NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 983

SENATE BILL 101

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM OF TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($21,500.00) TO SIPE'S ORCHARD HOME, INC., OF CONOVER, NORTH CAROLINA, FOR THE BIENNIUM 1963-1965.

 

WHEREAS, Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc., of Conover, North Carolina, is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, charitable and Christian organization and has been in operation since July 4, 1945, serving needy children from throughout the entire State; and

WHEREAS, Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc., is licensed to care for 42 boys by the North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare, and its aim is to make available to the persons in its care assistance and wholesome stimulation through home environment, training and instruction that will enable these persons to be prepared to serve God and home and country with enriched and disciplined talents; and

WHEREAS, Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc., is providing a home for orphan, half-orphan, underprivileged, neglected and unwanted children, its purpose being to give these children a fair chance so that they will not have to face life with disadvantages but will have equal opportunity to develop into good American citizens; and

WHEREAS, Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc., is the only private institution of this character serving the entire State without State aid: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund the sum of twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars ($21,500.00) to Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc., of Conover, North Carolina, for the biennium beginning July 1, 1963, and ending June 30, 1965, to be paid by the Treasurer of the State of North Carolina to the Treasurer of Sipe's Orchard Home, Inc., as a grant-in-aid for operations, as follows:

$10,750.00 for the fiscal year 1963-64.

$10,750.00 for the fiscal year 1964-65.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 19th day of June, 1963.