Smyrna times., 1911-03-29
LEGISLATURE ENDS BUSY
AND PROFITABLE SESSION
ADJOURNS ~SINE DIE TO-MOR-
ROW AFTER ALLOWING CLAIMS

ROW AFTER ALLOWING CLAIMS
About 800 Bills Pass Out of Total
of $50 Introduced.-Ma lmpor-
tant Measures Now a Law
The Delaware Legislature adjourn
ed Friday after passing about rs |
bills during the day and night. Be-
cause of being back in its work,
sessions had been held every night
but one during the week. Measures
were rushed through both houses
Friday night and up to 2.30 O'Clock
Saturday morning, under suspension
of all rules. At that time an adjourn
ment was taken nntil tomorrow
when both houses will adjourn
sine die. For the number of hours
in session the last day was record
breaker for as far back as the oldest
habitue of the General Assembly
halls can remember. The princi-
pal statutes passed and signed or
now before Governor Pennewill are:
Additions to the general incorpor-
alton law enabling the State to ac-
cept General T. Coleman duPont's
two million dollar boulevard through
its entire length. Bills establishing
a commission to investigate child
labor conditions, the hours women
are employed and employers liabil-
ity laws and present practical laws
to the next session.
New Board of Education Established
Establishing new and permanent
Board of Education with power to
relicense capable teachers without
re-examination and to construct and
put on uniform sytem the States
schools. .-Appropriating more money
and giving sweeping quarantine
powers to the State Board of Agri-
culture in preserving the States
livestock ard sanitary dairy condi :
tions. Providing comptrollers of
accounts to save extravagances in
Kent and Sussex counties EN-
powering New Castle and Sussex
counties to build new Court House
or administration buildings as an
nexes.-Providing the State Board
of Health with immediate remedies
to suppress epidemics, including
81, 900 worth of diptheria anti-toxin.
Establishing Department of Ag-
riculture Extension by which ex-
perts at the call of farmers can &C
upon farms and examine soil, recon.
mend proper food and profitable
crops.-Legislation accepting the
tender of all right, title and inter
est to the State from the old Pres
byterian Board at Delaware College
giving that institution outright t,
the State.
Cold Storage Law a Benefit
Regulating cold storage house
and protecting consumers from un
drawn poultry and stale foods. .-Au
thorizing New Castle county to bor
row nearly a million dollars for goo
roads, and great uplift bridge owe
the Christiana river, Wilmington
at Third or Fifth street and ney
court buildings. s.-Giving the rpra
counties an additional summer teri
of court for Jail deliveries. -Autho
izing Wilmington to borrow a quart
er million dollars for park lands
Increasing from twenty thousan
to twenty-five thousand the annus
taxes on the Delaware Railroad.
New and uniform game laws estat
fishing State Game and Fish Con
mission, with nonresident licens
$40. so and residents license ST. II
Increasing the allowances to elet
mosynary and educational iDstjtl
tions. Continuing the revised coo
commission and the new school coc
commission for modern publ
school laws and better teachers pa,
Continuing the revenue commissiC
to discover all sources of taxatiC
and equalize the burden Enforcir
the collection of capitation al
property taxes. More commission
than were ever known were creat
to meet during the year and invest
gate legislation and resources al
an extraordinary session of the LIE
islature was provided for to me
next January.