CHAPTER 108

EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

AN ACT providing for an Employment Bureau and Appropriating moneys for the Maintenance Thereof.

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

Section 1. That the Governor of the State of Delaware be and he is hereby authorized to appoint an Employment Bureau consisting of three persons whose duties it shall be to cooperate with the United States Employment Service and with the City of Wilmington for the purpose of relieving unemployment in the State of Delaware ; and investigating and securing facts relating to employment and unemployment in general. The said Employment Bureau is hereby authorized to employ such assistants as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Section 2. There shall be appropriated out of the Treasury of the State of Delaware, from funds not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) per year to provide for the maintenance and expenses of the Employment Bureau as aforesaid, said money to be disbursed as needed by the State Treasurer upon warrants signed by the Chairman and Secretary of said Bureau. Any part of the Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars appropriated annually which is not used as above provided for shall be returned to the General Fund of the State Treasury.

Section 3. The moneys herein appropriated shall be available immediately upon the passage of this Act, provided, however, that a like sum or sums of money shall be set aside, appropriated and expended, by the City of Wilmington for a like purpose.

Section 4. An annual report of the expenditures and activities of the said Bureau shall be made to the Governor on or before the first day of July in each year.

Approved April 29, 1929.