NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1147

HOUSE BILL 569

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE IN MCDOWELL COUNTY.

WHEREAS, the historic Carson house on old US 70 west of Marion in McDowell County, erected about 1810 by the pioneer Carson family, was an important center in the history of western North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, for a time the Carson house served as the seat of county government and during the War between the States the house was used as a school for girls; and

WHEREAS, the McDowell County Historical Society and allied groups have acquired the house and have expended more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for its acquisition, repair, and restoration; and

WHEREAS, the Richardson Foundation has made two grants of funds for this project, contingent upon the raising of matching monies, and these matching monies have been raised in both cases; and

WHEREAS additional funds are needed for additional land acquisition, repair, restoration, and other work at the Carson house;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Archives and History, to be expended for and in connection with the Carson House the total sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00), upon the condition that five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) be raised in non-state matching funds by the McDowell County Historical Society.

Sec. 2.  This sum is to be expended under the rules and regulations prescribed by the State Department of Archives and History.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1969.

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