NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 919

SENATE BILL 446

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE PAPERS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

 

Whereas, there are in the State Archives approximately 2.500 boxes containing the legislative records and papers of the Colony and State of North Carolina from the period 1689 to 1974; and

Whereas, these records consist of bills, committee reports, petitions of all types, communications from the Governors and other public officials, and similar materials reflecting the operations and history of the General Assembly; and

Whereas, these records have become intermingled in some instances with the public records of the Governors and the Secretaries of State; and

Whereas, the legislative papers are not arranged nor are they described in such a manner that they can be used either for general research or for research into the history of the General Assembly; and

Whereas, the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina has from its earliest days played a significant and decisive role in the development of the State and its history; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, the sum of nineteen thousand seven hundred thirty-nine dollars ($19,739) for the fiscal year 1979-80 and eighteen thousand eight hundred eighty-four dollars ($18,884) for the fiscal year 1980-81 for the purpose of providing staff and necessary materials to arrange, describe, restore, and make available for continuing use the legislative papers of the State of North Carolina.

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.