NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 1040
SENATE BILL 200

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE FURTHER RESTORATION OF HISTORIC BATH.

WHEREAS, the historic Town of Bath is North Carolina's oldest incorporated town, having been chartered in 1705, and there are several historic buildings within the original town limits which ought to be preserved for posterity; and
WHEREAS, the Historic Bath Commission was established by the 1959 General Assembly with authority to conduct the restoration of these buildings, and the Commission has raised from private sources since that time approximately eighty‑five thousand dollars ($85,000) for this purpose; and
WHEREAS, the Richardson Foundation of New York City and Greensboro, North Carolina, has contributed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to the Commission for furthering the restoration of the historic Marsh House, a large and unique dwelling house built in 1744, provided that the remainder of the twenty‑six thousand nine hundred seventy dollars ($26,970) necessary for the Marsh House project is raised from other sources prior to the expiration of this challenge offer on December 1, 1961 and
WHEREAS, in addition to completing the restoration of the Marsh House (now 60% complete) and several outbuildings it is necessary to prepare the grounds for public visitation and use and the Historic Bath Commission does not have funds available for this purpose: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Archives and History the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to be used for the following purposes: to meet the conditions of the Richardson Foundation's challenge donation of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in order to make those funds available and to improve the grounds as necessary for opening the project as a public historical 
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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 19th day of June, 1961.