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NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC LAWS - SESSION 1927 CHAPTER 48 An Act To Provide For The Acquisition of Parks and Recreational Facilities in the Great Smoky, Mountains of North Carolina "Vjopyrignted Material Western Carolina University THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA DO ENACT: SECTION 1. The committee or commission appointed under the provisions of resolutions numbers sixteen and twenty-nine of the General Assembly of North Carolina, passed at its special session in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, be and it hereby is continued in office and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of "North Carolina Park Commission" with the following named members: Eugene C. Brooks, Raleigh; J. A. Hardison, Wadesboro; D. M. Buck, Bald Mountain; Frank Linney, Boone; John G. Dawson, Kinston; J. Elmer Long, Durham; Plato Ebbs, Asheville; Harry Nettles, Biltmore; R. T. Fountain, Rocky Mount; E. S. Parker, Jr., Greensboro; Mark Squires, Lenoir. The members of said commission shall receive no compensation for their services but may be paid their actual traveling expenses out of the private fund hereinafter mentioned to be received from "Great Smoky Mountains, Incorporated." Any vacancy occuring in said commission shall be filled by the Governor. SECTION 2. The said commission is hereby vested with all the powers necessary and incident to the accomplishment of the purposes to which it is created as declared herein, and when any power is expressly conferred on said commission it shall be held and construed that said power includes all other powers necessary or incident thereto. Said commission is authorized and empowered to receive and take over from Great Smoky Mountains, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of North Carolina, such property and monies as it may have in hand for promotion of National Parks and the purchase of lands therefor and upon such transfer said corporation shall be dissolved. Said commission, upon such transfer, is authorized to collect any unpaid balances of pledges or subscriptions made to said Great Smoky Mountains, Incorporated, and to succeed to all of its powers and apply the funds to be received from such pledges for the purposes for which they were made. Out of such funds shall be paid the expenses of the said commission, and also any judgment or judgments for damages assessed under the provisions of section twenty-seven hereof. SECTION 3. The said commission is authorized, empowered and directed to acquire title in the name of the State of North Carolina to any lands contemplated by the act of Congress approved May twenty-two, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park in the State of Virginia and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the States of North Carolina and Tennessee, Hunter Library and for other purposes," and in the following words and figures: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that when title to lands within the areas hereinafter referred to shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple there shall be, and are hereby, established, dedicated and set apart as public parks for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, the tract of land in the Blue Ridge, in the State of Virginia, being approximately five hundred and twenty- one thousand acres recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in his report of April fourteen, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, which area, or any part or parts thereof as may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be known as the Shenandoah National Park; and the tract of land in the Great Smoky Mountains in the States of North Carolina and Tennessee being approximately seven hundred and four thousand acres, recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in his report of April fourteen, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, which area, or any part or parts thereof as may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be known as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: PROVIDED, that the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid areas, but that such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation. "Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized in his discretion, to accept as hereinafter provided on behalf of the United States title to the lands referred to in the previous section hereof, and to be purchased with the one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) which has been subscribed by the State of Virginia and the Shenandoah National Park Association of Virginia and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Shenandoah National Park area, and with the one million, sixty- six thousand, six hundred and ninety-three dollars ($1,066,693) which has been subscribed by the State of Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association and by the Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated), (North Carolina), and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area. "Sec. 3. That the administration, protection, and development of the aforesaid parks shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the act of August twenty-five, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, entitled 55
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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.
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America
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View from Grassy Bald
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Reasons in Favor of the Establishment of a National Park
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Cheoah Mountains
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Guyot and the Great Smokies
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Complete Report Submitted to Governor Clyde R. Hoey
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