NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1074

HOUSE BILL 585

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE TOWN OF MURFREESBORO.

Whereas, the General Assembly of 1967 enacted a bill establishing the Historic Murfreesboro Commission; and

Whereas, the Historic Murfreesboro Commission with the Murfreesboro Historical Association, Inc., has greatly enhanced the character and quality of one of North Carolina's most historic communities; and

Whereas, the citizens of Murfreesboro have generously donated more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in cash and two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in real and personal property and various museum artifacts for historic preservation in the community; and

Whereas, funds are needed to restore the interior of the John Wheeler House, which was constructed around 1814 and which has been accepted in the National Register of Historic Places, and to renovate the Murfree Law Office which is located in the Historic District in Murfreesboro; 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 fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1981-82 fiscal year for the restoration of the John Wheeler House and the renovation of the Murfree Law Office in Murfreesboro.

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.