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Report of the North Carolina Park Commission

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  • ROCKEFELLER AGREEMENT COPY March 30th, 1928. The Equitable Trust Company, 11 Broad Street, New York City. Gentlemen: Pursuant to our Mr. Dashiell's and Mr. Chorley's conversations with your Mr. Grae- ber, we enclose herewith check to your order in the amount of $5,000,000. to be held and disbursed by you as hereinafter provided. The entire amount of $5,000,000. or as much thereof as may be requisitioned under the terms and conditions of this letter is to be paid out only under the following condi- t j „. Copyrighted Material (a) One dollar for every dollar received by the States of North Carolina and Ten- v ' J riuiiterLiDrary J nessee from the sale of bonds issued by said States respectively to provide funds for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Payments under condition (a) to be made to the North Carolina Park Commission and/or to the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission only upon requisitions in form approved by you and signed by all of the members of the Committee hereinafter appointed who are to be known as the Trustees of the Great Smoky Mountains Memorial Fund and are hereinafter referred to as the "Trustees," the requisitions in each case to be accompanied by a certificate signed by all the Trustees certifying to the amount of money received from the sale of the aforementioned bonds and also certifying (1) that such money has been used in, or has been made finally available for, defraying the cost of acquisition of lands and property rights in the area approved by the United States Government for the establishment of the said National Park, and (2) that the amount requisitioned in each case to be used for defraying the cost of the acquisition for the said National Park of other lands and property rights in the said area. Payments under condition (a) from the said fund of $5,000,000. shall not exceed $3,500,000. plus premiums, if any, received on the sale of the said bonds. Payments under condition (a) shall be made to the North Carolina Park Commission and/or to the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission in such amounts, without any established proportion, as the Trustees shall in their own discretion and judgment decide. (b) One dollar for every dollar received for the establishment of the said National Park, in cash contributions by the North Carolina Park Commission and/or by the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission and/or by the Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated) (North Carolina) and/or by the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association. Payments under condition (b) to be made to the North Carolina Park Commission and/or to the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission only upon requisitions in form approved by you and signed by all the Trustees, each requisition to be accompanied by a certificate of the Treasurer and/or Treasurers of the North Carolina Park Commission and/or the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission and/or of Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated) (North Carolina) and/or of Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association certifying to the amount of money re- 39
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  • This North Carolina Park Commission Report was completed at the close of 1939 and submitted to North Carolina Governor Clyde R. Hoey. The 62-page publication, compiled for the Commission by Albert H. Blake, begins with a letter to the governor reporting that all of the land on the North Carolina side of the park has been purchased and conveyed to the federal government. The report includes an auditor’s report, information about the Rockefeller fund, and a copy of the 1927 law that brought the commission into being. The report includes lists tracts of land, family names, and values paid for purchase. W.W. Neal was chairman of the commission at the time and G.F. Hankins was secretary.