North Carolina School for the Deaf - Clock Tower Yearbook (Morganton, NC)

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CASS COAUN EN LAA NOR LAT HEN Indenture of Adoption. Written for the Class. State of North Carolina: In the High Court. County of Burke: of Apveals. To the good people of North Carolina and all others who wish to encourage the shades of charity and intellect- ual improvement from the burning sunshine of vice, ig- norance and affliction: Whereas, the undersigned, realizing the exposure of so many of our citizens to the scorching rays and blighting effects of ignorance and the dire calamity of affliction, and wishing to symbolize our earnest desire for relief therefrom; and further recognizing the beautiful tradi- tion of planting and maintaining upon the historic ground of this Institution, a tree, wish to perpetuate the same: NOW, therefore, know all of said people, above enu- merated, that in execution of the aforesaid purpose and desire and in perpetuation of such sentiment which we think gives expression fitly to it, we have got busy and have gone into the primeval forest and from the beauti- ful plantings of the lavish hand of nature have selected this promising specimen from its midst. Lawyers tell us, (and therefore it must be true), that a growing tree is a part of the realty and, therefore, we deduced that is must be real estate and requires all the sol- emnity of a deed to properly convey it. But we gather from the platform of the Progressives, which we think has been endorsed by the Suffrage movement, that short forms will now suffice for the old forms prescribed in thé days of (17)