From Dist. OF FREE SCHOOLS. from any assessment hereafter to be made for the support and benefit of said School District No. 35. SECTION 5. That the farm of Elizabeth Fleming (now in Dist. No. 55. tenure of William Ryan), now within the limits of School District No. 35, in Kent county, be and the same is hereby transferred to School District No. 55, in said county, and the said farm, as well as the tenants living thereon, shall hereafter be assessed for the support and benefit of said School District No. 55, and it is hereby relieved and discharged from any assessment hereafter to be made for the support and benefit of said School District No. 35. From Dists. Nos. 94, 126 No. 35. SECTION 6. That the lot or piece of land of Dennis 127 to Dist. Minner (now in tenure of George A. Messick), now within the limits of United School Districts Nos. 94, 126 and 127 in Kent county, now incorporated under the name of the "Board of Education of the Town of Harrington," be and the same is hereby transferred to School District No. 35, in said county, and the said lot or piece of land, as well as the tenants living thereon, shall hereafter be assessed for the support and benefit of said School District No. 35, and it is hereby relieved and discharged from any assessment hereafter to be made for the support and benefit of said United School Districts Nos. 94, 126 aud 127, incorporated as aforesaid. Commis sioners of authorized cation of school, and SECTION 7. That the school commissioners of School Dist. No. 35 District No. 35, in Kent county, or their successors in office, to change lo-be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to change the location of the schoolhouse in said district from its present location to a suitable point at Asbury Church in said district. And they are hereby likewise authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of the present schoolhouse in said district to the best possible advantage. to sell old schoolhouse. Authorized to use sur SECTION 8. That the school commissioners of School plus money District No. 35, in Kent county, or their successors in office, for building. be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to use any unappropriated funds now in their hands for the purpose of erecting a suitable schoolhouse in said district at the new location, as changed in Section 7 of this act. SECTION 9. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be published as such. Passed at Dover, March 31, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 79. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT transferring the farm of Isabella Smith from School District No. 29, in Kent county, to School District No. 87, in Kent county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: transferred. SECTION 1. That the farm now belonging to Isabella Farm Smith, situated in School District No. 29 in Kent county, shall hereafter be and form a part of School District No. 87 in Kent County aforesaid, and all and every the persons residing on the said land and farm herein mentioned shall have all the advantages and privileges of said School District No. 87, and that the said Isabella Smith and the person or persons hereafter owning said farm or land, or living on the same, shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities of taxables of said School District No. 87. And further that they are hereby relieved and discharged from the same in said school district No. 29 in Kent county aforesaid. SECTION 2. That this act shall be deemed a public act. CHAPTER 80. OF FREE SCHOOLS. A Further Supplement to the act entitled, "An act to Establish the Kenton Whereas the school building in School District No. 9 in Preamble. Kent county, incorporated under the name of the "Kenton Public School," was greatly damaged by a cyclone in September, A. D. 1888, and thereby rendered unfit for use; and whereas the commissioners of said public school borrowed the sum of four hundred dollars on their own personal responsibility in order to repair the injury done to said school Kenton Pub lic School to raise money. OF FREE SCHOOLS. building, which is still unpaid, which sum with the arrears of interest amounts to about the sum of four hundred and twenty-five dollars; now therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch thereof concurring): SECTION 1. That the said "Kenton Public School," for authorized the purpose of paying off the debt contracted as aforesaid, shall have authority to raise by taxation the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars in the year 1891, and the further sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars in the year 1892, in the same manner as the taxes are assessed, levied and collected for general school purpose. Authority to use surplus. SECTION 2. That if the school commissioners of said Kenton Public School shall find at the end of the present school year that there is a surplus of funds in their hands, they shall have the power to expend said surplus, not to exceed one hundred dollars, towards the payment of said debt, and the amount of surplus funds so expended shall be deducted from the amount authorized to be raised under this act. Passed at Dover, April 1, 1891. Preamble. CHAPTER 81. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT for the relief of John Wiggins. Whereas Enoch Moore, who had been duly elected clerk of School District No. 19, in Kent 'county, drew the dividend belonging to said district in 1890, amounting to two hundred and eighteen dollars, and subsequently left the State without accounting for the same and without leaving any visible means out of which to be made and collected; and Whereas Henry Rash, one of the commissioners of said district, recently died, leaving property scarcely sufficient to pay off and discharge his personal liabilities; and OF FREE SCHOOLS. Whereas the said John Wiggins is the only surviving or remaining commissioner of said school district, and consequently the only one responsible for the loss which the said district is liable to sustain by reason of the removal of the said clerk from the State, as aforesaid; and Whereas the only means by which the said John Wiggins can earn a livelihood for himself and family is by daily work on the farm; and Whereas he is disqualified by age and affliction for continuous labor of that kind; and Whereas it would nearly exhaust the whole of the old man's estate to make good said deficiency to. said school district; now therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: gins relieved SECTION I. That the said John Wiggins be and he is John Wighereby forever relieved, released and discharged from the from paypayment of the said sum of two hundred and eighteen dol- ment. lars to said School District No. 19, Kent county, and from all liability to pay the same. bar. And in any suit against the said John Wiggins, his execu- Pleaded in tors or administrators, for the said sum of two hundred and eighteen dollars, the pleading of this act by them, or either of them, shall be a complete bar against the recovery of a judgment for the same. SECTION 2. That the Auditor of Accounts in his next Allowance settlement with the clerk or commissioners of said school by Auditor. district shall allow the said sum of two hundred and eighteen dollars as a credit to said district; provided always that this Proviso. act shall not be construed so as to release the said Moore from his liability to pay said sum to said district. Passed at Dover, April 2, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Section 1, amended. CHAPTER 82. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to School District No. 56 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 Section 1 of the act entitled "An act Volume 18, in relation to School District No. 56 in Kent county," passed at Dover, March 20, 1889, and being Chapter 500, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware, be and it is hereby amended by striking [out] all after the word "use" in the third line of said section and before the word "for" in the fifth line thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "all unappropriated moneys which may be in their hands at the school meeting in April, A. D. 1891." SECTION 2. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, April 9, 1891. Land, etc., transferred. CHAPTER 83. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to transfer the Land, Houses and Premises of Anna Voshell from United School Districts Nos. 22 and 99 to United School Districts Nos. 27 and 122 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 land, houses and premises of Anna Voshell, now in the limits of United School Districts Nos. 22 and 99 in Kent county, be and the same are hereby transferred to and shall hereafter form a part of United School |