OF FREE SCHOOLS. Farm transferred from CHAPTER 105. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to transfer the farm of Paynter Frame from School District No. 21 to School District No. 33 of Sussex County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. That the farm of Paynter Frame, now situated School Dis- in School District No. 21 in Sussex county, be and the same is hereby transferred from said School District No. 21 and shall hereafter constitute a part of School District No. 33 in said county. District No. 33. Assessment. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act the aforesaid farm shall be assessed for school purposes in said School District No. 33 in Sussex county. Passed at Dover, April 27, 1891. Farm transferred from trict No. 45 CHAPTER 106. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT transferring certain lands of Dr. Robert G. Ellegood from School 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 Dr. Robert G. Ellegood, School Dis situated in School District No. 45 in Sussex county, on either to Districts side of the public road leading from Laurel to Georgetown, Nos. 44 and and known as the Wilson Messick farm, shall hereafter be and form a part of School Districts Nos. 44 and 150 united. And the said Ellegood and all and every the persons residing on said farm mentioned herein and all persons who may here 150. OF FREE SCHOOLS. and liabili after reside thereon shall enjoy all the advantages and privi- Privileges leges and be subject to all the liabilities of taxes of said ties. School Districts Nos. 44 and 150 united, and are hereby relieved and discharged from the same in School District No. 45 in Sussex county. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, April 27, 1891. CHAPTER 107. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to transfer the farm of Luther Harris from School District Num ber 1791⁄2 to School District Number 76, in Sussex County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: ferred from 179% to trict No. 76. SECTION I. That the farm of Luther Harris, now situate Farm transand lying in School District No. 179 in Sussex county, School Dis shall hereafter be and form a part of and be assessed for trict No. school purposes in School District No. 76 in Sussex county School Disaforesaid, and all and every the persons residing on said farm and all persons who may hereafter reside thereon, shall enjoy all the advantages and privileges and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of taxables of said School District No. 76 in Sussex county, and are hereby released and discharged from the same in School District No. 1793 in said county. SECTION 2. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, April 15, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. Commissioners CHAPTER 108. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT for the relief of School District No. 75 in Sussex County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That the commissioners of School District No. 75, in Sussex county, be and they are hereby authorized to expend and empowered to use, appropriate and expend any unappro authorized surplus funds for building purposes. Proviso. priated funds in their hands, belonging to the above named district, for the purpose of building, repairing, or for the purpose of liquidating any debt that has or may be incurred by such building or repairing. Provided, however, that such appropriation or expenditure shall not exceed the sum of eighty-eight dollars. Passed at Dover, April 27, 1891. School committee au CHAPTER 109. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT authorizing School District No. 179, in Sussex County, to use the surplus money now in hand, or as much of said money as is required, to pay for the New Schoolhouse in said district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That the school committee of School Disthorized to trict No. 179, in Sussex county, be and they are hereby use surplus authorized and empowered to use the surplus, or as much of said money as is necessary, to liquidating the debt of the said committee incurred in building the schoolhouse in said district. money to pay debt. Passed at Dover, April 27, 1891. OF FREE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 110. OF FREE SCHOOLS. AN ACT to divide, consolidate and incorporate School Districts Nos. 28 and 121, in Sussex County. trict No. 28 Sussex School Disschool divided into School two districts and descrip trict No. 28. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. That School District No. 28, in county, be and the same is hereby divided into two districts, which shall be known and designated as Districts No. 28 and 121, and described as follows, to wit: No. 28, beginning at the centre of the road leading from Boundaries Ocean View to Cedar Neck, on the south side of the canal tion of Disknown as the "Inland waterway between White's creek and Assawaman bay;" thence by and with said canal 286 perches to a stake near the house of A. W. Hearn; thence across lands of A. W. Hearn and W. C. Burton north 75 degrees west 87 perches; thence across lands of W. C. Burton and W. S. H. Williams south 57 degrees west 132 perches to the road leading from Ocean View to Muddy Neck; thence westerly by and with said road to a large mulberry tree standing on south side of said road near the residence of John W. James, deceased; thence a west course to a ditch leading down by Isaac W. James' house; thence by and with said ditch northerly to the bridge across the road near Isaac W. James' house; thence by and with said road to the place of beginning. and descrip trict No. 121 No. 121, beginning at the junction of White's creek and Boundaries the canal known as the "Inland waterway between White's tion of creek and Assawaman bay;" thence southerly by and with Sool Dis said White's creek to a branch known as "Little Neck Branch;" thence by and with said branch to the road leading from Millville to Ocean View; thence westerly by and with said road to the ditch near George J. Derrickson's house; thence southerly by and with said ditch to the road. leading from Thomas Shorts to Millville; thence easterly by and with said road to the road leading from Roxana to Ocean View; thence east to ditch leading down by Isaac W. James' house; thence northerly by and with said ditch to the road leading from Millville to Ocean View; thence northerly by Powers, in OF FREE SCHOOLS. and with said road to aforesaid canal or "inland waterway;" thence northerly by and with said canal or "inland waterway" to the place of beginning. The two school districts formed by this act shall have and cidents, etc. enjoy all the rights, powers, incidents, immunities, privileges Consolidated dis governed. and benefits of school districts in this State. SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act tricts, how Districts Nos. 28 and 121 in Sussex county, as formed and bounded by the foregoing section of this act, shall form one consolidated district, to be governed and managed by a board of public education, consisting of five members, to be elected as hereinafter provided. Board of Public Education for Ocean View. Names of persons constituting board. duties. SECTION 3. That from and after the passage of this act there shall be established in and for said consolidated districts a board of education to be styled "The Board of Public Education for Ocean View," whose design and purpose shall be the direction and management and superintendence of the public education of children in said consolidated districts between the ages of six and twenty-one years. SECTION 4. That the following named citizens of said consolidated districts, namely: Silas J. Betts, William L. Williams, John T. West, George E. James and Thomas W. Betts, [and] their successors as hereinafter provided, shall constitute the said board, and under the name and style aforesaid shall be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate Powers and for the purpose aforesaid, and as such shall have full power and authority to devise, establish, and to modify, from time to time, a plan and system of education for children between the ages aforesaid in the said consolidated districts and to superintend the same; to appoint, suspend and remove teachers and provide schoolhouses; to make by-laws, rules and regulations for their own government and for the government of the teachers and schools under their superintendence; to designate and elect officers of the said board and to fill vacancies in any manner however caused until the next election for members of the board, and to take and acquire, receive, hold and enjoy, for the purpose aforesaid, moneys and real and personal estate by bargain and sale, gift, grant, contract, devise or bequest, and that they as such body corporate, and by the name and style aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in the State of Delaware or elsewhere, and have a common seal |