NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 950

SENATE BILL 494

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR HISTORIC HALIFAX STATE HISTORIC SITE.

 

Whereas, North Carolina was the first of all the thirteen colonies to take official action for independence by the all-important Halifax Resolves, April 12, 1776, thereby preceding by more than a month the Colony of Virginia; and

Whereas, our first State constitution was framed in the Town of Halifax in December, 1776, and our first State Governor, Richard Caswell, was elected there, and other significant historic events occurred in that town; and

Whereas, the historic part of the town Halifax has been developed as a State Historic Site by the Department of Cultural Resources; and

Whereas, more that one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) worth of land and other property has been donated to the State at Halifax; and

Whereas, in order to keep on with the development schedule and to continue the services now offered to the thousands of school children who visit the site annually; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, for use in the restoration of the Jail, the Historical Independency, and the construction of a new maintenance complex the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in fiscal year 1979-1980.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.