PUBLIC EDUCATION. ond street, and running thence with Second street in an easterly direction until it strikes the line of District No. 71; the district north of Second street shall be called and numbered Numbers of School District No. 70, and the District south of Second street, No. 70. new districts. 102 in Sussex divided into District No. SECTION 2. That School District No. 102, be and the same County is hereby divided by the following line; beginning at the bridge two districts, at the foot of Market street and running north with Market street to Poplar street, and thence with Poplar street in a westerly direction to Cedar Avenue, and thence with Cedar Avenue in a southerly direction to the Nanticoke river, and thence with Nanticoke river to the foot of Market street. The school district north of Poplar street and west of Cedar Avenue shall be called and numbered as School District No. Numbers of 102, and school district south of Poplar street shall be called and numbered School District No. 102. Dividing line. new districts. School districts Corporate name, powers and SECTION 3. That on and after the first Saturday of April, consolidated. A. D. 1875, the School District Nos. 70, 102, 70, and 102, in Sussex county, as now bounded, or as they may be hereafter bounded, shall form one united school district by the name of the Seaford public schools, United Districts Nos. 70, 102, 70, and 102, and shall have the same corporate powers and government, franchises as united districts have by the laws of this State, and Commission- be governed by a board of seven commissioners, to be elected annually by the school voters of said united school districts; How, where, the said school voters shall meet at the town Hall, in the town of Seaford, on the first Saturday of April, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in every year, to elect seven commissioners as aforesaid. ers. and when elected. Annual meeting. SECTION 4. The commissioners shall meet annually in the place where the election was held,on the Monday following the election, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and organize the board by the election of a president who shall be one of the commissioners, and a clerk who shall also be one of the commissioners, and shall hold stated meetings once every month and special meetings when required by the president or a majority of the commissioners; and by a committee, or otherwise, Visit schools, shall visit all the schools in the districts once a week while the schools are in session. Other meetings. Quorum. Vacancy. SECTION 5. A majority of the board shall form a quorum, and any vacancy occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the board for the whole or the residue of the term, as the case may be. PUBLIC EDUCATION. Appoint and remove treasurer, teachers. SECTION 6. The Board shall appoint a treasurer, and take Powers: his bond with sufficient security for the faithful performance of his duties, and appoint all other officers and agents that may officers, be necessary, and employ a sufficient number of teachers to agents and teach the children, in said united school districts, in a proper manner, and fix their compensation; such appointees and Fix comteachers to be subject to removal at any time. Said board pensation. shall have power to make by-laws for their own government, Make the government of their officers, agents and teachers, and for the schools. By-Laws. school fund by taxation amount re SECTION 7. The board shall have the right to draw the Draw State amount of the dividends from time to time which the several dividends. districts named in section 3 (three) of this act shall be entitled to, as their part of the State school fund, and shall have authority to fix such amount in addition as they may deem neces- Fix and raise sary to educate all the children in the districts that are entitled to be educated in the public schools,and to assess and levy quired for the school taxes to and upon the cash value of real and per- purposes. sonal property and the poll, and collect the same as school Restriction taxes now are by law, but they shall not raise by taxation for of their the support of the schools in any year a less amount than one thousand dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars in any one year. school power. General powers, re duties of SECTION 8: The Board, in addition to the powers conferred by this act, shall have all the power granted to school commit- stictions and tees and commissioners, be subject to all the restrictions im- school composed on them, and perform all the duties required of them applicable to by the laws of this State not inconsistent with the provisions the board of this act. missioners, erty of SECTION 9. All school property, real and personal, owned School propby the districts named in the third section of this act, shall respective become and be the property of the united districts created by How rested. this act. districts. applicable SECTION 10. All the provisions of the general laws regula- General ting free schools in this State, shall be applicable to the united school laws districts created by this act, so far as they are not inconsis- where not tent with the special provisions hereof. inconsistent. dispose of SECTION II. The said Board shall have the power to sell, Board may deed and dispose of the school houses, land, fixtures and fur-school niture in the said Districts Nos. 70, 102, 70 and 102 to the houses, &c. highest bidder or bidders, either at public or private sale, and May impose to assess, levy and collect a tax of not more than three-quarters of one per-centum on all the taxable property, real and a certain tax Academy building to PUBLIC EDUCATION. personal, in said united school districts belonging to white persons, which, together with the moneys arising from the sale he procured of the school houses, lands and furniture aforesaid, shall be used by said board to procure a site, if necessary, for a school house or academy building, and the construction and building of the same. with the proceeds of such sale and tax. Proviso. Regulation SECTION 12. Provided, however, that no person assessed under the provisions of this act for school purposes, or the of poll tax. erection of a suitable building for school house or academy shall be assessed at a less amount than three hundred dollars upon his head, as a poll tax, and any person failing to pay his school tax shall be deprived of voting at any school election in said united districts. Non-pay ment of school tax. Penalty. Passed at Dover, March 17, 1875. Personal property fiable to taxation for school purposes. Shall be as CHAPTER 46. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to make personal property liable to taxation for school purposes in the School Districts in which it is situated. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the personal property of all white persons now subject to tax for school purposes, shall be liable to assessment and tax for school purposes in the school district only in which it sessed and is actually located; and it shall be the duty of the school taxed only in committees of the several school districts within the limits of this State, making the assessment lists for their respective districts, to place thereon the rates of the personal property now subject to tax for school purposes in the school district in which it has an actual location only, irrespective of the residence of the owners thereof. the school district in which it is actually located. Duty of school committees in making the assessment lists. Further duties. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the school committees of the several school districts within this State, shall not take the rates of personal property from the assessment list of the hundred in which it stands assessed at the PUBLIC EDUCATION. view of the assessed. time, but shall fix the rates of personal property for their respective school districts upon personal view thereof, or Personal other sufficient information of the owner or persons having property control of the same. The said school committees, in making the assessment lists for their respective school districts, shall adopt and use as a guide the assessment lists of the hundred in which their districts may be situated, so far as it may be practicable. The assessment list of each school district, aforesaid, shall only include the personal property actually located therein, provided that no property shall be assessed for school purposes under the provisions of this act, except such personal property as under the previous law could be assessed for school purposes. Proviso To be pub SECTION 3. And be further enacted, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized to make publication of this act in the month of March, in one newspaper in each lished in county in at least two issues. Passed at Dover, March 9, 1875. newspapers. CHAPTER 47. OF FREE SCHOOLS. A SUPPLEMENT to Chapter 42, of the Revised Code of 1852, as publish- Amended ed in 1874, entitled of "Free Schools". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, Code, 1874 200. Dog tax for school purposes in county. distinguish SECTION I. That the school committee, in the several school districts in Sussex county, shall, annually in the month Sussex of April, levy a tax of one dollar upon the owners of each and School Comevery dog, and two dollars for each and every bitch, in the mittee shall several school districts in said county, for school purposes. between The school committee in each district, in making out the colored duplicate list required to be issued to the collector, shall dis- persons in tinguish therein between white and colored persons. The duplicate warrant to be issued to the collectors shall include the taxes Collector. white and making out list for warrant to PUBLIC EDUCATION. Collector's levied under this act. The moneys collected under this act, include from white persons, shall be paid over to the school committees in the several school districts, to be used for school purfrom whites, poses in the district in which the taxes are collected. what. The tax collected how appropriated. Tax col lected from colored persons, priated. how appro How drawn. Power of respecting dog tax. Liability of SECTION 2. The moneys collected under this act, from colored persons, shall be paid over to the county Treasurer of Sussex county, by the collectors, which shall be by him equally divided among the several colored schools in said county. The moneys so divided among the colored schools aforesaid, shall be drawn upon warrants of the colored teachers in said county, countersigned by the collector of the hundred in which such colored school is located. SECTION 3. The collectors shall have the same power to collect the taxes under this act as the collector of county taxes. SECTION 4. The official bonds of the collectors and county and County treasurer shall be liable for all the moneys collected and reTreasurer. ceived under this act. Passed at Dover, March 23, 1875. 1 CHAPTER 48. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Levy Courts to tax colored support of their own AN ACT to tax colored persons for the support of their own schools. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, SECTION 1. That the Levy Courts in the several counties persons for of this State be and they are hereby authorized annually, in the month of April, to lay and apportion a tax of thirty cents schools. in the hundred dollars, and so pro rata upon the assessments of the real and personal property, and poll of colored persons as they shall stand upon the assessment lists of the several hundreds, which shall be set apart as a separate and distinct Tax rate. Separate fund. |