The daily gazette., 1883-03-30
AID FOR THE SCHOOLS.
The House Increases the Yearly Sum
$40, O,OOO-Wilmington Gets q Fair share

The House increases the Yearly Sum
| %SO,OOO-WnmingtOn Gets Fair Share
especial correspondence of the Gazette
DOVER, March 30.--The House spent
nearly the whole of yesterday in a wrestle
with the school bill and got the measure In
some satisfactory shape toward evening.
The consideration was In Committee of the
Whole with Mr.. Perry In the chair, and
there was very interesting discussion, led
| by Mr.. Bates, as to the amount which should
| be appropriated, and as to the manner in
which it should be distributed. Mr.. Mes
sick moved to make the appropriation $25,-
900 and Mr.. Risler moved to amend to
$4,000 and this amendment was adopted
The vote was as follows: Ayes-Messrs
Bates, Lewes, Dukes, Frasher, Williams,
Lowe, Rawlins, Temple, Rislcr and Wheatley
IL. Nays-Messrs Crawford, Comegys,
sutton, Barlow, Cooch, Justis and Messick
I Mr.. Bates voted in favor of the smaller
sum because the Sussex members who are
most interested leaned that way
Ihe bill aa put in shape by the Committee
OF the Whole, by this additional appropria-
ton, increases the amount paid by the State
Tor schools to about S57 900 in round num-
bers, $1,000 having been received before
from the school fund This is big stride,
and shows that a new and more progressive
policy has been adopted by the State Gov
ernment The manner in which the money
is to be distributed will be most satisfactory
to the people of Wilmington. Heretofore
the schools in the city have only received a
very small part of the State funds, and the
rural districts will still profit to the city's
disadvantage, as to the distribution of the
proceeds of the school fund. But of the ad
ditlonal appropriation of $40, 900, as the
bill stands now, rural New Castle gets only
an equal share with Wilmington, the distri-
button Of this being fair and equal. OF the
amount New Castle county as d whole will
receive $40, 1854 ,692 for Wilmington and
H6,O6l for the rural districts-Kent coun'y,
~, ,S69, and Sussex county S5,37S.
PROVISIONS or THE BILL.
Section one provides that the sum of
S20,O 900 be appropriated annually out of any
funds In the State Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated and the sum SO appropriated
shall be divided between the counties in
proportion to the average Dumber of
scholars i'll each county as shown to have
been enrolled in the schools by the Superin
tendent. The amounts appropriated to
Kent and Sussex counties shall be divided
equally among the school districts including
any new districts made by the Legislature
or Levy Court before the passage of this
act. The amount appropriated for New
Castle shall be divided among the school
districts In proportion to the number of
children enrolled in the schools thereof pro-
Vided the new districts shall share pro rata
upon the basis of the number reported TO
the Levy Courts at the time they are Gre
ated. Section two provides that no district
shall receive any appropriation from the
state until they have raised by tax an
amount equal to the State appropriation.
MI Il
priated by the State, required to be raised
by taxation or paid out by the school fund
shall be used In repairing or erecting school
houses.
Section four requires that all schools be
opened on October 15 and kept open until
the money is exhausted. SO far the pro-
vision in this section is in the original bill,
but the following amendment was made
The provision shall not apply to districts
unable to get competent teacher and
certificate from the Superintendent shall be
final and conclusive. If any school shall
be closed contrary TO the provisions of this
act the School Committee shall be charged
with IL per cent. interest on the amount
left unexpended.
Section five provides for repositories for
books In the various parts of the counties,
section six, for giving competent teachers of
10 Years. experience life certificates, and
section seven for the careful ascertainment
of the proportion due each school district.
To-day the bill, which is now on the table,
will be ordered to be printed.
WORK IN THE HOUSE.
Contrary to expectation the House yester-
day afternoon concurred in the Senate
joint resolution to adjourn sine die on April
13.
A petition was presented for stock law
for school district 126, Sussex county The
claim of Clark Mcdaniel for $232 So was
presented and referred.
The following bills were introduced: Stock
law for united school districts so and l52,
Sussex county, (with petitions for and re-
monstrances against the same) concerning
the payment of road taxes in Red Lion
hundred; Senate bills Incorporating
the c. FL. Treat Manufacturing Company;
authorizing for a new road In Gumboro
hundred, Sussex; incorporating the Dia-
mond Milling Company; in relation to th.
binding of children by corporations in other
States; amending the embezzlement act;
divorcing Seth A. and Lydia Gibbons; for
the culture and protection OF fish In the
Spring Mill pond;supplement to the charter
of the Wilmington City Railway Company
Under suspension of rule 12, the fore
going Senate bills were read a second time
and referred.