NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1015

HOUSE BILL 760

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MAKE CERTAIN NECESSARY REPAIRS AND PROVIDE CERTAIN EQUIPMENT FOR THE CUPOLA HOUSE IN EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA.

 

WHEREAS, the Cupola House, in Edenton, North Carolina, is more than two hundred years old; and

WHEREAS, the Cupola House has been authoritatively described as the best example of an existing wooden house in the Jacobean tradition in all America; and

WHEREAS, it is essential to the restoration, preservation and development of this house as a historic site that certain repairs be made and certain furnishings and equipment be provided; and

WHEREAS, the State has heretofore recognized the desirability of furnishing support in aid of preservation of this house; and

WHEREAS, the Historic Sites Advisory Committee has approved of this house as a historic site and has approved of this Act which would provide aid: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the State Department of Archives and History the sum of sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars ($16,700.00) to be expended in making certain repairs and providing certain furnishings and equipment in connection with the Cupola House, in Edenton, North Carolina.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1965.