The Delawarean., 1900-05-16
kENTON VOTERS
MAY REST EASY.
Election District nuddle Now Be-
lieved to Be Cleared Up.
INSPECTOR NEED ONLY PUBLISH
Where the Election Shall be Held for
One of the Districts.--Inspe of
First District Will Notify
Where Clayton's Voting
Will be Done.

What was apparently complicated
muddle which promised no end of trou-
Die at the election in Kent county this
year has been entirely and satisfactor-
lily cleared up by Attorney Alexander
NJ. DAILY, of Dover, who is the secretary
of the Kent County Democratic Com
mittee.
AT the last session of the Legislature
an act was passed dividing Kenton
hundred, which is the third represen-
tatlve district of Kent county, into two
election districts, the northeast one in
which the town of Clayton is situated
was No. l, and the southwest one in
which the town of Kenton is Situated
was No. 2. This act was approved by
the governor on March 9th, 1899. On
March 10Th of the same year, in the
hurry OF the latter part of the season.
two acts were passed attempting to
designate the voting places in the two
kenton hundred districts, but by some
lack of knowledge ON the part of the
person who drafted the bill, or by acci-
dent, the voting place of the first elec-
tIon district which was intended to he
located in Clayton was put in district
NO. 2 in the town of Kenton. and the
other act located the voting place for
the second election district in the town
Oh clayton, when 1T should have been
located in the town of Kenton.
The Democrats have been much moro
troubled about the situation, because
Kenton is a Democratic hundred and
any mistake which might be made
would possibly affect the result NOT on
ly in the representative district but all
SO as to all the county offices. and if
came to be an important question as to
Just how the muddle shouIdbe straight
ened out.
Mr.. Daily has carefully examined the
matter and finds that there is really no
difficulty in view of the constitutional
provisions in the new Constitution and
the trouble is avoided in this way:
The Delaware Constitution. article 5.
section 2, provides that legally quail
fled voters must vote in the election
district in which they reside for thirty
days prior to the election" and mas
much as the acts fixing the voting
places for Kenton hundred undertook
to place such voting places outside the
election districts Mr.. Daily has decided
that the acts are unconstitutional for
that reason as we'll as for the reason
that the Constitution, article q section
16, also provides that mo bill shall en-
brace more than one subject, which
shall be expressed in its title" Now
the acts which undertook to fix the
voting places in the districts were en-.
titled as follows: That which under
took to fix the voting place in election
district No. 2 was entitled "An Act
designating the voting place in the
First Election District of Representa-
tive District No. 8, of Kent county"
therefore as the body of the act did not
in reality fix any voting place in that
election district but in another district
the title was false and misleading and
did not express the subject of the act,
as the Constitution requires. The act
which undertook to fix the voting place
in the Second Election District was
equally faulty and therefore is uncon-
stitutional for the same two reasons
There is no difficulty about the whole
matter if these two acts are unconsti-
tutional, either in having the voters
registered or in holding an election, for
chapter SO of Vol. XXI, Delaware Laws,
provides that the registers shall desig-