1852 North Carolina House bill which provided that Wake Forest, Normal and Davidson Colleges would each educate twenty-seven young men for free; the tuition to be paid by the Literary Fund. Additional provisions included the selection process, a preference for indigent candidates of good mental ability, and the requirement that the certified men teach for twelve month.
Caption title. "That, upon condition that Wake Forest College, Normal College, and Davidson College, will each educate twenty-seven young men, free of charge, said young men to be selected as hereafter described: the directors of the Literary Fund are hereby directed to pay the trustees of each of said colleges, the sums to which their respective tuition would amount at their ordinary rates"--Page 266.