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H. B. 498
S. B. 559

Sec. 3. There shall be twelve trustees for the said North Carolina College for Negroes appointed by the Governor and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction whose terms of office shall be four years. The Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State shall be Ex-officio Trustee of said College. In the Trustees shall be vested all the rights, privileges, franchises and endowments in any wise granted to or conferred upon the trustees of the North Carolina College for Negroes; and said Board of Trustees shall have the power to vacate the appointment and remove a trustee for improper conduct, stating the cause of such removal on the journal; but this shall not be done except at an annual meeting of the said Board of Trustees, or at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees called for that purpose, and there shall be present at said meeting at least nine members of the said Board. Whenever any vacancy shall happen in the said Board, by reason of resignation, death, or removal for disqualification, the Governor and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint another to fill such vacancy and his appointee shall hold office for the unexpired term of the said trustee.

Sec. 4. There shall be an annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the said North Carolina College for Negroes at a time to be fixed by the said Board. At any annual meeting of the said Board any number of trustees, not less than seven shall constitute a quorum and be competent to exercise full power and authority to do the business of the corporation; and the said Board shall have the power to appoint special meetings of the trustees at such time and place, as their opinion, the interest of the corporation may require, but no special meeting shall have the power to revoke or alter any order, resolution or vote of an annual meetings and the Board of Trustees at any annual meeting may, by resolution, vote or ordinance from time to time as to it may seem meet, limit, control and restrain the business to be transacted and the power to be possessed and exercised by special meetings of the Board, called according to law, and the powers of such special meetings shall be limited, controlled and restrained accordingly. There shall be kept a full and complete record of all resolutions and acts authorized by the Board of Trustees at the annual or special meetings.

Sec. 5. The Trustees shall have the power to make such rules and regulations for the management of the North Carolina College for Negroes as they may deem necessary and expedient, not inconsistent with the laws of the State, and the said Trustees shall have the power