NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1035
SENATE BILL 377

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRANT‑IN‑AID TO THE FLORA MACDONALD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC., IN ROBESON COUNTY.

Whereas, the Flora MacDonald Educational Foundation, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation which owns the physical plant of the former Flora MacDonald College; and
Whereas, Flora MacDonald College, a Presbyterian College for women founded in 1896, was one of the leading women's colleges in southeastern North Carolina until its closing in 1961; and
Whereas, the buildings of the former Flora MacDonald College have been listed by the United States Department of the Interior in the National Register of Historic Places; and
Whereas, the Flora MacDonald Educational Foundation, Inc., leases the property for educational and cultural activities and provides for the continuing maintenance of the facilities; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1981‑82 fiscal year the sum of twenty‑four thousand dollars ($24,000) for the purpose of performing interior and exterior repairs to the main building of the former Flora MacDonald College, provided an amount of twenty‑four thousand dollars ($24,000) is raised by the Flora MacDonald Educational Foundation, Inc., in order to match the grant‑in‑aid on a dollar for dollar basis.
Sec. 2. Funds appropriated in this act shall be expended only in accordance with G.S. 121‑11 and G.S. 143‑31.2.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.