The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That section two thousand five hundred and forty-seven of The Code, as amended by the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The county board of education of each county shall hold three regular meetings every year, namely, on the first Mondays of January, July and September, at each of which meetings, if the board find it necessary in order to enable them to dispose of the business before them, they may be in session for two days. Meetings may be held at other times at the call of the chairman upon the request of one member of the board, but in no case shall the board receive compensation out of the public funds for more than four days in any one year."

Sec. 2. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 9th day of March, A.D. 1891.

Daniel G. Fowle, Governor
Thomas M. Holt, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate
Rufus A. Doughton, Speaker of the House of Representatives

State of North Carolina,
Office Secretary of State,
Raleigh, June 13, 1891.

I, Octavius Coke, Secretary of State, hereby certify that the fore-
going are true copies of the original acts and resolutions on file in
this office.

Octavius Coke,
Secretary of State.