CHAPTER 207
FREE SCHOOLS
AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the establishment and maintenance of a general and efficient system of Free Public Schools", being Chapter 160, Volume 32, Laws of Delaware, as amended by Chapter 158, Volume 35, Laws of Delaware, by repealing the tax on personal and real property now levied by the Levy Courts of the respective Counties for the maintenance and support of the Free Public Schools of the State of Delaware.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That Article XIII, Chapter 160, Volume 32, Laws of Delaware, as amended by Chapter 158, Volume 35, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out all of Section 58 of said Article XIII and by inserting in lieu thereof the following new Section to be known as Section 58.
Section 58. The free public schools of the State of Delaware shall be maintained and supported:
1. By all revenue derived from any personal income tax collected under the provisions of Article I, Chapter 9, Volume 32, Laws of Delaware;
2. (This paragraph stricken out.)
3. By all revenue derived from any franchise tax collected under the provisions of Article VIII, Chapter 6, Revised Code of Delaware;
4. By the revenue derived from the income of the State School Fund;
5. By such moneys as shall be appropriated from time to time as additional appropriations made by the General Assembly.
Section 2. That Article XIII of Chapter 160, Volume 32, Laws of Delaware, as amended by Chapter 158, Volume 35, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out and repealing all of Section 59 of said Article XIII as amended as aforesaid.
Section 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
Approved April 3, 1929.