Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31
TWO IMPORTANT MEASURES,

Provisions Of tho Supplement- TO the
Wilmington q Brandywina Springs
Railways Charter-The Bill TO Estnb-
list, IA Uniform Curriculum in the State
Schools.
Observation-Disclosures Of Gazette aud journal
DOVER, Jan. Ex-senator Pyle, yester.
day, gave notice of the Introduction of a
supplement to the act entitled IAN Act to
incorporate the Wilmington g. Brandy
wine Railway Co."
Section l says that the company shall be
and is hereby authorized to extend its line
beyond Brandywine Springs to any point
within either of the hundreds mentioned
in section Of said act and to build any
branch or branches to any point or points
in any one of said hundreds. as may be
deemed expedient by the directors of said
company for the time being.
Section says that the said corporation
| shall have the right to extend its line into
and through the city of Wilmington, on
any street or streets, upon which it may be
authorized to build and operate its railway
by the authorities, for the time being, hay
ing the control of the streets of said city.
| Section 8 says that the time, within
| which it is provided that the railway au-
thorized by the act to which this supple
ment shall be in operation, is hereby
extended for two years from the date at
which the said railway was required by
section of said act to be in operation.
Section 4 says that section of the act to
which this is supplement shall be and
the same is hereby amended by striking
out of said section the clause commencing
| with the words land provided further in
the 9th line of said section, as printed in
Vol. Xix Of Delaware Laws and ending
| with the words 80 crossed" in line IS of
said section.
Section 5 says that section of the said
act shall be amended by inserting after
the words possess it, in the 2Sth line OF
said section as printed in Vol. XIX OF
Delaware Laws the words, land in case OF
such merger with any other railway COM
| pany now or hereafter incorporated for
building in said county, the said CONSOLE
dated company shall have power to build
such railway as may be necessary to con-
meet the lines or routes of the original
companies so merged or consolidated"
For UNIFORM CURRICULUM.
Representative Mustard gave notice oil
the Introduction of an act to ensure to the
free schools of Delaware uniform cur
riculum and "a flexible system of grading
Section | says that it shall be the duty,o
the State Board of Education to prepare
| within six months after the passage of thi.
act, detailed curriculum for the free
schools of Delaware.
Section says that Immediately upon il!
completion the said curriculum shall b,
printed and distributed, together with
copy of this act. to every teacher anc
every school board in the State of Della
ware
Section 3 says that from the beginning
of the next school year the courses OF
study in the free schools of Delaware shall
fully conform to the said curriculum il
so far as it shall relate to the correlation Of
the necessary common school branches
and the sequence in which they shall bt
taught. provided First, that supplement
tary work not conflicting with the re
quired work shall be everywhere per
mitted; second, that schools having shor
terms shall not be required to do in theil
brief school year the whole amount Of
work that the said curriculum shal
specify for the maximum term, but tina
in them the various branches shall b.
taught i'll the sequence pointed ont by sait
curriculum, even though 1t takes them
two or three school years to do the worl
that the schools having long terms Shout,
do in one.
Section 4 says that the work for each o
the eight years as outlined in the said cur
riculum shall constitute a grade and tina
no pupil shall begin work in any brancl
in one grade until he has. to the satisfaC
ton of his teacher, completed the worl
required in said branch in the grade imme
| dlately below.
Section 5 says that no pupil capable o
more advanced work IN some branche
than in others shall be graded in al
branches by his advancement in those il
which he has made least progress. but tina
such pupil shall be admitted to the grad
for which he is best fitted in each indi
vidual branch, provided that in no cas-
shall there be difference of more thai
two grades between pupils classification
in any two branches, and that when sucI
limit shall be reached the study of tn
branch or branches in which the pup
shall be farthest advanced shall be aban
doned until the application of the tim
thus gained to the sighted work, togethe
with arrested progress in the more ad
vanced studies, shah bring down differ
ence in classification to one grade, whe
work shall be continued as before.
Section 6 says that it shall be the dut
of each county superintendent of school
to see that each teacher of his county
fully informed as to the provisions of thi
act and to revoke the certificate of an
? teacher who shall refuse to carry out sal
provisions.
Section says that none of the pr,
visions of this act shall apply to the cit
5 of Wilmington.