The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That Lewis Harshaw, Anderson Perkins, Samuel Berry, Jacob Dixon, Ervin Carroll and Albert Harshaw, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of "The Love and Charity Society of Wilson Creek Academy." That under this name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, buy and sell and hold such real estate as may be necessary for the purpose of their organization. They may elect their own officers and appoint their successors, and may make their own rules and regulations for the government of their society, and do all other acts and possess all other powers usual and incident to such corporations.

Sec. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Read three times in the general assembly and ratified the 20th Day of February, A.D. 1879.

Thomas J. Jarvis, Governor
John M. Moring, Speaker of the House of Representatives
James L. Robinson, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate

State of North Carolina,
Office Secretary of State,
Raleigh, May 19th, 1879.

I, William L. Saunders, Secretary of State, hereby
certify that the foregoing are true copies of the original
acts and resolutions on file in this office.

William L. Saunders,
Secretary of State.