NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1011

HOUSE BILL 589

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH HISTORIC HALIFAX AS A STATE HISTORIC SITE AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES RELATING THERETO.

 

WHEREAS, the Colonial Town of Halifax is one of the most significant historic sites in North Carolina, it being there that the famous Halifax Resolves of April 12, 1776, sounded the first call by one of the Thirteen Colonies for independence from Great Britain and there that the first constitution of the Independent State was drawn and adopted in 1776; and

WHEREAS, through private and public means a number of historic sites and structures have been acquired and restored, including the Constitution House, now the property of the State of North Carolina, but others should be acquired and developed; and

WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina has always taken an important part in the Historic Halifax program and thereby recognized its importance as a historic site and has now acquired the Constitution House, one of the key historic properties; and

WHEREAS, Historic Halifax now calls for expansion and completion, including the purchase of a number of additional properties and their restoration, and operation on a full-time basis as a historic site; and

WHEREAS, The Historical Halifax Restoration Association being without the necessary means for the above purposes, has formally offered title to its properties, valued at eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000.00), to the State of North Carolina at no cost and the State Historic Sites Advisory Committee has found the site to be authentic and worthy of restoration and development, and that plans for developing and operating the project are feasible: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby established Historic Halifax State Historic Site in and adjacent to the Town of Halifax, North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the Department of Archives and History the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to be used for the purchase and development of additional historic properties in Historic Halifax.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1965.