NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1070

HOUSE BILL 577

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRANT-IN-AID TO HISTORIC JAMESTOWN SOCIETY, INC., IN GUILFORD COUNTY.

Whereas, Historic Jamestown Society, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation responsible for the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Richard Mendenhall Plantation; and

Whereas, the Richard Mendenhall Plantation House in Jamestown, Guilford County, was constructed about 1811 and is part of a well preserved complex of Quaker style plantation buildings; and

Whereas, its builder, Richard Mendenhall, was a dedicated and influential member of the North Carolina Manumission Society, serving as president at its height in 1825-26; and

Whereas, Richard Mendenhall's son, Nereus Mendenhall, was an educator and principal supporter of the New Garden Boarding School, which later evolved into Guilford College; and

Whereas, the Richard Mendenhall House has an historic association with the promotion of basic human rights, and with education, social reform, and philanthropy; and

Whereas, the one hundred and seventy year old plantation has been listed by the United States Department of the Interior in the National Register of Historic Places; 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 1981-82 fiscal year the sum of two thousand two hundred forty dollars ($2,240) for the purpose of interior and exterior repairs and rehabilitation of the Plantation House, provided a like amount of two thousand two hundred forty dollars ($2,240) is raised by Historic Jamestown Society, Inc., in order to match the grant-in-aid on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Sec. 2. It is the intent of the North Carolina General Assembly that this total of two thousand two hundred forty dollars ($2,240) in the 1981-82 fiscal year shall be the final appropriation for the rehabilitation program for the Richard Mendenhall Plantation House in Jamestown, Guilford County.

Sec. 3. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121-11 and G.S. 143-31.2.

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.