Milford chronicle., 1913-02-07
DELAWARE AGAIN GAINS HONORS.

By the action of the Delaware Legisla-
ture last Monday morning IN passing the
amendment to the Federal Constitution,
providing for a tax upon incomes, this
State has gained the honor OF making
I the amendment effective. West Virginia
! legislature ratified the amendment on
/ Saturday, leaving but one State needed
10 complete the thirty-six requisite tc
ratifv the amendment. New Mexico leg
l islature was to have met at noon on Mon
I day to act upon the amendment, but the
! Delaware Senate and House unanimously
rushed through Senator GOrmley's re-
solution ratifying the Federal amend
ment at II O'Clock that morning, and
/ Delaware gains the honor of being the
Z decisive State to make possible the Fed
eral Income Tax. In calling up the tax
resolution, Senator GOrnley explained
that Delaware desired the honor which
New Jersey was after. Secretary OF State
Miller, as a matter of information, i'm
mediately upon the passage Of the resolu-
ton, wired to Senators du Pont and Rich
ardson that the legislature had adopted
the income tax amendment at II O'Clock.
certified copy of the resolution was
rushed to Washington By Secretary of
State Miller to establish Delaware claim
to being the thirty-sixth State to ratity.
On Monday Representative Owens gave
notice of several bills drawn by the State
Board of Education which would greatly
affect the rural schools. One bill IS to
change the system of rural school dis
tricting to make the representative dis
trict, instead of the present school dis
trict, as the unit for taxation and
general administrative purposes. The
bill would create the Office of State Com
missioner of Education at a salary Of
$1,000 year to be appointed by the State
Board of Education and to be secretary
of the board Another bill would change
the State apportionment to the represent
ative district, but would be based as at
present on the number of teachers. An
other bill would establish summer
school at Delaware College.
On Monday the House passed the fol-
lowing bills:
Representative Cooper's bill authoriz-
ing who deposit moneys in banks instit-
utions to withdraw such accounts.
Representative Hammond IS bill to COM
pei the Sussex County Treasurer to at
tend meetings of the Trustees of the Poor
under penalty Of 500 fine for failure to
do so.
Representative Taylor's bill authoriz-
ing the town of Harrington to sell its
old school building.
Bills introduced in the House Monday
morning were:
By Representative Wagamon: Author
izing Rehoboth to borrow $50, 900 to es-
tsblish waterworks. s
By Representative Owens: Several
bills requiring county comptrollers to
make monthly examinations OF county
officers accounts and requiring justices
of the peace to keep financial dockets
and make monthly settlements.
By Representative Barnard: To in
crease the Levy Courts appropriation to
By Representative Cooper: Providing
that all State licenses, except liquor lie
enses, shall expire June and providing
a penalty of FIVE per cent, on all licenses !
not paid by the end of June ten per
cent, additional on all not paid BY the
end of July and ten per cent more II not |
paid by the end of August or twenty !
FIVE per cent in all.
Senator Marshall gave notice of bills |
to repeal the dupont Boulevard Corpora
ton law. and to, return the $50, 600 de- |
post of the Coleman DUPONT road incor- |
pOrated and to amend the Boulevard |
Law. They were the bills |
sent along with General duPOnt's letter |
last week.
Senator Ewing introduced his bill to
require the Secretary of State to turn |
over to the Levy Courts of the different |
counties the automobile license fees paid !
by residents of such county.
Senator Marshall introduced bill |
creating Department of Industry. Labor |
and Statistics with a Commissioner of
Labor, to be named by the Governor for
four years, at a salary of S2500 year,
with deeuty at $1,000 a year. The de-
partment shall have supervision of all
labor laws and their enforcement and of
into the State. At present
the Board of Agriculture receives $500
a year to look after State immigration
and Senator Marshall proposes to repeal
that act.
Favorable report was made to the Sen
ate on the bills to aid the Delaware Com
mission for the Blind.
Senator Pierce gave notice of bills to
,reate the office of receiver of taxes and
county treasurer in Sussex county; auth
orizing the Sussex Levy Court to borrow
$50. 900 to construct two bridges over the
Delaware Bay -Rehoboth Bay canal-and
% provide that title to lands held or used
1y Sussex county shall be vested in 'The
State of Delaware for the use of Sussex
county"
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