Chap. 95.—JOINT RESOLUTION on the subject of the celebration
of the battle of King’s mountain.

Approved February 19, 1880.

The general assembly of Tennessee having on the twenty-
fourth dav of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,
passed certain resolutions having for their object the celebration
of the one hundredth anniversary of the battle of King’s moun-
tain, which will occur on the seventh day of October next, and
the governor of Tennessee having transmitted to the governor
of this commonwealth a copy of said resolutions and requested
his co-operation with the governors of Tennessee, North Caro-
lina and South Carolina in inaugurating a movement for such
celebration, and the same subject having been brought inform-
ally to the attention of this house; therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate con-
curring), That the general assembly of Virginia sympathizes
with the sentiment which has prompted the movement referred
to for commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the
battle of King’s mountain, in which Virginians, with their com-
patriots from Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina,
gained a victory which was the turning point in the conflict for
freedom on this continent and the sure prelude to the final act
of surrender at Yorktown, and that the governor of this com-
monwealth be requested to give such co-operation in said
movement as may be proper: provided, that no charge on the
commonwealth shall be incurred without previous authority of
law therefor.