Evening journal., 1903-02-17
BILL
IN COMMITTEE
Lengthy Paper Drawn Up by
Professor J. E. Carroll of
Dover
speclal 10 ihe Evening Journal.

Carroll OF Dover, superintendent Of
Kent County Schools, is in the hands OF
the committee on education and will
probably be reported on this week. 1t
is as follows:
Section l. That each Of lie county
school commissions in this State, In
conjunction with the superintendents OF
lpubiic schools, for the county over
which the commission has jurisdiction
be. and IL is hereby authorized and enl-
powered to select any two or more Of
the rural school districts in said coun-
ty, and TO unite them in the centralized
district to continue as such for period
OF two years from the date OF such Sc
lection, for the purpose Of securing to
the children living in said districts the
advantages Of graded schools.
] Section III. After such selection afore-
said, the said commission shall give no
tice thereof to the clerk of each of the
School Committees of the districts so
} united and shall also give notice there
|. of to the inhabitants of said district.
Section Ill After such commission
> shall act as herein before authorized,
? it shall call a special election in the ter
ritory embraced by the new district, at
: such time and place. or places as said
commission shall determine, giving
( such notice thereof as shall be deemed
proper. Every person who would have
had the right to vote at a school cleo
I tion held in the same year in any of the
D districts of which the new district is
composed, shall have the right to vote
r as said special election. At such elec.
{ tion, a school board for the new dis.
o trict shall be elected, consisting of three
members (if the new district is com.
r posed of either of two or three r1ira
y districts), or (if it is composed of nor,
x than three rural districts) then of az
!, many members as there are rural dis
tricts in said new district The mem
bers OF said school board shall holI
{ office for the term of two years. No
more than one member thereof shall b.
a resident of the territory embraced b.
. any one of the rural districts compos
ing said district, unless said new dis
trict is composed of only two rural dis
st tricts. in which last case, not more THAI
s- two members OF said district shall com
ID from the same rural district.
lie Section ". All books, papers, prop
i'd erty belonging to any of the rural dis
n. tricts composing said new district
r shall Immediately be and become tn
st books. papers and property of the ne
?, district and be subject to the ne
OF school board whilst said new distri'
el shal continue.
is The new school board shall have IL
d. power. and it is hereby required I
III raise by taxation in each year a su
d, equal to the aggregate of the sum whiC
at each of the rural districts of which Il
a nrw district is composed, is require
ng by law to raise; and the trustees of %
*, school fund shall in the apportionmel
to of the school fund in every yei
d. continue in being, treat said new di
X trict as II It were created by speci
act.
Section V. That the new school boa
~ so elected as aforesaid is hereby r
IN quired to maintain and support gra
ed course of instruction in said new di
"a trict, and may include high scho
course of not less than two years; al
oa shall furnish transportation, when ne
81 essary, to and from school to all pup
,ss living more than a mile from the scho
n9 buildings, said distance TO be measur
1l from the enclosure Immediately su
- rounding the residence Of school pup
~ to the school building, along the nea
M ,se est public highway.
- The said school board may use al
,' or all Of the school houses being in sa
~ new district, or may make other pr
- visions for the accommodation of I
~, public thereof. or both. as It shall dee
proper, including the right TO enlar
any of the then existing school bull
ings.
Section VI. That in order to ass
npt any new district formed under the pi
oth vision of this act, the State Treasui
be, and he is hereby authorized and
Quired. out of the general funds of [
I'M State, to pay each of the county sch'
OF commissions which shall exercise I
.efs power hereby conferred of forming
'ou now district, such sum or sums duri
. each year as such commission sh
draw orders for under the hands of
president and secretary. provided Il
he shall not pay TO any one commissi
her IN any one year more than the sum
,cv one thousand dollars. The sum or su
~ so paid shall be used and expended
AM said commission as It shall deem pro,
VE- to aid and assist any new dist
MIN formed by it under the provisions
: by this act
and Section VII. Every new dist
Nice formed under the provisions Of this
shall cease to be a district from and
ter the expiration of two years fr
the date of its creation by the cou
school commission, and thereupon. e,
OF the rural districts Of which such 4
district was composed shall be and
Al come at once a school district exactly
though such new district had never
. sted, and the School Committee Of e
Of such rural districts as constituted
= the time Of formation OF such new
~ trict. shall Immediately be and becc
the School Committee Of such rural
trict and the two years during VIII
the new district was in 81
not be counted in computing the tel
are are Of office Of the members of such Sch
ere Committee Allboolss furniture. orot
,er- personal property ACQUIRED by the c
low tralized distriotwhilst 81 existed shal