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 a board, consisting of any seven members, or the president and any five members, shall be competent to do and perform any act which is now required to be done by a greater number.

Read three times and ratified in General Assembly,
this 7th day of January, 1830.

John Owen, Governor
William J. Alexander, Speaker of the House of Commons
David F. Caldwell, Speaker of the Senate

A true copy - William Hill, Secretary