NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 988

HOUSE BILL 828

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN.

Whereas, the October 7, 1780, Battle of King's Mountain between British forces and southern appalachian frontiersmen was hailed by Thomas Jefferson as "the glorious ... turn of the tide ..." in the American Revolution; and

Whereas, the two-hundredth anniversary of this important event in our regional and national history will be marked by a two-week celebration hailing the hardy mountain men who won such a decisive victory against the British forces; and

Whereas, the two-week long Overmountain Victory March along the now famous Overmountain Victory Trail will end with commemorative events on October 7, 1980, where representatives from Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia will join with North Carolinians in celebrating the exact two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of King's Mountain; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for fiscal year 1979-80 the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), of which eighteen thousand five hundred dollars ($18,500) is to be used by the King's Mountain Celebration Steering Committee to plan and stage an appropriate commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of King's Mountain. The department shall make available to the Town of Columbus 125th Anniversary Celebration Commission for the 1979-80 fiscal year the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) for use in the restoration, publication, and exhibition projects in Columbus for their 125th anniversary celebration.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.