MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Appropriations

By: Representatives McCoy, Williams, Eaton

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLEMENTING A MISSISSIPPI LANDMARK GRANT PROGRAM AND FOR ACQUIRING, PRESERVING AND INTERPRETING NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much of it as may be necessary, is appropriated out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, to the Historic Properties Trust Fund in the State Treasury to be used by the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for the purpose of implementing a Mississippi Landmark Grant Program and for acquiring, preserving and interpreting nationally significant Civil War battlefields for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000 $10,000,000.00.

SECTION 2. Of the funds appropriated in Section 1, the money shall be allocated as follows:

Mississippi Landmark Grant Program $ 5,800,000.00.

Matching funds for acquisition of

nationally significant Civil War

battlefields pursuant to Section 131

of the Federal FY 1999 Interior and

Related Agencies Appropriations Act $ 2,200,000.00.

Matching funds for the proposed

development of Mississippi's Civil War

Trail through the enhancement grants

authorized by the Transportation Equity

Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) $ 2,000,000.00.

SECTION 3. The money appropriated by this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any money in the State General Fund not otherwise appropriated, upon warrants issued by the State Fiscal Officer; and the State Fiscal Officer shall issue his warrants upon requisitions signed by the proper person, officer or officers in the manner provided by law.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1999.