New Section (14) created Lands and property of be exempt from OF DELAWARE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND. Delaware Commission for the Blind shall accept, hold, manage and dispose of said property and disburse the income thereof in any manner which it may deem best adapted to promote the education, training and welfare of blind persons residing in the State of Delaware. Said The Delaware Commission for the Blind may hold, own, sell and dispose of any such property real, personal or mixed so purchased or received as aforesaid and may reinvest the proceeds from the sale of any of said property and collect and disburse the income therefrom and the principal thereof in the manner above outlined." Second: By adding a new section to the said act to be known as Section 14, as follows: "Section 14. The lands, tenements and property of said The Delaware Commission for the Blind shall be exempt from any and all State, County and Municipal Taxes during such time and to the extent that such lands, Commission to tenements and property shall be actually used by said taxation Commission in its work for the blind of this State, provided that said exemption shall not apply to any lands, tenements and property owned by said Commission as investments, and not actually used by said Commission in its work." Exception Approved February 24, A. D. 1913. OF DELAWARE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND. CHAPTER 102. OF DELAWARE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND. AN ACT to Provide for the Support and Maintenance of Certain WHEREAS The Delaware Commission for the Blind is Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: maintenance of of State when Section 1. That the State Treasurer be and he is here- Support and by authorized to pay to said The Delaware Commission indigent blind for the Blind the sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) per week learning a trade for the support and maintenance of each of such indigent blind of this State as are learning a trade under the direction of said Commission, provided that such payments are not to extend over a period of more than two years for any one person, and provided that such payments shall be made for not more than ten such indigent blind at any one time, engaged in learning a trade. Section 2. The said The Delaware Commission for the Blind shall have the exclusive right to decide which of the indigent blind of this State shall so receive support and maintenance. Commission to to receive decide who are benefits under this Act paid on pre Vouchers Section 3. All payments authorized by this act shall All payments be made by the State Treasurer upon proper voucher sentation of signed by the Chairman and Treasurer of said The Delaware Commission for the Blind and may be made quarterly or semi-annually as is most convenient. Approved February 24. D. 1913. OF DELAWARE CHILD LABOR COMMISSION. Delaware CHAPTER 103. OF DELAWARE CHILD LABOR COMMISSION. AN ACT Creating the Delaware Child Labor Commission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Section 1. The Delaware Child Labor Commission is Commission hereby created and constituted for the purpose and with the powers and duties hereinafter provided. created To consist of eight members to be apportioned Section 2. The Delaware Child Labor Commission shall consist of eight members, three from the City of Wilmington, one from New Castle County outside the City of Wilmington, two from Kent County, and two Term of office from Sussex County. Their term of office shall be for two years. The members of the commission from each county shall be appointed by the Judges constituting the To be appoint- Supreme Court of the State of Delaware, or a majority ed by Judge Length of terms of origi of them. The terms of office shall begin upon the first day of March. Upon the appointment of the original commission, the said Judges shall appoint one-half of the members of the commission to be appointed for a term of one year, and one-half for a term of two years. nal commission Upon the expiration of the terms of the original appointees, their successors shall be appointed for a term of two years. The Judges shall have power to fill vacancies in the membership of the commission caused by death, Judges to fill resignation or otherwise, and appointments to fill such vacancies shall be for the balance of the unexpired term. vacancies At least one member of the commission shall be an emOne member to ployer of labor and one member an employee in an indusand one em- trial or manufacturing plant. be employer ployee OF DELAWARE CHILD LABOR COMMISSION. members Section 3. The members of the commission shall re- No salary to ceive no salary for their services. They shall annually elect one of their number as chairman of the said Commission, and may appoint a person, not a member of the commission, as secretary, who may receive a salary not Secretary to exceeding one hundred dollars per annum. Commission make all ap under child Terms of offi Section 4. The commission shall have power and are Commission to hereby authorized, by a majority vote of the whole com-pointments mission, to make all appointments of officials or employ- labor laws ees which may now be made under any existing law, or which may be provided for under any future law relating to the condition, regulation or inspection of labor of minor children in the State of Delaware. The term of office of any official or employee now holding office under any existing law relating to the conditions, regulations or inspection of labor of minor children shall terminate cials under exon the twenty first day of December A. D. 1913, anything terminate in any existing law or conditions of appointment to the contrary notwithstanding. The State Child Labor Inspector shall make a quarterly report to the Commission. When, in the opinion of a majority of the whole commis. Report of sion, any official appointed or engaged by the commission shall not perform his duty in a satisfactory and efficient manner the commission shall have the power to remove the said official forthwith and appoint a new official in his stead. isting laws to Dec. 21, 1913 Inspector port to Gov penditures Section 5. The Commission shall furnish annually to Annually rethe Governor during the first week in January a full ac- ernor on excount of their expenditures, disbursements and action. Such report shall at all times be open to the inspection of the citizens of Delaware in the office of the Secretary of State. Section 6. To defray the expenses of the Commission Annual approthe sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars is hereby ap priation provided OF DELAWARE CHILD LABOR COMMISSION. propriated annually out of the money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized from time to time to pay out of such amount upon the requisitions of the chairman of the Commission. Section 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 21, A. D. 1913. |