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H. B. 438
S. B. 559

An Act to Create the Durham State Normal School the North Carolina College for Negroes.

Whereas, the number of Negro high schools is increasing and whereas the supply of well trained Negro high school teachers and principals is inadequate even to meet present needs; and whereas there is a growing desire among Negroes for a liberal college education; therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Durham State Normal School, located at Durham, North Carolina, is hereby created, the North Carolina College for Negroes, and shall be under such name a body politic incorporated and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and by that name shall be able and capable in law to take, demand, receive, and possess all moneys, goods and chattels that shall be given for the use of said North Carolina College for Negroes, and to apply the same according to the will of the donors, and by gift, purchase or devise, to receive, possess, enjoy and retain forever any and all real and personal estate and funds of every other kind, nature or quality the same may be in special trust and confidence that the same, or the profits thereof, shall be applied to the education of the youth of the race, in providing, establishing and endowing the said North Carolina College for Negroes, and shall have the power to receive donations from any sources whatsoever, to be exclusively devoted to the purposes of the maintenance of said North Carolina College for Negroes according to the terms of donation to the corporation, by its corporate name, or otherwise, and be capable in law to purchase, grant, alien, or dispose of and convey and assure to the purchasers any and all such real and personal estate and property as it may lawfully acquire when the condition of the grant to it or the will of the deviser does not forbid it; and shall be able and capable in law to sue and be sued in all courts whatsoever, and in general may do all such things as may be necessary for the promotion of learning and virtue among the Negroes of the State. The State Board of Education is authorized, empowered and directed to make and execute to said North Carolina College for Negroes a deed for the property described as follows: a deed from Trinity Training School to the State Board of Education, dated September Eighteenth, Nineteen hundred and twenty-three and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Durham County, North Carolina in book sixty-six of deeds, page six hundred and forty.

Sec. 2. The General Assembly may make such provisions, laws and regulations from time to time as may be expedient and necessary for the maintenance and management of said North Carolina College for Negroes, and shall provide that the benefits of said College as far as practicable be extended to the Negroes of the State.