The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the sum of fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars per annum be and is hereby appropriated for the support of the patients in the North Carolina Insane Asylum at Raleigh; for the payment of outstanding accounts, five thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-six cents ($5,352.36); for improvements and repairs to laundry two thousand dollars; for erection and completion of congregated dining-room for female patients with wards above, eight thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three and six thousand five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four; three thousand dollars for electric light plant; four thousand dollars for engineering department: Provided, the same shall be decided necessary by a disinterested expert selected by the governor.

Sec. 2. That the sum of six thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three and six thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, in addition to the sum as provided for in chapter three hundred and sixty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine for the support of the State Hospital at Morganton, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the erection of a congregated dining-room for male patients with wards above.

Sec. 3. That the sum of thirty-three thousand dollars per annum be and the same is hereby appropriated for the support of the Eastern Hospital at Goldsboro; and the necessary repairs and improvements for the erection and completion of a congregated dining-room for male patients with wards above, six thousand five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three and six thousand five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four; for the purchase of land adjoining the grounds of the hospital, two thousand dollars; for difference in exchange of boilers, five hundred dollars: Provided, if the sum herein appropriated for maintenance shall be exhausted by reason of an increased number of patients, an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be taken from the appropriations for building congregated dining-room to supplement said appropriation and supply the deficiency.

Sec. 4. That the appropriations herein made shall be drawn out by the auditor upon his warrant and be placed by the treasurer to the credit of said institutions for which said applications are made respectively.

Sec. 5. That all laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 2d day of March, A.D. 1893.

Elias Carr, Governor
Rufus A. Doughton, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate
Lee S. Overman, Speaker of the House of Representatives

State of North Carolina,
Office Secretary of State,
Raleigh, June 13, 1893.

I, Octavius Coke, Secretary of State, hereby certify that the fore-
going are true copies of the original public acts and resolutions on
file in this office.

Octavius Coke,
Secretary of State.