NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1064

HOUSE BILL 978

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CUPOLA HOUSE AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE BARKER HOUSE IN CHOWAN COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, the Cupola House in Chowan County is greatly in need of renovation; and

WHEREAS, said House is more than two hundred (200) years old; and

WHEREAS, said House is particularly in need of renovation of the Jacobean paneling of the second story; and

WHEREAS, it is of great importance to the people of this State and this Country to preserve our historic buildings; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly has heretofore made appropriations for the maintenance of the Cupola and Barker Houses in Edenton and it is essential that the State restore to its budget appropriations for the Cupola and Barker Houses; and

WHEREAS, State appropriations will be supplemented from non-State sources: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  On condition that the Cupola House and the Barker House be approved as Historic Sites by the Historic Sites Advisory Committee, there is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the Department of Archives and History for restoration and maintenance of the Cupola House the sum of eleven thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($11,250.00) for each year of the biennium commencing July 1, 1963, and ending June 30, 1965, and for the maintenance of the Barker House the sum of eight hundred dollars ($800.00) for each year of said biennium. The funds herein appropriated shall be subject to and expended only pursuant to the applicable provisions of House Bill 84, 1963 Session, ratified April 12, 1963, entitled "An Act to Amend Chapter 121 of the General Statutes as to the Purchase of Historic Properties, to Establish a Historic Sites Advisory Committee and to Amend Chapter 143 of the General Statutes as to the Appropriation of Funds for Historic Sites." In the event that the said Cupola House and Barker House are not approved as historic sites by the Historic Sites Advisory Committee, the funds herein appropriated shall revert to the General Fund.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1963.