Milford chronicle., 1957-11-22
PUBLIC NOTICE OF
SPECIAL ELECTION in
GEORGETOWN SPECIAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT ON
SATURDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1867
BETWEEN
1:G0 AND $500 p. NJ, L. s. Il.

special EleCLlOu SHdll De UolQ
throughout Georgetown Special
School District, Sussex County,
Delaware, in the same manner as
other school elections, on Satur-
day, December ID, 1857, between
the hours of 100 and 800 p. m,
Eastern Standard Time, of said
day.
The Georgetown Central School
Building and the Richard Allen
School Building have been desig-
mated as the school buildings to
be used as polling places for said
Special Election.
The purpose of said Special
Election shall be to vote FOR or
AGAINST proposed issue of
bonds on the credit of Georgetown
Special School District, Sussex
County, Delaware, in the amount
of FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND DOL
LARS ($56, 6,000.OO).
The purposes and reasons for
said proposed issue of bonds shall
be to use the proceeds derived
therefrom to carry out the follow
ing School Construction Program
of Georgetown Special School
District, which has heretofore been
proposed and duly approved, viz:
GEORGETOWN SPECIAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT
SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
PROGRAM
An addition to the existing Cen
trail School Building, in George
town Special School District, at
tached to the West side thereof,
and comprising four (4) addition
al classrooms, together with neces-
sary furniture and equipment
therefor, as well as necessary al
terations in and improvements to
the existing Central School Build
ing, all of which is estimated to
cost ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY
t H o U S A I'd DOL L A r S
($140, 0,000.00), of which amount
$S4, 100000 is the maximum share to
be contributed thereto by the State
of Delaware, and the balance of
$56,000.00 is the share of George
town Special School District.
The maximum rate of interest
that said proposed issue of bonds
shall bear shall not exceed five
percentUm (5) per annum, as shall
be determined by the Board of
Education of Georgetown Special
School District. The bonds shall
bear interest from and after their
date, payable semi-annually on the
days designated in the bonds. The
bonds shall be issued in serial
form, maturing and becoming pay
able in successive years, begin
ming not more than one year after
the date of the bonds and ending
not more than twenty-five years
after such date; and the amount
of bonds maturing in any one year,
except for last year, shall not be
less than one twenty-fifth of the
aggregate principal amount of the
bonds of said issue.
At said Special Election, a suffi-
cient number of ballots shall be
provided: Upon which shall be
written or printed the words
FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and
AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE,
each to be separated and each fol-
lowed by a blank square in which
the voter shall mark his or her
choice.
Every citizen who resides in
Georgetown Special School Dis
trict, Sussex County, Delaware,
and who would be entitled on De-
cember IA, 1857, to register and
vote. in any Election District, of
which Georgetown Special School
District is a part, at a General
Election, if such General Election
were held on that day, may vote at
the Special Election hereby no.
ticed, whether or not he or she is
at the time a registered voter.
This Notice and Call of Elec-
tion is issued this 29th day of Oc-
tober. A. d. 1857, in compliance
with the provisions of a resolution
adopted by the Board of Education
of Georgetown Special School Dis
trict, Sussex County, Delaware,
October 20, 1857.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
EDUCATION OF GEORGETOWN
SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT,
SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE.
GEORGE H. KEEN
Secretary, Board of Educa-
ton, Georgetown Special
School District, Sussex