Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Library Society, in Guilford County, be, and they are hereby incorporated into a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Richland Creek Library Society; and they are hereby declared to possess power and authority to do all matters and things, to carry into effect the objects and views of the said society as other bodies politic and corporate of the like nature, in this State, are authorized to do and perform.

Read three times and ratified in General Assembly
the 31st day of December, A.D. 1822

Gabriel Holmes, Governor
John D. Jones, Speaker of the House of Commons
Bartlett Yancey, Speaker of the Senate

A true copy - William Hill, Secretary