- Title
- Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1956-1957]
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- Date
- 1956 - 1957
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Session laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly [1956-1957]
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Сн. 777
1957 —
Session Laws
S.
В.
305 CHAPTER 777
AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN OFFICIAL TOAST TO THE STATE OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
WHEREAS, in 1927 by the enactment of Chapter 26 of the Public Laws
of that year, “The Old North State” was established as the State’s official
song; and
WHEREAS, the song “A Toast”, was written by Leonora Martin and
Mary Burke Kerr as a toast to the Old North State, and dedicated it to
the children of North Carolina; and
WHEREAS, it is deemed appropriate at this time that this song be
adopted as the official toast to North Carolina: Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The song referred to above as “A Toast” to North Carolina
is hereby adopted and declared to be the official toast to the State of North
Carolina, said toast being in words as follows:
“Here’s to the land of the long leaf pine,
The summer land where the sun doth shine,
Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great,
Here’s to ‘Down Home’, the Old North State!
“Here’s to the land of the cotton bloom white,
Where the scuppernong perfumes the breeze at night,
Where the soft southern moss and jessamine mate,
'Neath the murmuring pines of the Old North State!
“Here’s to the land where the galax grows,
Where the rhododendron’s rosette glows,
Where soars Mount Mitchell’s summit great,
In the ‘Land of the Sky’, in the Old North State!
“Here’s to the land where maidens are fair,
Where friends are true and cold hearts rare,
The near land, the dear land whatever fate,
The blest land, the best land, the Old North State!”
Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are
hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its
ratification.
In the Cencral Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day
of May, 1957.
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