OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. of Dover at the Brick School House on Governors' Avenue, unless otherwise ordered by the Levy Court of Kent county. SECTION 2. At the said places shall be held the general election, all special elections for the Members of the General Assembly and Representatives in Congress; elections for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, and elections for Assessors of the said hundred and for InElectors to spectors of the said election districts. The electors residing vote, where in the said hundred shall vote in the election district in which they shall at the time reside. Election laws to apply to said districts. Exception. Presiding officers, when and how appointed. SECTION 3. All the laws of this State touching elections held in the several hundreds of the State shall apply to elections for the same officers in the said election districts, excepting only so far as the general law for the election of Assessors and Inspectors is qualified by the provisions hereinafter contained. SECTION 4. The Levy Court of Kent county, at its session in March, 1886, shall appoint some qualified voter of the district to be presiding officer of the District No. 1 at the next election thereinafter to be held in said district, who shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of such officer according to law. In case he shall not be present at the time and place of opening the election, the electors present shall choose a presiding officer for said election according to the provisions of Section 10, Chapter 18, of the Levy Court Revised Statutes. The Levy Court of Kent County shall at to furnish list of voters. Presiding officers to assemble, when and where. the time of the appointment make provision for the furnishing a list of voters of the said district to the person appointed as presiding officer aforesaid. SECTION 5. The said presiding officer and judges of both election districts shall assemble on the day next succeeding said election, at 12 o'clock noon, at the place of voting in District No. 1 aforesaid, and ascertain the aggregate number of votes cast in both districts for Assessor, and shall make, sign and deliver certificates of election according to law. If two candidates for said office shall have the highest and equal number of votes then the presiding officer of District No. I shall give the casting vote, which shall elect the candidate for whom the vote was given. Passed at Dover, April 10, 1885. OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAPTER 416. JURISDICTION. AN ACT granting consent of the State of Delaware to the purchase by the United States of certain lands for the purpose of the erection of Government Buildings at Wilmington, and ceding jurisdiction over the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: State for U. S. of cer for the public SECTION I. That the consent of the State of Delaware is Consent of hereby given to the purchase by the United States of one or purchase by more pieces of land situated in the City of Wilmington, not in lands in exceeding three acres in quantity, on which to erect Gov- Wilmington ernment Public Buildings for the accommodation of the erection of United States Courts, Post-Office and other government buildings. offices; and the said United States shall have, hold, use, Title. occupy and own the said land or lands when purchased and exercise jurisdiction and control over the same and every Jurisdiction part thereof, subject to the restrictions hereinafter men- Restriction. tioned. of U. S. U.S. SECTION 2. That the jurisdiction of the State of Dela- Cession to ware in and over the said land or lands mentioned in the foregoing section when purchased by the United States shall be, and the same hereby is, ceded to the United States; but Continuance such jurisdiction shall continue no longer than the said United States shall own the said land or lands. construed. SECTION 3. That the said consent is given and the said Conditional jurisdiction ceded upon the express condition that the State consent to of Delaware shall retain concurrent jurisdiction with the Concurrent. United States in and over the said land or lands, so far as that all civic process in all cases and such criminal or other How process as may issue under the laws or authority of the State of Delaware against any person or persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors committed within said State may be executed therein in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so Exception. far as such process may affect the real or personal property of the United States. SECTION 4. That the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not when jurisvest until the United States shall have acquired the title to vest in U.S. diction to OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. said land or lands by purchase or grant; and so long as the said land or lands shall remain the property of the said United States when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same Exemption shall be and continue exonerated from all taxes, assessments taxation,etc. and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this State. from SECTION 5. That this act shall take effect immediately. Preamble. Time for extended. CHAPTER 417. OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. AN ACT to revive and extend the Time of Recording Private Acts. WHEREAS by Chapter 4, Section 3, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, it is provided that private statutes (namely, such as are not of a public nature or published as such) shall be recorded in the Recorder's Office, in one of the counties of this state, within twelve months after their passage, or they shall be void; AND WHEREAS a number of the private and unpublished acts heretofore passed have been allowed to become void through ignorance of the aforesaid enactment, therefore, for the purpose of relieving the parties interested of the embarrassments and disappointments arising from such neglect in the premises; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (twothirds of each branch concurring therein): SECTION 1. That all unpublished acts heretofore passed private acts which have not by special acts been repealed, and that have become void on account of not being duly recorded in compliance with the provisions aforesaid, be and the same are hereby severally renewed and re-enacted, and together with the provisions therein contained are respectively declared to be in full force; and all acts and transactions done and performed under the provisions of said acts respectively shall OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. have the same force and effect and be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the said acts had been severally recorded according to law. Provided, that this enactment shall not Proviso. take effect in the case of any act that has become void as aforesaid until a certified copy thereof, procured of the Certified Secretary of State, shall be duly recorded in the Recorder's copy office of one of the counties of this State; and provided further, that no such copy of a voided act shall be received for record after the expiration of one year from the passage of this act. SECTION 2. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act and published as such. Passed at Dover, March 17, 1885. recorded. TITLE SECOND. Of the Public Revenue, and the Assessment, Collection and Appropriation of Taxes. Advertisement by State Treas urer. CHAPTER 418. OF THE REVENUE OF THE STATE. AN ACT to provide for the Payment of a part of the Funded Debt of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, as fol lows: SECTION 1. That the State Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized, directed and required to advertise, for the space of two weeks, in one daily newspaper published in each of the cities of New York and Philadelphia, and for the like period in four newspapers published in the State of Delaware, two whereof shall be in the city of Wilmington, preceding the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1885, for bids or proposals for the whole amount of the loan by this act Proposals. authorized. Each bid or proposal must be in writing, must state the bidder's full name and place of residence, and must be for the full amount of the loan; and every such bid must Guarantee. be accompanied by a certified check to the order of the State Treasurer for five per centum of the amount of the bid, which shall be retained and held as security for the compliance of the bidder with his undertaking in that behalf. Failure of In case the bidder to whom the loan shall be awarded fails bidders to or omits for the space of ten days after the date of such award to pay the State Treasurer the amount of his bid, the Percentage said percentage shall be absolutely forfeited to the State. Contents. comply. forfeited. Endorse ment of bids. All bids must be addressed to the State Treasurer, at Dover, Delaware, and must be endorsed on the envelope, "Proposal for Delaware State Loan." In the said advertisements the |