CHAPTER 167

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," approved March 31, 1921.

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

Section 1. That the Act entitled "An Act to provide Amended for the establishment and maintenance of a general and efficient system of Free Public Schools," approved March 31, 1921, being Chapter 160 of Volume 32 of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

By striking out all of Section 5 thereof and by inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 5 as follows:

"Section 5. TREASURER: The State Treasurer shall act Board as treasurer of the State Board of Education. He shall receive and hold all moneys which the State Board of Education is entitled to by law, and which may come into its possession, and shall deposit all such moneys in the financial institution which is the legal depository of the State moneys in the custody of the State Treasurer. He shall pay out all such moneys under written order of the President, or of the Vice-President, of the State Board of Education and of its Secretary, or of its Assistant Secretary if so authorized by the State Board of Education, and shall keep such records Keep records and accounts of its funds as the State Board of Education may require.

The State Auditor is authorized and empowered to withhold his approval of any voucher, or bill, or order for money of a Special School District whenever such District shall have failed to comply with the provisions of this Act in the expenditure of its moneys, until such District shall make good such failure."

Approved April 5, A. D. 1923.