NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 401

SENATE BILL 301

 

 

AN ACT TO CONFIRM THE NAME AND SPELLING OF THE TOWN OF HILLSBOROUGH IN ORANGE COUNTY AND TO RATIFY CERTAIN PAPERS AND OTHER RECORDS PERTAINING THERETO.

 

WHEREAS, the Town of Hillsborough was laid out along the Eno River in Orange County on 400 acres of land granted to William Churton in 1754, and was established as the Town of Childsburg by an Act of the Assembly held at New Bern on May 8, 1759, and was reconstituted and renamed as the Town of Hillsborough by an Act of the Assembly held at New Bern on November 3, 1766; and

WHEREAS, the name of Hillsborough was enacted in honor of the Earl of Hillsborough, who was British Secretary of State for the Colonies; and

WHEREAS, Hillsborough was recognized as a "borough" in 1770 and thereafter entitled to a representative in the House of Commons; and

WHEREAS, the Town's name was spelled in the records of the Legislative Acts of the General Assembly as "Hillsborough" until 1854, and from 1855 through 1875 as "Hillsboro", and from 1876 until the present as "Hillsboro", and the General Assembly has never enacted or authorized any changes in the name and spelling of the Town of Hillsborough from 1766 until the present, and the Constitution of North Carolina in Article II, Section 29, enjoins the General Assembly from passing any local, private or special Act changing the names of cities and towns; and

WHEREAS, the name and spelling "Hillsboro" has been used on many documents, bonds, records and other official and unofficial papers, and on other references; and

WHEREAS, there has existed heretofore considerable confusion regarding the name and spelling of the Town of Hillsborough: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The name and spelling of "Hillsborough" is confirmed as the lawful and correct name of the Town of Hillsborough in Orange County.

Sec. 2. All bonds and other evidences of indebtedness bearing the name and spelling "Hillsboro", as the same pertain to the Town of Hillsborough, are ratified and continued in effect as if the name and spelling appearing thereon were "Hillsborough."

Sec. 3. All Legislative Acts of the General Assembly referring to the name and spelling "Hillsboro" or "Hillsboro' ", and all other Legislative, administrative and other references to the name and spelling "Hillsboro", as the same pertain to the Town of Hillsborough, are ratified and continued in effect as if the name and spelling recorded, printed or otherwise referenced were "Hillsborough."

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.

Sec. 5. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1965.