Smyrna times., 1883-02-07
Legislative Notes.

Legislative NOIeSs
The bill to amend the charter of the !
town of Dover was defeated by vote of |
IL to 6. ItprOvides that instead ofraising
by taxation 81, 800 per year to run the |
town the Council may levy a tax not ex-
ceeding 80 cents on the hundred dollars. |
The bill will probably be reconsidered |
and passed with a lower rate of taxa
ton. Three hundred copies of the
State Board of Health report entire
and 1000 copies of that part relating to
vaccination were ordered to be printed.
A bill, prepared by Harry Emmons,
Esq, of Wilmington, will be introduced,
the aim of which will be to limit a
Judgment on real estate to 10 years,
unless renewed. The general impress
sion now is that judgment runs 20
years, but there is lack of law on the
subject and titles to real estate are
sometimes clouded by the uncertainty
as to the validity of judgments much
older than that. This bill will provide
that these old judgments shall be for
feited, if not renewed by a specified
time
CONTESTED ELECTIONS.
Mr.. Cooper introduced a bill in rela-
ton to contested elections which pro-
vides substantially as follows: Any
electOr of county or hundred may con-
test an election for the unfair election
of officers, ineligibility of the claimant
to office, forgery or attempted bribery
of the elector, inspector, judge or clerk
and illegal votes. Notice of contest
must be filed within twenty days after
the result of the election is officially
made known. 1t will be sufficient to
state generally in the notice that
enough illegal votes were cast to vitiate
the claimant, but names of illegal
voters need not be given in the notice.
The ProthOnetary shall direct such
cases and they shall be tried as any
other case except that there shall be
no jury unless one or both parties
claim the right of jury trial. The
Court may examine the ballots. If the
claimant proceeds in the legal manner
and the offices are declared vacant,
the person proved TO have the highest
number of votes is to be installed. In
case such proceedings shall be taken as
in vacancies that have happened from
other causes, Section II provides that
any election prior to the passage OF
this act may be contested under it il
the statement of the cause of contest be
filed within thirty days after the pass
: age of this act. The latter evidently
means to apply to the Lynch Martin
contest; 250 copies of the bill were
ordered to be printed.
, THE LIQUOR LAW.
Local option petitions, signed BY
, 1902 voters and 902 other persons in
; New Castle county; 552 voters and
: 453 others in Kent county, and ~:
r voters and 25S others in Sussex county
l were presented and referred to a join
!. committee. Pamphlets, arguing tha
5 prohibition is beneficial, written by
Y President Daniels of the Maryland
r State Temperance Alliance, have beer
J.. laid on the members desks, and it il
l understood that the bill which tn,
Y temperance men will insist upon hein,
s passed has been drawn by Whining
J.. ton lawyer.
i The liquor men are likely to ask 70
E very little in the way of amendment t.
: the present law. They desire to hav
s the clause stricken out which required
d the securing of "a "good and respecta
s bic citizens" as signers of license appli
q cations. An amendment which ha
3, also been suggested is to allow tn
IS owner of a hotel property, who lives i
n another State, to make the usual oat
is before proper officer in that Stat
d instead of being compelled to appear i
p person before the clerk of the peace O
t, the first day of court. What may
y done is the granting of q " free liquo
10 law" that is, giving license to an
is man who applies, and fixing the pric
1T at $500 or $400, and making violatio
of provisions of the act forfeiture {
the license and Imprisonment.
A bill has been introduced to abrC
nt gate the special license tax on lawyer
ld physicians, dentists and conveyancers
of also to abolish the license tax of con
nr mercial travellers. Mr.. Perry gay
rv notice of bill requiring all druggis
II and drug clerks to have taken o degre
er or be graduates of pharmacy. I'll
r. Senate resolution providing for IL
n appointment of q special Committee @
tn Intemperance was nOn-concurred in.
lg NEW BILLS.
x Among the bills that will be intr
ag duced in the House this week are IL
Id following Granting a new charter
Ir- the city of Wilmington; authorizir
nd the city of Wilmington to sell the sar
as lot property at Twelfth and Orans
on streets; authorizing the city of WI
ng mington to borrow $4,000 to repla,
ed the amount misappropriated by Ci
he Council from the funds of the Board
tn Education; to regulate the sale
mt artificial butter; to incorporate Il
n Young Mems Republican Club of Il
ng city of Wilmington; to tax telegraI
lg. and telephone poles making it nect
ke sary for druggists to have taken d
it gree or be a graduate of a school
ay pharmacy to abolish the tax on col
he mercial travellers to amend the cha
zee ter of the New Castle County Mutu
lily Insurance Company, and the bill
W. allow the Trustees of the Poor So
ng day and mileage for each day of actu
ms service in experimenting the erecti
hes of the new Almshouse and the dispo
Try ton Of the property in the city of w
led mington. In the Senate the b
the authorizing the Levy Court of NJ
of Castle county TO borrow $150,000
an complete the erection Of the new Ain
it house and the Local Option bill "
me probably be introduced. The Hor
md Joint resolution directing our rem