Evening journal., 1894-08-08
A MAP OF THE COMMON,
Quickly Prepared BY Civil
Engineer Although 100 Years
HAD TLAPsED sINCE THE SURVEY

or Original Outlines OF tho Tract Of Land
was Made by C. Dakeyne- The Tract
Has 'Urown" Several Acres precau-
tionarv Measures on the River steam
boats-Two Excursions To-day.
Special Correspondence Evening journal.
NEW CASTLE, Aug. s Surveyor WI
liam KINNEY had nis complete map
before the Trustees Of the New Castle
Common at the regular meeting, last
night, after having made an exhaustive
survey as ordered by he Board at the
June meeting be hai gone over and
continued ont every 6ne, staiyed the
boundaries. and prepared q wall map OF
extra large dimensions ic be hung on the
wall In the trustees meeting rooms In
the old Court House. This is really the
FIRST survey that has ever been made OF
the Common farms and tue trustees now
know Just what ground ihey have within
the fences Of their farma--tlllable land
and last where the boundary fences
should run The New Castle Com mon,
before any division Of the land into
farms VAS thought OF. was irst survey
ed IN 1904. and 10 Is believ 90 that this is
the most accurate instru-
ment IN the hands Of the Trustees On
page 4 Of the Title Papers and Amended
Charter Of the Board is the following ao
count of the return Of surveV OF George
Dskeyne In 1904, just 1870 yesrs ago.
"By vertue Of a Wart to nis directed.
bearing date the twenty third Gay OF the
tenth month, 1901, 20 survey ani lay out
20 the inhabitants OF New Castle TO lye
ia common for their sccommoda tiou and
TO their onely use and behoofe, one thous-
.H.ls sf..a.f IN. nI.
said Town OF New Castle, Repnted al
ways TO be the Common. and TO make re-
turns OF the same into the Generall Sur
veyrs Office att Philadelphia. This may
cerlife into the Genll Surveyrs office att
Philadelphia, that / have Resurveg1 this
Tract OF Land (beng formerly survoy'd %
this tenth day OF April, l7O4. bsgiuning
at an old corner Black Oake of Joseph
WOi d 3 standing by the Rode that leads
TO Christina ferry aud running along the
Rode toward New Csstle'-(the line con-
tinues from various oak trees and "hiok-
cry sapllngs' around TO the starting
point, enclosing 1,06S acres of land J
Recorded In the Recorders Office aU
New Castle In Book Of New Castle Sur
veSs page 400
Surveyor Kimmey's complete and in-
teresting map submitted lasCnght, shows
that the New Castle Common has within
its boundaries T. 1855 acres and the farms
contain l.0S7 acres OF tillabe land The
largest farm is the one at Hare's Corner
Union aud Bayard combined and it con-
tains 206 acres.
Transactions OF the Board.
Dr. Black presided at the meeting last
night when an The members except Mos
srs Shaw, Borie and Rodney were pres.
ent. Surveyor kimmey'a map was &c
oepted and ordered TO bo hung up ON the
East wall Of the chamber never TO be re-
moved from the room except on permis.
sion of the Board.
Then the matter of collecting rent
from Stephen p. NJ. Tasker, trustee, was
brought mp. This IS a dispute over 81
piece of land o. the stockton farm which
Mr.. Tasker has occupied but refused TO
pay rent for on the ground that the land,
or large part aud parcel thereof, be
longed TO the Tasker farm Mr. KINNEY
stated incidentally that he had made q
survey for Mr. Iasker that correspouded
identically with that submitted Go the
trustees On resolution Of Mr. Chal-
lenger. the secretary aud treasurer was
instructed TO forward 90 Mr. Tasyer the
statement OF Mr. KINNEY to the effect
that lac bad carefully surveyed the land
and found 10 20 be a portion Of New
Castle common, aud 70 make O demand
for all the back rent that Tenant Blggs,
of the Stockton farm, had refused TO pay
on the claim that the Tasker estate had
oondscated it The board thea ad-
journed.
An Addiction TO Delaware Flsharmen.
The complaint started last spring,
NnH .nrf HsIH IA
shad aud an the toothsome fish of tie
Delaware Is stin going the rounds iu
New Castle and 'mnny other fshiup
places Here Is one comment OF g Phila
delphia paper:
There is Law which provides q pen
atty sc the present time for the catching
of those pirates Of the fresh waters
carp, but 10 is a dead letter. 10 oui
lawmakers want TO confer a favor upon
our fishermen they will repeal 10 40 th,
next session Of the Legislature Th,
misguided German who inflicted thi.
pest upon as is only equeled by ha VIII,
first brought the English sparrow
10 this country. The fish IS nuisanc,
and almost unfit for food 10 may bl
good enough for Germany, but 10 canno
be compared TO our fishes Even thl
sucker is a better food fish
Collector After the River STEAMBOATS,.
News comes frou phl0dolghia to-da,
that Collector OF the Port Read. ia cours
of an investigation Of the river steam
boats has discovered several defects fl
the regulation provisions FOR safety, sn
has notified the managing owners OF th
vessels that the law must be- compile
with at once
In several instances life preserver
have been discovered locked Up wher
the passengers could not get them
case Of accident In others the preserv
ers hsd rotted away long ago aud wer
useless. IL is the purpose OF the collec
tor to see that the law is fully compile
with
Incidentit Of the Day.
All the members Of City Council wer
present last night at the regular meet
niCivncC in fha 0}omorI