DEAR SIR:
AN ACT CONCERNING THE UNIVERSITY.
CHAPTER 114.1. Any license, granted to retail spirituous liquor, wine or cordials at Chapel Hill, or within two miles thereof, shall be void.2. No person shall erect, keep, maintain or have at Chapel Hill, or within two miles thereof, any tippling house, establishment or place, for the sale of wine, cordials, spirituous or malt liquor.3 No person in the State, without permission in writing from the President of the University, or some member of the Faculty, shall sell, or offer to sell or deliver to any Student of the University, or to any other person, any cordial, wine, spirituous or malt liquor for the purpose of being used, or with knowledge that the same will be used, at Chapel Hill, or within two miles thereof, by any such Student.4. No person, at or within two miles of Chapel Hill, shall give or furnish any electioneering treat or entertainment.5. No person shall set up, keep or maintain at Chapel Hill, or within five miles thereof, any public billiard table, or other public table of any kind, at which games of chance or skill, by whatever name called, may be played.6. No person, without permission in writing obtained therefor from the President of the University, or some member of its Faculty, seven days beforehand, shall exhibit at Chapel Hill, or within five miles thereof, any theatricals, sleight of hand or equestrian performances, or any dramatic recitations or representations, or any rope or wire dancing, natural or artificial curiosities, or any concert, serenade or performance in music, singing or dancing.7. Any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this chapter, hereinbefore recited, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.8. Any contract or agreement by any Student of the University being then a minor, with any shopkeeper, merchant, trader or other person, upon the sale of any wine, cordial, spirituous or malt liquor, or of any goods, wares or merchandize, or any article of trade or with the keeper of any livery stable, shall be void, unless the same, if made at or within two miles of Chapel Hill, be made under the written permission of the President of the University, or some member of its Faculty; or if made at a greater distance from Chapel Hill, under the written consent of the person who may have the control and authority over such Student.9. Every contract made with a Student of the University, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be void, and may be avoided on account of any of the matters therein contained, on the plea of the general issue: on the trial whereof, if it appear that the defendant was, at the time of the alleged contract, a Student of the University, it shall be presumed that he was, at the making thereof, a minor.10. Every such contract shall be incapable of being confirmed, and any promise or obligation given by such Student, after his arrival at full age, shall be void.
Yours, very respectfully,
DAVID L. SWAIN , President.