OF FREE SCHOOLS. most public places in the district, by handbills under the signature of the secretary of the board. The said board shall appoint an inspector of said election Inspector of (not one of their number) who shall preside thereat. Election. The secretary of said board shall act as clerk of said elec- Clerk. tion. Within two days after any election the certificates of the result shall be delivered, under the hands of the inspector Certificates. and clerk, as follows: One to the secretary of the board, one to each of the persons elected and one other to the Clerk of the Peace of Kent county, to be kept as a public record. tions of The board shall be the judge of the election of its members, Qualificawho must have paid a school tax in the said districts members. within the year preceding the election, and must be elected by the voters of the said district having the same qualifications as are required to vote at general elections and who have paid their school taxes for the preceding year. election. perform SECTION 7. That the law now in force or that may here- Laws apafter be passed in this State with regard to illegal voting at Plicable to school elections shall apply to every case of illegal voting at any election authorized to be held under this act, and every inspector and clerk, of elections authorized to be held Failure to under this act, failing to perform the duties required of him, duties. shall be held liable to the same penalty that is now imposed, under the general school law, upon the secretary at Penalties. any annual meeting of the school voters of any school district in this State for a failure to perform the duties imposed upon him by the general school law of this State. Secretary of SECTION 8. That all duties now by law devolving upon Duties of the clerks of school districts under the general school law of Board of this State and not herein delegated or assigned to any other Education. officer of the Board of Education herein provided for, shall devolve upon the secretary of the said board. and owing to to board. SECTION 9. That all debts due and owing to the said Debts due Districts Nos. 27 and 122 in Kent county, shall be due and districts owing to the said "The Board of Education of Lebanon transferred Public Schools;" and the said board of education shall have the same powers and authority to collect the same as was vested in the commissioners of the said districts prior to their incorporation by this act; and all rights, credits, and Property of property, real and personal, belonging to either of said Dis districts. OF FREE SCHOOLS. tricts No. 27 and 122, in Kent county, shall be the property of the said "The Board of Education of Lebanon Public Schools," and the members of the said board shall have the control and management of the same, and may maintain suits in their corporate name for injury or damage done to the property belonging to either of the said districts incorporated under this act, or to any property owned or controlled by the said "The Board of Education of Lebanon . Public Schools," or for the recovery of the same. SECTION 10. That each member of the Board of Education, and each officer by them appointed, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, shall take an Oath of office oath or affirmation to perform the same diligently and faithfully, according to the best of his knowledge and judgment. Such oath or affirmation may be administered by the president of the board or by any member thereof, as well as by any officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Laws applicable. Law to con tinue in force 20 years. SECTION II. That all laws of this State applicable to free schools, not inconsistent with or in conflict with this act, shall be applicable to the said "The Board of Education of Lebanon Public Schools." SECTION 12. That this act shall be and continue in force "Act to in corporate Lebanon CHAPTER 89. OF FREE SCHOOLS. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate Lebanon Public Schools." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. That the provisions of the act entitled "An act to incorporate Lebanon Public Schools," passed at Schools" to Dover, April 17, A. D. 1891, shall not take effect until the take effect, first Saturday in April, A. D. 1892. Public when. Passed at Dover, May 14, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 90. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to transfer the house and lot of Mary E. Lynch to School District No. 173 in Sussex county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: lot trans SECTION I. That the house and lot of Mary E. Lynch, House and now situated, lying and being in School District No. 120, terred. Sussex county, be and the same is hereby transferred to School District No. 173 in Sussex county, and shall hereafter constitute a part of School District No. 173 in Sussex county. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act Assessment. the aforesaid house and lot shall be assessed for school purposes in School District No. 173 in Sussex county. SECTION 3. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act and the revocation reserved to the Legislature. Passed at Dover, May 14, 1891. CHAPTER 91. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to establish a New School District in Sussex County. Whereas a canal or inland waterway, connecting the waters Preamble. of Assawaman bay with those of Indian river, is now being constructed by the United States government through School Districts Nos. 28 and 121 in Sussex county; and Whereas the taxables in that portion of said districts hereinafter described are by reason of the constructing of said canal, or inland waterway, cut off from the schoolhouses in each of said school districts, the bridges over said canal be Parts laid off for new dis OF FREE SCHOOLS. ing one and a half miles apart, thereby increasing the distance to said schoolhouses; and Whereas to raise the amount of tax now required by the statutes, the taxables residing in the territory so as aforesaid cut off, being few in number and of very limited means, would be taxed entirely out of proportion to that of other districts; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That there shall be and hereby is laid off trict. from School Districts Nos. 121 and 28, of Sussex county, the following parts thereof included within these lines, to Boundaries. wit: Beginning in Miller's creek, at the southern terminus of the canal between Assawaman and Indian river bays, thence northward up by and with said canal to the Beach road, near the town of Ocean View; thence in a straight line across the Salt Pond and along the northern shore of Cedar Island, in a northeasterly direction to low water mark in the Atlantic Ocean; then southerly by and with low water mark of said ocean to a point due east of the place in Assawaman bay, or Miller's creek, commonly called the Narrows; thence across the beach due west to the waters of said bay or creek; thence by and with the waters of said Assawanan bay and Miller's creek to the first beginning; and the parts included within the said limits shall be a Number of separate school district, that is to say, School District No. 28 in Sussex county. new district. powers and tricts. To have all SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, privileges of District No. 28 in Sussex county, formed and bounded by original dis- the foregoing section, shall have and enjoy all the powers, rights and privileges of an original school district in Sussex county, and all the laws of this State applicable to school districts of the State generally shall apply to the said District No. 28, so laid off, excepting that instead of the Amount to amount now required to be raised by taxation in districts in Sussex county, the raising of fifty (50) dollars annually by taxation shall entitle said district No. 28 to draw from the school fund of Sussex county the amount drawn by other districts in said county; Provided, however, that the school voters of the said district shall meet on the first Saturday of April next, at a house to be provided by Hiram James in said district, notice of which meeting is hereby given, and be raised by taxation. Proviso. School meeting. OF FREE SCHOOLS. choose a clerk to serve for three years and two commissioners, one to serve for two years and one to serve for one year, or until their successors are duly elected, and may do and perform any other act or acts that the voters of any school district in the said county may lawfully do. Secretary of SECTION 3. That the Secretary of State is hereby directed Duty of to notify the Clerk of the Peace of Sussex county of the pas- State of this act. sage Passed at Dover, February 19, 1891. CHAPTER 92. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT for the relief of the Commissioners of School District No. 148, Sussex County. Whereas the voters of School District No. 148, Sussex Preamble. county, are desirous of changing the location of their schoolhouse, not owning the ground whereon the present schoolhouse now stands, and enlarging the house; and Whereas there is a sufficient amount of money in the hands of the commissioners to procure a lot and enlarge the house, which the commissioners are positively unable to expend in maintaining a public school in said district; there fore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: authorized to use SECTION 1. That the school committee of said school Committee district (No. 148, Sussex county,) be and they are hereby authorized to apply money now in hand for the purposes aforesaid. SECTION 2. This shall be deemed and taken to be a pub lic act. Passed at Dover, March 26, 1891. moneys in hand. |