TITLE SIXTH. Of Religion, Public Education and Health. Section 2 of act to incorporate the amended. CHAPTER 482. OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. AN ACT to amend an act supplementary to an act entitled, "An Act to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch thereof concurring): SECTION 1. That Section 2 of said act be and the same is trustees of hereby amended by adding thereto the following: All trustees P. E.church shall be actual residents of the State of Delaware, and the Trustees to removal of a trustee from the said State shall create a vacancy. be residents The existence of such vacancy shall be conclusively determined by a resolution to that effect, adopted by the Board of how created Trustees, and certified to the Diocesan Convention or to the determined Standing Committee when the convention is not in session and filled. and by the filling of the vacancy. of the State. Vacancies SECTION 2. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act and published as such. Passed at Dover, April 24, 1889. OF FREE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 483. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT requiring the Superintendents of Public Schools to collect and tabulate certain Statistics relating to Fublic Schools. WHEREAS, The President of the State Board of Education in his biennial report to the Governor and through him to this General Assembly sets forth the difficulties of collecting school statistics in the following language, viz: "There has been some difficulty in gathering and arranging statistics under the operations of the new law. This is due partly to the meager requirements of the law and partly to the fact that the incorporated boards are under no legal obligation to furnish any statistics to the county superintendents. It would be well if the provisions of the law could be made general so that there might be a uniform method of gathering statistics, comparing facts and reaching results." Therefore, to meet the demands therein made, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Preamble. perinten issue circu SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the county super- County Suintendents to issue circulars to the teachers, the clerks of the dents to districts and secretaries of the school boards of the incor- lars asking porated schools, of their respective counties asking for the in- for informaformation desired by the President of the State Board of clerks, &c. Education that he may make report to the next General Assembly according to the following form: tion from Form of report. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Departments in the school, Total assessment of Poll in the District. Personal in the District. Rate of taxation on the hundred dollars. Amount raised by taxation for school purposes. received from the State. (if any) raised for building or repairing. expended for school purposes. "current expenses. paid for teacher's salary. Balance in hand at last settlement. Value of school building. grounds. apparatus. Number of white children of school age in the district. enrolled during the year. males enrolled during the year. Whole number of days taught " County Superintendent. Tabulated statement for each county. all public SECTION 2. A tabulated statement shall be made for each to be made county in the State as provided for in Section 1 of this act to include all the public schools, except the schools in the city To include of Wilmington which shall be given a separate table. The schools ex-schools shall be arranged by hundreds, giving the totals where Wilmingt'n practicable by hundreds. Provided, where a district is situate Statement partially* in two or more hundreds it shall be classed with the mington schools in the hundred in which the school-house is situated. cept in from Wil Statement to be col lected from SECTION 3. The information for the tabulated statement as provided for in Section 1 of this act shall be collected uniall districts. formly from all the districts in the State and shall be for the year just preceding the meeting of the next General Assembly. Any teacher, clerk of school district, or secretary of Penalty for School Board who when called upon by the President of the clerk to re- State Board of Education or by either of the county superinfuse to make tendents for any information necessary to the report as con teacher or report. *So enrolled. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Fine to be lected. templated in Section 1, who shall refuse or fail to furnish the same, shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars to be collected $20. in the name of the State by like proceedings before any Justice of the Peace in the State as are had in the collection How colof sums of like amount. An appeal shall be allowed by the Justice to Justice of the Peace in all cases upon satisfactory security allow being given. Provided thirty days shall be allowed any Thirty days teacher, clerk of any district, or secretary of any school board to be allowin which to answer the questions of the President of the State questions. Board or either of the county superintendents. appeal. ed to answer to rearrange SECTION 4. The State Board of Education may rearrange State Board the form of the report as given in Section 1 of this act or they report. may add thereto in order to obtain fuller information concerning the school system of the State. The tabulated report shall designate the incorporated schools and also the consolidated schools by foot note references. State Board tendent to SECTION 5. The President of the State Board of Educa- Presider t of tion and the county superintendents shall make a separate re- and Superport of the condition of the public schools in this state for make sepacolored people, obtaining the information in a manner similar rate report to that provided for in this act for securing the information schools. in relation to the schools for white children. Passed at Dover, April 25, 1889. for colored CHAPTER 484. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to amend Chapter 16 of Volume 13 of the Laws of Delaware published in the Revised Code as amended on page 215, and entitled, "An Act to provide for the Collection of Balances due the Free Schools by the Schcol Committee," passed at Dover, February 9, 1866. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assenbly met: of Volume That Chapter 16 of Volume 13 of the Laws of Delaware, Chapter 16 published in the Revised Code as amended on page 215 and lished in Revised Code amended. OF FREE SCHOOLS. 13 as pub- entitled "An Act to provide for the collection of balances due the Free Schools by the School Committee" passed at Dover, February 9, 1866, be amended by adding thereto the following as Section 2, to wit: trict given in the name School dis- SECTION 2. That each School District of this State may power to sue in the name of the District as provided for in Section 22, of the State. Chapter 42 of the Revised Code, sue for and recover in an action of debt any sum or sums of money due to said District, and may bring such action against any member of a late school committee of the district, or any other person whomsoever, who may have any money belonging to the district in. his possession, or who may in any other manner be indebted amendment to the district. This amendment shall have a retroactive efretroactive fect so far as the remedy herein provided is concerned. Passed at Dover, Delaware, February 8, 1889. This to have a effect. Act in relation to the school taxes CHAPTER 485. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An Act in relation to the collection of taxes for school purposes," passed at Dover, April 4th, 1881. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That the act entitled "An Act in relation to collection of the collection of taxes for school purposes, passed at Dover, amended. April 4th, 1881, published in the Sixteenth Vol. of Delaware Laws, page 372, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word "May" in line seven of Section 1 of said act, and being the last word in said line seven of Section 1, The word and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "June"; and that May struck said act be further amended by striking out the word "May" June in- in line 2 of Section 2 of said act and being the last word in said line two of Section 2 and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "June." out and serted in sections 1 and 2. Passed at Dover, March 14, 1889. |