The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-03-07
AN ACT
FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
FREE SCHOOLS.

Court of Appeal in each county, to cause their county
to be divided into convenient school districts In
king this division, it shall be general regulation to
form each district, that the most remote part shall
be two miles about that distance from the centre
but this form and extent may be varied from to bound
district by clearly defined lines or to accommodate
other DISTRICTS and district comprehending town or
part of town may be of such dimensions as shall be
deemed just, having respect to the population.
To effect this division the said court in each county
shall at their meeting in March next appoint five com
mssioners and they, or ma ority of them acting to-
gether shall divide the county as aforesaid
If vacancy happen in the place of a commissioner,
any Judge of the Supreme Court, or Court of Com
mon Pleas of the proper County, shall fill it, upon APP
plicatlon of the remaining commissioner or commits
soners, and each and every of the commissioners a-
pointed as aforesaid shall be affirmed to per-
form his duty with fidelity, which oath or affirmation
may be administered by any Judge or Justice of the
Peace of their respective counties
The commissioners in each county, at the time of
dividing the county into DISTRICTS shall ascertain the
number of schools in operation, the number of scho-
ars taught therein, and the several sums paid 10 the
teachers, and shall form estimate of the number of
children IN each district between the ages of five years
and twenty years, and shall make return thereof
with their dongs under this Act to the Clerk of the
Peace of their county, who shall also make return
ereoi 10 te trustee oil the school FUND, to be by him
laid before the General Assembly in January next
The commissioners in each county shall meet at the
Court House of their county on the first Monday of
August next before which time they must complete
the duty assigned them. They shall form board :
they may adjourn from day to day majority shall be
quorum, but less number may adjourn. This board
shall have authority to review the proceedings of the
commissioners, to supply any deficiency and to alter
or form the bounds of any district the said board shall
cause return to be drawn, describing all the districts
and mentioning convenient place in each for the
meeting of the School Voters and the said return
shall be signed by the commissioners or majority of
them and delivered to the clerk of the peace for their
county; and he shall cause to be posted in one of
The most public and suitable places in each district an
extract, certified under his hand from said return. of
the description of said district.
The court aforesaid in each county shall meet at the
Court House of their county on the last Monday of
August next, and shall examine the return aforesaid
and shall hear any objections that may be made and
the said court two thirds of the members present con-
currlng may make any corrections or alterations of
the said return, which they shall consider proper for
the more convenient and Just division of the county in
to School districts. They may supply any deficiency
by proper insertions, which shall be deemed correc-
ton of the return. The schoo-disricts as the same
shall stand upon the said return corrected or altered
oy the SAID court shall be permanent. The said court
Shall give to each district designation by number and
shall appoint place in each for the meeting of the
school-voers which number shall be inserted in the
return Immediately preceding the description of the
district TO which itbeongs, and the place of meeting
shall also be inserted in the return Immediately follow
lng said descriDOn and shall no connectad With 4be