NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1028

SENATE BILL 210

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRANT-IN-AID TO THE PERSON PLACE PRESERVATION SOCIETY, INC., IN FRANKLIN COUNTY FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE PERSON PLACE.

 

Whereas, the Person Place Preservation Society, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation which has a lease agreement with Louisburg College, which owns the Person Place; and

Whereas, the original Georgian structure was constructed about 1789 by Wilson Milner and had additions through several owners culminating with a large Federal style addition in about 1830; and

Whereas, the structure has a long and integral history in the development of the city of Louisburg and the Franklin Academy (now Louisburg College) and has been a hostelry, a dormitory, and a home for two headmasters of the college and three State legislators; and

Whereas, the structure has been listed by the United States Department of the Interior in the National Register of Historic Places; and

Whereas, the stabilization phase of the rehabilitation has been completed by a grant from the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service; and

Whereas, the citizens of Louisburg and Franklin County have already demonstrated their special interest in this project by raising almost twenty thousand dollars ($20,000); Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for fiscal year 1981-82 for the purpose of phased rehabilitation of the Person Place to provide a facility for community use, provided that a like amount is raised by the Person Place Preservation Society, Inc., to match the grant-in-aid on a dollar-for-dollar basis. The Society may apply to the division, from time to time, for the funds appropriated under this act, as it raises the matching funds. Any appropriated money not used or not matched shall revert to the General Fund.

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 is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.