NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1969 SESSION
CHAPTER 1151
HOUSE BILL 688
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR HISTORIC HALIFAX STATE HISTORIC SITE.
WHEREAS, North Carolina was the first of all the Thirteen Colonies to take official action for independence, by the all-important Halifax Resolves, April 12, 1776, thereby preceding by more than a month the colony of Virginia, and
WHEREAS, our first state constitution was framed in the Town of Halifax in December, 1776, and our first state governor, Richard Caswell, was elected there, and other significant historical events occurred in that town, and
WHEREAS, the Town of Halifax has been made a State Historic Site and as such is being developed by the State Department of Archives and History, and
WHEREAS, more than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) worth of land and other property has been donated to the state at Halifax, to be included in Halifax State Historic Site, and
WHEREAS, it is important that we make known to the nation and to the world the great importance of the Halifax Resolves and other significant events that occurred in Halifax, and in order to do so a great deal of development of this Historic Site is needed to prepare for the bicentennial of these Resolves, April 12, 1976;
NOW, THEREFORE,
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of North Carolina to the State Department of Archives and History for the purchase and development of land and houses at Historic Halifax State Historic Site, and for related historical and archaeological research, the sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000.00).
Sec. 1.5. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of North Carolina to the State Department of Archives and History for the biennium (1969-71) the total sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) to be used by said department for administration expenses with regard to all historic sites in North Carolina in addition to all other funds appropriated to said department.
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.