NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1037

SENATE BILL 412

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR RESTORATION OF THE HOFFMAN HOTEL.

 

Whereas, the Hoffman Hotel was built in 1852 and served as a focal point for the legal and educational activities in Dallas, North Carolina, the county seat of Gaston County, until 1911; and

Whereas, the Hoffman Hotel and the attached store building will be at the heart of and the largest structure of Historic Dallas Square, a reconstruction of Dallas, North Carolina, as it appeared during the 19th century; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the fiscal year 1981-82 for the purpose of beginning the renovation of the Hoffman Hotel and an adjoining store building as a permanent site for the Gaston County Art and History Museum.

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

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