NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1002

HOUSE BILL 629

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MONUMENT TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF THE LAST CON FEDERATE VETERAN AT GETTYSBURG.

 

WHEREAS, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans are sponsoring a movement to place a monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to honor the memory of the last Confederate soldier to die; and

WHEREAS, eleven Southern States have been requested to participate in the placing of this monument, which will be a counterpart to the monument honoring the last Union soldier which was placed at Gettysburg in 1955; and

WHEREAS, soldiers from North Carolina were "first at Bull Run, farthereast at Gettysburg and last at Appomattox", and it is therefore fitting that North Carolina should aid in honoring the memory of the men who played a major part the great battles for the Southern cause: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated, from the general fund, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) to be used for the purpose of placing a monument at Gettysburg to honor the memory of the last Confederate soldier to die.

Sec. 2.  The above sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) shall be furnished to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, committee for the erection of the Confederate monument at Gettysburg, in Richmond, Virginia.

Sec. 3.  In the event the sum so appropriated is not used for the erection of the monument at Gettysburg, the entire sum shall revert to the general fund.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  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 19th day of June, 1963.