NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 921

SENATE BILL 518

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ASSIST IN THE PRESERVATION OF HAYWOOD HALL IN RALEIGH.

Whereas, John Haywood, the builder of Haywood Hall, served as Treasurer of the State of North Carolina continuously from 1787 until his death in 1827; and

Whereas, John Haywood was a member of the committee which founded The University of North Carolina and selected its site at Chapel Hill, was one of the original trustees of that institution, and remained on the Board of Trustees as long as he lived; and

Whereas, Haywood Hall, built in 1799-1800, is one of the finest Federal-style houses in Raleigh and retains many of its original outbuildings and plantings in a well-preserved urban setting; and

Whereas, in 1977 Haywood Hall was bequeathed to the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America by Mrs. Mary Haywood Sterns for the purpose of insuring its continued preservation; and

Whereas, the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America is committed to preserving and restoring Haywood Hall for the benefit of all North Carolinians; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1979-80 fiscal year the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), which will be available to the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America for the purpose of preserving and restoring Haywood Hall, provided an amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is raised by the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America for that purpose. There is further appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1980-81 fiscal year the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the purpose of preserving and restoring Haywood Hall, provided an amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is raised by the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America for that purpose.

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 shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.