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102 <br /> <br /> The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in regular <br />session in the Commissioners' Meeting Room at the Cabarrus County <br />Governmental Center in Concord, North Carolina on Monday, December 21, 1998, <br />at 6:30 P.M. <br /> <br />Present - Chairman: Jeffrey L. Barnhart <br /> Vice Chairman: Arne L. Fennel <br /> Commissioners: Carolyn B. Carpenter <br /> Sue B. Casper <br /> Coy C. Privette <br /> <br /> Also present were Mr. Frank W. Clifton, Jr., County Manager; Mr. <br />Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr., County Attorney; and Mrs. Frankie F. Bonds, Clerk <br />to the Board. <br /> <br />Chairman Barnhart called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. <br /> <br /> Boy Scout Troop 94 of the Mt. Pleasant Lion's Club conducted the Flag <br />Ceremony. Scouts Paul Culp and Jay Smith and Assistant Scoutmaster Jay Culp <br />participated in the ceremony. <br /> <br /> Reverend Steve James of the Central United Methodist Church gave the <br />invocation. <br /> <br />Approval or Correction of the Minutes <br /> <br /> UPON MOTION of Commissioner Fennel, seconded by Commissioner Casper and <br />unanimously carried, the minutes of December 7, 1998 were approved as <br />written. <br /> <br />Approval of the Aqenda <br /> <br /> UPON MOTION of Commissioner Casper, seconded by Commissioner Carpenter <br />and unanimously carried, the Board approved the Agenda as submitted. <br /> <br /> Mr. Clifton stated he had distributed a report concerning Economic <br />Development Incentives to the Board for review. <br /> <br />RECOGNITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS <br /> <br />Presentation of Portrait of Stephen Cabarrus - Judqes Clarence Horton and <br />William G. Hah%by, Jr. <br /> <br /> The Honorable Clarence Horton, North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge, <br />made the following remarks to the Board. <br /> <br /> December 29th will mark the 206tn anniversary of passage by <br />the North Carolina General Assembly of a bill which created a new <br />county from the northeastern portion of Olde Mecklenburg. The <br />county was called Cabarrus, in honor of Stephen Cabarrus, Speaker <br />of the House of Commons, who put his considerable influence <br />behind passage of the bill. Monsieur Cabarrus was born in <br />Bayonne, France, and came to seek his fortune in North Carolina <br />during the early days of the American Revolution. He settled on <br />the Albemarle Sound, and represented both the Borough of Edenton <br />and County of Chowan in the General Assembly. He was highly <br />respected by his fellow legislators, being elected Speaker of the <br />House of Commons on 10 occasions. He cast the deciding vote in <br />the House of Commons for the legislation which fixed the <br />permanent seat of state government at Raleigh. Cabarrus also <br />voted for the creation of the first state university at Chapel <br />Hill, and served on the University's first Board of Trustees. He <br />was an active Mason, and served as an officer in the Grand Lodge <br />during its reorganization in 1787. Stephen Cabarrus was a <br />faithful Episcopalian, and is buried on the grounds of historic <br />St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Edenton. <br /> <br /> Until 1994, it was thought there was no surviving portrait <br />of Stephen Cabarrus. In that year, however, an original portrait <br />of Cabarrus was discovered in the home of Mrs. William Cabaniss, <br />a great-great-great-grandniece now living in Birmingham, Alabama. <br />Through the efforts of the North Carolina State Archives and <br />especially Steve Massengill, an iconographic archivist, the <br />portrait was photographed and negatives were made available to <br />me. With the help and advice of Sergeant Terry Black and <br /> <br /> <br />