Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-06-02
Summary Of the Laws Enacted
at the Adjourned Session
Which Chased
Monday.
SOME MEASURES OF IMPORTANCE
Educational Bill, Supreme
Court Bill, Election and
Registration En9ct-
ments nClud ed
in the List.

shHoculDlg Nv Luz HlN'Ih' hunhtNN "iNfNH
cnmo TO mn end last night:
Extending tbs lmita Of tho city of
Wilmington; extending tho limits OF
the town Of Bridgayille; authorizing |
the town Of Milton tn hoTruw money |
for affect improvements authorizing the
town Of Dover to raise more money by
taxation; permitting MiddletUwn 10
luat it's bonds mt lowpr rate uf in
terest; amounting the charter ut the
town of laurel: giving the town Ut
FoHn spnd moro money for street pur
poses, tho appropriation heing male
FROM the roBti fund OF the county; COM
pansating Recorder of Deeds Mont
gunesy Of New Castle county teS00i for
recortling the report OF tho boundary
Commission giving the county treas
urer Of Now Castla equity additional
compensation for extra work in mixing
collections unucr the Investment tax
law; giving the asessspTs Of the city Of
Wilmington additional compensation
far making assessments under the in
vestment tax law; requiring all bakers
to put pound of weight in each loaf
of hrsad manufactured in the state;
granting appropriations for teachers
institutes; creating general school
law: making appropriations for the
fiscal year enuing On the first MONDAY
after tbB second Tuesday in 1899; regu-
luiing the school fund; defining the
duties and powers Of the tax collectors
and road overseerH of Sussex county;
permitting the huusa serreanta at the
Wilmington pnliGa station to issue war
rants and accept hail in tho absence Of
ths City Court clerk; extending the
time for recording private acts; author
ivinu fhn StnFa fri n hOTrf
o. 900; general sleGtion bill; uniform
hRllUt law; making the Investment tax
law operative anu requiring tho Lew
Courts 10 act under the law immodi
ately; to allow tho, Delaware soliiers
to vote while in the iisli; providing for
the election of assessors aud making OF
assessments in Kent county; providing
for justice of the pence in the South
ern district of Brandywine hundred
compromising james l.. Woleott, Jr. /,
| for compiling and publishing the de-
cision of the late Chancellor WolcOtt;
| providing for payment of the expenses
| of improvements to tho State HOUSE
and authorizing further improvements:
directing the Governor to appoint
Robert Wier of Wilmington notary
public (vetoed providing for the main
tenancu of INDECENT lmbecile children;
authorizing the appointment Of an ad.
ditional notary public for Wilmington
William II. Robinson being tina ap-
pointeel abolishing days Of grace on
negotiable paper after July LIST; pro-
viding for court ntonngrapher; giving
Kent county Levy Court commission;
classifying property In Wilmington for
assessment anu taxation purposes;
granting the Phoenix Fire Co. Of Will
| .s.,s. sc Haiti Low,
from SO, 500 to $4,000; regulating tho
laying OF Canitation tax; allowing
the taking of an appeal In Gases where
a demurrer haH been tiled; assigning
rooms for various purposes in the State
House amending the New Castle pawn
broker law so as to give the court dis
cretionary power in imposing tlnea for
| violation of the Law, the minimum
being $50 and the maximum $500; regu-
lating the settlement of estates in the
matter of appointing trustees: making
valid the title to certain real estate tho
property OF Sallie G. Gordy; authorizing
the publication OF tho decisions of the
Court of Errors and Appeals, Superior
Court Court Of General Sessions OF this
Peace and Jail Delivery and the Court
of Oyer and Terminor from February
1st, 1873, to June 10th, 1907; author
izing the Supreme Court to make rules
and orders; regulating writs OF GER
tiorari out Of the Supreme Court;
regulating tho return Of process out OF
the Supreme Court; in relation 10 re-
cognizances in the Orphans Court;
pruviling for method of inquiring
into the sanity and having released
persons who have been committed to
tho State Hospital for tho Insane; 10
~. 4 - l.,
county to make an annual appropria-
ton to tho Forris Industrial School, ut
tho rate Of 800 for each hoy, not to ex-
reed S., OOC in the aggregate for any ons
year; authorizing the Secretary Of
State to compile and have printed for
distribution the school and election aud
registration laws; 10 relation to roRds
in st. Georges hundred; giving Will
mingtun hundred five assessors Instead
of three; giving the poll tax collocturs
of Wilmington an annual salary of
81, 900 each; creating Department of
Elections for Wilmington and giving it
tho same powers as ii formerly pos
sessed in relation to registrations and
elections; providing for tho appoint
ment of reg stIatinn officers providing
for filling vacancies in ditch com-
panies; making provision for tho eradi-
cation of Infectious diseases in lower
animals; in relation to bringing certain
suita; changing the time for holding
tho Court of Chancery in SussAx county
from the first Monday in March and
Sentemher to the first Monday In June
and December providing for an add
, tional justice OF tho peace at Harring
} ton; for the protection of oysters in
Murderkill and st. Jones Rivers; allow
iIg the Courts TO grant fractional
licenses in cases where tho applicant has
been refused on account of technical
error in making application making
Hpecia provision for mobiliziug the Ma
tional Guard Of the State; allowing
the attorney general extra compenEa-
ton for work dcEe outside of the State ;
, paying for improvements at the Will
} mingtOn armory; extending tho time
for making assessments this yeBr re-
establishing the courts, abolishing the
Court of General Sossiuus nj tho Poacs
and Jail Delivery and tho Court of
: Errors and Appeals, establishing the
, Court Of General Sessions and the Su-
promo CuurtH, and regulating the
, courts; ab0lishing the old court seals
ami establishing new ones; changing
the name Of William Bonnar to William
Stuart; changing the mans of Ida NJ.
, Holston 10 Ida M. Chamberlain reeu-
/ lating the forms Of various State officers
/ and fixing their salaries; changing the
\ name of Metn Margaret Waller to Meta
Margaret Hitch; making provision for
c0Iored teachers institutes; changing
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