Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869, Letter from Jonathan Worth to Thomas Bragg, October 10, 1855, in The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, vol. 1. Hamilton, Joseph Grégorie de Roulhac, ed., Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton, 1909, pp. 656. S1590-D002 [Bibliographic Details] [10-10-1855] WorthJ:L1590-2

Letter from Jonathan Worth to Thomas Bragg, October 10, 1855

Asheboro, Oct. 10th, 1855.

The 41 Sec. of the Act of the last session relating to County Schools, forbidding the chairman to pay a draft in favor of a teacher unless he exhibit a certificate from the committee of examination, in effect repeals the 4th Sec. of the Act of 1852 chartering Normal Colleges. (See Acts of 1852, page 161), if the Legislature have power to repeal this provision in the N. College Charter.
I am chairman for this County, and upon the reasoning in the Mills vs. Williams, 11 Ired., 558, conclude that the Legislature have the power to repeal, but I feel by no means certain that my conclusion is correct.
The responsibility of deciding on this question at their peril ought not to rest on chairmen. I submit for your consideration whether it would not be well to get the opinion of the Att. Genl. and publish it, that there may be uniformity of action on the part of chairmen.