealed. SEC. 101. Any person violating any of the provisions of, or neglecting or refusing to attend to or execute any of the duties required of him by this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined or imprisoned as the court may direct. SEC. 102. This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1899. repealed. Persons violating or refusing to execute provis ions of this act guilty of a mis. demeanor. A. L Cooper CHAPTER 187. An act for the relief of A. L. Cooper, former tax collector of the town of The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : Section 1. That A. L. Cooper, former tax collector of the town of Murphy, in the county of Cherokee, may and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect all arrears of taxes now due and which were levied for the town of Murphy for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and said A. L. Cooper may appoint one deputy to assist in the collection of such arrears of taxes; and the said A. L. Cooper and his deputy, if he has one, may collect said arrears of taxes by and under the law governing the collection of taxes for the town of Murphy for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and any year since. Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1899. Section 20, chapter 316, laws of 1891, amended. Section 1, chapter 148 private laws of 1897, amended. CHAPTER 188. An act to amend the charter of the town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact · Section 1. That section twenty, chapter three hundred and sixteen, laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one be amended by inserting after the word "sale" and before the word "all" in line four of said section the words: "If any poll tax shall not be paid within sixty days after the same shall be demandable it shall be the duty of the tax collector of said town, if he can find no property of the person liable sufficient to satisfy the same, to attach any debt or other property incapable of manual delivery, due or belonging to the person liable, or that may become due to him before the expiration of the calendar year, and the person so owing such debt or having such property in possession shall be liable for such tax " Sec. 2. That section one, chapter one hundred and forty-eight, private laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be amended by striking out all after the word "ward” in line eleven down to and including the word "law" in line thirteen of said section, and by striking out the word "now" in line fourteen and inserting the word "them." Sec. 3. That chapter forty-eight, section one, of the private laws Chapter 48, section 1, private of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine [?], be amended by striking laws of 18.9 [?]. out all after the word "commissioners" at the end of line six down amended. to and including the word "year" in line nine, and that it be further amended by adding after the word "the", and before the word “other” in line [...........] the words "mayor and.” Sec. 4. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this conflicting laws act are hereby repealed. repealed. Sec. 5. That this act shall be in force and effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 6th day of March, A. D. 1899. CHAPTER 189. An act to incorporate the "African Methodist Episcopal Zion Publication The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That Right Reverends J. W. Hood, T. H. Lomax, Corporators. C. C. Petty, C. R. Harris, 1. C. Clinton, A. Walters, G. W. Clinton, John Holliday, J. B. Small; and Reverends M. R. Franklin, R. H. Simmons, J. B. Colbert, F. M. Jacobs, J. H. White, T. J. Manson, Solomon Johnson, C. H. Smith, G. L. Blackwell, J. W. Smith, R. B. Bruce and John C. Dancy and R. J. Crockett, laymen, their associates and successors, be and the same are hereby created a body politic and incorporate under the name and style Body politic. of the "African Methodist Episcopal Zion Publication House" at Corporate name. Charlotte, North Carolina, and under and by said corporate Place of business. name and style may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, Corporate pow contract and be contracted with in all the courts of this state, in the ers. courts of the United States and all the courts of any state in the United States. It shall continue for a period of thirty years' may have and use a common seal, which it may alter at pleasure, and may transact business in any of the states of the United States by complying with the laws of the same. All of the real and personal property acquired or belonging to said corporation shall be exempt from all taxation under the laws of this state so long as the same is used and applied to the benefit of the religious society known as the "African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America." on general print Sec. 2. That said corporation shall have power and authority Purpose of corto carry on in all of its branches the general publishing and poration to carry printing business. It may publish one or more newspapers and ing business. periodicals by any name desired, and may publish, handle, pur Application of profits. May own real estate Government in making by-laws, rules, etc. Election of officers. chase and sell all kinds of books, tracts, treatise and pamphlets: Provided, that all the money received or the profits that may accrue on the same shall belong to and be applied to the use. purpose and benefit of the religious society known as the “African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America." It shall have the right to acquire, hold and own such real property as may be necessary for the proper and convenient transaction of its business; but the said real property shall be purchased, held, controlled owned and disposed of under the rules and regulations prescribed in the “book of discipline" of the “African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America" and in no other way. Sec. 3. That the corporators herein named and their successors in office shall be governed, in making the rules, by-laws and regulations for the transaction of the business of this corporation, by the "book of discipline" of the "African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America": Provided, that the same shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this state, the United States or in any state in which it may transact its business. Sec. 4 That in the election of its officers, appointment of its agents and employees the said corporators and their successors in office shall be governed by the rules and regulations prescribed in the "book of discipline" of the "African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America," and the duties, compensation and term of office and employment shall be the same as are prescribed in said "book of discipline." Sec. 5 This act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Purpose of corporation. Corporators. CHAPTER 190. An act to incorporate the Kinston and Jacksonville Railroad Company. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad from Kinston, in Lenoir county, to Jacksonville, in Onslow county, by way of Tuckaho, in Jones county, and Richlands, and near Catharine Lake, in Onslow county. G. W. Taylor. F. W. Harget, J. W. Burton. Frank Padrick, John F. Koonce, Frank Andrews, S. B. Taylor, J. F. Boggs, O. B. Cox, Joseph E. Rhodes, Frank Thompson, Wayne Venterz, R. D. Thompson, J. L. Nicholson, J. W. Mills, L. W. Harget, M. B. Steed, H. W. Humphrey, F. D. Koonce, J. R. Franks, H. F. Brown, F. M. Dixon, F. B. Koonce, W. S. Herbert, J. C. Wooten, |