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OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

CHAPTER 35.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT to consolidate School Districts Nos. 56 and 162, in Nanticoke and
Broad Creek Hundreds, in Sussex County, into one school district.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Delaware, in General Assembly met:

SECTION 1. That School Districts Nos. 56 and 162, in NanSchool Dis- ticoke and Broad Creek Hundreds, in Sussex County, be and 56 and 162. the same are hereby formed and consolidated in one school district; which said school district shall be No. 56 in said county, with power to draw only the dividend of one school district, and to raise the tax of one school district under the school law of this State.

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Passed at Dover, March 12, 1879.

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CHAPTER 36.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT to change the hours for holding the annual school meeting in
School District No. 8, in New Castle County.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

SECTION 1. That from and after the passage of this act the nual meet hours for holding the stated annual meeting of the school voters school in School District No. 8, in New Castle County, shall be from School Dis. 44 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the day now appointed trict No. 8. by law for such stated annual meeting.

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Passed at Dover, March 17, 1879.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

CHAPTER 37.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT authorizing and requiring the School Committee of School District No. 91, in Sussex county, to raise one hundred dollars annually for school purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met:

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SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for the school committee School Dis trict No. 91, of School District No. 91, in Sussex county, and they are hereby in Sussex required annually to levy, assess and collect the sum of one hun- thorized to dred dollars for the support of a free school in said district, in lieu collect $100. of the sum of sixty dollars now required to be raised according to the requirements of Section 1, Volume 13, of the Laws of Delaware, as published in 1874; said sum shall be levied, assessed and collected in the manner now provided by law for the levying, assessing and collecting of school taxes, and shall not impair the right of the school voters in raising by taxation such sum as may be determined upon at an annual stated meeting; Provided, that a greater sum than four hundred dollars shall not be raised in any one year, by taxation, for the purpose aforesaid. Passed at Dover, March 19, 1879.

CHAPTER 38.

OF PUBLIC SCHOOL IN LEBANON.

AN ACT to unite School Districts Nos, 27 and 122, in Kent County, into one
School District under the title of Lebanon Public Schools.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

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SECTION 1. That School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent tion of County, as now formed, or may hereafter be formed, under the tricts Nos. laws of this State, be and they are hereby united, and shall be ard 122, known as the Lebanon Public Schools, and shall have the same county. rights, privileges and powers as any other united School Dis- Powers. tricts under the general law of this State.

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OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

SECTION 2. That in the distribution of the school fund, to which the several counties of this State are entitled, or may hereafter be entitled, under any law of this State, the Trustee of the School Fund shall distribute to the said the Lebanon Public Schools the full proportion to which they are now entitled as two districts in Kent County.

SECTION 3. That the terms of the School Commissioners now missioners, acting as such, in Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, shall expire on the first Saturday in April, A. D., 1879. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the school voters, and school com- they are hereby empowered to vote for and elect, by ballot, on the first Saturday in April next, A. D. 1879, one commissioner for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years; and that at every annual meeting thereafter, the said school voters shall, as aforesaid, elect one member of the Board of Commissioners to serve for the term of three years, as the successor of the member whose term shall expire.

Vacancies.

SECTION 5. That if at any time any vacancy shall happen in the Board of Commissioners, either by death, resignation, removal, or from refusal to serve or otherwise, the remaining member or members of the Board of Commissioners shall, within ten How filled. days thereafter, fill said Board of Commissioners, which Commissioner or Commissioners so appointed as aforesaid, shall hold his or their office or offices until the next annual meeting, at which meeting the school voters shall elect a commissioner or commissioners to fill the unexpired term or terms made vacant as aforesaid.

Taxes already levied.

How collected.

Taxes already levied.

SECTION 6. That all taxes levied under and by virtue of any assessment or valuation made by the commissioners now acting as commissioners for the said School districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, shall be binding upon the taxpayers and property owners of the said United School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, under the title of the Lebanon Public schools, and may be collected in the same manner as now provided by law; and the commissioners or the collector appointed by them shall have all the power and law to collect said taxes as any commissioner or collector of any other School District can or may have, for the purpose of collecting, or enforcing the collection of any taxes in any district within this State.

SECTION 7. That all taxes heretofore assessed and levied upon either of the School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, To whom and not yet collected, shall belong to, and shall be due and owing to the districts united by virtue of this act as The Lebanon Public Schools, and the said commissioners of the said The Lebanon

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OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Public Schools, or some one duly authorised by them to collect said taxes, shall have the same power as is now provided by law for the collection of school taxes in any School District in this State; and when any such taxes shall have been collected they shall, after deducting all proper charges and expenses for the collection of the same, go into, and form a part of the fund of the said The Lebanon Public Schools, to be applied for general school purposes, as other monies belonging to United School Districts are applied.

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SECTION 8. That all debts due and owing to either of said Debts due School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, shall belong tricts Nos. to, and be due and owing to the said "The Lebanon Public To whom Schoals," and the said commissioners of the said "The Lebanon they be Public Schools" shall have the same power and authority to Power to collect any such debts due and owing as was vested in either of collect such said School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, before said districts were united. SECTION 9. That all the rights, credits, property, real or per- School Dis sonal, belonging to either of said School Districts Nos. 27 and trict Nos. 122, in Kent County, shall be the property of and shall be vested to vest. in the said The Lebanon Public Schools, and the commissioners where. of the said The Lebanon Public Schools shall have the control of and management of the same, and may maintain suits either in suits. the name of the commissioners or the name of The Lebanon Public Schools for the recovery of any such property, or for any damage done to any property, real or personal, formerly belong. ing to either of said School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, or to any property, real or personal, belonging to "The Lebanon Public Schools," and shall have the same power to pur- Powers. chase, receive, sell or convey any property, real or personal, now belonging to either of said School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, as is now provided by law.

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SECTION 10. The right of all persons to vote at school elec- Qualifications in said School Districts Nos. 27 and 122, in Kent County, voters. shall not be impaired or altered by virtue of this act, but such persons, being in all other respects duly qualified as voters, shall have a right to vote at the meetings or elections in said united. districts.

SECTION 11. That Moses S. Van Burkalow, John W. Wright, Committee A. H. Carey, John J. Conner, and William Slay be, and they are hereby appointed a committee to select a piece of land to be in area one acre, for the purpose of erecting thereon a school house for Site for a said district united under this act as the Lebanon Public Schools, house. and that the selection of such site, by a majority of said committee, to be valid, and in assessing damages the law in relation to free

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Vacancies.

What laws applicable

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

schools shall apply; Provided, That said site or location shall not be more than two hundred yards from the centre of the road at "Five Points," and that when said site has been selected the said location shall not be changed or altered.

SECTION 12. That in case any vacancy should occur in the foregoing committee appointed by this act, the remaining member or members of said committee shall fill such vacancy or vacancies by selecting some suitable person or persons for that purpose, said person or persons to be selected, if any, not being voters or property holders in either of said districts 27 and 122 united by virtue of this act.

SECTION 13. All laws in this State applicable to free schools to United not inconsistent with or in conflict with this act, shall be applicable to said united school district under the title of the Lebanon Public Schools.

school district.

Passed at Dover, March 19, 1879.

Dissolution
of certain
School
District.

CHAPTER 39.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT to dissolve School District No. 121, in Kent County.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

SECTION 1. That School District No. 121, in Kent County, be and the same is hereby dissolved, and the persons and the territory embraced within the limits of the same be and they are hereby remitted and restored to the original school districts from Farm set which they were taken, except the farm held and occupied by School Dis. William H. Dickerson, which farm and premises, together with himself, are hereby placed and set over into School District No. 94, in Kent County.

over into

trict No. 94.

Passed at Dover, March 19, 1879.

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