NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 943

HOUSE BILL 764

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR MOUNTAIN GATEWAY MUSEUM.

Whereas, with funds raised from private sources and supplemented by appropriations of the General Assembly, the Mountain Gateway Museum, in Old Fort, McDowell County, has been open to the visiting public for four years now, and 10,940 people have visited including several thousand school children.

Whereas, from a grant from the emergency and contingency fund, an old log house has been moved, refurbished, and is now ready to house part of the Zieman collection that was given to the State of North Carolina several years ago and is now on loan to the Mountain Gateway Museum.

Whereas, additional funds are needed for exhibits in the log cabin, completion of an educational movie already begun, changing exhibits in the museum, and the moving and repairing of an additional log house to house the rest of the Zieman collection; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Cultural Resources, Archives and History Division, to be expended for and in connection with the Mountain Gateway Museum, for the fiscal year 1976-77, the following sums:

Exhibits for log cabin                                      $1,500

Completion of educational movie                     5,000

Changing exhibits in museum                            1,500

Moving and repairing additional

log cabin                                                  12,000

Total appropriation                                       $20,000

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 shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.