Milford chronicle., 1885-05-15

wise, shall be filed by the remaining members.
SECTION 8. Ii shall be the duty Of the said
Board of Commissioners to carefully examine
and inquire concerning the propnety Of laying
out additional districts, or OF consolidating exist.
ing districts in said county; and wherever, after
such examination and inquiry, the said Board Of
Commissioners C or a majority Of then, shall be Of
opinion that additional districts should be laid
OFF, or existing districts should be consolidated,
they shall proceed to lay of such additional dis.
trcts and to consolidate such existing districts
as to them shall seem proper. The said Com
missionersor a majority Of them, shall make re-
turn Of such additional districts so located and
laid out, and OF the part or parts Of the original
district or districts remaining after such addi-
tional districts shallhave been laid of, and OF
snch districts as shall have been consolidated.
describing plainly the metes and bounds Of each,
into the Office OF the Clerk Of the Peace Of said
couHty. who shall carefully preserve the same
for the inspection Of the citizens Of said county.
The duties prescribed above shHll be per.
formed and the said return shall be made before
the first day Of August, 1885. Notice Of the fl.
ing of said return shall be given by the secre.
tary OF the Board OF Commissioners 70 the clerk
Of each district to be affected by the redisircting
or consolidation aforesaid, within five days alter
said return shall have been lodged with the said
CcilS Of the Peace. Tie clerks Of the said dis.
tres shall, within three days after the receipt OF
said notice, cause a copy thereof to be posted in
at least four public places in their respective dis
trcts. 1t shall be the duty OF the said Clerk Of
the Peace to lay the said return before the said
Board Of Commissioners on the last Tuesday in
August, 1885 which said Board OF Commissioners
shall on tina; day meet at Georgetown for the
purpose Of hearing any objections that may be
made to said return; and the said Board may
make any corrections or alterations of the said
return which they shall consider proper. They
shall number the additional districts IN coutinu.
alton Of the school districts in the county, and
shall appoint place in each Of the additional OF
consolidated districts for the meeting Of the school
voters. The said Board shall cause a fair tran.
script to be made of said return as corrected and
atered,an the said transcript. after il shall have
been examined by the said Board, and attested
by the Secretary, shall be lodged with the Clerk
OF the Peace Of said county, to be by him filed
among the records Of his office. A certified copy
thereof shall be evidence. For the purpose OF
hearing objections as aforesaid, and making al
teratiOns and corrections, in said return and exam.
lining the said transcript, the said Board may ad.
iourn from day to day provided that all the duties
herein required them shall be performed before
the tenth day Of September, 1885. On and after
the first day Of April. 1886, the additional dis.
tricts, as described in the aforesaid transcript Oh
the return, shall be deemed and taken to be
school districts Of said courtyard all acts of the
General Assembly OF this State for the genera
regulation, government, and benefit OF free
schools shall be extended and applied TO said ad
ditonal and consolidated districts; and the trus-
tee Of the school fund IN the distribution of the
school fuud,or OF any State appropriation, appli-
cable to school districts in said county shall give
to said additional districts an equal proportion OF
the money in his hands applicable to school dis
hicts in said county. The laws regulating the
apporionment Of the school fund or State appro-
priation, among the united school districts ofthis
State, and the payment and application of the
same and the amount of taxation in and the gen.
eral powers OF said united school districts shall
apply 20 the districts consolidated under the pro.
visions of this act.
SECTION 4. It shall be the duty OF Clerk Of
the Peace OF sand county to cause written or
printed notice to be given, at least ten days be-
fore the first Saturday in April, 1856 Of the time
and place Of the meeting Of the school voters in
the said additional or consolidated districts;
which notice shall be posted in five Of the most
public places IN each Of said districts. A failure
to give notice as aforesaid shall in no wise affect
or nyaidate any organization that may be made
by the school voters in such districts.
SECTION 5. From the date OF the passage OF
this act until the first Saturday in April, 1885, no
alteration shall be made in any OF the school dis.
tricts in Sussex county, except as herein pro.
videdi and alter the first Saturday in April, 1886,
no alteration shall be made in any Of said dis
tricts, unless such alteration shall be recon-.
mendcd by the State Board OF Education.
SECTION G. Each Commissioner appointed
under or constituted by this act, and actually
serving as such, shall receive as compensation
for his service the sum OF one hundred dollars,
which said sum or sums shall be paid by the
Trustee OF the School Fund out Of that portion
Of the annual State appropriation to which the
said county is entitled, upon the orders of the
President of the said Board of Commissioners.
counteIsigned by the Secretary Of said Board
and approved by the President Of the State
B lard OF Education. The President Of the State
Board OF Education shall not approve of said
orders unless satisfied that the said Commission.
ers have performed the duties required OF them
by this act. Before making the next annual ap.
portiOnment Of the said annual State appropria-
tion among the school districts of said county,
the Trustee Of the School Fund shall deduct SUI.
icient TO meet the payment Of the said ORDERS
SECTION Z. AT the next annual appOrtionment
oi The ii6edf9s OF the School Fund, and the State
appropriation sSnong the school districts Of sus.
sex county aftei the passage Of this act the Trus
tee of the Scbo, Fund allssofic1 Animal BOZ IN
cortiA.s asentat1195 VS. 4 SI15s Ra@ @SE.'iSt
| Bones aud Pure SulphuTif, include in such ap-
] t5nlnent that portion of the income OF the
choo Fund, and the State appropriation, re-
laimng undstributed by reason of the failure of
srtan districts in said county, to raise by tax, in
he year 1884, the amount necessary to enIitle
lem to the same; and at every annual appor-
onment thereafter the said Trustee Of the
chool Fund shall include therein, any and all
loney remaining undistributed by reason Ofthe
,ilure Of any district or districts in said county
comply with the law.
SECTION s. That at the annual apporhonment
{ the State appropriation aud income OF the
chool Fund in 1886, and thereafter 1t shall be
he duty Of the said Trustee Of the School Fund,
j distributing and apportioning the part Of the
aid School Fund apportioned to Sussex county,
D distribute the same as follows: He shall divide
he part apportoned to Sussex county mas many
arts as there are school districts in Sussex
ounty, without regard to the fact whether the
aid districts are original or subdiyided,and shall
pportion to each single district one part thereof,
nd the residue Of the moneys apportioned to
ussex county shall be aggregated, distributed
nd apportoned among the several united or
onsolidated districts, in proportion to the mum