OF FREE SCHOOLS. son, now situated and being in School District No. 71, be transferred from School District No. 71 to School District No. 8o, New Castle county, and that they shall hereafter constitute a part of School District No. 80 in the county aforesaid. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act Taxes. the farms aforesaid shall be assessed for school purposes in School District No. 80 in said county. SECTION 3. lic act. This shall be deemed and taken to be a pub Passed at Dover, April 9, 1891. CHAPTER 74. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to transfer the farm of Thomas D. Lynam from School District 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 D. Lynam now Farm situated and being in School District No. 20 in New Castle transferred. county be and the same is hereby transferred and shall hereafter constitute a part of United School District Nos. 21 and 97 in New Castle county aforesaid. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act Taxes. the aforesaid farm shall be assessed for school purposes in United School District Nos. 21 and 97 in New Castle county and is hereby relieved and discharged from the same in School District No. 20 in said county. SECTION 3. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, April 15, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Commis. sioners may money to build new schoolhouse. CHAPTER 75. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT for the relief of School District No. 30, in Kent County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. From and after the passage of this act it use certain shall be lawful for the school commissioners of School District No. 30, in Kent county, or their successors in office, to use any unappropriated money now in hand, or that may hereafter come into their hands within two years, for the purpose of building a schoolhouse in said district. Plans and specifica tions. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the said school commissioners, or their successors in office, to erect, or have erected a suitable schoolhouse in said district as soon after the passage of this act as practicable. They shall draw or have drawn a plan and specification for said. Contracts, schoolhouse and shall sell the contract for the erection of said building at public auction, at the old schoolhouse, to the lowest and best bidder for the same, who shall give bond for the faithful performance of said contract in the penal sum of double the amount of the same. how let. Purchaser to give bond Sale of old schoolhouse. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the said school commissioners, or their successors in office, shall, at the time and place as provided for in Section 2, sell at public auction the old schoolhouse to the highest and best bidder Proceeds of, for the same. The proceeds of said sale shall go into the funds of the said district and be applicable to the purposes mentioned in Section 1. how applied SECTION 4. public act. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a Passed at Dover, February 11, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 76. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT for the relief of School Committee in United School Districts Whereas the Superintendent of Free Schools in and for Preamble. Kent county did not visit Districts Nos. 11 and 81 between the school elections 1889 and 1890, and did not notify the commissioners of the fact that the certificate of the teacher in the lower department had expired; and Whereas the commissioners knew that the teacher had a certificate at the commencement of the year, paid her for the full year; and Whereas the Auditor at his last settlement did not allow the account and charged the districts with two hundred and twenty-five dollars more than the school committee settled with the clerk for, therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: by Auditor. SECTION I. That the Auditor shall allow the receipts of Allowance the teacher that was paid for the time that she had no certificate, namely two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225), and settle the account as the school committee settled it at the school election in April, 1890. SECTION 2. be a public act. That this act shall be deemed and taken to Passed at Dover, February 20, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Farm transferred Where to be assessed. CHAPTER 77 OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT transferring the farm of William T. Newnom from School District No. 41 to School District No. 123 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 William T. Newnom, now situated and being in School District No. 41 in Kent county, be and the same is hereby transferred and shall hereafter constitute a part of School District No. 123 in Kent county aforesaid. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act the aforesaid farm of the aforesaid William T. Newnom shall be assessed for school purposes in School District No. 123 in Kent county and is hereby relieved and discharged from the same in School District No. 41 in said county. SECTION 3. That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, March 27, 1891. Farms trans ferred. CHAPTER 78. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to transfer certain real estate from certain School Districts to other School Districts in Kent County, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, as follows: SECTION I. That the farm of John B. Mileham (now in tenure of David Hudson) and the farm of John P. Curtis, From Dist. now within the limits of School District No. 38, in Kent Dist. No. 35 county, be and the same are hereby transferred to School No. 38 to OF FREE SCHOOLS. District No. 35, in said county, and the said farms as well as the tenants living thereon shall hereafter be assessed for the support and benefit of said School District No. 35, and they are hereby relieved and discharged from any assessment hereafter to be made for the support and benefit of said School District No. 38. SECTION 2. That the farms of Jonathan Minner (now in tenure of himself and Saulsbury Milbourn), the farm of E. Adolphus Hammond, the farm of Nathaniel Minner, the farm of James C. Reed (now in tenure of Philemon Camper), the farm of the heirs of Elijah Wooters, deceased (now in tenure of one Kemp), and the farm of John W. Warren (now in tenure of Thomas Masten), now within the limits of School District No. 58 in Kent county, be and the same are hereby transferred to School District No. 35 in said county, and the said farms as well as the tenants living thereon shall hereafter be assessed for the support and benefit of said School District No. 35, and they are hereby relieved and discharged from any assessment hereafter to be made for the support and benefit of said School District No. 58. From Dist. No. 58 to No. 35. No. 35 to SECTION 3. That the farms of Thomas Brown (now in From Dist. tenure of David Brown and Walter Brown), the farm of No. 160. William H. Masten's heirs (now in tenure of Garrett Porter), the farm of Samuel S. Harrington (now in tenure of Major A. Wyatt), and the farm of Mary E. Masten (now in tenure of John Langrell), now within the limits of School District No. 35 in Kent county, be and the same are hereby transferred to School District No. 100 in said county, and the said farms, as well as the tenants living thereon, shall hereafter be assessed for the support and benefit of said School District No. 100, and they are hereby relieved and discharged from any assessment hereafter to be made for the support and benefit of said School District No. 35. SECTION 4. That the farm of Theodora A. Simpson, now within the limits of School District No. 35 in Kent county, be and the same is hereby transferred to United School Districts Nos. 94, 126 and 127 in said county, now incorporated under the name of the "Board of Education of the Town of Harrington," and the said farm, as well as the tenants living thereon, shall hereafter be assessed for the support and benefit of said United School Districts Nos. 94, 126 and 127, incorporated as aforesaid, and it is hereby relieved and discharged From Dist. No. 35 to and 127. |