Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) per annum be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the support of the insane asylum for the next two years, to be paid by the public treasurer to the treasurer of the asylum, from time to time, as the board of directors or the executive committee thereof shall direct.

Sec. 2. That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, for the repair of the water-works and other necessary repairs, and the sum of two thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, for necessary repairs.

Sec. 3. That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 27th day of February, A.D. 1877.

Zebulon B. Vance, Governor
Charles Price, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Thomas J. Jarvis, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate

State of North Carolina,
Office Secretary of State,
Raleigh, April 25th, 1877.

I, Joseph A. Engelhard, Secretary of State, hereby
certify that the foregoing are true copies of the original
acts and resolutions on file in this office.

Joseph A. Engelhard,
Secretary of State.