NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 976

SENATE BILL 379

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE ERECTION OF AN APPROPRIATE MEMORIAL UPON THE LANDS OF THE MORROW MOUNTAIN STATE PARK HONORING THE MEMORY OF JAMES MCKNIGHT MORROW WHO WAS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS PARK.

 

WHEREAS, James McKnight Morrow, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, donated the major portion of the land which now constitutes the Morrow Mountain State Park; and

WHEREAS, due to his keen interest in the Park over a long period of years and to his encouragement, both financial and otherwise, the Park was finally established; and

WHEREAS, it is the feeling of this General Assembly that the memory of this distinguished citizen of Stanly County should be appropriately recorded upon the lands of the Morrow Mountain State Park: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 100‑8 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Nothing in this Act shall be interpreted as prohibiting the erection on the lands of the Morrow Mountain State Park an appropriate tablet or plaque honoring the life and memory of the late James McKnight Morrow of Stanly County."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 17th day of June, 1961.