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  • ROCKEFELLER AGREEMENT COPY THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION treasurer's office Room 2602 l. g. myers, treasurer 6T BROADWAY l. m. dashiell, Asst. Treas. NEW YORK June 27, 1930 The Chase National Bank of New York, Equitable Trust Branch, Trust Department, 11 Broad St., New York City. Copyrighted Material Western Carolina University Gentlemen: Hunter Library Referring to the letter of March 30, 1928, of our predecessor, The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, addressed to your predecessor, The Equitable Trust Company of New York, and covering the method of payments of the $5,000,000 fund transmitted with said letter, we hand you herewith a letter addressed to us, dated May 14, 1930, from E. C. Brooks, Secretary of North Carolina Park Commission, stating in substance that Mr. D. M. Buck has been elected Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Park Commission and setting forth a copy of preambles and a resolution of said Commission, reciting the illness of the Honorable Mark Squires, Chairman of said Commission, and in substance authorizing the Vice Chairman, in the absence of the Chairman, to do and perform any act or duty which devolves upon the Chairman of said Commission. We wish to modify the above described letter of March 30, 1928, to provide that any act or duty which may devolve upon the said Mark Squires as a member of the Committee appointed by said letter of March 30, 1928, and as Trustee thereunder^ may, in his absence, be done and performed by the said D. M. Buck, so long as he shall continue the Vice Chairman of said Commission, and to ratify and approve any acts which may have been done by said D. M. Buck in lieu of the said Mark Squires, as such member or as such Trustee, subsequent to May 15, 1930. You are accordingly authorized to accept and act upon any requisitions or certificates referred to in said letter of March 30, 1928, which are dated subsequent to May 15, 1930, and which have been signed by the said D. M. Buck in lieu of said Mark Squires, without any duty on your part to make any investigation as to the absence or disability of the said Mark Squires, or as to whether or not the said D. M. Buck remains the Vice Chairman of said Commission, provided, however, that you shall have first obtained the consents hereinafter referred to. The modification of said letter dated March 30, 1928, herein contained, shall not take effect until you shall have received the consents of Mr. D. M. Buck, the Committee referred to in said letter, the North Carolina Park Commission, and the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission to such modification. Such consents shall be sufficiently evidenced for all purposes of this letter if you shall receive a copy or copies of this letter with signed consents and certificates in the form annexed hereto believed by you to be genuine and to have been signed by the proper parties. It is further understood that all other conditions set forth in said letter of March 30, 1928, (except as modified by supplemental letters dated April 5, 1928, and Septem- 46
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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.