Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-02-14

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal.
Dover, Feb S.-Representat Vim
yard has introduced the following act
prescribing the method of apportioning
the public school fund among the
school districts Of the State;
Section /. In order that the trustee of
the school fund shall have the information
necessary to distribute the public school
fund of the State, 1T shall be the duty of
the auditor of accounts to examine and
settle the accounts OF every single, united,
consolidated and incorporated school dis
trict IN the State between July LIST and
August 10th in each year, and to report the
result of such settlements to the trustee of
the school fund on or before August both,
giving the amounts remaining In the hands
of such districts unexpended of the moneys
received from the State and required to
be raised by taxation in order to entitle
such districts to their shares of the said
moneys from the State, the number of
teachers employed In each school and the
number of days taught by each teacher
during the schooLyear.
Fec. .. The income arising from the in
vestments Tor the benefit of the public
school fund. together withthe mouey appro.
priated from time to time by the General
Assembly for the benefit OF the free public
schools, shall be apportioned among the
school districts of the State in the follow
fund shall annually, in the month of August
divide the said income and appropriations
amonglthe school districts of the State, in
GLIDING consolidated, united ana incor
porated districts, or schools according to
the number of teachers employed for at
least lao DAYS during the previous school
year. In order TO entitle any school district
to receive share of the said money so
apportioned, such district shall have raised
by taxation, or subject for school purposes,
during the previous school year, If a white
school district, at least 500 for each teacher
employed, and, If coored school district,
at least $50 for each teacher employed, pro-
vided that the trustee of the school fund
shall at the time of making the saiu appor-
tionment appropriate to every school dis
trict that shall have on or before August
10th field with him a certificate of the
County School Com mission of the county
in which such district is situated that an
additional teacher or teachers are employed
iu such district, and that such district Is
provided with suitable room or rooms for
such teacher or teachers, and has levied
and assessed an additional tax in the said
district of, If white school, 500, and, II
a colored school, $50 for every such addi-
tional teacher SO desired and intended to be
employed for the next school year, an addi-
tionai share or shares of the moneys
apportioned according to the number Of
additional teachers 30 to be employed, and
provided further that no single, CONSOLE
dated, united or incorporated school district
or school shall under the said apportion-
ment receive more of the moneys SO appor-
toned than ITO teachers employed as afore-
said would entitle 1t to.
Sec. 8. The said trustee of the school fund
shall deduct and retain from the amount
apportioned to any school district or school
the amount expended by him for text books
for such district or school during the pre-
uin II hall ia1as a
retain an amount equal to that which from
the auditors settlement with such district
or school made as aforesaid In that year
appears to be in the hands of the said dis
trict or school of the money received from
the State and raised by taxation as afore-
said to entitle such district or school to its
share of the said moneys unexpended at the
end of the school year neyt preceding. In
case any district or school having FLED the
certificate of the County School Commits
sion and received an additional share or
shares of the State moneys as hereinbefore
provided for shall fall to employ such
teacher or teachers for which such money
was apportioned for at least 40 days during
the succeeding school year, or In any case
where district or school shall not employ
teacher or teachers for the said period of
140 days for the school year for which such
district or school received share OF State
| moneys for such teacher or teachers not 30
trustee of the school fund shall deduct and
retain out of the apportionmento of such dis
| trict or school for the succeeding year a
sum equal to that which such district or
| echool obtained for or on account of such
teacher or teachers that such district or
| school so failed to employ, provided that
should any district raise by taxation more
money than that district is by this act
| required to raise in order to entitle it to
receive its apportlonmento of the school fund
such amount that is in excess of the amount
required by law to be raised by tax as afore-
said shall not be charged against or de-
Quoted from the share of such district or
| school, but the amount SO in excess shall be
retained by the district or school raising
| the same. f
Sec. Each district or school shall, within
80 days after this act becomes a law, report
to the trustee of the school fund the number
of teachers employed in such district or
school, which reports shall be record in
the office of the said trustee of the school
fund of the number of teachers for which
such districts or schools are entitled to
State moneys, subject to the additions
hereinbefore provided for.