Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-18
LEGISLATURES PROCEEDINGS
Adoption of Resolutions. Con-
corning Judge Wales.
STATE HOSPITAL APPROPRIATION
Contemplated Removal of a
SChooihouSe.
Proposed Reduction Of ~ for Certified
Copies of Divorce Bilis--an Act Providing
for the Introduction OF the Myers Voting
Machine In Delaware.

Mnchihe IN Delaware.
ptaH Correspondence Of Gazette and journal.
Dover, Fen. II. 1.-The General Assem-
bly, held no session to-day, adjourn.
ment having been made yesterday after.
noon until next Monday morning, OUT
of respect to the late Hon. l.. Il. Wales
The adjournment permitted the mem.
beers 10 attend the funeral, except those
al no were detained on the divorce COM
hittee. which started in to hear ~ an
Y .ications.
W The joint committee appointed TO
ake action on the death of Hon. Il. f.
Walos reported the following, which
were adopted by both houses:
Resolved, That We have learned with pro-
Wound regret of the death of the late Judge
Leonard u. Wales, who as a soldier in the
late war, rs a judge in the courts of this
estate tor ~ years and as a judge in the Fed
xerai courts Tor IL years, endeared himself TO
Ethe people OF this commonwealth MS Il brave
7;soldier. an able and impartial judge and one
,}pf our foremost citizens
W Resolved, That the members of this AS
tfenbly hereby tender To the family of the
f'peceased our sincere sympathy in their great
h bereavement and mourn with them their
'Rioss and the loss to our people.
81 Iesolved, Ihat the clerk be instructed to
|florward Il copy of these resolutions to the
<;1amily Of the deceased.
81 Robert J. Handy,
N John w. Fenimore,
"a David X. Donaldson,
III Thomas Johnson.
III Charles NJ. Adams,
Vel Committee.
81 On motion of Representative Cheairs
IA resolution was adopted ;nstructing
tho clerk of the House to forward d
© of the joint resolution recently
+ passed commencing the administration
Sof President Cleveland to Senator Gray
4 FOR presentation TO the United States
Senate.
Mr.. Cheairs also offered joint reso-
lutiUn making an annual appropriation
of Si5. 800. 80 TO tho State Hospital for
1 the next two years. Tine resolution
was referred to the committee on ap.
preparations.
A joint resolution offered by Repro.
tentative Dempsey, authorizing the
state librarian to purchase now flag
Tor the State House, was concurred in
by both houses
3 The object of Mr.. Donaldson's bill
'tQ iLx the voting place in East White
,<&lI9< Creek hundred is to make it in
x.4ubent on the election officers in that
dIsfrlct to hold the elections at thu
Christiana Hotel, which is considered
the most convenient place. Heretofore
1t has been optional with the officers
whefe they should hold the eIectionB.
Senator Pyle gave notice of bill
amending an act entitled IAN act con.
cerning the publication of the lays,"
being chapter l. Vol. XIII, Laws OF
Delaware, the amendment being re.
duction of the fees for certified copies
OF divorce bills from $40 to $40.
Mr.. Alrichs gave notice of bill to
establish voting place in the Northern
district of Pencader hundred, New
Castle county. For many years the
voting place was ut Cooch's mill, a con-
venient place along the railroad between
Newark and Porter's. but when the
Australian ballot law went into effect
the polling place was moved, which
proved an Inconvenience to some of the
voters, and the bill is 10 establish the
voting place at the old location, Cooch's
mill, the owner and operator John w,
Dayett, having given hia consent.
purity of the ballot bill is in course
OF preparation by prominent citizen
OF Kent COUNTY. 1t will favor the adop-
tion OF the Myers voting machine aud
provide that it shall not be necessary
for propert: owners TO register every
year. 10 overcome this it is proposed
to give property owners when they first
register certificates, which shall be
good as long as they live 10 the district
Representative Wilson is interested
IN a similar movement, and he gave
notice OF an act supplementary to an
act entitled An act for the purity of
the ballot. " Mr. Wilson stated that the
PHI is not yee IN shape, but it is In
tended TO proride further safeguards for
the ballot pox.
Representative Thompson gave notice
of bill providing that the assessor OF
Lewes and Rehoboth hundred shall
after each assessment, post copies of
The lists in five of the most public
places in the hundred, four to ho in
tbe four postollices and the other in
place where it may be inspected BY
those assessed.
MIR. Dempsey gave notice of an act
to incorporate the Country Club of
forklyn, an organization of young men
and women in that town which gives
entertainments, ho!ds debates and in
TACT serves to make Yorklyn the de-
Rirabie place of residence that it is,
Inc bill to lay out new road in
Seaford hundred, Sussex county, was
reported farorably from the committee
on roads and vacant lands. The pru-
posed road is to. shorten tho distance
between Atlanta and tho Maryland line,
and is to make Bethel Church easier Of
access from certain directions. Tho
bill was accompanied by a petition
from w. II. Kinder, through whose
property tho road will run, stating that
no will give the land 10 the county,
MIR. Short thought the bill should
5tipulate that tho land was to cost the
county nothing, and on motion of Mr..
Davis 1t was reforred back to the com
mittee, with instructions to have the
bill so amended.
Representative Dempsey has received
bill incorporating the General Land
20. of Wilmington. The pronosed cor
porators are William H. Swift, George
;. Capelle, John g. Hartman, William
Y. Brincile, Preston Lea. William
Baxter, Washington Hastings, John II.
DANNY, Willard Salisbury, Francis II,
Kelly, Joseph l.. Carpenter. Sr., John
i. oickey, Edward Bringhurst, Jr.,
Alexander j. Hart and George w.
Bush. The objects of the company arc
to acquire. purchase, take. lease ana
hold all estates and property. real, per-
sonal and mixed, and to deal in property |
generally. Tho bill also empowers |
them to improve real estate, build |
houses, &C., deal in stocks and bonds. |
The capital stock is to be $50, 600.
divided into s25 shares. The CAPITAL |