Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-23
1Ee1sLAr1rE PROCEEDINGS.



| Senate.
DOVER. April l5.-The Senate met at
II a. m.
Introduced. House bills to transfer the
| farm of Dr. Thomas Ellegood from School
district No. As to united Districts Nos.
44-l50, Sussex county; by Mr.. Ross, act
concerning building and loan associations;
House bills to incorporate the Peninsular
Dover Electric Light and Heat Company.
Read and referred; sHouse bill to author
ize the trustees under the will of Edwin l..
Wilson to sell certain real estate; Senate
| bill to amend section 1, chapter % Vol.
XVII, Delaware Laws; House bill to
amend chapter %, Vol; xviii, Laws Of
Delaware; House bills to incorporate the
Diamond State Investment Company; for
| the protection of private property; to in
corporate the Worrell Carpet Company;
| for the relief of School district No. ia
| Sussex county; to amend the charter OF
the River Front Railway Company; to in
corporate the Newark Manufacturing
Company; to exempt certain marsh and
meadow lands in Wilmington from tax
atom Senate bill relating to the publish
| ing of the financial statement of the city
of Wilmington; Senate bill authorizing
the Fire Department of Wilmington to
elect its chief and assistant engineers;
House bill to incorporate Eureka Council,
to incorporate the Industrial Savings So.
ciety; authorizing the condemnation of
! Silyerbrook and other streams for sewer
| purposes; House bill to divorce Annie NJ.
from William Rudolph.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate met at 3. o'clock
Introduced: House bills To divorce Isaac
A. from Margaret Gray; to authorize the
constable in Georgetown hundred to APP
4 law n
Sussex county; act to amend an act to in
corporate the town of Georgetown.
Read and referred House bill to amend
section 3, chapter III, vol. MIL, Laws of
Delaware Senate bill in relation to public
education in the city of Wilmington;
House bills to divorce Annie from John
W. Clark; act to open new public road IN
Broad Creek hundred, Sussex county; act
to incorporate Crusaders Castle, No. 4, X.
of G. H.; act to incorporate the Delaware
Terminal Railroad Company; act to ineor-
porate the Deep Hole Ditch Company; act
FOR the relief Of School district No. 81, Sus-
sex county; act to incorporate the Union
Electric Company; act to incorporate the
Chandler Trustee Company.
Introduced; House bill TO lay out pub
lie road in Indian River hundred, act to
diyofte Mary +. from Stephen b. Jackson:
act To divorce Gatharine from Richard
Stevenson; by Mr.. Richardson, act to au-
thorize sales of trust property and for
other purposes; House bills TO divorce
Helena Won Devern from Charles NJ.
Moore: act TO make a private road in Cedar
Creek hundred public road,
Passed: House bills providing against
discrimination by fire insurance com
panies; to amend chapter $50 Vol. XIV,
Laws of Delaware Ito allow woman to
testify in a civil suit to which she or her
husband are partiesl Senate bill to amend
the charter of the town Of Lewes, House
bills to restrict the sale of tobacco; to in
corporate the Lebanon schools;supplemont
to the charter of the Wilmington Coal
Gas Company.
Mr.. Ross. on behalf of the Five Commits
sioners bill for New Castle county, called
the bill up on the third reading and on his
further motion il was recommitted.
The House Joint resolution to pay Kent
county for the use of the county sewer by
the state was concurred in.
Adjourned to 1890 O'Clock tomorrow.
House of Representatives.
DOVER, pril15.-The House met at l0-45
O'Clock.
} r. r. Morris presented petitions and re
monstrances relative to the consolidation
of the School districts of North and South
Milton.
introduced BY f. ]. Morris, to incor-
porate the Peppers Creek Ditch Company;
by Mr., Ridgely, in relation to feed bills;
? by Mr.. Attix, to lay out new road across
] the dividing line between New Castle and
Kent counties; by Mr.. Tindall, in relation
to claims against the State (being bill
: authorizing registers of wills to empower
their deputies to perform certain deeds); by
: sors in Wilmington (relating to bills oil
/ ladingl; by Mr.. Day. for the benefit of this
estate of James Riddle, deceased to incor
4 porate the Interstate Ditching Company
, of Naaman's Creek (being bill to incor
porate the Newport Land and Investment
Company; by MIR Richards, to incorporate
> the Milford Ice Company, (being bill tc
! punish procuressesl by Mr.. Eisenhrey, Z
divorce Wlghtman and Susan Hopkins.
= Read and referred: House bills relating
! to public roads tbeing the Wilmington
. contiguous lands bilD; to amend section
: of supplement to the Delaware RAILROAD
charter; in relation to Wilmington streets
! for the advancement of public education
I Senate bill for an additional notary publit
= in Wilmington; bills to incorporate tn
q Excelsior Hose Company; the World
. Fair bill; for relief of Troop 3 Association
4 Recess to 8 p. m.
d AFTERNOON SESSION.
!, The House reassembled at $50 o'clock.
u Passed House bill to divorce Annie NJ
"a and George ii. Little.
Z Defeated: Senate bill authorizing tn
N Sussex levy court to appropriate $500 an
4, II nually to keeping up the streets of Cap
y Henlopen City
~ Introduced Senate bill relating to tn
u judiciary.
" Passed Senate hill providing for com
= missioners on uniformity of legislation.
Introduced: Senate bill amendatory o
Article IN, of the State Constitutions; b
Is Mr. Eisenbrey to amend chapter lSl, Vo
ut XIV, tbeing a bill in relation to road i
OF Mispillion hundredl.
~ The vote by which the Cape Henlope
er City appropriation bill was defeated wa
ut RECONSTRUCTED and the bill recommitted.
r. Passed: House bill in relation to III
lis free schools (being bill to transfer ],
mt Cooks farm to District 81 Kent county
u House joint resolution providing for
he Typographical survey tyeas, ID; nays, y,
introduced BY MIR. West, to enab
as George w. Jones to take up certain vacaI
cd land in Gumhorough hundred; Senate bi
ne ne to amend chapter 1913, Vol. XVII. (amen
~ ing the charter Of LallrcD.
~. Passed Senate bills incorporating Gree
IN wood Lodge, l. o. o. f.; empowering unit,
lin Districts Nos "a and i5Jto borrow 81 900
les build new school house; House bill to i
ne corporate the Glynrich Land Company.
M Concurred in: Senate amendment (su
~. stitute bill) to House bill repeating chapr
90 55S, Vol XVIIl., amended title being
eei act for the protection Of food fish in Del
;9ii ware waters
: Adjourned to l0a M. tomorrow.
ira Senate.
in Down, April 16.-The Senate met
on 1915 o'clock
Of BY Mr. Ross, Registration bill for t
,ed city of Wilmington; House bill to diyor
u.s. Ellen from David Powell.
Ter Read and referred House bill to dvor
eS- Isaac from Margaret A. GRAY; House h