NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1321

SENATE BILL 820

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRANT-IN-AID TO THE PERSON PLACE PRESERVATION SOCIETY, INC., IN FRANKLIN COUNTY FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE PERSON PLACE.

Whereas, the Person Place Preservation Society, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation which has a lease agreement with Louisburg College, which owns the Person Place; and

Whereas, the original Georgian structure was constructed about 1789 by Wilson Milner and had additions through several owners culminating with a large Federal style addition in about 1830; and

Whereas, the structure has a long and integral history in the development of the city of Louisburg and the Franklin Academy (now Louisburg College) and has been a hostelry, a dormitory, and a home for two headmasters of the college and three State legislators; and

Whereas, the structure 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 appropriated from the General Fund to the Person Place Preservation Society, Inc., the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for fiscal year 1982-83 for phased rehabilitation of the Person Place to provide a facility for community use, provided a like amount is raised by the Society itself to match the grant-in-aid on a dollar-for-dollar basis. These funds shall not become part of the continuation budget. Any unexpended funds at the end of the 1982-83 fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.