GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 928

Short Title:  Amistad Project Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Reeves, Lucas; and Miller.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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April 14, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO CONSTRUCT A REPLICA OF THE HULL OF THE AMISTAD SLAVESHIP AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE PRESERVATION CULTURAL COMPLEX.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Organization for African American Heritage Preservation Cultural Complex, a nonprofit corporation, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to construct a replica of the hull of the Amistad Slaveship to enable the public to experience how slaves were transported across the Middle Passage.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.