Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 262

APPROPRIATION

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

ESTABLISHING SCHOLARSHIPS

AN ACT APPROPRIATING CERTAIN MONEY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE; PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE AND PROVIDING THAT THE SCHOLARSHIPS BE AWARDED TO STUDENTS DESIROUS OF ENTERING THE TEACHING PROFESSION.

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

Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) annually to the University of Delaware for the purpose of establishing scholarships at the University of Delaware.

Section 2. The minimum number of scholarships to be awarded in each and every year shall be twenty (20), which shall be awarded to students who desire, upon completion of their studies, to enter the teaching profession and who agree in writing with the scholarship committee provided below, to make themselves available as a teacher in the public schools of Delaware for a period of at least one year after graduation.

Section 3. The Committee to award such scholarships shall be five (5) in number and shall be composed of two (2) members to be selected from the faculty of the University of Delaware (other than from the School of Education, University of Delaware), one (1) member to be selected from the Alumni Association, University of Delaware, and two (2) members to be selected from the faculty of the School of Education, University of Delaware. The said Committee shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Delaware. Such

appointment shall originally be as follows: two (2) members shall be appointed for the term of one year, one (1) member for the term of two years, another for the term of three years and another for the term of four years. Thereafter, as the terms of office of members expire, either by death, resignation, removal from the State, or otherwise, appointments shall be made for terms of four years each.

Section 4. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the University of Delaware the said sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) beginning July 1, 1949 and ending June 30, 1950, and a like sum beginning July 1, 1950 and ending June 30, 1951.

Section 5. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary Appropriation Act and the money hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the General Fund of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved June 15, 1949.