NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1023
HOUSE BILL 975

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PLACE COMMEMORATIVE BRONZE PLAQUES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN THE CAPITOL AND THE STATE LEGISLATIVE BUILDING.

WHEREAS, the General Assembly held its Sessions for one hundred and twenty-one (121) years in the historic State Capitol, and according to Chapter 724, Session Laws of 1961, the Legislative Chambers in which its meetings were held are now preserved as historic shrines by the State Department of Archives and History; and
WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that in the aforesaid Legislative Chambers in the State Capitol suitable bronze plaques showing the first General Assembly to meet there and the last General Assembly using it as its regular meeting place, said plaques to be placed near the entrance to each chamber.
WHEREAS, it is likewise fitting and proper that bronze plaques be placed in the State Legislative Building to the first General Assembly to meet in that structure: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The Governor is hereby authorized and requested to appropriate such funds as are necessary to the Department of Archives and History from the contingency and emergency fund to carry out the intent of this Act.
Sec. 2.  The President of the Senate is hereby authorized and requested to appoint two Senators, and the Speaker of the House to appoint three representatives, to form a Joint Committee of the two Houses to advise and cooperate with the Department of Archives and History in the preparation and placing of the aforesaid bronze plaques.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall take effect upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1963.