Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1925-04-17
ABOLISH FILING FEE
BUT PROVIDE FOR
CAPITATION TAX
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House amendment to the Senate BIZ
fixing the salary of the Governor a
$500 a year. This amendmen
provides this law shall not becom
effective until the third Tuesday il
January, 1929. In other words
Governor Robinson will not be eff
fected by this salary increase.
The Senate Friday night also con
CURED the following House bills:
An act permitting automobile
dealers to use their license tags al
different machines when they are
used for the transportation of sup
plies.
An act authorizing any highway
officer. policeman or other agent OF
the law to stop any automobile on
the highway and without process
examine the car for Identification
marks also permitting such Off
GERS without process to enter a gar
age or any place where machines
are stored to make such eXamina-
ton; also to examine any machine
parked in any public place.
An act changing the name of the
Home for Aged Colored People.
An act appropriating $4,000 a year
for the next two years to the st.
AIichael's Day Nursery and Hospi-
tai for Babies.
kill Divorce Restriction.
Senator Ridgleys bill to restrict
the grounds on which divorces can
be granted in this State, to adultery
and extreme cruelty, went down to
defeat in the House Friday night by
a vote of Is yeas and 20 nays. The
Rev. Alfred Smith, of Camden, ad-
vocated the bill on the floor of the
House.
No Teachers Retirement Fund
The Senate bill to establish a
Teachers Retirement System was
killed in the House by vote of Is
yeas to Is nays.
Other Bills Passed by Senate
Other House bills cOncurred in by |
the Senate were:
An act making all female resi-
dents of Sussex county over q years
of age liable to the payment of a
capitation tax, the same as the adult
male residents.
Appropriating $4,000 a year for
two years to the Delaware Chill
dren's Home Society.
The Senate passed the House
amendment to the Senate bill re-
quiring the Secretary of State to
keep a bound volume of all liens
and other encumbrances against
automobiles.
The House bill repeating the law
passed two years ago providing for
a separate prison for women in New
Castle county, was killed in the
Senate by a vote of eleven to five
after Mrs. Julia Ashbrook had
spoken against the measure.
Must Pay Dog Tax
Receiving just a majority the vote
being Is to Is the House passed the
Senate bill placing a 81 tax on male
dogs and So on female dogs in Kent
and Sussex counties the tax to go to
the State Game and Fish Commits l
sion. The bill is designed TO prevent G
the running at large of so many c
dogs.
Easier on Drunken Drivers C
Under a Senate bill concurred in
by the House Friday afternoon the >
bars are let down to some extent as T.
10 persons driving cars while intoXi- =
Gated. The present law provides for ,
a fine or Jail sentence or both. The q
Senate bill which was introduced by Il
Senator Mcdowell, provides for a =
fine only from $500 to $500 for the !! !,
first offense and a fine or Jail SEN u
fence for the second offense. y
No opposition was offered in the l!
Senate to the House bill appropriate IL
On of n | l.
additional building at the home for u
,upied by feeble minded colored u
sigls. The act also apprOpriates 3,
$4,000 a year for two years for the II
maintenance of this building. AT u
present there is no place to which
eeble minded cOlored girls and boys II
IAN be sent, some of them being in ~
he Ferris Industrial School and | IL
ome in the Colored Girls Industrial
school, 1t is planned to remove all 8
UGH from both these places to the II
'tockley home. ( |,
The House bill giving the State "
Department the right to Is Is
bandon a road leading to a danger ~
us grade crossings and relocating
UGH road was passed by the Senate. 81
hief Engineer Buck of the depart 81
lent told the Senate the department I'll
) preparing to make a survey of all 90.
rade crossings in the state, abolish W.
hose that should be abolished be- d.
ause of the extreme danger and to u.
ut warning signs at those not now vi
D equipped. pi
The Senate concurred in the we
louise bill authorizing the State y:
Highway Department to fix the pay W.
the state highway police, not to ~ ~
xceed the following amounts: Cap I'll
Tins, $3.50 per month; lieutenants,
$50; sergeants, $145; corpOrals, Al
lao and privates $3.50. Mr. Buck of
lie highway department said it
ould enable the department to give
1me of the policemen who are de-
erving, more pay.
The Senate concurred in the IN,
ouse bill providing for scholarships of
II young men who wish to take up he
aching as a profession. Such schOl HC
ships will be granted on the same ter
Dnditions as are those now extend
to young women but the male re- OF
pients may be educated at any rep ed
able institution outside the state nri
there is no elementary training in
,urse for such students in Della tbf
are. cor
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