Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 225

WOODS HAVEN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS - FIXING AMOUNTS TO BE PAID BY LEVY COURTS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 43 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "LEVY COURTS", BY FIXING THE AMOUNTS TO BE PAID TO WOODS HAVEN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

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

Section 1. That Chapter 43 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended, be further amended by striking out all of 1165. Sec. 19. thereof and inserting and enacting in lieu thereof the part so stricken out a new 1165. Sec. 19., as follows:

1165. Sec. 19. Woods Haven School for Girls; Appropriations for:--The Levy Courts of New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties are authorized and directed to pay to Woods Haven School for Girls, on the first day of each month, the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) per day for the maintenance and instruction of each person in said school committed to the custody of said corporation from the respective counties by any court, judge or justice of the peace, in the three counties of the State, upon receiving from the superintendent and treasurer of the corporation a certificate of the number of persons so committed, who were in the said school during the preceding month, and the number of days the persons so committed were in said school during the preceding month.

The respective Levy Courts are hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said Woods Haven School for Girls the sum of 50c per day for each person on parole from said school, and committed to said school by the courts, judges and justices of the peace, as aforesaid. The superintendent and treasurer of the corporation shall certify to the respective Levy Courts prior to the first day of every month the number of persons committed to the said school as aforesaid from the respective counties, who were on parole during the preceding month, and the number of days each such person was on parole during the preceding month.

Approved April 8, 1947.