Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-03-26
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No;wT Estanding the very preci
man ,es in which the Levy Court ha
tried 10 act in regard, to the deliuque
list OF yo'ers of the Csdn.y the mel
bsrs -viceAty departed from b.
the ettar and spirit of the Law in Il
allowance Of the delinquent list of Ne
Castle Hundred at the March session
1870. l. oder tina, there may be
proper understanding in the matte
an t o, it may not be lightly charge
to msrs newspaper talk, we quote tn
two last paragraphs of Ssotion q, Chap
ter s OF State digest which governs tn
return Of delinquen's as follows:
"They (ths Lazy Court shall, at th
said meeting, Tin March, examine an
settle the delinquent list of each collec
tor, as well of State as of County take
and make allowance of delinsuents
and upon such allowance the collecto
shall b. credited with the amour
thereof. The name OF the dslinquen
if he be dead or has removed from til,
State, shall bs struck from the assess
ment list and also from the collectors
duplicate otherwise it shall remain
on the assessment and bs entered on
the collectors duplicate for the sue
eeeding year.
A delinquent list shall OF be allowed
until the expiration Of five days from
the day Of its return by the collector
and any citizen Of the county shall
have the right, at any time after such
returE, and bsfore allowance to inspeo,
the same, upon making request to said
Court, if in session, or to the clerk Of
the peace, If the Court is not in SEES.
sion and ii said commissioners, when
application is made to them, shall not
permit such inspection, they, or such
of them as refuse, shall be deemed
guilty Of misdslnsanor, and shall DO
fined twenty dollars, and at the trial
such refusal may be proved by oral
testimony"
We have thus fully quoted this i'm
portant part Of the Law that our read
ers may know something about the
plan by which they are 80 syetsnati-
cally disfranchissd and denied their
votss at the election. But how about
New Castle Hundred Much has re.
Gently leen said of the extreme hon
esty and nagnanimity OF the collector
of that Hundred for 1873, and far be it
from US to attempt TO prove that he vas
not both hon S: and magnanimous, but
a. the sans time he seems at least to
have been very tardy in handing in
his delinquent list at the March term Of
1879, 70 much so as TO defeat the true
purposes andI intent Of the law. TIE
delinquent book for that term bears
date March 9th 1879. By the law
which We have Just quoted and which
is very plain and explicit, the list has
to lie on the table five days (Which GER
tainly means fvs working days of the |
COURT before it can be allowed. Anoth-
or record on this delinquent book shows
that this list was allowed April third.
The first paragraph Of section 2lst,
chapter %, page IS, revised code says
"At the meeting in March (not in
ApriD in every year, the Levy Court
shall examine, adjust and settle the
accounts Of the collectors, making all
just . allowances, &C." We presume
there will be no doubt that the first Of
April cannot by any process of reason
ing be tortured into March, and if this
canno be done what is to be done with
the 1879 delinquent list of New Castle
Hundred. It $ plainly evident that
the action Of the Levy Court in allow
ing thu list was illegal and every man
struck from the assessment list by such 8
action las been illegally disfrancnised. 4
This hoaever il not the worst of it. By
another section of he law governing C
This matter it is provided that the name 8
If person so truck from the delin-
luent lis, cannot again be placed upon e
he assessment until the expiration of o
me year after said list has been allow q
ID by the Levy Court, and as the law n
states that all assessments u
must be completed in March, it will be 6
een that these persons in New Castle >.
Hundred who we're illegally dis'ran. =,
,hisei a wh,lA year will have to re- :,
main DISTINGUISHED another year before !,
heir names cal g. upon he assess- a
nent. The que ticn is, will the Levy -
jourt acknowledge its error and replace
he names 0, the3e persons upon the
assessment WHO we're declared delin- "
luents on April thir /, 1879, or will they Of
persist n disfranchisin them still L
mother year, simply becAxse the court 70
made an error and will decide to profit Z
y it. What will the Levy Court do g
bou. itY OF
THE CRY COUNCIL should no. pass
yer the late terrible accident OccuriDR T.
hrough the use of explo.i5s oil, light n
?. A citizen has b'en burned to death ~
nd another has but inst escaped death, d