NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1110

HOUSE BILL 349

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF HISTORIC HOPE.

WHEREAS, with funds raised from private sources and supplemented by appropriations of the General Assembly, Historic Hope, the home of Governor David Stone (1808-1810), in Bertie County has been purchased and is now being restored as an historic shrine; and

WHEREAS, the Historic Hope Foundation, in cooperation with the State Department of Archives and History, has planned and outlined a two-year restoration program estimated to cost seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000,00); and

WHEREAS, the Historic Hope Foundation has developed plans for the operation and maintenance of this historic house without additional State funds once its repair and restoration have been completed;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Archives and History the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) to complete the repair and restoration of Historic Hope, including the construction of a caretaker's house, landscaping and ground improvements, and other necessary repairs and construction.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.