Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 224

APPROPRIATION - WOODS HAVEN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

AN ACT MAKING: A DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE WOODS HAVEN SCHOOL, FOR GIRLS.

WHEREAS, the Woods Haven, School for Girls, is the only school in the State for the care and training of white delinquent girls; and

WHEREAS, there has been an increase in cost of food, clothing and heat, which could not have been foreseen at the time the budget for the present biennium was prepared and submitted; and

WHEREAS, because of this increase the funds for such purposes will not be sufficient to carry the school through the present fiscal year, now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (three-fourths of all members elected to each House thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. That in addition to any other monies appropriated to the Woods Haven School for Girls for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947, there is hereby appropriated to the said Woods Haven School for Girls the stated sum of Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) as a deficiency and emergency appropriation for general use of the said school in carrying out its work and duties in respect to its care and training of delinquent white girls of the State.

That the said sum shall be paid and made available to the said Woods Haven School for Girls on approval of this Act.

Section 2. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary Appropriation Act, and the funds hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the General Fund of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved April 8, 1947.