Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 49

APPROPRIATION

AN ACT APPROPRIATING MONEY OUT OF THE STATE TREASURY FOR THE PAYMENT OF CLAIM OF CALVIN G. McKAY AGAINST THE STATE.

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

Section 1. That the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury of the State of Delaware for the payment of a certain claim against the State for injury sustained by one Calvin G. McKay of the City of Dover, Kent County and State of Delaware, by reason of the said Calvin G. McKay's being struck in the eye with an arrow shot by a school pupil during official school hours and in a public school room of the Dover Public School in the Dover Special School District in and for Kent County and State of Delaware, the possession of said bow and arrow having been authorized, permitted and suggested by the teacher in charge of the class of which the said Calvin G. McKay was a pupil, said injury having occurred on the 29th day of March, A. D. 1935; such injury to the eye causing the said Calvin G. McKay much pain and suffering and bodily injury, to wit: the loss of his left eye. The Auditor of Accounts is hereby authorized, and fully empowered and directed to approve and properly execute a warrant for, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and fully empowered and directed to pay to Lewis M. McKay, the legal guardian of and for the said Calvin G. McKay, a minor, the above specified sum.

Section 2. This Act shall be taken and deemed to be a supplementary appropriation act, and the money hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the moneys or receipts paid to the State of Delaware pursuant to the Franchise Tax Law and the Income Tax Law of this State before the payment or delivery of the aforesaid appropriated sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) unto or to the credit of the Public School Fund.

Approved May 4, 1939.