Excerpt from Report of the Historical Commission to Governor Charles B. Aycock, 1903-1905 It is the duty of the Historical Commission to do this work. All patriotic citizens should aid in it. Those who pos sess such documents, or know of their whereabouts, will ren der a service to the State by placing them, or copies of them, in possession of the commission. All originals or certified copies of valuable documents, church and court records, manuscripts, letters, maps, old newspapers and portraits, or of any other material of historical value, should be placed at the disposal of the commission for the benefit of the public and a safe repository provided for their preservation. All material which cannot be parted with permanently, if loaned to the commission, will be returned after copie's have been made; and provision will be made for copying such documents as their owners are unwilling to part with at all. All ex penses connected with such work will be met by the commis sion. The material after being carefully edited will be pub lished and due acknowledgment. Will be made to all who aid in this work. Those who have such material Should not store it away as the miser does his gold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.