NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1139

HOUSE BILL 421

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE CERTAIN APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY AND CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR CERTAIN REPAIR AND RESTORATION WORK AND MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH PEtTIGrEW STATE PARK IN WASHINGTON AND TYRRELL COUNTIES.

 

WHEREAS, the Pettigrew State Park land on the North shore of Lake Phelps in Washington and Tyrrell Counties is principally of historic interest, and this portion of Pettigrew State Park might be more appropriately developed and administered by the Department of Archives and History as a State Historic Site; and

WHEREAS, the 16,600 acre Lake Phelps and the 500 acres of Pettigrew State Park land on the South shore of Lake Phelps are primarily of scenic and recreational interest, and the South shore land might be more appropriately developed and administered by the Department of Conservation and Development as a State Park; and

WHEREAS, the two Departments are agreed upon a physical division of Pettigrew State Park; a division of equipment, and of appropriated maintenance and operating funds, such division to be made by appropriate transfers, and

WHEREAS, additional funds are needed in order to develop the North shore land as a State Historic Site, and additional funds are needed for the operation, maintenance and administration of Lake Phelps and the South shore land as a State Park: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the Department of Archives and History the sum of nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000.00) for necessary repair and restoration in connection with the "Somerset Place" historic buildings in Pettigrew State Park.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the State Department of Conservation and Development for the maintenance and operation of Lake Phelps and the South shore land adjacent thereto the sum of eight thousand five hundred twenty-seven dollars ($8,527.00) for each year of the biennium July 1, 1965, to June 30, 1967.

Sec. 3.  The transfers recited in the preamble to this Act are hereby expressly approved.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.