The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-02-19
Affairs at Drver

| DOVER Feb. 10. An effort was made h
consider the report of the Committee OF
Corporations In the Constitutional Con
yention this morning, but the Committe
on elections, whose report has been unde
| consideration for tho past two days, sue
ceeded In side.traoking 1t and bringing
| up their own report, which had already
| occupied two days of the time Of tho con
| vention.
Only portion Of the report was con.
sidered 1t was amended after consid
cradle discussion and finally adopted a.
follows: From the decision of the regis
tration officers, granting or refusing
registration, or striking or refusing to
strike name or names from the regis.
tration list, any person interested or any
registration officer may appeal to the
resident Judge, or in case of his dis
ability or absence from the county, to
any Judge entitled to sit in the Supreme
Court Of the county, whose determination
shall be final, and he shall have power to
order any ngne Improperly omitted from
the said registry to be placed thereon, and
any name improperly appearing on the
said registry to be stricken therefrom and
to make and enforce all necessary orders
In the premises for the correction OF the
said regi r.
Registraulon shall be required only for
general biennial elections, at which mem.
bers of the General Assembly shall be
chosen, unless the General Assembly
shall otherwise provide by law. The ex'
isling laws in reference to tho regslra-
tion Of voters, so far consistent with the
provisions of this article shall continue
in force until the General Assembly shall
otherwise provide.
The House passed tho bill offered by
Mr.. Donaldson making county and poor
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of Issuing Of the duplicate instead of from
the time of laying the tax. The bill al
lowing the town of Laurel to collect $500
for school purposes instead Of $1,000 was
also passed, as was the bill TO allow the
State Grange Insurance Company 10 in
sure against lightning
The Senate passed the House bill in re-
lation to recognizances of the Orphans
Court The Senate also passed the House
bill making it unlawful for the county to
pay witness fees unle,s the witnesses are
summoned by the Court and the House
bill to extend the timo for the completion |
OF the Elsmere and Wilmington Electric
Railway until November /.
Mr., Donaldson to-day introduced bill
to repeal the law under which the Consti-
tutional Convention was called.
Mr.. Donaldson introduced the new
charter for New Castle in the House to-
uhy. ne Dill provinces Tor q mayor, IfeS-
ident of City Council, eight Councilmen,
Assessor and Treasurer. The city is di.
vided into four Councilmanic Districts
Provision is made for a Mayors Court to
Try minor offenses
The Committee on Municipal Corpora.
ions to-day gave u hearing to smyrna
people who oppose and favor the pro-
posed new charter of that town. Coun.
Iilmen Boyeran Robinson spoke for the
,harter and John H. Hotfcoker. w. A.
faries. w. NJ Bell and George II. Ray
nond in opposition.
Mr.. Dukes. in the house, introduced an
Imendment to The ctarter OF the Queen
Anne's Railroad Company, changing the
lamc OF the company to the Baltimore,
EASTERN Shore & Delaware Railroad, and
.ranting 1t the power to extend its line to
tchoboth.
Mr.. Hopkins gave notice of bill to re.
luce the price Of a certified copy of a d. ]
orce bill from $50 to $40, Mr.. HAZEL c
ave notice of a bill to limit judgments
n real estate in Kent County to ten c
ears. c