Section 1. 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 Right Reverend George F. Bahnson, and the Reverend Emil A. DeSchweinitz, and the Reverend Lewis Rights, duly elected by the Synod of the Southern District of the Church of the United Brethren, (commonly called Moravians,) in the United States of America, a board of direction of the ecclesiastical affairs of said church in said district, and, likewise constituted, by virtue of their office, the board of trustees of the Salem Female Academy, and such other persons as may be hereafter appointed their associates or successors, according to the rules and regulations of said branch of the church of the United Brethren, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to be known and distinguished by the name and style of "The Salem Female Academy," and, by that name, shall have succession and a common seal, and shall be able and capable in law, of holding lands, and tenements, and chattels, sufficient for the purposes of the school; and of sueing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in their corporate name.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the trustees already appointed, or who shall be hereafter appointed, in accordance with the fundameatal statutes which govern the church of the United Brethren aforesaid, shall have the care and management of said school, and of its estates and properties, and shall have power to make all needful by-laws and regulations for the same.

Sec. 3. Be it farther enacted, That the faculty of said school, that is to say, the president and professors and teachers, by and with the consent of the trustees, shall have the power of conferring all such degrees or marks of literary distinction, or diplomas, as are usually conferred in colleges and seminaries of learning.

Sec. 4. And, be it farther enacted, That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 3rd day of February, 1866.

Jonathan Worth, Governor
Samuel F. Phillips, Speaker of the House of Commons
Thomas Settle, Jr., Speaker of the Senate

State of North Carolina
Office of Secretary of State,
March 20th, 1866.

I, Robert W. Best, Secretary of State, in and for the
State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing
are true copies of the original Acts and Resolutions on
file in this office. Given under my hand, this 20th day of
March, 1866.

Robert W. Best,
Secretary of State