NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 998

HOUSE BILL 58

 

 

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR BENNETT PLACE STATE HISTORIC SITE.

 

Whereas, the Bennett Place in Durham County was the site of the armistice agreement between Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and Union General William T. Sherman on April 26, 1865, which event, occurring 17 days after General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, effectually ended the War Between the States; and

Whereas, the Bennett Place State Historic Site is one of the state's most important historic places and has the potential for attracting large numbers of visitors when properly developed and administered; and

Whereas, the Bennett Place is the only State Historic Site for which funds have not been provided for necessary protection, surveillance, maintenance, and operation; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Archives and History for maintenance and operation of Bennett Place State Historic Site the sums of twenty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars ($21,432.00) for the fiscal year 1971-72 and twenty-one thousand and ten dollars ($21,010.00) for the fiscal year 1972-73.

Sec. 2.  There is also hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Archives and History for the construction at the said site of a manager's residence the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000.00).

Sec. 3.  There is also hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Archives and History for the construction at the said site of a maintenance-storage complex for service to all State Historic Sites the sum of forty- four thousand dollars ($44,000.00).

Sec. 4.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of July, 1971.