NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 930

HOUSE BILL 910

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO RELIEVE CERTAIN FRIENDS OF BENTONVILLE BATTLEGROUND.

 

WHEREAS, in 1961 the General Assembly appropriated twenty-six thousand dollars ($26,000) to cover one-half the estimated cost of a visitor center-museum at Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site, it being expected that other funds would be raised to complete the project; and

WHEREAS, through a fund-raising campaign ten thousand four hundred dollars ($10,400) was raised from private sources, but three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) was still required to construct the visitor center-museum; and

WHEREAS, in order to speed the project to completion before the one-hundredth anniversary program at Bentonville a number of interested and patriotic citizens in Johnston County co-signed a note for three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) and made those funds available to the Department of Archives and History in order to begin the project; and

WHEREAS, it was expected that this loan would be funded with monies to be collected through donations, but since not all the funds for this purpose have been raised and since the co-signers are now pressed to pay off the note; and

WHEREAS, it is deemed proper, in view of the fact that private citizens in the Johnston County area have over the years contributed in cash and personal property approximately thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) to the overall Bentonville project, that these friends not be compelled to make additional donations for this State project: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Archives and History two thousand eight hundred ninety-three dollars and ninety-eight cents ($2,893.98), to be used to pay off the indebtedness with interest outstanding in this matter.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1965.