1. THE LANCET. London, Saturday, January, 11, 1840,
2. N.C. Sess. Laws 216; An Act to Amend an Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, Passed at the Session of 1848-9;An Act to Amend the Acts Now in Force on the Subject of Common Schools, Ch. 95, �
3. Ruffin, interestingly, while a member of the Literary Board in 1834 had made the motion to hire a secretary. The 1845 case arose when the secretary, Christopher C. Battle, sued for payment due, against the Literary Board's argument that payment was only due for days in which the Board was in session. Chief Justice Ruffin ruled in favor of the Literary Board;The description of duties is from an 1845 case, and was written by Chief Justice Ruffin
4. Professor Wayne K. Durrill provided a helpful description of local school governance in his case study of Wilson schools in the 1870s and 80s. Durrill;See Johnson;New Schooling for a New South: A Community Study of Education and Social Change,1997