Evening journal., 1895-02-19
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
What the Law Makers Did in
Dover Yesterday.
WILMINGTON & NEW CASTLE ROAD

The Constitutional Convention Bill In.
For Permanent Roads In Brandywine.
Gordon Heights Railway Cherry Island
Marsha Compromise IN the Farm
hurst Appropriation.
STAFF Correspondence Evening journal.
DOVER, Feb. 10 Peter L Cooper, Jr.,
and DR.. Peter Cooper. Of Wilmington.
were here last evening endeavoring to
get the House Committee on Corpora
tions to make a favorable report upon
the supplement to the charter of the
Wilmington and New Castle Railway
charter The committee is averse to
making & favorable report upon the
grade crossing feature Of the supplement-,
and there the matter hangs
VIII st. Georges Like It9
The town Of St. Georges receives at
present the whole OF the road tax paid
by its citizens. Representative Rey bold
has In hand for Introduction q bill which
provides that one half Of the tax SO raise d
shall go to the town and the other half to
the hundred at large, as Is the case with
Delaware City and other towns In Red
Lion hundred.
In the Commuters Hands.
The Queen Anne's railroad charter had
It's FIRST reading in the Senate. 1t was
sent to the committee on corporations
under suspension OF rules.
Vested in tho Lessor
The Senate passed the House bill
vesting the ownership of street railway
equipment and rolling stock in the
manufacturer and lessor until the lessee
shall have paid for IL. Prior to this
session the law only applied to steam
railroads.
The Psnnrock q Reality.
The Pennroek Company Is now q cor
poration The Senate passed the House
bill yesterday. The new company ia
authorized to grow anything from q
turnip to a game cock, and TO manu-
ufscture all kinds of farming imple
ments.
A Convention In Sight.
The bill providing for a constitutions
convention is now in. Senator Pyle in
troduced IL yesterday. It starts off with
a lengthy preamble, and winds up b.
providing that the convention shal
meet on the first Tuesday In December
A. D., 1896 The membership is placed
at thirty. ten delegates from eacE
} county, TO be elected at the regular
election In November. 1895 ANY man o.
the age of "a years and qualified to vot'
for representatives, is entitled to be 1
delegate If elected. and all regular
voters may vote for delegates whos'
names shall be upon the regular ballot
An error In the delegate branch OF thu
ticket shall only effect that branch.
The provisions of the secret ballot Law
shall apply to the election, and th
regular officers hall serve st the election
The delegates to and officers of tn
convention are entitled to the, same pa
} as members and officers Of the Genera
Assembly, and the convention Ii
: authorized TO draw upon the stat'
J treasurer for funds to meet the expense
incidental to the holding gof the conven
tion. The new constitution must be
submitted to the people for ratification
Brandywine's Permanent Roads.
Senator Handy introduced the much
talked of act in relation to the road
and highways In Brandywine hundred
/ It is lengthy instrument and every
line speaks of macadsm, bonds ant
better roads. IT'S provisions in brief ar
as follows:
, THAT on November 3, 1896, the quail
/ fed voters of Brandywine hundred shal
elect two suitable persons as road com
. missioners for the term OF four years
! and on November 8, 1898, shall elect on
] other suitable person as road commits
sioner for the term of four years, an
thereafter they shall ELECT every tw
. years road commissioners alternatel
\ for like sperlods to fill the vRcAncis
! of the commissioners whose terms the
= expire The bill divides the hundre
into three districts as follows First, th
i northern election district; second, th
eastern election district third, ii
southern election district 1t abolishs
y the Office OF roa ad supervisor and appoint
1 Alfred / Derickson commissioner for I'll
First district, for term Of four year
It Lewis F. Talley, Second district. for tv
Il years, and John Shaw, Third district. I,
two years Their successors shall
elected when their terms expire. III
y new commissioners shall meet on 81
second Monday of April, and the presel
& supervisors shall settle all accounts on
y before that day and deliver TO the ne
y commissioners all the hundred properi
y in their possession
7. On or before the second Monday
4 April buU GOmuiSSlDucEb MuHb t5hAhlh
the amount Of money required for II
u year for keeping the roads and bridges
q the hundred in good repair and in III
! manner every year while In Office ~
Is commissioners shall meet on the secor
y Monday Of April and canvass, revise al
is alter and pass upon the estimates Of eR'
"a commissioner, estimate the total sum
Ig money required and fix the rate Of roi
tax, which shall not exceed twenty-f
- cents on thes-$1O0 Of such Assess
"a valuation.
OF A supervisor of roads for each schc
= district shall be appointed on the secol
'n Monday Of April. the political parties TO
IS nearly equally represented as possibl
all dirt roads must be repsired on or
!, fore May 81 in each year Failure Of du
10 on the part Of q supervisor makes hi
OF ineligible for re-elestion. The supervise
~ must give five days notice of repairs
W be made and all taxpayers who apr
lo for work shall receive it, furnishing
on own tools, except tools for stone wol
W Where a road divides district the sup
US visors shall divide the work. The co
~ mlssioners shall receive 81 day for til
actually put in and shall make atfida
to the correctness OF their respecti
he claims The pay of the supervisors