The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-25
HALL OF RECORDS
ALMOST 4 SURETY
Favorable Report On a
Substitute Bill.
100000 BOND ISSUE
The New Building Would Provide For
State Departments, and For the
Safe Keeping Of State Library
Records and Historical Data
and Records.

night, the joint Legislative Commit
tee on Public Buildings and Grounds
reported favorably q substitute bill to
erect a new State building, to be
known as the Hall of Records, she
cost of the structure to be 100000,
and the bill provides that thirty
year bonds of that amount be issued,
bearing not more than four per cent
The substitute bill was offered b"
Mr.. Long, of Person, and the only
objections made to 1t Were based on
the bond issue.
When the final vote was taken
there were but two members who
voted in opposition to it. All the
other bills were reported unfavorable.
The following is the full text of the
substitute biz:
ITO provide a building for State
Departments and for the safe keep
ing Of the State Library records and
historical data and records.
Section /. Whereas the records
of the different departments Of the
State, as well as the historical dasa
now IN the possession of the state,
and being annually collected is very
valuable and should be preserved, not
as the records of the State. but as
necessary for a proper knowledge or
it's history in the coming years: And,
whereas. there IS now a great need,
not only for a place of storage for
said records, but OF q safe and suit
able place where these valuable
records and datas can be preserved
conveniently for access and safe from
fire and fzn1aEe;; ana, ei----~~------- -s----
Whereas, the State Library, With its
vast wealth of books and rare aid
files of newspapers containing an un-
valuable record of our early history.
history is now in n building UNFIT for
the storage of its priceless contents,
owing to its peculiar liability TO fre
and its exposure to several wooden
buildings; and.
Whereas. the Hall of History is
collecting most rare and valuable
historical matter, and the local his
tory clubs of the several counties OF
the State, and the various patriouc
societies among the women are col
lecting earnestly and faithfully his
torical data that would otherwise
soon be lost: and.
whereas. these organizations need
some safe depository for these coli
lected matters. and whereas, thefe
is now urgent need for more room
for the use of the Insurance Depart
ment for desks and filing cases, and
the proper transaction of the busl-
ness of the Department, and where
as, the Department of Public Instruc-
tion is hardly in need of more COM
modious quarters.
Section 9. Whereas. there Is now
paid annually about $500 for rent OF
warehouse room for the storage OF
Supreme Court Reports and other
-,>cords; and, whereas, the reports
Of the Insurance Commissioner show
that there has been collected in his
Department since 1899, TO the end Of
the fiscal year and paid into the
state Treasury the sum of $642.-
lected during the present fiscal year
ending April 1st, 1905, about $780,
600. through this Department.
Section 3. That the Board of Pub
sic Buildings and Grounds be au-
thorizei and directed 10 nave erect.
ed on the lot now owned by the State
and situate in the city of Raleigh, on
the corner of Salisbury and Morgan
streets, or other lot X they deem it
advisable, a brick building four or
five stories and basement of slow
burning character suitable for the
above named and other State pur-
DUSeS.
Section :. That on demand OF said
board the auditor is directed TO draw
bis warrant on the Treasurer and the
Treasurer TO pay out of the funds
heeinafter provided tor.
Section 5. That said board is au-
thorized to remove and dispose of the
small frame building on said lot and
the old prick arscnal OH the corner
Of Capitol Square, and erect proceeds
in said building.
Sec. 6. That said Board of Public
Buildings and Grounds is hereby au-
thorized To acquire by purchase or
otherwise such lot or lots as may be
necessary for a location for aaid pro-
posed building, either adjoining said
State lote above referred to. or else
where.
Sec. Z. That the State Treasurer
be and he is hereby authorized and
directed to prepare and sell at not
less than par value bonds of the State
of North Carolina to the amount of
$4,000 in such denominations and
bearing such rate of interest, not to
exceed four per cent. as may be agreed
by the purchasers and the Treasurer.
and said bonds shall De que and pay
able thirty years from date of their
issue. That all revenues received for
shall be used to pay for the purposes
herein specified and no other.
Sec. s. That the Boar of Public
Buildings and Grounds is hereby au-
thorized and directed to assign the
so erected for such purposes as to