Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 112

LEVY COURT, NEW CASTLE COUNTY - COUNTY FREE LIBRARY

AN ACT authorizing the Creation and Maintenance of a County Free Library for New Castle County and authorizing the appropriation of County Moneys therefor.

WHEREAS, residents of New Castle County are desirous of enjoying the advantages of a county free library and the Levy Court of New Castle County and The Wilmington Institute, a corporation of the State of Delaware, desire to maintain such a library and to utilize any funds that may be made available for such object whether from a private or public source ; NOW THEREFORE,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: (two-thirds of all the members elected to each Branch thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. The Levy Court of New Castle County hereby is authorized and empowered to appropriate public moneys toward the maintenance and support of a free library for the use of the residents of New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington and for all purposes incident thereto (in amounts not to exceed in any one year the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars).

Section 2. The Wilmington Institute, a corporation of the State of Delaware, hereby is authorized and empowered to administer a free library for the use of the residents of New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington, and to perform all functions incident thereto, such functions to be in addition to those now devolving upon The Wilmington Institute under existing laws and to be paid for with other funds than those received from the City of Wilmington.

Section 3. The Levy Court of New Castle County and The Wilmington Institute hereby are authorized and empowered to enter into continuous contracts, pursuant to resolutions of their respective bodies, with each other and with other persons or corporations, whether public or private, respecting payments of money to be made toward the maintenance and support of a free library for the use of the residents of New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington.

Approved March 6, 1929.