NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 953

SENATE BILL 507

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS IN HONOR OF THE WARREN COUNTY BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

Whereas, Warren County was created by an act of Legislature from Bute County on the 29th day of January, 1779, the eve of the American Revolution, and named for the American Patriot General Joseph Warren; and

Whereas, Warren County has contributed to the State of North Carolina four Governors, six Attorneys General, three Supreme Court Justices, and the only North Carolinian to ever serve as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; and

Whereas, Warren County has a great number of distinctive homes and buildings within the county with almost the entire town of Warrenton being listed on the National Register of Historic Places; and

Whereas, Warren county has endeavored to preserve the best of its heritage without losing sight of its place in the future growth of North Carolina; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the fiscal year 1979-80 the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) which shall be available to the Warren County Historical Society for the Purpose of research, planning, and restoration of the James Holt House, provided a like amount is raised by the Warren County Historical Society.

Sec. 2.  Funds appropriated in Section 1 of this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 3.  Funds appropriated in this act are in addition to all other moneys appropriated to the division.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1979.

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