NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1021

HOUSE BILL 888

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MAKE CERTAIN NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BARKER HOUSE, A HISTORIC SITE IN EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

 

WHEREAS, the Barker House in Edenton, North Carolina is one of North Carolina's most significant historic buildings in that it was the home of Thomas and Penelope Barker, both prominent figures in the Revolutionary period; and

WHEREAS, this building has been preserved by the citizens of Edenton as a historic attraction and is maintained by three nonprofit civic organizations as an important unit of a planned program of historical restoration and development sponsored by the Historic Edenton Commission which was established by an Act of the General Assembly in 1961; and

WHEREAS, the State has heretofore recognized the desirability of furnishing support in aid of the restoration and preservation of this house; and

WHEREAS, the Historic Sites Advisory Committee has heretofore approved the Barker House as an authentic historic site and endorsed the project for State aid; and

WHEREAS, it is essential to the restoration, preservation, and development of this house as a historic site that certain repairs be made: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the State Department of Archives and History the sum of two thousand nine hundred dollars ($2,900.00) to be expended in making certain necessary repairs to the structure of the Barker House in Edenton, North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1965.