NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1095

HOUSE BILL 473

 

 

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON.

 

WHEREAS, a strong historical case exists supported by numerous affidavits taken in the early 19th Century, that President Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States, was born in the McCamie House in Union County, North Carolina, and the site of the McCamie cabin is now preserved and marked as the President Jackson Birthplace; and

WHEREAS, approximately two acres of ground embracing the site is already in the possession of the Union County Board of County Commissioners and the board has made arrangements to acquire the additional land necessary for the reconstruction of the birthplace and the proper development of the site as a historical shrine; and

WHEREAS, it is fitting that the birthplace of this great American President be preserved as one of the important historic sites in North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, in order to properly restore and develop the birthplace of President Jackson it is necessary to conduct historical research, develop detailed restoration plans, and to reconstruct the dwelling house and develop the surrounding grounds: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Archives and History the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500.00) for the purposes recited above.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 21st day of June, 1961.