NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 950

HOUSE BILL 825

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS AS MATCHING FUNDS TO ASSIST IN FACILITATING THE CAROLINA CLOGGERS IN ATTENDING THE INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL IN ENGLAND.

 

Whereas, buck dancing, a form of clogging, is indigenous to North Carolina; and

Whereas, the dance form of clogging in its original form was brought to the North Carolina mountains by Scotch-Irish settlers; and

Whereas, the fundamentals of clogging can help determine the physical development of the dancer through the requirements of accuracy, strength, control, balance, and awareness of the dancer's self; and

Whereas, the Carolina Cloggers of North Carolina have been touring inside and outside the boundaries of the State for some 15 years; and

Whereas, this group and its string band were the first and only group of its kind to receive an invitation to the International Folk Dance Festival in England two years ago; and

Whereas, the Carolina Cloggers have been honored with a second invitation to attend the Festival again this summer; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the 1975-76 fiscal year to be administered by the Roberson Memorial Y.M.C.A. in Canton, North Carolina, to facilitate the Carolina Cloggers in representing North Carolina and the United States at the International Folk Dance Festival, to be matched in the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) raised by the Carolina Cloggers.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.