NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1193

HOUSE BILL 1349

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE VISITOR CENTER-MUSEUM AT ALAMANCE BATTLEGROUND STATE HISTORIC SITE.

WHEREAS, on May 16, 1771, a body of some 2,000 Piedmont farmers and tradesmen, calling themselves The Regulators, protesting corrupt government in the royal colony of North Carolina, met and were defeated by the forces of Royal Governor William Tryon in the Battle of Alamance, and

WHEREAS, these North Carolinians continue to live in the memory of our people as examples of their dedication to the principles of liberty and self-government, and

WHEREAS, the Visitor Center-Museum at Alamance Battleground State Historic Site is in great need of renovation and enlargement, and

WHEREAS, it will be appropriate on May 16, 1971, for the State of North Carolina officially to commemorate the two-hundredth anniversary of this significant historical event with the dedication of a memorial building worthy of the importance of the battle;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Archives and History, for the purpose of renovating and enlarging the Visitor Center-Museum at Alamance Battleground State Historic Site, and of installing exhibits therein, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00).

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1969.