NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 943

SENATE BILL 560

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OWNED OR LEASED BY THE ROCKFORD PRESERVATION SOCIETY, INC., IN THE TOWN OF ROCKFORD, SURRY COUNTY.

Whereas, the Town of Rockford was the county seat of Surry County from 1789 to 1850; and

Whereas, there are structures and sites of significance in the town; and

Whereas, the Rockford Preservation Society, Inc., has already raised approximately twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) of private, foundation, and State funds for the preservation of buildings and sites in Rockford; and

Whereas, the Rockford Preservation Society, Inc., desires additional State assistance in the stabilization and preservation of the York Tavern, the Bland House, the Old Post Office, and the Old Store (also called the Davenport House); Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1977-78 fiscal year, the sum of five thousand four hundred dollars ($5,400), five thousand of which will be available to the Rockford Preservation Society, Inc., for the purpose of historical research and stabilization of the structures owned or leased by the society, the remainder of which will be used by the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, to provide technical services to the Rockford Preservation Society, Inc., for the project, provided an amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) is raised by the Rockford Preservation Society, Inc. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143‑31.2.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.