Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-26


| porate the South Prong Ditch Company
| for the relief of District IS, Sussex county
| to amend chapter as, Revised Code.
Mr.. Hutsop, from the committee on tht
Delaware, Maryland e. Virginia railroad
mortgages reported the agreement entered
into regarding the payment of the same.
introduced: Senate bill to incorporate
the Wilmington and Brandywine Real Els
tate Company; to incorporate Eureka Con
clave of Heptasophs; for the benefit oi
creditors of insolvent corporations; by Mr.
| Hickman, to lay out a new road in Balti
more Hundred.
Adjourned to 10 a. m. tomorrow.
Senate.
Dover, March 19.-The Senate met al
| Ills o'clock
Passed: Act to incorporate the John Il
Dickey Company; act to amend chapter
| 61S, Vol. XVII, Laws of Delaware; House
bill to amend chapter 3d. Revised Code.
Read and referred: Act to incorporate
the town of Marshallton; also remon
STRANGE against same (bll indefinitely post
| poned); act providing for weekly payment
| Of wages by corporations House bill tC
allow the town council of Milford to issue
bonds; act to incorporate Delaware Society
sons Of Revolutions act for the relief OF
Widow Schultz House bill to amend char
ter of Wilmington; act in relation to the
judiciary.
introduced: BY Mr.. Houston, for the
relief of the stockholders of Mifflin's Ditch,
Sussex county; act to amend chapter Gil,
Vol. NVIll, Laws of Delaware; by Mr.,
Richardson, act to incorporate the Dover
Button Manufacturing Company; by Mr..
Williams, act regulating assignments for
creditors benefit; by Mr.. Pilling, act to in
corporate the City Real Estate and Invest
ment Company; by Mr.. McMullen, act to
al, ~ -.
Pilling, act to incorporate the Newark Real
Estate and Improvement Company.
Joint resolution adopted: House resolu-
ton to pay John Wanamaker S30525.
Notice: BY Mr.. Richardson, act to
amend section of act passed at Dover
April 18th, 1887. supplement to act to in
corporate the Delaware Railroad Company;
by Mr. Williams, act in relation to the fees
of sheriils, constahles and justices of the
peace; by Mr.. Donahoe act to appoint an
inspector of foods and milk for Whining
ton; by Mr.. Pilling, act to provide for the
appointment of commissioners for the
promotion OF uniformity of legislation in
the United States, act to maintain college
for colored students; act to carry into
effect more fully the acts of Congress for
the endowment of agricultural colleges;
by Mr.. Moore, act to amend chapter 193.
Vol. NVlI, Pamphlet Laws of Delaware;
by Mr. Ross an act for public improve
lnent; act providing for elections in Will
mington hundred, New Castle county; act
providing that the Jail commissioners of
New Castle county feed the prisoners in
the county Jail; an act in relation to
municipal corporations; act making two
election districts in Mill Creek hundred
act to incorporate the mutual beneficiaries.
recess to 3 p. IN.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate met at g 10 n,plnck
Notice: By Mr.. Houston, and act in re-
lation to the collection of taxes; an act to
incorporate a starch manufacturing com
pany at Georgetown, Del. act in relation
to charter for railroad from Laurel to
Drawbridge, via Georgetown and Milton;
act relating to an act entitled an act for the
Georgetown Real Estate Investment Com
pany; by Mr.. Moore, an act in relation to
a charter in the city of Wilmington; an
act in relation to n public road in Broad
Creek hundred, Sussex county; an act in
relation to Laurel, Sussex county; an act
inrelation to a railroad charter through the
State of Delaware; an act in relation to q
public road in Sussex county; an act. in re,
lation to an incorporation in the city of
Wilmington; act in relation to the levy
court of Sussex county; by Mr.. Ross, an
act for the relief of Sallie A. Cummins; act
relating to public education in Whining
ton; by Mr.. Hall AN act entitled an amend
ment to extending the oyster grounds; an
act entitled a small appropriation to the
oyster service; by Mr.. Richardson, an act
concerning the town of Dover; an act con-
corning the manufacture of cigarettes; an
act to compel politicians to be strictly hon
est; an act to provide for the compulsory
education of children.
Introduced BY Mr.. Williams, an act
authorizing the appointment of notary
public for certain corporations.
HI Iaft -,
courts in Sussex county; act toincorporate
the Young Mems Christian Association of
Wilmington; act to incorporate the Mar
shallton Building and Loan Associations
House bill to incorporate lyanhoe Castle
No. Q X. of G. f.; House bill to amend
charter of the town of Dover; House bill
to amend sections "a, 30 and 80, chapter
1S5, Vol. XVIII, Laws of Delaware; act TO
amend chapter IS, Revised Statutes; House
bill to incorporate the Rehoboth Beach
Association.
Read and referred Act to amend
chapter 76, Vol. XVII, Laws of Delaware;
an act in relation of the lien OF taxes.
The House joint resolution in relation to
the reports of State officers was adopted.
Adjourned to II a. M. tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
DOVER, March 19-The House met at
1890 a. m, with prayer by the Rev. O. H.
Deakins.
Claims read and referred BY Mr.. Smith
claim of G. f. Thomas & Co.. $2,07715.
Mr.. Higgins presented letter inviting the
Legislature, or any committee thereof, to
the writer's (W. b. Croft of
Odessal cure for peach yellows; referred.
Mr. Chapman presented a petition from re-
sidents of Districts So and 149, Sussex; re-
ferred.
&0n motion of Mr.. Ridgely, the Senate
bill was recommitted to the
committee on constitutional reform.
Speaker Sirman presented circumstances
from the grand priory of the knights of
Malta against the use of the name knights
of Malta, in the charter of Brandywine
knights of Malta, now
and from George w. Quinn
against the Ridgely bond Investment bill.
Referred.
Notice; By Mr.. Attix, to incorporate the
Jordan Branch Ditch Company; by Mr.. |
Hickman, to transfer certain farms to Dis |
trict 100, Sussex; for public road In Bal |
timore hundred; for the protection of /
game in Assawoman bay; to incorporate |
the Seaboard Railroad and Navigation |
Company; to incorporate the Transconti- |
mental Express Company; to incorporate
the Delaware Mining and Improving Com
pany; by Mr.. Elkinton 10 amend chapter