Title: S.L. 1965-1016
Category: Introduced Bill
Keywords: Bill ?

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 1016
HOUSE BILL 775

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE RESTORATION OF HISTORIC HOPE PLANTATION IN BERTIE COUNTY.

WHEREAS, Hope, an early plantation house in Bertie County, is one of the architectural monuments of early North Carolina and in addition is the birthplace of Governor David Stone, who was Governor from 1808 to 1810, and it is therefore of State-wide historical significance; and
WHEREAS, the Historic Hope Foundation, Inc., has been chartered as a nonprofit corporation to acquire, restore, and operate Hope for the benefit of the public; and
WHEREAS, the Hope Foundation has obtained an option to purchase the house and approximately 18 acres for development and has obtained a grant of funds from the Richardson Foundation of Greensboro and New York and is planning for a public fund-raising campaign to raise other funds; and
WHEREAS, an additional thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) is needed in order to exercise the option referred to above and to make repairs critically needed to safeguard the structure: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the Historic Hope Foundation, Incorporated, a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) if matched by other funds to assist with the purchase and development of Historic Hope.
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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1965.