Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 320

APPROPRIATION - FOR PROTECTING THE BEACH OR STRAND OPPOSITE SLAUGHTER BEACH

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTING THE BEACH OR STRAND OPPOSITE THE TOWN OF SLAUGHTER BEACH, IN SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE, FROM EROSION AND INUNDATION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. The State Highway Department is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to erect, build, rebuild, replace and repair such groins, jetties, banks, dikes and/or bulkheads along the beach or strand opposite and near to the Town of Slaughter Beach, in Sussex County, Delaware, as in the judgment of said Department may be necessary to protect the same from erosion or inundation by the waters of the Delaware Bay,

Section 2. A sum not in excess of Thirty-three Thousand Dollars ($33,000.00) is hereby appropriated to the State Highway Department for such purposes and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same upon proper vouchers drawn from time to time by the State Highway Department for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

Section 3. In the event that all or any part of said sum of Thirty-three Thousand Dollars ($33,000.00) shall remain unexpended on June 30, 1947, or on June 30, 1948, it shall not revert to the General Fund of the State Treasury but shall remain available for said purposes up to and including June 30, 1949.

Section 4. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary Appropriation Act and the moneys hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the General Funds of the State Treasury from funds not otherwise appropriated.

Approved May 1, 1947.