Milford chronicle., 1931-01-16
[COntinned from First Paael

Governor that a 20-year exemption
be granted artificially reforeste
areas from one to 500 acres in size
in order that Delaware may not b
hindered in the proper development
of its idle land area.
The Governor pointed out that h,
disapproved any appropriation TO
Japanese beetle quarantine, as ap
plicable to highway inspection o
pleasure cars.
"The regulations under which this
work has been carried on in recent
years convince me that as a quar-
antine measure it is Intellectual, use
less, waste of public money and
serves only to give summer employ
ment to a number of men and boys
while constituting a source of an
nOyance to the motoring public" he
said.
Suggestion was made that a part
of the States surplus be used to
further reduce the bonded debt. He
recommended that S1,000,0O0 be ap-
propriated from the general fund
July !, and applied to the reduc-
tion of the funded debt, and that any
monies belonging to the general
fund in excess of $3,000,000 at the
close of the fiscal year, 1882, or as
much of the excess as may be need
ed, be used for the same purpose.
The Governor urged that all laws
which provide for the expenditure
accounts of any department, to be
presented to the Governor for his
approval and signature, should be
repealed, with the exception of those
expenditures which apply purely to
the executive Office. F3tUfi
Attention was called by the Gov
ernor to what he termed one. bad
feature of the school code-the sec
tion fixing the terms of members of |
the board, whereby they. all expire
on the same date. He suggested that
the terms end two years apart.
Asks Millions For Schools p"
81 wish to report that 1 have, been |
officially informed by the school au-
thorities that to complete the build
ing program for schools, exclusive /
of a high school in Wilmington, will |
require S4,125,000," Governor Buck
said. Without doubt the best use
that can be made of the surplus in
the school fund is to apply it to the
construction of new schools, and for
the purpose 1 recommend that 49,
100000 be appropriated for the two.
year period, that 40 percent of this
amount be allotted to the school
board of the city of Wilmington, and
go per cent to the State School
Governor Buck declared that in
his judgment the surplus in the
school fund warrants an act author
izing the State treasurer to pay the
sums necessary to redeem all dis
Lrict school bonds maturing within
The next two years.
This will permit of slightly more ]
than a so per cent cut in EACH dis
-rict's school tax" he stated at is ]
safe to predict, should this policy be l
adopted, that the State will ohere-
lfter care for the redemption of this
lass of school bonds issues, and 1 2
suggest that any other +
districts issuing school bonds within q
he next two years, insert a provis- !
on in their bond statutes that fixes 7
he first redemption date at a time n
fter June 80, 1888" y @f'' - \
Lower Auto License Rates d
Recommendation was made by
Governor Buck that fees for all a
lasses of licenses to operate mo- s.
1r vehicles, be reduced from So to n
Il suggest that the State extend a.
} each county the opportunity. to IL
Dnsolidate its road work; the State /,
ighway Department to retain as to
uch of the county engineering or vi
anizations as it can profitably use dC
nd the counties to reduce by 25 as
9r cent their present assessments =
r road purposes; the monies COL .
cted at the revised rates to be c.
lid to the State treasurer for the AS
ie of the State Highway Depart
ent," Governor Buck declared. Gu
Jnder such an arrangement l Ca
Ould expect to see within six or Ca
ght years all taxes now levied up
real estate for the care of roads
ne away with forever" Gu
Governor Buck suggested legisla- InC
IN requiring that all labor employ Fr
on new schools and institutional Ca
ildings to be erected hereafter by -.
. State, both skilled and unskil1ed,
bona fide residents of Delaware De
: at least six months prior to the t
ard of the contract. Exception
uld be made with permission of ~
; boards of managers of. the de- Ac'
and institutions letting Acc
|, work. Inv
The chief executive pointed to the
ed of a re-surVey of the oyster I
Is in the Delaware Bay and de- SCa
red that plants dredges from our Pul
n rivers ought to be kept in Del Iml
are waters and that leases of the Lai
ter grounds in Delaware should Eql
y be given to bona fide residents
the State. 7
lie expressed the opinion that fees
licenses to non-residents might I
properly increased, and suggest
that the open season ON ducks Cur
It November 1, rather than Octo- Der
16 He suggested that the bag Wa
it be lowered to conform with T
Federal law. Cap
ermission was asked by Cover Fun
Buck for the appointment of an al
stant secretary of state during Ded
secretary of states unavoidable