NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1082

HOUSE BILL 668

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE GOVERNOR DAVID S. REID HOUSE IN REIDSVILLE, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.

 

Whereas, the David S. Reid House in Reidsville was built in 1881 and served as Governor Reid's residence during the last 10 years of his life; and

Whereas, Governor Reid's political career spanned a period of four decades during which time he served as a State Senator, United States Congressman, Governor of North Carolina, and United States Senator; and

Whereas, Governor Reid owned furniture that was crafted by North Carolina freedman Thomas Day and is now on temporary loan to the North Carolina Museum of History awaiting restoration of the Governor Reid House; and

Whereas, the Reidsville Historic Properties Commission has purchased the Governor Reid House and intends to restore it and use it as a museum, community center, and offices for the benefit of the local citizenry and all North Carolinians; and

Whereas, the David S. Reid House has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, for the 1981-82 fiscal year twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the purpose of restoring the exterior and interior of the Governor David S. Reid House in Reidsville, provided that like sums are raised by the Reidsville Historic Properties Commission 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.