9. What changes were made in the Supreme Court? What is said of Judge Thomas Ruffin?
10. Who succeeded Judge Henderson? Who composed the Supreme Court in 1833?
11. Can you name some of the Judges, of the Superior Court?
12. What is said of the Bar at this period?
13. How is the influence of lawyers always felt in a community?
CHAPTER XLVIII.
ORIGIN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
A. D. 1837 TO 1842.
It will be remembered that in 1767 the first school was incorporated by the Legislature of North Carolina, by the act in favor of the academy at New Bern. In this, and subsequent legislation for schools at Edenton and elsewhere, it had provided that the teachers should all be communicants of the Church of England. This stipulation was, of course, part of the English Church and State system of government.
2. When, just previous to the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, the founders of the "Queen's Museum," at Charlotte, a school so named in honor of the queen of England, asked incorporation of the Colonial General Assembly, it was not granted, for the reason that this institution was Presbyterian, both as to trustees and faculty. Up to that period dissenting ministers had not been allowed any legal recognition, and it was considered a great concession that the Presbyterian clergy were allowed to officiate at marriages.