The daily gazette., 1879-01-07

STATES may Dc Ascertdlneu, ueCiateu "o
fined and perpetually estabished; second
that the rights and estate of the plaintiff
in the bed of said river, and the territo'
rial extent thereof, may be defined, de-
clared and established; third, that the
! jurisdiction of the plaintiff, and It's courts
and Off GERS, in and over the Delaware
river, so far AZ said river Is between the
State of New jersey and the state OF
Delaware, may be ascertained, DEFINED,
declared and perpetually established !;
fourth, that the rights Of the citizens
and inhabitants of New Jersey to fish in
that part of the Delaware river which Is
between the State of New jersey and The
State of Delaware, may be ascertalned,
declared and perpetually established and
secured to hem; fifth, that the State OF
Delaware, its officers, etc, may be per-
petually enjolned from imposing any tax,
assessment or imposition whatsoever, by
way of license fee or 0 herwise, upon asy
citizen or resident of New Jersey, and
from requiring any of them to take a
license from, or under the State of
Delaware for the right to fsh in
the river Delaware, or, If Delaware
may legally be permitted to re-
quire license from Jerseymen to fish
in any part of the river Delaware, that 1t
be enjoined perpetually from imposing
any tax therefor on citizens or residents
of New Jersey, and from prescribing or
requiring any license therefor from citi-
zens or residents of New Jersey, other
or different from what isimposed upon
or required from citizens or residents of
the State of Delaware, and also may be
/. perpetually enjoined from arrestlng, i'm
pri,oning, trying, fining, or in any man
ner Furnishing, or seizng, holding or sell
ing any property OF any citizen or resi-
dent of New Jersey for fishing in any
part of the Delaware river, sixth, for gen
eral relief.
On the eleventh day of April, 1877, pur-
suant to an order OF the Supreme Court
of the United States made in the said
cause, March 26, 1877, upon motion for
a preliminary injunction, a copy OF a
writ of injunction issuing out of SAID
Court, March 81, 1877 with copy of SAID
order, was served upon me, commanding
and enjoining the State of Delaware, its
officers, agents and servants, to " desist
and retain from imposing any tax, assess
ment or imposition whatsoever, by way
of license fee, or otherwise, upon any cit
izens or resident of the State of New Jer-
, sey, and from requiring them, or any of
, them, to take a license from or under the
State of Delaware for right or authority
to fish in the river Delaware as they have
heretofore been accustomed to do before
the interference of the said State of Della
ware as mentioned in said order and
~
ing, or in any maner punlshlng, or SELF
ing, holding or selling any property of
any citizen or resident of New Jersey for
fishing in sad river as aforesaid, until
the said Court shall make other order to
the contrary"
Notice of the service of said writ of in
ljunct on having been duly given to tt Q
respective Clerks of the Peace of this
State, the further issuance Of the licenses
in question has been suspended, pending
the litigatio on, and the learned COUNSEL for
this State are now engaged in procuring
|, the evidence insupport OF the controvert-
ed title and jurisdiction OF Delaware, pre-
paratory to filing the answer to the bill
of the complainant. with view to bring.
ing the controversy to an early and final
determination
IL COUNTY DIVISION.
| or late years the proposed division OF
New Castle County into two counties has
commanded large share OF public atten-
tion and discussion, producing an earn
est feeling and growing belief that it off
ers the only practl cable solution of the
questions of "increase of representation
, and "Court House removal" which have
, 80 long been Of sngrossing interest to that
!, County, and of vital importance TO the
city of Wilmington.
The unmistakable public sentiment re-
) Il
representation in the Legisla' ure for New
Castle County, induced me at the time OF
, my inauguration, to bring the subject D .
fore the General Assembly ana the peo.
pie of the State, for their favorable con
sideration. Upon that occasion review
ed the question IN its various aspects land
urged that the rapid increase OF the popu
lation and property of New Castle Coun
{ ty, as compared with that Of Kent and
Sussex Counties, of late years. had ne
> cessitated an increase of the representa-
ton of that County In the General As
, sembly for the protection and promotion
/ of Its various interests and that fair ad
iustment of the inequality should moi
/ longer be postponed. | reasoned that, Il
r appreciate, fully, the force and Justice o
: the claim of New Castle County to suci
: increase of representation, it would bt
4 necessary to compare her existing repre-
t sentation, population and resources witt
1 those of the other counti les, aud proceed
. | ed as follows:
.By reference to the Federal Census o
! 1870 1t appears that the population OF New
Castle County was sxty-three thousand
We hundred and fifteen, (63, $50 of Ken
3 county, twenty-nine thousand eight hun
dred and four, (29 9,804,) and of SUISSE,
9 county, thirty-one thousand, six hundre,
ard ninety-six, 81 ,696,) thus showing tina
2 the population of the former was create
than that OF the TWO laICeT COLI Dlueu. ID
l the same census it appears that the as
sessed value of real estate in New Castl
l County was as great, and the assessed
: value of personal property more thai
8 three times as great, as that of the othe
o two counties combined, and that sh
II paid more than twice the amount of take
paid by both of them together for Stat
purposes. Also, her total of annua
It wages paid in farming operations an
e the total value of all her farm produe
% tions, respectively, were quite equal t.
q the aggregate totals, respectively, PAID o
. produced by both Kent and Sussex. Ii
n the mechanical and manufacturing indus
If tries, the capital invested. the wage
g. paid, and the value of the articles pro
r duced, respectively, were at least Tel
n times more in New Castle County thal
1t in Kent and Sussex Counties combine
n And yet, with this great di>proportion
It population and taxable properly, the leg
n islative representation OF that county
r. equal only to that of each of the othe
J. counties, while the city of Wilmington
n with population greater than that Z
t, either Kent or Sussex County, has neve
+ had a representative of her vast local il
a forests in both houses of the General AS
rt sembly at the same time.
10 "When our State Constitution OF l79.
l which established the present apportion
,e menJ between the three counties, Wa
IF framed, the population of each of thei