NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 970
HOUSE BILL 643

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR MOUNTAIN GATEWAY MUSEUM.

Whereas, with funds raised from private sources and supplemented by appropriations of the General Assembly, the Mountain Gateway Museum, in Old Fort, McDowell County, has been open to the visiting public for six years now, and over 15,000 people have visited including several thousand school children; and
Whereas, from a grant from the emergency and contingency fund, an old log house has been moved, refurbished, and is now ready to house part of the Zieman Collection that was given to the State of North Carolina several years ago and is now on loan to the Mountain Gateway Museum; and
Whereas, the 1975 Session appropriated additional funds for needed exhibits, completion of an educational movie, changing exhibits in the museum, and the moving and repairing of an additional log house to house the rest of the Zieman Collection, which has now been accomplished; and
Whereas, additional funds are needed to purchase two houses and lots located next to the museum for protection of the museum and also for future development and enlargement; Now, therefore, 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Cultural Resources, Archives and History Division, to be expended for the acquisition of houses and lots, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) for fiscal year 1977-78, and the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) for fiscal year 1978-79.
Sec. 2.  This sum is to be expended under the rules and regulations prescribed by the State Department of Cultural Resources.
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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.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, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.