Middletown transcript., 1891-09-03

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the school belonging to the district,
stating by whom such books are held,
their condition and the number ofand
by whom books have been des-
troyed. Until such report shall have
been made it shall not be lawful for
the commissioners to pay such teach
er his or her salary. The reports
made in pursuance of this section
shall Be forwarded annually, in the
month of April, by the clerks of the
several districts to the county super
intendents.
SEC. 6. The State Treasurer shall
be allowed $500 annually forpostage,
stationery, clerical assistance, etc.. to
carry out the provisions Of this act,
and is authorized to pay out OF the
school fund of the State the amount
necessary to print order books sufii-
cient to supply one to each district IN
the State.
SEC. Z. That the text besRs for
the cofored schools uf f the ttthe State shall
DE ordered by the county superintend-
ents of the respective counties through
the county treasurer of each county.
It shall be the duty of the county
treasurer, upon the order Of the
county superintendent, to purchase
and furnish text books to-such color
ed school or schools as the county
superintendent shall designate, and
the county treasurer shall charge the
same to the said school or schools,
and deduct the amount thereof from
the State appropriation due such
school or schools.
SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty
of the teacher of each Of the colored
schools of the State at the close of
their school year, and before their last
months salary shall be drawn, to
make out an inventory of the books
in the school belonging to the State,
and deliver such inventory with the
books to the county superintendent,
or such person as he shall designate,
who shall receive and label the same
+" Property colored school,
hundred" and deposit the
same in his Office. At the opening of
the following school year the county
superintendent, or other person in
possession Of such books, upon receipt
for the same, shall deliver the books
belonging to the respective colored
schools to the teacher of the school.
SEC. 9. The county treasurer
shall receive as a compensation for
his services in purchasing the text
books for the colored schools the sum
of $50. 90 per anDum, the same to be
deducted out of the State appropria-
ton for the eolored schools of the
county,
SEC. 10. The county superinten-
dents shall have the entire manage
meut, control and supervision of the
colored schools of this State. 1t shall
be his duty, having due regard to the
educational interests of colored child
rem, to decide upon the location of
colored schools, to appoint, after a
careful examination, suitable teachers
for the same and to draw upon the
county treasurer for the money due
monthly for the running expenses of
those schools. His authority over
said eolored schools shall extend over
those now governed under special
acts of incorporation, and to this end
the said county superintendents shall
appoint all teachers for the said i'm
corporated schools and fix their
salaries; /; he shall draw from the
county treasurer that portion of the
State appropriation for colored schools
belonging to the said incorporated
schools and apply the same toward
the payment Of the salaries of the
teachers Of said schools in the same
manner as in the payment of salaries
of the teachers of other schools not in
corporated. The appropriation pro-
vided for in An act to encourage
the education of the colored people, "
passed at Dover, April %, 1887, is
hereby increased from the sum Of six
thousand dollars to the sum Of nine
thousand dollars per annum, the said
sum Of nine thousand dollars to be
distributed in the same proportion
and under the same conditions as the
thousand dollars referred to in the
act above named /; provided, however
that the State Treasurer shall pay,
out of the said nine thousand dollars
to the State Board of Education, the
sum Of FIVE hundred dollars pei
annum for period of four years, the
said FIVE hundred dollars to be de-
posted in the Farmers Bank al
Dover to the order of the State
Board of Education by its president
and secretary, to be used as a fund
for building, repairing, or furnishing
school supplies under the direction oi
the said State Board of Education
provided, however, that the said State
Board of Education shall appropriate
no part of. the said FIVE hundred
dollars to any locality for the purpose
Of erecting new schoolhouse or Other
| purpose unless the residents of thai
| locality shall first raise among them
selves for that purpose a sum equa
to at least one-half the amount which
the said State Board in its discretion
shall agree to allow them. AT thu
end of the said period of four years
the remaining portion, if any, of tht
said building fund shall be returned
to the State Treasurer and by hin
distributed in like manner as othel
funds belonging to colored schools.
Sac. II. The county superin-
tendents shall, after the secont
Tuesday of April, 1891, before en-.
tering upon the duties Of their Offices
give bond to the State OF Delaware
with sureties to be approved by thu
Governor, in the penalty of fy,
thousand dollars. The condition o
the boud shall be that he shall vel