S1513

A Supplement to “An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997 and regulating the disbursement thereof,” approved June 28, 1996 (P.L.1996, c.42).

1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.1996, c.42, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

DIRECT STATE SERVICES 74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 30 Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Development 37 Cultural and Intellectual Development Services
07-2540 New Jersey Historical Commission................................		$234,000
Special Purpose:
New Jersey Historical Commission............................	($204,000)
Walter Edge Foran Institute ......................................	($30,000)

GRANTS-IN-AID 74 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 30 Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Development 37 Cultural and Intellectual Development Services--Grants-In-Aid
07-2540 New Jersey Historical Commission..................................		$23,000
Grants:
Grants in New Jersey History......................... History..................................... History..	($21,000)
Grants in New Jersey Afro-American History..	($2,000)
Total Appropriation, Cultural and Intellectual.............
Development Services............................ Services....................................... Ser	($257,000)

This bill restores $257,000 in funding to the FY 1997 budget for the New Jersey Historical Commission. For nearly thirty years the New Jersey Historical Commission has provided a wide variety of New Jersey history services to a broad spectrum of New Jersey’s citizens and their historical, educational, and other cultural organizations. The historical commission has helped to establish and maintain a Statewide history education and outreach network for the benefit of historical and other educational and cultural organizations, schools, colleges, and universities, and the general public in such areas as colonial and Revolutionary history, African American history, ethnic history, women’s history, and services to teachers and the personnel of local historical organizations. Funds restored to the Commission for FY 1997 will enable it to continue its program of services and publication support at the same level for the State’s towns and local, county, and Statewide historical, cultural, and educational organizations, and to assist through its grant programs the efforts of other to present and promote New Jersey history.

Supplemental appropriation of $257,000 for FY 1997 for the New Jersey Historical Commission.