NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1098

HOUSE BILL 596

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM OF $25,000.00 TO ELIADA HOMES, INCORPORATED, IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY.

 

WHEREAS, Eliada Homes, Incorporated, located in Buncombe County has for fifty‑seven (57) years rendered a great service to deserving orphaned and other needy children of Western North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, with the increased cost of operation of this institution the management thereof is no longer financially able to continue its operation without aid from the State; and

WHEREAS, during the past fiscal year the institution provided thirty‑one thousand one hundred sixty‑five (31,165) days of care involving one hundred seven (107) children at a cost per child per day of two dollars and sixty‑two cents ($2.62): Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to Eliada Homes, Incorporated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00) for each year of the 1961‑1963 biennium to be used to aid in the cost of the operation of said institution.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1961.