NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 951

HOUSE BILL 838

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ASSIST IN COMPLETING THE RESTORATION OF THE WRIGHT TAVERN IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.

Whereas, the Wright Tavern in Wentworth, Rockingham County, has been described as the finest surviving example of a two-story frame "Dog-Run" building; and

Whereas, the building has been associated with some of the State's most outstanding statesmen of the nineteenth century, among them Thomas Settle, Thomas Ruffin, John M. Morehead, David S. Reid, Archibald D. Murphey, Alfred M. Scales, and Robert B. Glenn; and

Whereas, with funds raised from private sources, supplemented by funds from the State, federal, and county governments, the Rockingham County Historical Society, Incorporated, has expended approximately one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in the acquisition and restoration of this historic place for the education and enjoyment of our people; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for assistance in completing the restoration of the Wright Tavern in Wentworth, Rockingham County, for the 1976-77 fiscal year the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), provided a like amount is raised by the Rockingham County Historical Society, Incorporated, after July 1, 1976.

Sec. 2.  Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with Sections 121-11 and 143-31.2 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.