Evening journal., 1903-02-17

of the centralized district, a majority
Of votes shall be cast in favor of the
permanent establishment of said con-
tralized district. such centralized dis
trict shall become, and permanently
established. The said county school
commission shall call special election
at such time and place as it shall deem
proper. II a majority vote shall be for
the continuation of the centralized dis
trict, this fact shall be certified by the
commission to the trustees Of the school
fund and TO the Auditor of the State.
In case of such a majority vote being
cast aforesaid, the proper county school
commission shall as soon thereafter as
it may deem proper, call another cleo
ton for the purpose of electing a school
board for the centralized district so to
be continued.
To Discuss Schools.
A system reYolutionizing the public
schools of the State outside the large
towns will be discussed today by the
House OF Representatives Committee
on Education, which has before it the
State Board OF Education's bill to do
away with the isolated little country
schoolhouse, with it's dozen or less
: pupils, and establish the rural graded
school in districts centrally located so
that the country children can be gath
cred up each morning and conveyed to
the modern graded school in hacks and
modern conyeyances.
State Treasurer's Report
State Treasurer Martin B. Burrs re-
ported to the speakers of both houses
of the Legislature yesterday that be-
cause of the Incorporation of various
trust companies, through the legisla-
tive channel. the banks of the State
were refusing tC pay any State tax. The
refusal is backed by a determination
on the part of some Of the banks to
; carry the matter to the Supreme Court
OF the United States before they allow
another cent of tax 10 be paid while
the trust companies are doing business
free of cost
The banking-houses all pay q State
tax amounting to one-half of one per
centum. Some of the Wilmington
banks. having a capital stock worth
100000 therefore, pay q State ta2
amounting to $4,000, and the aggregate
amount collected will reach $4,000
This the State is about to lose, unles,
the Legislature takes some definite ac
, ton. The Farmers Bank of the Stat
! of Delaware is the only institution o
the kind that will continue to pay, do
> ing so because of its close relation
with the State, the State owning large
! ly OF it's capital stock
4 Levy Court Business.
. A bill regulating the transaction G
v business by the New Castle county Lev
/ Court was passed by the House yesteI
l. day. The measure was drawn by All
! torney- General Herbert II. Ward.
n prohibits any levy court commissions
Ie from furnishing labor or materia
either directly or indirectly, for count
D. work or to receive any pecuniary bens
= fit whatsoever from the work. It fot
ts bids any member OF the court fro
,e drawing money from the county treal
w ury except upon specific appropriation
w and then only upon county warran
Of The members of the Levy Court are n
to receive any other compensate
he other than their salary All bills mui
to be in an itemized form and before pas
m age must be approved by the conn
nh troller
he It provides that II contract wi
ed probably cost more than $500, bids mu
he be advertised for. An amendment Q
Mt fered by Representative Holcon
ar brought the amount down to SIC
is above that sum bids were to have be-
al advertised for The amendment W
lost, Is to 16.
rd Another bill passed by the Hou
,e- prohibits the killing of muslrats
d. Kent county during times OF high Ii
is or flood. Mr.. Paradee. in speaking
,ol the bill, said that when the water ris
nd TO any great heighth, the homes of t
&C. muskrats are destroyed and they swi
ills to the surface where hunters with gu
,ol kill them by the wholesale.
cd A bill introduced by Representa-
,r- Bancroft allows the Mayor and coun
lie OF Wilmington to accept any donatio
,r- OF other gifts for the Wilmington /
brary. Mr.. Bancroft said, '1f Andr,
nv Carnegie, OF some other man like hii
IA would offer TO give Wilmington
ro- library or improve the present one,
he Mayor and Council under the la
an, would not be able to accept such gif
we