NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1176

SENATE BILL 444

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY FOR THE COLONIAL RECORDS PROJECT.

 

WHEREAS, the State has invested a total of one hundred sixty-eight thousand, five hundred seventy-four dollars ($168,574.00) in the Colonial Records Project of the State Department of Archives and History, which sum has been augmented by grants-in-aid from the Society of the Cincinnati, the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, the Carolina Charter Corporation, and other sources; and

WHEREAS, the aforesaid investment will be largely lost if funds are not made available to continue the project beyond June 30, 1969; and

WHEREAS, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has made a grant-in-aid of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) to continue the Colonial Records Project after June 30, 1969, provided this sum is matched two dollars ($2.00) for one dollar ($1.00) from other sources; and

WHEREAS, the Carolina Charter Corporation is prepared to raise fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000.00) of these matching funds, leaving only eighty-six thousand dollars ($86,000) for the State to provide;

NOW, THEREFORE,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Archives and History, to continue the Colonial Records Project, twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000.00) for 1969-70 and twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000.00) for 1970-71, subject to availability of one-half of said amount from non-state funds.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 1st day of July, 1969.