Age of per PUBLIC EDUCATION. ber, together with the hundred where they may reside, by writing the names of the hundreds on separate paper and drawing as by lot; the hundred which a member may so draw the same shall be his so drawing to nominate therefrom during his term. SECTION 3. No person shall be nominated on [the] part of the ons nom- State as a student of Delaware College who is under the age of part of State. sixteen years or over twenty-one. nated on Passed at Dover, March 15, 1869. CHAPTER 421. FREE SCHOOLS. 12 Volume, An Act to amend Chapter 70 of the 12th Volume of the Laws of Delaware. 108. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Sec. 1, Chap. Chapter 70 of the 12th Volume of the Laws of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word "fifty "in the tenth line of Section 1 of said Chapter, and inserting the words" one hundred." 70 amended. How. 1 Vol. 644. An Act in further addition to the Act for the Benefit of Public Schools in 12 Vol. 281. Wilmington. [SECTION 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware (with concurrence of two-thirds of each branch), That the Mayor and Council of Wilmington shall have power, and the said the Mayor and Council of Wilmington are PUBLIC EDUCATION. thorized to $25,000. commoda hereby authorized to borrow upon the credit and faith of said city Mayor and twenty-five thousand dollars for the use of the Board of Public Council auEducation in Wilmington, and to be paid to said Board to enable borrow it to increase by building school accommodations as required by To increase the act to which this act is a further addition. Said twenty-five school acthousand dollars may be borrowed in parts or sums as shall be tions. offered, to be paid in a time not exceeding twenty years from the Limitation date of the borrowing, with interest at the rate of six per cent. of payment. per annum, payable half yearly; and the Mayor and Council of Wilmington may determine, or the City Council may prescribe who to preby ordinance the time and manner of borrowing, the form of ribe time certificates of indebtedness, and any necessary matter to effectu- of borrowate this act not inconsistent with its provisions. The public debt Public debt of the City of Wilmington may be increased by the said sum of may be intwenty-five thousand dollars added thereto. Passed at Dover, January 22, 1869. Interest. and manner ing, &c. creased. An Act to create an Additional School District in Kent County. WHEREAS all that district of country lying between Old Duck Preamble. Creek and the Delaware Bay, called and known as "Bombay Hook Island," within the limits of Kent county, in the State of Delaware, has not heretofore enjoyed the benefits of the Free School system established by the statutes of the said State; AND WHEREAS there are quite a number of children residing in the district aforesaid now deprived of the advantages to be derived from the said school system who ought to enjoy the same; now therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Location. all that district of country lying between Old Duck Creek and the Delaware Bay, within the limits of Kent county, in the State District. PUBLIC EDUCATION. of Delaware, known as "Bombay Hook Island," be and the same Creation of is hereby created an additional school district in Kent county, and constituted a separate school district within the said county, and shall be subject to and governed by all the provisions of Chapter 42 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware and the several amendments thereto; shall possess all the capacities, rights and powers with which school districts are by the laws of Number of this State invested, and shall be numbered in continuation of the numbers by which school districts in the said county are now designated. District. Meeting of voters, wheu held. to procure certified SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the first stated meeting of the school voters in the additional school district created by this act shall be held on the first Saturday of April A. D. 1869, at some convenient place within the said district, and that the persons chosen at the said stated meeting to be the school committee of the said district shall, within ten days after Committee the day of the said stated meeting, procure a certified copy of this act and cause the same to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Peace in and for Kent county, who shall make a copy thereof and deliver the same to the Trustee of the School Fund, and the said Trustee of the School Fund shall open an account liver copy to with the said district, and in all dividends hereafter to be declared School Fund or struck for school districts in Kent county the said district created by the first section of this act shall be included in the participate dividend account and shall participate in such dividends equally individends with other school districts in said county. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, school voters in the additional district created by the filed. Clerk of Peace to de Trustee of District to Powers of and school committee and the school committee thereof shall That the school voters first section of this act have all the rights and powers of school voters and a school committee. respectively under the laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at Dover, February 17, 1869. An Act to create a New School District in Christiana Hundred. to be divided trict. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- School Distatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That trict No. 20 School District No. 20, New Castle county, shall be divided, and that the new school district set off from School District No. 20 aforesaid shall be bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at the Boundaries mouth of the Mill Creek and proceeding up said Mill Creek as it of new dismeanders to the line dividing the properties of Messrs. Henry Latimer and Robert P. Robinson; thence up said dividing line to the Wilmington and Christiana Turnpike; thence across said turnpike to Stidham's lane; thence up the centre of said lane to such point as would be the place of intersection of the centre of said lane and the centre of Du Pont street, produced from the City of Wilmington to said lane; thence up the centre of said produced street to the south-western boundary of the City of Wilmington aforesaid; thence along said boundary of said city to the Christiana River; thence along said river to the place of beginning. District. SECTION 2. The school district set off and bounded as above Number of described shall be known as School District No. 20, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of all other school districts. An Act to create an Additional School District. [SECTION 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That commission Wm. W. Dulaney, Wm. E. Rogers and Jacob Bounds be and they ers. District. PUBLIC EDUCATION. of Delaware, known as "Bombay Hook Island." be and the same Creation of is hereby created an additional school district in Kent county, and constituted a separate school district within the said county, and shall be subject to and governed by all the provisions of Chapter 42 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware and the several amendments thereto; shall possess all the capacities, rights and powers with which school districts are by the laws of Number of this State invested, and shall be numbered in continuation of the numbers by which school districts in the said county are now designated. District. Meeting of voters, when held. to procure SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the first stated meeting of the school voters in the additional school district created by this act shall be held on the first Saturday of April A. D. 1869, at some convenient place within the said district. and that the persons chosen at the said stated meeting to be the school committee of the said district shall, within ten days after Committee the day of the said stated meeting, procure a certified copy of this act and cause the same to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Peace in and for Kent county, who shall make a copy thereof and deliver the same to the Trustee of the School Fund, and the said Trustee of the School Fund shall open an account liver copy to with the said district, and in all dividends hereafter to be declared School Fund or struck for school districts in Kent county the said district created by the first section of this act shall be included in the dividend account and shall participate in such dividends equally individends with other school districts in said county. certified filed. Peace to de Trustee of District to participate Powers of and school SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the school voters school voters in the additional district created by the first section of this act committee and the school committee thereof shall have all the rights and powers of school voters and a school committee. respectively under the laws of the State of Delaware. Passed at Dover, February 17, 1869. |