PUBLIC EDUCATION. CHAPTER 424. NEW SCHOOL DISTRICT. SEC. 1. School District No. 20 to be divided. 1 SEC. 2. Number of District. An Act to create a New School District in Christiana Hundred. to be divided 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. 203, 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 Represen tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That CommissionWm. W. Dulaney, Wm. E. Rogers and Jacob Bounds be and they ers. districts to be taken. Return to Clerk of When. delivered to ed a separate PUBLIC EDUCATION. are hereby appointed commissioners to go upon and view School From what Districts numbers 102, 69, 109 and 161 in Sussex county and, if they deem it proper and necessary, locate and lay out from said districts one additional school district as to them shall seem just and proper; and when the said commissioners or a majority of them shall have so located and laid out said additional school district, they or a majority of them shall make return of the same, describing plainly the metes and bounds thereof, into the office of the Clerk of the Peace of Sussex county, to be by him filed among the records of his office. Said returns shall be made on or before the first day of May, and within ten days thereafter the said Clerk of the Peace shall make a copy thereof and deCopy to be liver the same to the Trustee of the School Fund, and from and Trustee of after the first day of May aforesaid the additional school district School Fund to be formed under the provisions of this act shall become and When deem- be deemed and taken to be a separate school district in Sussex district. county, with the capacity, rights and powers of a school district according to law, and shall be designated and numbered by its Number of proper number succeeding the highest number of the school districts previously formed in the said county, and the said additional school district shall be entered by the Trustee of the fund for establishing schools in the State of Delaware among the school districts of said county and accounts opened therewith, and in all Dividends to dividends hereafter made by said trustee, the respective dividends which may be due or hereafter may become due shall be equally divided among the said original districts and the additional school district to be created under the provisions of this act, and the school voters in said additional school district and the school committee thereof shall have all the rights and powers of school voters and a school committee respectively according to the laws of this State, and all the acts of the General Assembly of this State for the regulation, government and benefit of free schools extended to within the State shall be extended and applied to the additional school district to be created under the provisions of this act. District. be given to district. Powers of school voters and committee. Acts to be distrtet. Oath of commissioners. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed by this act shall severally, before entering upon the discharge of the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation to perform the same with fidelity, and for each and every day the said commissioners may be employed in the discharge of their duties under Fees of com- the provisions herein contained, shall have and receive the sum of one dollar each, to be allowed by the Levy Court and Court of Appeals of Sussex county. missioners. How allowed. Meeting of voters SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That if the said additional school district be formed as aforesaid, the school voters in PUBLIC EDUCATION. the said district may meet at the place of meeting in said district which the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may deem proper to appoint, on the first day of June, at two o'clock in the when. afternoon, and appoint a chairman and secretary, and choose a officers to be clerk and two commissioners of said district. Passed at Dover, March 18, 1869. chosen. CHAPTER 426. 11 Volume, 594. OF FREE SCHOOLS. SEC. 1. Commissioners to collect certain money. SEC. 2. Money collected, how to be invested. 3. Vacancies, how to be supplied. An Act to authorize Certain Persons to call in and re-invest Certain Moneys heretofore appropriated under an act entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Internal Improvements in the State of Dela ware." 11 Volume, 594. WHEREAS by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Preamble. Delaware, passed at Dover, January 26, 1859, entitled, "An act or the Encouragement of Internal Improvements in the State of elaware," the sum of four thousand dollars was appropriated in ection 6 of said act for the purpose of building a Methodist rotestant Church at Townsend, which said sum of four thousand llars was directed to be paid to John M. Naudain, Levi W. ttomus and William Wilson, commissioners thereby appointed build said church; AND WHEREAS it appearing to this Gen1 Assembly that the said commissioners appointed under the said act have altogether neglected or refused heretofore to act in the premises as therein by said act contemplated; AND WHEREAS a part of the said sum of four thousand dollars appropriated as aforesaid was paid over by the State Treasurer to John M. Naudain in his lifetime, as therein directed; AND WHEREAS the said John M. Naudain has since departed this life without having appropriated the money so paid over to him, or any part thereof, in the manner directed by said act; AND WHEREAS it is now deemed advisable that the money so appropriated under said act should be used for the benefit of School District No. 81, in Appoquinimink hundred, New Castle county, instead of the purpose originally designated by said act: Now, therefore, PUBLIC EDUCATION. Commission- SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represeners to collect tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That money. Levi W. Lattomus, William Wilson and Richard Townsend be certain to be inves and they are hereby appointed commissioners in lieu of John M. Naudain, Levi W. Lattomus and William Wilson, mentioned in the original act, to demand, sue for, collect and receive of the legal representative or representatives of the said John M. Naudain, deceased, the money so received by him during his lifetime from the State Treasurer, by virtue of the act aforesaid, and further to collect and receive from the State Treasurer any balance in his hands applicable to the purpose aforesaid and not paid over by him. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Money col. That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, after they lected, how shall have received the moneys aforesaid, to invest the same in ted. national bonds, State bonds, or on bond and mortgage, as to them may seem most advisable, and the interest or dividends arising Interest, to from said investment they shall annually pay over to the commissioners of School District No. 81 in Appoquinimink hundred, New Castle county, for the benefit of said school district. whom to be paid. how to be supplied. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Vacancies, That in case of the death, refusal or neglect, to act of any of the commissioners appointed by this act, it shall and may be lawful for the school voters in said School District No. 81 in Appoquinimink hundred, New Castle county, to elect, at any annual stated meeting in the month of April, other or others to supply the place or places of him or them so dying, refusing or neglecting to act under the provisions of this act. Passed at Dover, February 2, 1869. CHAPTER 427. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Preamble. Preamble. SEC. 1. May raise by taxation, $600. SEC. 1. For what purpose. An Act for the relief of School District No. 8 in New Castle county. WHEREAS it appears to this General Assembly that the sum now authorized by law to be levied and raised by taxation in PUBLIC EDUCATION. School District No. 8, in New Castle county, is inadequate for the proper maintenance of the public school in the said district; Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: taxation, $600. SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful, from and after the passage May raise by of this act, for School District No. 8, in New Castle county, to levy 0. and raise by taxation yearly any amount not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) for the support of the public For what school in said district in the manner now provided by law. Passed at Dover, February 4, 1869. purpose. CHAPTER 428. OF FREE SCHOOLS. An Act for the relief of School District No. 20 in New Castle county. $600. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- May raise by tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That taxation, it shall be lawful, from and after the passage of this act, for School District No. 20, in New Castle county, to levy and raise by taxation yearly any amount not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) for the support of the public school in said dis- For what trict, in the manner now provided by law. Passed at Dover, March 15, 1869. purpose. |