﻿Graded 
  School. 
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  B. 
  Green; 
  submitted 
  to 
  and 
  ratified 
  by 
  the 
  people 
  in 
  May, 
  

   1882. 
  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  the 
  law 
  (Laws 
  1881, 
  chap. 
  

   231, 
  page 
  433): 
  

  

  The 
  General 
  Assembly 
  of 
  North 
  Carolina 
  do 
  enact 
  : 
  

  

  Section 
  1. 
  The 
  commissioners 
  for 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Durham 
  are 
  

   hereby 
  authorized 
  to 
  submit 
  to 
  the 
  qualified 
  voters 
  of 
  said 
  

   town, 
  at 
  such 
  time 
  and 
  under 
  such 
  rules 
  and 
  regulations 
  as 
  

   the 
  said 
  commissioners 
  may 
  prescribe, 
  whether 
  an 
  annual 
  

   tax 
  shall 
  be 
  levied 
  therein 
  for 
  the 
  support 
  of 
  a 
  graded 
  school 
  

   in 
  said 
  town. 
  That 
  such 
  qualified 
  voters 
  at 
  such 
  election 
  

   are 
  authorized 
  to 
  vote 
  on 
  written 
  or 
  printed 
  ballots 
  the 
  words 
  

   " 
  for 
  school 
  " 
  and 
  " 
  against 
  school," 
  and 
  the 
  penalties 
  for 
  

   illegal 
  and 
  fraudulent 
  voting 
  in 
  this 
  election 
  shall 
  be 
  the 
  

   same 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  annual 
  elections 
  for 
  mayor 
  and 
  commission- 
  

   ers 
  of 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Durham. 
  

  

  Sec. 
  2. 
  In 
  case 
  a 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  qualified 
  voters 
  at 
  such 
  

   election 
  shall 
  be 
  in 
  favor 
  of 
  such 
  tax, 
  the 
  same 
  shall 
  be 
  

   levied 
  and 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  town 
  authorities 
  under 
  the 
  same 
  

   rules 
  and 
  regulations 
  by 
  which 
  other 
  iown 
  taxes 
  are 
  levied 
  

   and 
  collected, 
  and 
  the 
  tax 
  collector 
  shall 
  be 
  subject 
  to 
  the 
  

   same 
  liabilities 
  for 
  the 
  collection 
  and 
  disbursement 
  of 
  said 
  

   tax 
  as 
  he 
  is 
  or 
  may 
  be 
  for 
  other 
  town 
  taxes 
  : 
  Provided, 
  The 
  

   special 
  taxes 
  so 
  levied 
  and 
  collected 
  shall 
  not 
  exceed 
  one- 
  

   fifth 
  of 
  one 
  per 
  centum 
  on 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  property 
  and 
  seventy- 
  

   five 
  cents 
  on 
  the 
  poll, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  taxes 
  thus 
  levied 
  and 
  

   collected 
  shall 
  be 
  applied 
  exclusively 
  for 
  the 
  support 
  of 
  a 
  

   "graded 
  public 
  school," 
  and 
  shall 
  not 
  be 
  appropriated 
  or 
  

   expended 
  for 
  any 
  other 
  purpose. 
  

  

  Sec. 
  3. 
  The 
  special 
  taxes 
  thus 
  levied 
  and 
  collected 
  from 
  

   the 
  taxable 
  property 
  and 
  polls 
  of 
  white 
  persons 
  shall 
  be 
  ex- 
  

   pended 
  in 
  keeping 
  up 
  a 
  graded 
  public 
  school 
  for 
  white 
  persons 
  

   of 
  both 
  sexes, 
  between 
  the 
  ages 
  of 
  six 
  and 
  twent-one 
  years 
  ; 
  

   and 
  the 
  special 
  taxes 
  thus 
  levied 
  and 
  collected 
  from 
  the 
  

   taxable 
  property 
  and 
  polls 
  of 
  colored 
  persons 
  shall 
  be 
  

   expended 
  for 
  the 
  benefit 
  of 
  the 
  public 
  schools 
  of 
  the 
  colored 
  

   children 
  of 
  both 
  sexes, 
  between 
  the 
  ages 
  of 
  six 
  and 
  twenty- 
  

   one 
  years, 
  in 
  said 
  town. 
  

  

  Sec. 
  4. 
  If 
  a 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  qualified 
  voters 
  of 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  

   Durham 
  shall 
  vote 
  "for 
  school," 
  the 
  commissioners 
  for 
  said 
  

   town, 
  at 
  their 
  next 
  regular 
  meeting, 
  and 
  their 
  successors 
  in 
  

   ofiice 
  at 
  their 
  first 
  regular 
  meeting, 
  in 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  June 
  

  

  