Evening journal., 1899-02-10
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ported with favorable consideration
the senate bin making an appropria-
ton Of SlOS453 to layton & Layton
OF Georgetown, for legislative sup
plies. Senator Abbott asserted THAT The
charges made were excessive, and that
while the new CostitutiCn allowed
the members SIS worth Of supplies
they had received but about sl1 worth,
Chairman Slaughter declared that lay
ten e Layton were the lowest conlrad;
bidders. and that ais they had carried
out the Specifications ~ the contract
the state would have to pay them Mr..
Abbott insisted that the biz lay over
for one day. and that was the dispo-
sition made Of IT,
REG1sTRATICN AMENDMENTS.
Representative Burns gave nLtice OF
fur biEs amendatory Of the registra-
tlon law. They provide thai witnesses
in appeal cases shall receive 81 per
day and mileage cf three cents. going
TO and returning. The judge is author
lied to subpoena witnesses in az such
cases. and he may tax the costs Of APP
Peal up1n the register, appellant or
county ais the nature of the appeal
may seem to warrant.
FROM SIXTH TO EIGHTH.
Representative Burns will introduce
a bin changing the lines OF the two
Levy Court districts in Wilmington. AT
present they are divided by Sixth
street. He proposes % make the Levy
Court districts the same ais the sena-
toria districts. which are divided by
Eighth strest Such a-change would
not alter the political complexion OF
either district.
THE HOUSE REFERENCES.
These references of bills were made
In the House House bin In relation
10 judgments cf respondents custer:
House bin re'ating to the practice OF
dentistry; House bill granting toJoseph
T. Potter title to a certain tract of
salt marsh; House biil exempting col
ored citizens Of Wilmington from tax
alton fer school purposes; House BIZ
providing employment at hard labor
Tor certain prisoners in. the New Castle
county jail.
AGAINST sIRAfAN's AMENDMENTS
Z. G. Elliott and ID. l. ElNs. of Del
mar, were in Dover yesterday working
IN opposition to the Slrman amend
ments 10 the bili incorporating the
town. They had q hearing before tihe
House Committee on Municipal Corpo-
fatlons. They expressed the belief that
tne bi. should not pass In the shape
Ia wl-ch % was introduced, and that
the slrman amendments. preventing
the condemnation and filling in Of an
Old ditch amid making the vote on in-
corporation according to THE amount Of
tax paid instead Of by popular vote
REPRESENTATIVE BURNS BILL.
representative Burna has introduced
an act amending chapter Es. volume
10. Laws Of Delaware It is as fol-
lows:
Section 1. Tina, the act entitled "An
act to provide employment at hard la
Dor for certain Classes Of persons in
New Castle county Jail. being chapler
rs, volume 10. Laws Of Delaware. be.
and the same Is hereby amended by
striking cut OF said ac. sections 10. 3A
ana and by inserting in lieu thereof
the following five sections.
Section 2. That all persons now con
hned, or hereafter to be confined In
New Castle county jail under sentence
less than for life shall be compelled
20 work az hard labor on the roads
and highways of New Castle county.
Section 3. Il shall be the duty OF
the road commissioners Of the several
hundreds in said county. from time 10
time. 70 furnish as many perches of
STONE as may be required in their re-
spcctive hundreds TO carry out the
provisions hereof from the amount an
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dreds
Section g. The sa0ne aforesaid shall
be delivered 10 the several overseers
OF convic.s hereinafter provided fol
and on the roads designated. or Sc
lec.ed to be made or repaired by the
Levy Court and az such times as said
overseers shall order and direct.
Section 5. The Levy Court shall an.
nualy appoint one overseer Of con
viots for every twelve prisoners ther
In the county jail, and shall fix theil
sa-aries, but the same shall not ex
ceed $50 per month to each overseer.
Section G. The Levy Court shall pur
chase and maintain q van. OF vans. &,
carry the prisoners to the places nherl
They may be required to work.
Section Z. That the said act be. ant
the same is hereby further amende,
by adding thereto after section 6. III.
following sections.
Section 8. The Levy Court shal
also, If the same be necessary to carr
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