NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1148

HOUSE BILL 621

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION, RESEARCH, AND RESTORATION IN CARTERET COUNTY.

WHEREAS, the County of Carteret is rich in history, containing the old seaport and early whaling and fishing village of Beaufort, Fort Macon which played an important part in the War Between the States, and many other significant historic sites, and

WHEREAS, the Beaufort Historical Association, with the aid and assistance of the Richardson Foundation, has raised and expended thousands of dollars on historical research, restoration, and preservation in the Town of Beaufort, and

WHEREAS, additional research and restoration needs to be done in the Town of Beaufort, on Fort Macon, and on other historic sites in Carteret County, and

WHEREAS, the historic cemetery in the Town of Beaufort, dating back to the early eighteenth century, has been ravaged by time and damaged by vandals and is badly in need of repair and restoration;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Archives and History, for historical and archaeological research and restoration in and for the historic County of Carteret:

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Historical and archaeological

Research..............................................................   $10,000                       $10,000

Repair and restoration of

historic Beaufort cemetery....................................     20,000

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Total appropriation requested.......................   $40,000

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 30th day of June, 1969.