Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
BILLS APPEAL
in LEGISLATURE
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dustrial School for Girls and the
; Ferris Industrial School. Penalties
of fines of from $25 to 500 or inn
prisonment of from 10 to 60 days OF
both are provided.
Speaker Coy introduced a bill to
provide for salary up to $4,000 a
year for the County Engineer of
Sussex County. His salary now is
$500 year.
The House passed Representative
E. S. Webb's bill for an emergency
appropriation Of $4,000 to the State
Board of Agriculture to be used for
the eradication of tuberculosis in
cattle 1t was explained that cream
cry at Middletown is to close down
February 1, and that farmers with
accredited herds now delivering
milk to that creamery will have no
outlet for their milk unless their
cows are tested and that the State
Board of Agriculture at present has
no fund for that purpose.
The House also passed Mrs
Tschudy's bill to make valid the re-
cording of certain deeds having de-
!
Mrs. Tschudy's bill to repeal the
present law which eXempts a woman
from jury duty on request was re-
ported on it's merits by Mr.. Benson,
chairman of the revised statutes
committee.
If a bill that Representative Vir-
den introduced Friday becomes a
law, ice cream would be sold by
weight in the State in the future.
The bill provides that it shall be un-
lawful for any person, firm or cor
pOration to sell, or offer for sale,
any ice cream weighing less than
Cne and three-quarters pounds to
each quart or seven pounds to each
gallon. Fines from 500 to $500 are
provided for violations.
After it had been explained by NJ.
c. Dagger, former reading clerk of
the House that body passed Repre-
sentative l. T. Hastings bill to
amend the game laws by vote of
30 yeas to nays. UnGer the present
law the farmer or owner of the land
can trap 20 rabbits and sell them.
This bill would make it unlawful to
trap the rabbits for sale.
Senator Keith introduced a bill
Friday afternoon to appropriate
$320,OOO for the erection and equip
ment of suitable buildings for a dor
mitory, dining hall and home eco
nOmics purposes for the State Col
lege for Colored Students.
OF the amount, S16O,0OO would be
iArN1. hi
600 for the equipment for the dor
mitory; $137,50O for the erection of
a dining hall and home economics
building; and $12,5OO for the equip
ment of the latter building.
The Senate passed the House bill
to change the name of the Sussex
Comfy Almshouse to the Sussex
County Home.
In the Senate Tuesday afternoon,
President Pro TEN Simonton intro
duced bill to allow the Nurses
Examining Board to make rules and
regulations for the training of nur-
ses in the various hospitals. Mem
bers of the board are to receive $40
for each day of actual service. The
ecretary-treasurer will receive
salary of not more than $50 per
month.
Applicants for licenses as nurses
shall be 81 years old and a graduate
of a training school with at least
January l, 1884, must have had
four years high school course pre-
vious to registering as a student
nurse.
A similar bill was before the SEN
ate two years ago but was killed.
OptOmetry Bill Deferred
At the request of Senator Keith.
action was deferred Tuesday after ,
noon on the bill to raise the stand
ards for protecting Optometry.
President Pro TEN SimOnton on I
afternoon introduced a bill
to increase the salary of the attor-
ney general of the State from $4,000
to $4,000 per year. The bill was read
twice and referred.
Ask Kent County Pleas Court
Senator Keith offered a bill TO
create Court of Common Pleas for :
Kent County. One judge will pre-
side. 1t is similar to the plan now ,
in use in New Castle County. The &
special judge is to be named by the
governor to serve for four years.
Senator Wharton introduced bill
that the State take care
Of payments of interest and princi
pal on county road bonds for the 8
next two years. The bill was read
vice and referred.
Aliens would be barred from work
IN any construction job of the State {
II any political subdivision of the I
State or from work under a con-
ractor who has a contract to do
work for the State, 4
should bill introduced by Senator
Downs Tuesday afternoon become a
aw. 4
It also provides that ON such work
,itizens of Delaware must be given y
he preference. 8
The measure makes it mandatory Z
o insert in the contract a clause to 3
he effect that if the provisions of 3
he bill are not complied with the :
contract may, at the election of the g
State, or the political subdivision of q
through which the contract is
warded, be declared null and void. 4
Contractors, in these cases, would q
,e required to file with the sub g
ivision letting the contract a list i
# names and addresses of all me- 6
nnd 1ohOrorc y