Board may purchase site for new schoolhouse. money. OF FREE SCHOOLS. education and they are hereby authorized and empowered to use in the purchase of a suitable site and school building or buildings for the aforesaid consolidated district any money or moneys that may be in the hands of any of the officers of the May borrow aforesaid consolidated districts Nos. 22 and 99, and to borrow a sum of money, which together with the surplus money, and the sum or sums of money arising from the sale of the present school property (if the same shall be sold) as hereinbefore authorized to be made, shall be equal to the entire cost of the said site and the building or buildings so authorized to be bought or erected thereon. Provided, however, that the sum so borrowed as aforesaid does not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and the same be made payable in ten equal ceed $5,000. annual installments and to be secured by bond or bond and How paid. mortgage bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent. per annum upon the property of said district signed by the President and Treasurer of said board of education and sealed with the corporate seal. Amount borrowed not to ex Taxes how collected. SECTION 9. That it shall be lawful for the said board* education to levy and collect, in the manner as State and county taxes now are, or may hereafter be levied and collected, such levied and additional sums of money as will be sufficient to pay off the annual interest and installments mentioned in the next foregoing section of this act. The said board of education shall have power and authority to levy and collect as school taxes are now or may hereafter be levied and collected such further sums of money as shall in their judgment be sufficient to carry on the schools in the said consolidated district. Proing 800 to vided that the sum so raised for school purposes in any one year shall not exceed the sum of eight hundred dollars. Not exceed be raised in one year. Power of board in relation to taxes. SECTION TO. That the board of public education shall have the same power and authority in collecting taxes as are collecting given to commissioners of public schools in this State, and shall have the right to draw dividends from time to time made and entered to the credit of school districts Nos. 22 and 99 upon an order drawn by the president and attested by the secretary. Each mem ber to be SECTION II. That each member of the board of public edsworn be- ucation before entering upon the duties of his office shall take for enter an oath or affirmation to perform the same diligently and faithfully according the best of his knowledge and judgment; such oath or affirmation may be administered by the president. *So enrolled. OF FREE SCHOOLS. of the board or by any member thereof as well as by any officer authorized by the laws to administer oaths or affirmations. to give bond SECTION 12. That the treasurer before entering upon the duties of his office shall give bond to the said board with suf- Treasurer ficient and satisfactory security for the faithful application of all moneys which may come into his hands as treasurer of said board. SECTION 13. That this act shall be and continue in force for the term of twenty years from and after its passage and that all laws or parts of laws which conflict with the same or any of its provisions be and the same are hereby repealed so far as they affect school districts Nos. 22 and 99 in Kent County. Passed at Dover, Delaware, February 13, 1889. CHAPTER 497 OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to authorize School District No. 59 in Kent County to raise by taxation a sufficient amount of money to discharge the indebtedness against the same. WHEREAS, The General Assembly at its last session passed an act authorizing School District No. 59 in Kent county to borrow the sum of five hundred dollars for the purpose of constructing a new school-house therein in lieu of the one which had been previously destroyed by fire; and, WHEREAS, The commissioners of said district in good faith borrowed said sum of five hundred dollars for such purpose and jointly pledged themselves as individuals for the payment of the same, which they expended in the erection of a new school-house in said district in accordance with the provisions of said act; and, WHEREAS, Said commissioners were authorized by said act to raise by taxation a sufficient amount of money to pay off Preamble. money may pay off debt OF FREE SCHOOLS. one-third of said debt with the interest on the whole or any unpaid part thereof every year until the whole thereof was fully paid; and WHEREAS, Said act was lost and never appeared among the published laws of the session of 1887, which leaves the said committee without authority to levy and collect a tax for the purpose of paying off said indebtedness; therefore SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: That for the purpose of paying off said indebtedness contracted in behalf of the construction of said new school-house Additional in said district No. 59, in Kent County, there shall be assessed, be raised to levied and collected in said school district in the same manner as the taxes for general school purposes are, a sum of money equal to one-third of the said sum of five hundred dollars, with interest on the whole, or any unpaid part thereof, in each of the years 1889, 1890, and 1891; which money when so raised shall be appropriated to the payment of said indebtedness against said school district and shall be in addition to the amount now required by law to be raised therein for general school purposes. Passed at Dover, February 25, 1889. Bounds of CHAPTER 498. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT o change the line in part between School Districts Nos. 23 and 61 in Kent County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That the farm of Thomas H. Longfellow now School Dis- in tenure of himself, be and shall hereafter be included within the bounds of School District No. 61, in Kent County, and extended. shall form a part thereof. tricts Nos. 23 and 61 Passed at Dover, February 26, 1889. OF FREE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 499. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Board of Education of the Dover Public Schools, passed at Dover, February 26th, 1877," and also to au horize the Board of Education of the Dover Public Schools to sell and convey certain property belonging to it on Governor's Avenue in the town of Dover. porating Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (twothirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring,) as follows: SECTION I. That the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Board of Education of the Dover Public Schools" passed at Dover, Feb'y 26th, 1877, be and the same is hereby Act incoramended in line thirteen, Section two, by striking out the over word "two" occurring between the word "for" and "mem- amended. bers' in said thirteenth line of Section two of said act, and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "three";-and that the said act be further amended by striking out the words "once every week" occurring in the fourth line of Section eight of said act, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "from time to time as occasion may require." schools School vot אין termine whether to house on Avenue. SECTION 2. That if the school voters of the school districts comprising the Dover Public Schools shall at the annual stated meeting to be held on the first Saturday of April in the present year, 1889, or at any annual stated meeting to be thereafter held, determine by a majority of the school voters. present at said annual stated meeting that the school-houses ers to deand the lot of land on which the same stand situated on the west side of Governor's Avenue in the town of Dover, Kent sell schoolCounty and State of Delaware, ought to be sold, then that Governor's the Board of Education of the Dover Public Schools shall have power to sell, either at public or private sale, and either for cash or upon credit, or partly for cash and partly on credit, and to convey by good and lawful deed or deeds of convey'ance to the purchaser or purchasers in fee simple the lot of land and buildings thereon erected now belonging to the Dover Public Schools situated on the west side of Governor's Avenue and running through to New Street in the said town of Dover, and the money arising from the sale thereof after of money OF FREE SCHOOLS. Disposition deducting all proper expenses shall be used for the benefit of from sale. the Dover Public Schools either in erecting additions to the new school-house on New street in the town of Dover, or in improving the same, or towards the liquidation of the indebtedness against the Dover Public Schools, or in any other manner as the Board of Education of the Dover Public Schools may deem most advantagous for the said Dover Public Schools. Duty of secretary of SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the school board Board of Education of the Dover Public Schools in giving the notices required by law for the stated annual meetings to be held on the first Saturday in April in the present year 1889, to state in said notices that the question of the sale of the property on Governor's Avenue belonging to the Dover Public Schools will be brought up for consideration and action by the school voters at said stated meeting. Passed at Dover, March 12, 1889. CHAPTER 500. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT iu relation to School District No. 56, in Kent Co. WHEREAS, There is in the treasury of School District No. Preamble. 56, in Kent County, the sum of two hundred* ($200.00) dollars over and above the running expenses of the school for the current year; therefore Commis thorized to plus to pay Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. That the commissioners of said School Dissioners au trict No. 56, of Kent county, be and they are hereby authorexpend sur- ized and empowered to appropriate and use the sum of one debt. hundred and fifty* ($150.00) dollars of said surplus money now in the treasury for the purpose of repairing their old school-house or building a new school-house in said district. Passed at Dover, March 20, 1889. *So enrolled. |