PROVISIONS OF CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PUBLIC

SCHOOLS

ARTICLE X.

EDUCATION.

Section 1. The General Assembly shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a general and efficient system of free public schools, and may require by law that every child, not physically or mentally disabled, shall attend the public school, unless educated by other means.

Section 2. In Addition to the income of the investments of the Public School Fund, the General Assembly shall make provision for the annual payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars for the benefit of the free public schools which, with the income of the investments of the Public School Fund, shall be equitably apportioned among the school districts of the State as the General Assembly shall provide; and the money so apportioned shall be used exclusively for the payment of the teachers' salaries and for furnishing free text books; provided, however, that in such apportionments, no distinction shall be made on account of race or color, and separate schools for white and colored children shall be mantained. All other expenses connected with the maintenance of free public schools, and all expenses connected with the erection or repair of free public school buildings shall be defrayed in such manner as shall be provided by law.

Section 3. No portion of any fund now existing, or which may hereafter be appropriated, or raised by tax, for educational purposes, shall be appropriated to, or used by, or in aid of any sectarian, church or denominational school; provided, that all real and personal property used for school purposes, where the tuition is free, shall be exempt from taxation and assessment for public purposes.

Section 4. No part of the principal or income of the Public School Fund, now or hereafter existing, shall be used for any other purpose than the support of free public schools.

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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

CHAPTER 94.

OF FREE SCHOOLS.

AN ACT in Relation to the State Board of Education, its Creation, Membership, Powers and Duties, and also in further amendment of the Act entitled "An Act concerning the Establishment of a General System of Free Public Schools," being Chapter 67 of Volume 21 of the Laws of Dela

ware.

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

abolished.

Section 1. That the State Board of Education, as the Board same is now constituted, be and the same is hereby abolished.

Vol. 21,

Section 2. That the Act entitled "An Act concerning Chap. 67, the establishment of a general system of free public schools," amended. approved May 12, 1898, being Chapter 67 of Volume 21 of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the first two sections of said Act and by inserting in lieu thereof the following:

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"Section 1. The general supervision and control of Board of the free public schools of this State, including those for composed of colored children, shall be vested in a State Board of Edu-bers. cation, composed of seven members. Upon the approval of this Act, the Governor of this State shall appoint seven members of the State Board of Education, one of them to be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three appointment. years, and one for four years, one for five years, one for six years, and one for seven years, their terms of office to Terms of of begin on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fice to comeleven. The Governor shall annually thereafter appoint a Governor shall annually apmember of said State Board of Education for the full term point for full of seven years and any vacancy in said Board shall be vacancy to be filled for the remainder of the term in the same manner. mainder of

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They shall serve without any compensation other than the No compenpayment of the necessary expenses incurred in the perfor-sation. mance of their duties as members of the Board.