OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 199. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to convert that part of the Turnpike of the President, Managers Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives free public SECTION 1. That that part of the turnpike of the Presi- Turnpike a dent, Managers and Company of the Wilmington and Chris- highway. tiana Turnpike Road lying and being within the limits of the City of Wilmington is hereby declared to be a free public highway or street, and as such shall be maintained, repaired, managed and controlled as other streets now are in said city. SECTION 2. That the said company shall make, execute Duties of SECTION 3. That nothing herein contained shall in any debts of company. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. Chapter 108, Duty of road com respect to road taxes. CHAPTER 198. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "A supplement to the act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Town of St. Georges,' passed at Dover, March 6, 1877." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring herein) : SECTION I. That the act entitled "A supplement to the Volume 16, act entitled 'An act to incorporate the town of St. Georges, amended. passed at Dover, March 6, 1877," be and the same is hereby amended by striking out of Section 4 thereof the words following, viz: "That the road commissioners of Red Lion missioners in hundred be and they are hereby directed to make an apportionment of the road tax of said hundred amounting to the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250), for each and every year, to be paid to the council of St. Georges," and substituting in lieu thereof the following words, to wit: "That the road commissioners of Red Lion hundred be and they are hereby directed to pay the whole of the road taxes assessed and collected in the town of St. Georges for each and every year to the council of the town of St. Georges." SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, April 20, 1883. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 199. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to convert that part of the Turnpike of the President, Managers and Company of the Wilmington and Christiana Turnpike Road, within the limits of the City of Wilmington, into a free public highway or street. WHEREAS that part of the turnpike of the President, Preamble. Managers and Company of the Wilmington and Christiana Turnpike Road, lying and being within the limits of the City of Wilmington, from the number of streets crossing the same, of buildings erected on each side thereof, and of drains, water and gas pipes laid therein, has become as one of the public streets in said city; and whereas it is considered that the public good and private interests will be best promoted by converting that part of said turnpike into a free public highway or street; and whereas such is the desire of the President, Managers and Company of the Wilmington and Christiana Turnpike Road; now therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch thereof concurring therein): highway. SECTION I. That that part of the turnpike of the Presi- Turnpike a dent, Managers and Company of the Wilmington and Chris-e public tiana Turnpike Road lying and being within the limits of the City of Wilmington is hereby declared to be a free public highway or street, and as such shall be maintained, repaired, managed and controlled as other streets now are in said city. SECTION 2. That the said company shall make, execute Duties of and deliver any and all writings, papers and instruments, and company. do and perform every act, matter and thing that properly may be necessary to secure said city the use and control of City not said part of said road, at the proper cost and charge of said liable for city. Said city shall in nowise be liable for any of the company. debts, contracts or engagements of said company. SECTION 3. That nothing herein contained shall in any way affect any other of the property, rights, franchises, privileges or powers of the said turnpike company. Passed at Dover, February 9, 1883. debts of OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. Authority to CHAPTER 200. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT authorizing "The Mayor and Council of Wilmington" to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch thereof concurring): SECTION I. That "The Mayor and Council of Wilmington" shall have power and authority and are hereby authorized, under an ordinance of the council to be passed with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members thereof for the time being, to borrow, upon the faith and credit of the city, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be How applied applied and expended under the direction of the Board of Public Education in Wilmington, in building and furnishing additional school houses in the said city. The money borrowed under the provisions of this act being intended to pay to the said Board of Public Education a balance of twenty thousand dollars now due to the said board of moneys borrowed under the provisions of an act entitled "A further supplement to the act for the benefit of public schools in Wilmington," passed at Dover, April 8th, A. D. 1881. Object of loan. Certificates of indebtedness. SECTION 2. The Mayor and Council of Wilmington shall have power to issue certificates of indebtedness to secure the repayment of the said twenty thousand dollars, and such certificates of indebtedness shall be made payable, with the interest thereon, in two equal installments; and the council Annual ap- of Wilmington shall, in making the annual appropriations, propriations include therein any portion or installments of said certificates of indebtedness with the interest due thereon, which may be payable in the fiscal year for which such appropriations are When pay made. The first installment shall be payable on the first day of August, A. D. 1883, and the second installment thereof shall be payable on the first day of August, A. D. 1884. Passed at Dover, February 12, 1883. able. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 201. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. to AN ACT to authorize "The Mayor and Council of Wilmington borrow Sixty Thousand Dollars and to provide for the payment thereof. WHEREAS it is found to be necessary in order that the Preamble. citizens of Wilmington may be amply supplied with good and wholesome water and the water department of said city brought to a proper state of efficiency, that authority should be obtained from the General Assembly of the State of Delaware to enable "The Mayor and Council of Wilmington" to borrow the sum of sixty thousand dollars to pay for certain water rights in the Brandywine creek which the city council of said city has contracted to purchase for the price named; now therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch thereof concurring): borrow $60,000 and bonds secur SECTION I. That "The Mayor and Council of Wilming- Authority to ton" shall have power and authority and are hereby authorized under an ordinance of the city council to be passed with to issue the concurrence of a majority of all the members thereof for ing the same the time being, at any time hereafter to borrow, upon the faith and credit of the city, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, to be applied to the purpose and object specified in Section 3 of this act, and shall have power to issue bonds to secure the repayment of the money so authorized to be borrowed, and shall fix the rate of interest payable on said bonds. tion and 118, 119, 120. SECTION 2. The bonds which shall be issued under the Denominaprovisions of this act shall be of the denomination of fifty character of dollars and multiples of fifty dollars, and shall be divided bonds. into numbered series, and made payable, with any interest which may be due thereon, in manner following, to wit: No. Series Nos. 118, for seven thousand four hundred dollars, to fall due and when paybecome payable October 1st, A. D. 1913; No. 119, for thirtytwo thousand seven hundred dollars, to fall due and become payable April 1st, A. D. 1914; No. 120, for nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars, to fall due and become payable October 1st, A. D. 1914. The city council of Wilmington able. |