NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1150

HOUSE BILL 669

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL LAND AT MOORES CREEK NATIONAL MILITARY PARK.

WHEREAS, one of the most significant battles of the Revolutionary War was fought at Moores Creek, in what is now Pender County, North Carolina, February 27, 1776, when Whigs defeated Tories and thus thwarted a broad British plan to conquer the southern colonies; and

WHEREAS, Moores Creek National Military Park is now and long has been owned and maintained by the United States Government, Department of the Interior, National Park Service; and

WHEREAS, the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior has prepared a new master plan of the Moores Creek National Military Park, which master plan provides for additional land acquisition and other improvements; and

WHEREAS, the lands so designated in the master plan are needed for public purposes to properly interpret the story of the Battle of Moores Creek; and

WHEREAS, it is understood that one-half of the cost of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the purchase of the aforesaid land will be provided from non-state sources;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Archives and History the sum often thousand dollars ($10,000) with which to acquire portions of the lands designated for inclusion within the Park.

Sec. 2.  This sum shall become available only when a like sum of at least ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall have been made available from non-state sources.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.