Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 143

APPROPRIATION - STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR PHYSICIAN'S RESIDENCE AT EDGEWOOD SANATORIUM

AN ACT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPPING AND FURNISHING OF A PHYSICIAN'S RESIDENCE AT EDGE-WOOD SANATORIUM AND FOR THE REMODELING AND REFURNISHING OF AND ADDITIONS TO SEVERAL OLD BUILDINGS AT BRANDYWINE AND EDGE-WOOD SANITORIA AS WELL AS FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT SERVING BOTH THESE SANITORIA; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR AND AUTHORIZING THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO BORROW MONEY AND ISSUE BONDS FOR THE MONEY SO APPROPRIATED.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (three-fourths of all the Members elected to each House concurring therein):

Section 1. Within the appropriation under Section 2 of this Act the State Board of Health is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to repair, remodel and construct additions to the present facilities of Brandywine and Edgewood Sanitoria, to construct and equip a resident physician's residence at Edgewood Sanatorium, and to extend the water supply and sewage treatment plant serving both of these facilities.

Section 2. There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Health of the State of Delaware the sum of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the proceeds of a bond issue authorized to provide the necessary funds for the purpose of this Act. The funds so appropriated shall not revert to the General Fund of the State Treasury at the end of any fiscal year but shall remain and be available for the purpose indicated until the same has been expended.

Section 3. The money hereby appropriated shall be paid from time to time by warrants signed by the chairman of the State Board of Health and approved by the Auditor of Accounts.

Section 4. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary Appropriation Act, and the money hereby appropriated shall be paid by the State Treasurer, upon warrants of the State Board of Health drawn according to law, out of moneys deposited in the Farmers' Bank of the State of Delaware, at Dover, consisting of money received from the sale of bonds authorized by an act of this 116th General Assembly, of the State of Delaware, entitled "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO BORROW A CERTAIN SUM OF MONEY FOR SUNDRY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND EXPENDITURES IN THE NATURE OF CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, AND TO ISSUE BONDS THEREFOR."

Approved May 28, 1951.