Smyrna times., 1877-02-14

a committee of the Legislature aided by an
expert financier should examine the bank
and its branches and report to the Governor
by the first of July. This brought about
the heels of the Senators the prominent
officers of the Dover bank, who asked as a
special favor that this be not done, and the
Senate retired from its former position and
substituted an amendment requiring the
directors of the bank to make sworn
statement of the condition of the bank on
or before the first of July. The resolution
having been reported to the House it was
taken up yesterday in that body and
amended in such q manner as to compel
all banks, large and small, in which the
State is interested, to make a sworn state
ment to the Governor of their condition.
do not pretend to say that there is any
thing i'll the affairs of the bank or any of
its branches to justify any charge of mac
curacy, but | must be influenced by the
impressions of the members that where
there is so much smoke there must be some
fire.
THE COLORED SCHOOL FUND.
The colored people of this county are
still restless as to how the funds collected
from them by taxes Cor the support of their
schools shall be disposed of. There is dis
satisfaction with the Association at Will
mington which has the general disburse-
ment of the funds throughout the State,
and to-day delegation of colored citizens
called upon the Legislature to ascertain if
there could not be some alteration in the law
on the subject. This stimulated Mr.. Bur-
mite in the afternoon to give notice of a
bill which will be read tomorrow, and is in
substance as follows: "The money collected
by taxation from the colored people for the
support of their schools shall be paid by the
County Treasurers under the direction of
the Levy Courts to the teachers or
directors of such schools as shall
have been held for at least two months.
The bill, which is an amendment to the
present bill. provides further that the
| teachers shall report to the Levy Courts the
time such schools have been held and the
average number of attendance, and this
statement shall be certified to by two
credible citizens The Levy Courts shall
then apportion the amounts raised among
the different schools, basing their apportion
menJ upon the number of scholars attend
ing the same
ANOTHER SQUIRE.
Yesterday in the Senate Mr.. Denney
gave notice of bill for an additiona
| Justice OF the Peace at smyrna.
SMYRNA LOAN ASSOCIATION.
Tomorrow Mr.. Denney will present
bill authorizing the issue of the annua
series by the Smyrna Building and LoaI
Association. The bill also legalzes an,
other series which may have been issued b,
the loan in addition to the first series, anC
also limits the existence of the loan from
the date Of its incorporation, March 10Th
1867.
ABOUT BOMBAY HOOK EXCURSIONS.
Mr.. Denney has also presented to til
Senate a petition from a large number c
) the citizens of Smyrna and vicinity askin
| an act prohibiting the landing of Sunda
excursions at Bombay Hook. The petito
was read, referred to a committee and rt
ported unfavorably upon.
DOVER SCHOOLS
Tonight there is q largely attende
G meeting of the citizens of Dover being hel
e in the Hall of the House of Representa-
). tives to hear an address before the Legisli
ture delivered by Hon. Charles Brown i
: favor of a bill now pending which gran
U the School Districts of Dover power to il
crease their expenditures on the publ
e schools of the place five hundred dollar
: There are a number of remonstrant
: against the bill and these are represente
e by Elias Reed, Esq, who replied to NJ
d Brown.
5 DIVORCES.
This session of the Legislature will !
i doubt prove one fruitful of petitions Fl
= divorce. Thus far there have been son
" half dozen presented, but not one passe
r although it is expected that the one
,r Augustus Southard of Wilmington, will
. passed to-day 1t is said that the Legsl
:. lures of the past five sessions have average
" twenty-three at each, and we will no dou
.e have that number before this session enc
ADJOURNMENT.
p The time OF adjournment for the Leg
e lature seems to be no more settled til;
~ when the body first convened. There
> considerable talk about it, but no time h
III been mentioned. In conversing wi
e, several of the members ! have learned tn
g. they hope it will be on or before the 25th
4. March, although Mr.. Robinson one of t
members from Sussex said several wee
y since that we had months to stay here "
=" THE SCHOOL FsND.
le A resolution offered by Mr.. Fiddem
ne has passed the Senate and is now before t
House. The resolution authorizes I
. State Treasurer to reinvest the loan of t
P. w. & B. r. r. for the benefit of t
school fund. This loan was paid into t
Treasury in 1875 amounting to $3.50
$1,000 of it has been invested in StG
bonds, and there is balance of $2l 900
m naming in the State Treasury. This t
= resolution authorizes the State Treasurer
- invest i'll State bonds for the benefit Of {
70 school fund, and if there be no bonds
M such investment he is to pay the inter
he that the principal would accrue to
oF school fund.
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