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Report of the North Carolina Park Commission

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  • ROCKEFELLER AGREEMENT ceived and also certifying (1) that such money has been used in, or has been made finally available for, defraying the cost of acquisition by or for the North Carolina Park Commission and/or by or for, the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission 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 is 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 (b) from the said fund of $5,000,000. shall not exceed $1,000,000. Payments under condition (b) 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. Copyrighted Material (c) $500,000. to match the 75,000 acresj^oYjag^in^the^Little River Lumber Company's tract, already acquired by the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission for the establishment of the said National Park. Payments under condition (c) to be made to the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission and/or to the North Carolina Park Commission only upon requisitions in form approved by you and signed by all the Trustees, each requisition to be accompanied (1) by a certificate of the Treasurer of the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission certifying that title to the said land has been duly conveyed to the said Commission, and (2) by a certificate of the Treasurer and/or Treasurers of the North Carolina Park Commission and/or of the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission certifying that the amount requisitioned in each case is to be used for defraying the cost of the acquisition for the said National Park of other lands and property rights in the area approved by the United States Government for the establishment of the said National Park. Payments under condition (c) 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. Every certificate accompanying a requisition as hereinbefore provided shall be signed by the Treasurer and/or Treasurers of the Commission and/or Commissions holding title to the lands certified to have been purchased and/or to which payment under the requisition is to be made. You shall be protected in acting upon any requisition or certificate referred to herein, believed by you to be genuine and to have been signed by the proper persons. The Trustees shall be the following, and their successors: Arno B. Cammerer, of Lyonhurst, Virginia, for the time being Assistant Director of the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior, of the United States of America; David C. Chapman, of Knoxville, Tennessee, for the time being Chairman of the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, created by Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee; and Mark Squires, of Lenoir, North Carolina, for the time being Chairman of the North Carolina Park Commission created by Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina. 40
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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.