NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 58

HOUSE BILL 157

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CRAVEN COUNTY AND THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF NEW BERN TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CELEBRATION OF THE TWO HUNDRED FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF NEW BERN, AND TO PERMIT THE CITY OF NEW BERN TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CELEBRATION OF THE OPENING OF TRYON PALACE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Craven County, in its discretion, may appropriate such sum of money as it shall deem appropriate during the fiscal years 1958-1959 and 1959-1960 to be used by Craven County or such agency as the Board of County Commissioners of Craven County may designate in the celebration of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the City of New Bern.

Sec. 2. The Board of Aldermen of the City of New Bern, in its discretion, may appropriate such sum of money as it shall deem appropriate during the fiscal years 1958-1959 and 1959-1960 to be used by the City of New Bern or such agency as the Board of Aldermen of New Bern may designate in the celebration of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the City of New Bern.

Sec. 3. The Board of Aldermen of the City of New Bern may, in its discretion, appropriate during the fiscal year 1958-1959 such sum of money as it shall deem appropriate to be used by the said City of New Bern in participating in the celebration of the opening of Tryon Palace in said city during the month of April, 1959.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of March, 1959.