Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 284 - STATE REVENUE

AUTHORIZING MONEYS OUT OF THE SCHOOL FUND FOR THE USE OF UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, STATE COLLEGE FOR COLORED STUDENTS AND STATE TAX DEPARTMENT

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE STATE TREASURER TO PAY OUT OF THE SCHOOL FUND OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE ANY APPROPRIATION THAT MAY HEREAFTER BE MADE TO UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, STATE COLLEGE FOR COLORED STUDENTS AND FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE STATE TAX DEPARTMENT", APPROVED APRIL 12, 1937, BY DIRECTING THE STATE TREASURER TO DEPOSIT A PORTION OF THE FUNDS DERIVED FROM FRANCHISE TAX COLLECTIONS TO THE GENERAL FUND.

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

Section 1. That "An Act Authorizing and Directing the State Treasurer to Pay Out of the School Fund of the State of Delaware any Appropriation that may hereafter be made to University of Delaware, State College for Colored Students and for Operation and Maintenance of the State Tax Department", approved April 12, 1937, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out and repealing all of said Act and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:

That Article 8, Chapter 6 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting a new paragraph as follows:

For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937, and ending June 30, 1938, the sum of Four Hundred and Forty Thousand Six Hundred Seventy-four Dollars and Fifty-three Cents ($440,674.53) shall be paid by the State Tax Department out of the proceeds of the franchise tax as established by Article 8, Chapter 6 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, and assessed and collected thereunder; and, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, and ending June 30, 1939, a further sum of Four Hundred and Thirty-two Thousand Twenty-four Dollars and Fifty-three Cents ($432,024.53) shall likewise be paid by the State Tax Department out of the proceeds of the Franchise Tax as established by Article 8, Chapter 6 of the Revised Code and assessed and collected thereunder, to the State Treasurer. The sums so paid as aforesaid to the State Treasurer shall be deposited by him and such sums shall be utilized as follows:

1. For the payments of the sums set forth and appropriated in the General Appropriation Act of the The Hundred Sixth General Assembly of the State of Delaware under item J "Education", and comprising sums appropriated for the University of Delaware and the State College for Colored, to-wit, Three Hundred Twenty-eight Thousand Six Hundred Seventy-four Dollars and Fifty-three Cents ($328,674.53) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937, and ending June 30, 1938, and Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand Twenty-four Dollars and Fifty-three Cents ($320,024.53) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, and ending June 30, 1939, which said sums are appropriated for such purposes.

0. There is hereby appropriated out of the funds to be so transferred for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937, and ending June 30, 1938, the sum of One Hundred and Twelve Thousand Dollars ($112,000.00), and the further sum of One Hundred and Twelve Thousand Dollars ($112,000.00) is hereby appropriated out of the funds to be so transferred for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, and ending June 30, 1939, the sums so appropriated shall be paid out of the funds to be transferred in accordance with this Act, and shall be utilized for the operation and maintenance of the State Tax Department for the fiscal years set forth herein.

The provisions of this Section, and the provisions of paragraph b of 2704. Section 82 of Chapter 71 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, and all other Acts, insofar as they may relate to and are in conflict with the payment of the proceeds of the franchise tax by the State Tax Department to the State Treasurer to be by him deposited as hereinbefore provided are declared to be and are hereby suspended to the extent and purport of this Act only until the State Treasurer shall have certified to the State Tax Department that the total sum of Eight Hundred Seventy-two Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-nine Dollars and Six Cents 0872,699.06) has been deposited as hereinabove provided; and, upon such certification, the said above mentioned provisions of said Acts, so as aforesaid declared to be suspended, shall again be in full force, operation and effect.

Approved May 20, 1937.