NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1035

SENATE BILL 377

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRANT-IN-AID TO THE FLORA MACDONALD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC., IN ROBESON COUNTY.

 

Whereas, the Flora MacDonald Educational Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation which owns the physical plant of the former Flora MacDonald College; and

Whereas, Flora MacDonald College, a Presbyterian College for women founded in 1896, was one of the leading women's colleges in southeastern North Carolina until its closing in 1961; and

Whereas, the buildings of the former Flora MacDonald College have been listed by the United States Department of the Interior in the National Register of Historic Places; and

Whereas, the Flora MacDonald Educational Foundation, Inc., leases the property for educational and cultural activities and provides for the continuing maintenance of the facilities; 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 1981-82 fiscal year the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) for the purpose of performing interior and exterior repairs to the main building of the former Flora MacDonald College, provided an amount of twenty-four thousand dollars ($24,000) is raised by the Flora MacDonald Educational Foundation, Inc., in order to match the grant-in-aid on a dollar for dollar basis.

Sec. 2. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.