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OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

gaged in the drug business in towns not affected by repealed act. Nor shall in any manner effect the right of any person to whom a certificate of registration has heretofore been duly issued Further under said repealed act; and, provided, further, that the State provided. Board of Pharmacy, organized under the repealed act, shall continue to exist in the same manner and with the same power as shall be possessed by board provided by this act until July 1st, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, any vacancy or vacancies now existing, or hereafter occurring, during existence of old board shall be filled by appointment by the Governor of a person possessing like qualifications of his predecessor, who shall also be qualified by oath; also that all money, records and effects belonging to old board shall be turned over to their successors.

Sale of standard

SECTION II.

Provided, also, that nothing in this act shall Proprietary prohibit the sale of standard proprietary medicines by general

by stores

not prohibited.

stores.

Passed at Dover, April 14, 1887.

School
Committee

to sell old

and to erect

place

thereof.

CHAPTER 37

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT concerning School District No. 4, 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 school committee of School District with others No. 4, in Kent county, together with Gamaliel Garrison, authorized William M. Boyer, John H. Short, Isaac Truax, be and they school house are hereby directed, authorized and empowered to dispose of new one in the old school-house of the said district, at either public or private sale, and to erect and build, or cause to be erected and built, in the place thereof and on the same lot of land and premises a suitable new school building, and properly to fit and furnish the same, for the use of the said district at a Cost not to cost not to exceed the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) in exceed $700. addition to the moneys that may be derived from the sale of the said old school-house.

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sum to be

for

!ng new

house.

to be raised.

SECTION 2. That for the purpose of erecting and con- Ad·litional structing such new school building and suitably fitting and raised to furnishing the same, and paying all charges and expenses in-building cident thereto, there shall be raised by taxation in the said and furnishdistrict, in addition to the amount that may be fixed and de- school termined upon by the school voters of said district at the annual stated meetings in April, A. D. 1887, and in April, A. Amounts D. 1888, for the purpose of running the schools in said district, a sum not exceeding four hundred dollars in the said year, A. D. 1887, and a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars in the said year, A. D. 1888; and the same shall be assessed, levied and collected accordingly, and shall, when collected, be appropriated to the payment of the moneys expended in erecting, constructing and furnishing the new school building, and of all charges and expenses incident thereto. Provided, and it is hereby made the duty of the Proviso. said School Committee, in assessing the tax by this section authorized so far as the same shall be assessed on real estate, How to assess such real estate at its assessed value upon the last be made. general assessment of Duck Creek Hundred, instead of upon the clear rental value as required by law.

assess

ment shall

Committee

to borrow

SECTION 3. That the said School Committee is hereby School further authorized and empowered to borrow any sum of authorized money not exceeding seven hundred dollars for the purpose not exceedof carrying into execution the provisions of Section 1 of this ing $700. act, the said sum so to be borrowed to be made due and paya- When ble on or before the first day of January, A. D. 1889.

com

payable.

loan school

authorized to execute bond of Dis

SECTION 4. That for the purpose to secure the loaner or To secure loaners the payment of the money so to be borrowed under committee the provision of this act, with interest thereon, the said mittee is authorized and empowered to make and execute and and deliver deliver to the loaner or loaners the bond of the said district, trict and and also a mortgage upon any and all real estate owned by the upon real said school district at the time of the execution thereof, which wed by bond and mortgage shall be signed by the said School Com- district. mittee and be sealed by the seal of the said School District how signed. hereinafter provided for.

mortgage

estate

Mortgage,

payable.

Such bond and mortgage shall be made to become due and When payable on or before the first day of January, A. D. 1889. SECTION 5. That to enable the said School Committee to properly execute the said bond and mortgage contemplated by School this act, the said School Committee is hereby directed and re-authorized quired to procure a common seal for the use of the said School ter District with such device therein as the said committee may

Committee

to procure a

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Public act.

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determine. Provided, that the name "School District No. 4, in Kent County, State of Delaware," shall be engraved thereon, which said seal shall be affixed to bond and mortgage at the time they are executed.

SECTION 6. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act.

Passed at Dover, February 3, 1887.

Lawful for school

voters of

tricts 44 and

CHAPTER 38.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT for the relief of the United School Districts Nos. 44 and 150, in
Sussex 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 shall United Dis be lawful for the school voters in the United School Districts, 150, in Sus- Nos. 44 and 150, in Sussex county, to use any unappropriated to use unap- money now in hand or that may hereafter come into their propriated balance to hands for the purpose of building a school - house in said district.

sex County,

build school house.

School

committee.

SECTION 2. The school voters may at the next stated voters may meeting appoint a committee whose duty it shall be to erect appoint a or have erected a suitable school-house in said district as soon thereafter as may be practicable. The committee shall draw or have drawn a plan and specification for said school house and shall sell the contract for the erection of said building at public auction, at the old school-house, to the lowest and best bidder who shall give bond for the faithful performance of said contract in the penal sum of double the amount of the

Contract to

be sold to lowest

bidder.

Committee

authorized.

same.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforeto sell old said committee shall at the time and place as provided for in Section 2, sell at public auction the old school-house to the highest and best bidder. The proceeds of said sale shall be

school

house.

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applied and used for the building of the new school-house.
This shall be deemed and taken to be a public act.
Passed at Dover, February 8, 1887.

Public act.

CHAPTER 39.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT to amend Section 7, chapter 469, volume 17, of the Laws of Delaware, entitled "An act to establish a Board of Education for South Milford and to incorporate the same, and for other purposes."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (two-thirds of each branch concurring therein:)

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Laws of

SECTION I. That Section 7, chapter 469, volume 17, of Section 7, the Laws of Delaware, be and is hereby amended by striking 469. Vol 17, out the words "eighteen hundred dollars" in lines 9 and 10 Delaware of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words amended.. twenty-five hundred dollars.

Passed at Dover, February 8, 1887.

CHAPTER 40.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT for the relief of School District No. 66, in Sussex County.

in Sussex

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of School DisRepresentativess of the State of Delaware in General Assem-triet No. 66, bly met: That from and after the passage of this act it shall County, are be lawful for School District No. 66, in Sussex County, to authorized levy and collect the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars for collect $600 the purpose of paying the debt of said district created by the of paying building of a school-house.

to

for purpose

debt.

How

collected.

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SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the above sum of six hundred and fifty dollars ($650) shall be levied and collected from and out of the tax-payers of said district in the same way and manner that other school taxes are collected in Sussex County.

Passed at Dover, February 23, 1887.

Certain property

to School District

CHAPTER 41.

OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AN ACT to transfer the farm and mansion of Julia A. Bennett
School District No. 72, in Sussex County.

to

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met:

SECTION 1. That the farm and mansion of Julia A. Bentransferred net, now situated, lying and being in School District No. 179, Sussex County, be and the same is hereby transferred and shall hereafter constitute a part of School District No. 72, in Sussex County.

No. 2, in

Sussex
County.

How

assessed.

SECTION 2. That from and after the passage of this act, the aforesaid farm and mansion shall be assessed for school purposes in School District No. 72, in Sussex County.

Passed at Dover, February 24, 1887.

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