As early as 1878 a statute of Mississippi[387] provided that schools should be arranged in each county so as to afford ample free school facilities for all educable youths in the county, prohibiting the teaching of white and colored pupils in the same school-house, and the Constitution[388] of 1890 reiterated this requirement of separation. The county school boards are given power to locate one or more schools for Indians in counties where there are enough Indians to form a school.[389] Missouri seems not to have lost an opportunity to express its belief in separate schools for the races. The Constitution[390] of 1865 made that requirement, adding that the school fund must be appropriated in proportion to the number of children without regard to color. Such separation is required by the laws of 1865,[391] of 1868,[392] of 1869,[393] by the Constitution of 1875,[394] and by a law of 1889,[395] which last made it unlawful for colored children to attend a white school, or white children, a colored school. The Constitution of North Carolina[396] of 1875 declares that “the children of the white and the children of the colored shall be taught in separate public schools, but there shall be no discrimination made in favor of, or to the prejudice of either race.” According to the statute[397] of 1901, a child descended from a Negro to the third generation inclusive should not attend a white school. This was amended[398] in 1903 to the effect that no child with Negro blood in his veins, “however remote the strain,” shall attend a school for the white race. The present statute[399] also provides that the descendants of Croatan Indians now living in Robeson and Richmond counties shall have separate schools for their children. It will be remembered that it is the Croatan Indians who are prohibited from intermarrying with Negroes.