CHAPTER 36 - APPROPRIATION TO DELAWARE TERCENTARY COMMISSION
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE GENERAL EXPENSES OF THE DELAWARE TERCENTENARY COMMISSION.
WHEREAS the General Assembly has adopted a Joint Resolution, approved by the Governor February 10, 1937, providing for the appointment of a commission to plan and execute its plan for the celebration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the first permanent civilized settlement in the State of Delaware, and a further supplemental Resolution, approved by the Governor March 5, 1937, relating to the same matter, said commission to be called "The Delaware Tercentenary Commission"; and
WHEREAS the said "The Delaware Tercentenary Commission" has been appointed pursuant to said Joint Resolutions; and
WHEREAS it is necessary that a general appropriation should be made by the State toward the payment of the expenses of the celebration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the first permanent civilized settlement in the State of Delaware, in order that the said Commission may accomplish the purpose for which it was created; now therefore,
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 Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State of Delaware for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the celebration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the first permanent civilized settlement in the State of Delaware, and the preparation therefor, required to be planned and executed by said Commission.
Section 2. That the said sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, so appropriated, shall be paid by the State Treasurer from the general fund, from time to time, to the Treasurer of "The Delaware Tercentenary Commission," upon written requests therefor signed by, the „Honorary President of the said Commission and the Chairman of the Executive Committee thereof.
Section 3. This Act shall be known as a "Supplementary Appropriation Bill."
Approved April 16, 1937.