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- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1955]
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- Date
- 1955
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- ["North Carolina."]
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1955]
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1 955 — Resolutions
would give western producers of the United States monopolistic control of
such materials and greatly increase the cost to the farmers of the eastern
seaboard of fertilizers containing such materials, including potash.
Sec. 2. Copies of this Resolution shall be certified by the Secretary of
State and sent as promptly as possible to the President of the United
States, the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and to the
United States Senators from North Carolina, and members of the House
of Representatives from North Carolina.
Sec. 3. This Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after
its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day
of February, 1955.
S. R. 127 RESOLUTION 10
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROTESTING THE TOLL CHARGES PRO¬
POSED FOR TIIE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY.
WHEREAS, the construction of a scenic highway from the Shenandoah
National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
in North Carolina and Tennessee along the Appalachian Mountains was
first proposed by the Federal Government in 1933 as a part of its Public
Works Program; and
WHEREAS, representatives of North Carolina attending a conference
called by the interested Federal agencies to examine the feasibility of this
project and to discuss the terms and conditions under which the states
affected would participate therein expressed strong opposition when the
idea of a toll road was advanced and pointed out that North Carolina could
not invest public funds in a toll road because such an investment, would be
contrary to expressed public policy; whereupon, because of the position of
North Carolina and because of the opposition of other states and some of
the interested Federal agencies, it was decided that this scenic highway
would be constructed and maintained as a free public road; and
WHEREAS, thereafter an agreement was entered into between the
Federal Government and the State of North Carolina which, among other
things, provided that North Carolina would secure and convey to the Fed¬
eral Government the fee simple title to such rights-of-way as should be
required by the Federal Government for the construction of said scenic
highway and to do all surveying necessary in connection with the location
thereof while the Federal Government on its part would design, construct
and maintain said highway; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to this agreement and in reliance thereon the
State of North Carolina, through its Highway Department, began in 1934
with public funds to survey and acquire title to the right-of-way, to convey
it to the Federal Government as required and otherwise fulfill its part of
the agreement in connection with the construction of this highway; that
the State of North Carolina in the performance of its part of this agree¬
ment has spent a sum in excess of two million three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars (§2,350,000.00) on this project to date and will before it is
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