Evening journal., 1893-03-10
TWO MORE MEMBERS.
A Law Changing the Street
and Sewer Commission.
WILL CONSIST OF FIVE PERSONS.


Named as the New street and sewer
Directors-RIdgsiy's Persevsranoe in
Completing the Digest of Delaware
Reports-w Wilmington Institute Amead-
ments.
staR Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER. March 10 Representative
spruance has In his possession for intro
duction bill to reconstruct the Street
and Sewer Department Of Wilmington.
IL is entitled, IAN Act TO amend the Act
entitled, An act Ia relation to the
Streets and Sewers of the City Of VIII
mington, passed at Dover, April 90.
leoI The provisions Of the bill are az
follows:
Section THAT the Board of Direc.
tors Of the Street and Sewer Department
shall, from and after the passage of this
act consist Of five persons and the
persons constituting the said board on
the first day Of January, 1893 together
with Enoch Moore and William II. Nc
Garrity shall constitute said board.
Section The terms OF office Of the
persons constituting said board shall
terminate hereafter on the thirty-frst
day OF December Of the year preceding
that in which their terms would other
wise now end as at present provided bv
law; and hereafter the fiscal year of
said department shall begin on the irst
day Of January Of each aud every year.
The term Of the member Of said board
whose term would otherwise then under
the provisions Ct this act, expire and
end on the thirty-first day Of March. A.
D.. 1898, shall be ana the same is hereby
extended and continued until the thirty,
/ frat Hnu of nnuart kar A
term of one of the members of this act
added to the said board shall expire and
end on the thirty first day Of December.
A. D., 1894, and the term of the other Of
said members, shall expire and end ON
the thirty first day of December, 1896:
aud the said two members hereby added
, shall, by lot, at the first regular meeting
! of the said board of directors after the
pa sage of this act, determine and settle
p for which Of said terms or periods they
! shall respectively serve, aud the board
, shall enter upon its minutes how said
matter has been determined, On the
expiration of the terms Of the members
\ constituting the said Board of Directors.
! after the passage of this act, their sue
cessors shall be appointed by the mayor,
, | provided, however, that when the terms
of any two members of said board shall
10 pointed as their successors shall be OF
v different political faith and opinion.
"Section That the committee Of
n council provided for by section IL Of the
act hereby amended, shall, ia the year
, Of 1894 aud each year thereafter be ap-
\, pointed aud perform the duties as pro
vided In said section IN the month Of
q January instead Of the month Of May as
" by said act provided.
Section That all acts and parts of
a acts inconsistent herewith be and the
d same are hereby repealed"
e This bill makes the composition of the
If board as follows: Joseph l.. Carpenter,
Is Jr, Newlin Gawthrop. Samuel Cham
bers, Enoch Moore and William H. Nc
Garrity. II extends Mr. Carpenters s
. term, which expires on March 81, to
December 81, 1898
The digest Is Needed.
The magnitude Of the Importance Of
the resolution providing for the publ
= cation of the digest of the Delaware re-
!, ports which has been prepared by Henry
Ridgely is just beginning to be appre-
ciated by those who have seriously con.
sidered the after. This work has been
e begun by many lawyers, but in every
"A instance before been given up because OF
the amount Of labor involved in its
h. preparation.
" One Of the Oldest and most prominent
IN of lawyers Of the state said TO day that
~ there had not been a year since he had
~ been admitted TO the bar that he had lot
~ heard of some one being engaged In the
- preparation of such a digest; and thai
the bench. the bar and the public, w0ulC
a - be greatly indebted to Mr.. Ridgely fol
~ his persevering industry in completing
~ this work, If it could be published fol
:. use.
~ The Delaware reports cost from $40 t.
N' $50 atvOlume. This places them beyOn(
the reach of the public and Of th'
justices of the peace who nigh
desire TO know the decision of thu
co state courts upon any question o
's- law, statutory or otherwise, which ha
"A been passed upon. By the publication
H. n of this digest this information would, a
l. a small cost, be placed in the reach O
y, everyone, and would be Of special bene6
A. TO the justices Of the peace and preven
d. many of the errors into which they fall
le' and thereby save the costs and troubl
~. arising from reversal of their opinions
y The W. a b.. S. Amendments.
J. TheWilmington and Brandwine Spring
I'd railway promoters had a hearing befor
ctnhlofo hdknout INCUBUS anu 4 llt. col
stituting the Senate Committee on CorpC
rations, yesterday morning. The con
Of pany was represented by Richard "
ed Crook and Frank d. Carpenter, Jr
ny. They made the proposition to begi
the line at Edge Moor and 60 over tn
following route: Nandever avenue I
Elliott avenue, to Market, to Twenty
third street, to Washington. to Secon
nr or Third. TO Union, to Elsmere, to BraI
dywine Springs This cuts of the lool
iss in the North Side Improvement Compan
q and the line down French street. I'll
tho committee decided to hold the matt,
m under consideration, promising to gi'
them further hearing at / 80.
w Another Railway Complication.
to Representative Watkins will insrodul
-, an act TO amend the charter of the Odesl
lag aud Middletown Narrow Guage Railw,
AZ Company granted two years ago. The ori
. L. inal charter gave the company the rigl
to use steam. Work on the road vi
stopped by injunction. The propos,