Milford chronicle., 1927-04-15
TWELVE MILLION
DOLLARS SPENT
BY LEGISLATURE
Appropriations Greater Than Any
In History OF Delaware Gen.
eial Assemblies.
MEMBERS FARED WELL
Ten Cents Per Mile Per Day AL
lowed Each Man For Travelling
Expenses-.-0thers Well Paid.

The session of the Delaware Cen
eral Assembly which adjourned early
Saturday morning cost the state
nearly $12,000,000 in appropriations
and in addition there were numer-
Gus salary increase bills and other
measures passed that will cost the
state, counties and municipalities
many more thousands of dollars.
Of the amount appropriated more
than $7,O0O,000 comes from the
school fund and the remainder from
the general fund. The larger ap-
preparations made by the Legisla-
ture follows:
General appropriation bill, $3,407,-
774.S2; for maintenance of schools,
S5,O00,000; school building program,
$4,000, 900; expense of legislature,
including pay and mileage of mem
bers and clerks, and claims bills,
S151, ,480.97; engineering building,
University of Delaware, $225, 1000;
school deficiency appropriation, $751;
600; eradication of tuberculosis
among cattle, $4,000; attorney gen.
erals contingent fund, $5,500; spec
ial contingent fund for Attorney
general, $4,000; appropriation to
meet deficiency in Secretary OF
States Office, $4,000; for hog chOl-
era serum, $4,000; for portrait
commission, $500; for Kent and Sus'
sex County Fair, $4,000; for State
AGRICULTURAL fair, $4,000; for diph'
iberia antitoxin, $4,000; to open In
dian River inlet, $4,000; to pay reg
istrars and assistants, $4,000; Chill
dren's Home Society, $4,000; st
MichaePs Day Nursery, $4,000
Delaware Industrial School fol
Girls, $37,55O; Layton Home fo
Aged Colored Persons, $4,000; Oh
Folks Home at Dover, $4,000; w. c
n. U, for rest room at Fort dupont
s4O0; to Newark, New Castle ant
Dover Fire Companies, $1,000; u
increase pay of cOlored teachers
100000: to Industrial School for col
ored girls, $4,000; to insurance com
missioner, $30,00Q; water system a
Brandywine Sanatorium, $4,000; t
Spanish War Veterans for Memor
ial Day exercises, $1,000; to take u
county road bonds (estimated) $4OO
900: to fight corn borer, $4,000; t
Ferris Industrial School, $4,000
to build wharf and pier at Lewe'
$4,000; totals $11,612,195.79.
The claims bill and the concur
rent resolutions passed., by bot
houses in the last hours were unuS
uallv generous in the amounts ths
I tbev provided for the members an
the officers of the two houses
The members in addition to ge
ting the constitutional pay of $40
dav for 60 days amounting to $6C
for each and $72O for the presidin
officers were also well taken car
of in the way of mileage allowe
Some years ago it was the custol
i to allow members mileage at IL
, railroad rates to and from the
l. homes to Dover each day. More Ill
eral arrangements were made tn
wear and it is understood that eaC
member was allowed 10 cents p'
mile to and from Dover for each d;
g and this was termed automoDi
mileage.
q This ranged from s910 to S1OO. a
= cording to how far the membe
q lived from Dover. For instance ea'
j Wilmington member was allow
q s71S.4O for mileage. BY buyil
: monthly tickets on the railro;
s these members were only at an
= nense of less than $40 for transpo
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