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Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That all property owned by individuals or corporations, and used for educational purposes without charge to pupils for tuition, may be exempted from all and every species of taxation in the manner hereinafter prescribed. Sec. 2. That the Trustees having charge of property used for educational purposes, or in the absence of such Trustees, the principal of the school shall transmit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, after the close of the fiscal year during which exemption from taxation is desired, and before the first day of the ensuing January, the following affidavit, viz: We (or I) , ________________ Trustees (or Principal) We (or I,) do further depose that the following described (Signed) ____________________________________. Sworn and subscribed to before me this __________ day Sec. 3. That upon the receipt of the affidavit aforesaid, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorizeci and directed to prepare and sign, in triplicate, the following certificate, viz: __________________ , Superintendent of Public Instruction, One of these certificates shall be transmitted to the Treasurer ot the State, one shall be transmitted to the person or persons making the affidavit, and the third certificate shall be filed, together with the affidavit required by section two of this Act in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in a book to be known as the "Record of Property Exempt from Taxation." Sec. 4. That the aforesaid certificate shall entitle the person or persons, to whom it may be given, to exemption from the payment of taxes, upon the property therein described for the fiscal year to which such certificate relates: Provided, Such certificate is surrendered to the officers whose duty is to collect taxes. Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its ratification. Ratified the 12th day of April, A.D., 1869. William W. Holden, Governor State of North Carolina Henry J. Menninger, |
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