Excerpt from The Necessity of Preserving the Memorials of the Past and of Transmitting to Posterity a Just and Impartial History of North Carolina: An Address Delivered Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina, June 4, 1890, in Memorial Hall at Chapel Hill Listen, friends and fellow-citizens! In 1755 the Assembly of North Carolina passed an act appropriating equal to in the money of today, for the endowment of a public school for the Province, and resolved that under a sense of the many advantages that will arise to the Province from giving our youth a liberal education, whether considered in a moral, religious or political light, a public school or semi nary of learning be erected and properly endowed, and for effecting the same the sum of GBP6 ooo already appropriated for that purpose be properly applied. 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.