Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 202

NEW CASTLE COUNTY WORKHOUSE

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 4145, REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE NEW CASTLE COUNTY WORKHOUSE.

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

Section 1. That 4145. Sec. 28. Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out Section 28b. thereof and substituting in lieu thereof a new Section 28b. as follows:

Section 28b. The Levy Court shall, after consultation with the Trustees of the New Castle County Workhouse, annually appropriate from the General Fund of New Castle County an amount estimated by it to be necessary for the following year for the operation of the New Castle County Workhouse and for the maintenance of prisoners committed thereto from New Castle County. The said amount shall be paid to the Trustees of the New Castle County Workhouse in installments as in the joint judgment of the Trustees, and the Levy Court, the same is required and needed by the said Trustees for the operation and maintenance of the said New Castle County Workhouse. From the money so appropriated by and received from the Levy Court of New Castle County the Trustees shall provide for the payment of the expenses of the operation of the Workhouse, the maintenance of prisoners committed from New Castle County, as well as payments of interest and principal upon outstanding bonds of the said New Castle County Workhouse. Any unexpended balance of such appropriation for any year shall be noted in the budget for the following year and shall be credited against the appropriation for the following year.

Approved June 4, 1951.