NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 130

HOUSE BILL 469

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 6 OF CHAPTER 60 OF THE 1953 SESSION LAWS RELATING TO THE INCORPORATION OF OXFORD ORPHANAGE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Section 6 of Chapter 60 of the 1953 Session Laws of the State of North Carolina is amended by rewriting Section 6 to read as follows:

"Sec. 6. That the business of the corporation, which is purely a charitable and educational one, shall be the continuance of the present institution known as 'Oxford Orphanage' without any change of purpose or identity, for the maintenance and support of an orphanage or a home for indigent children of tender years, to be selected and received as the directors, hereinafter provided for, shall determine but without discrimination as to race, color, national origin, sex, religious denomination or locality; and the support and education of such children, including their religious, moral, mental and physical training, and their instruction in the useful arts."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of April, 1973.