Evening journal., 1901-02-21
It Is Just Below the City Of
RehObOth
FRONTS ON ATLANTIC OCEAN
Has RehObOth BaV Back Of IT.. n.
Mills Protests Against the
Grant
STAFF Correspondence Evening Journal.

STAFF Correspondence Evening Journal
Dover, Feb. 21.-"Give us Two hum
dred or more acres Of beach and marsh
land below Rehoboth for $780,
That is the sum and substance Of the
Truitt- Curry Ocean Front Land Grab
bill introduced in the State Senate 10y
Senator Pennewill yesterday and referred
10 the Committee ON Roads and Vacant
Lands under suspension Of rules.
1t was the original intention of the
trainers Of the bill to ask for the 200
acres of valuable land, with the Atlantic
ocean in front Of it, and Rehoboth bay
back of it, for 500.
This fact is made manifest by the bill
The provision that Messrs Truitt and
Curry should have the land for "ffty
cents an acre. is scratched out, and the
promoters have written in the munh-
cent advance Of fifty cents, making the
tract cost them one dollar an acre.
Many Of the members Of the Legisla-
ture are astounded that such PROPOSE
tion should be made seriously. and Sen
ator Maull, who represents that district
of Sussex county. Is not only bitterly op-
posed to that bill and all others like it.
but also is fortified with remonstrances
from many Of the most prominent men in
Sussex county.
The committee having the bill in charge
is composed Of Senators Alice. McFar-
lin, Farlow, Maull and Blakely.
Building lots in Rehoboth are selling
for from 5000 to $500 at the present time.
their dimensions being 100 by $50 feet.
This tract asked for under the bill is but
a short distance outside the limits Of Re
hoboth. and the men named in the bill
want 200 acres for what wouldn't buy one
good building lot in Rehoboth.
The text of the bill is as follows:
An act to enable John II. Truitt and
Thomas Curry to locate certain vacant
marsh and beach land in Lewes and Re
h0both hundreds, in Sussex county, Della
ware, and complete their title TO the
same.
"Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section /. That John H. Truitt and
Thomas Curry be and they are hereby
authorized TO employ some skilful sur
veyor, whose duty it shall be and who is
hereby authorized and empowered to gol
upon, survey and locate a certain piece
Of vacant marsh and beach land in Lewes
and Rehoboth hundred, in Sussex county,
adjacent to Rehoboth City and lying be-
tween the Atlantic ocean and Rehoboth
bay, supposed to contain 200 acres, more
or less, and to make a plot OF safd land,
if any there be found, setting forth the
courses and distances thereof, with the
number Of acres therein contained, and
shall return said plot into the Office Of the
recorder Of deeds in and for Sussex
county, aforesaid; provided, neverthe-
less, that it shall be the duty of the said
John II. Truitt and Thomas Curry, and
they are required and directed within one
month after the return Of the said plot in
the Office Of the recorder of deeds afore-
said, to give notice in one or more news
papers, published in this State, for the
space of one month that the aforesaid
lands have been surveyed, and that AL
plot thereof had been returned into the
Office aforesaid for the information of all
persons concerned.
Section 2. And be it further enacted
as aforesaid that if any person or persons
shall claim the whole or any part thereof
OF said lands, it shall and may be lawful
for such person or persons so claiming to-
enter a caveat before the said recorder
OF deeds in and for Sussex county at
any time within three months after the
return of said plot and notice given as
aforesaid and thereupon all matters in
variance shall be heard and determined
by the Superior Court for Sussex county
IN summary way and according to the
very right of the matter at the next or
any subsequent term Of the said court.
section 3. And be it further enacted
as aforesaid that the said John II. Truitt
and Thomas Curry shall pay or cause to
be paid to the State treasurer on or be-
fore the expiration Of one year from the
return Of the said plot, or the determine
tion Of the said Superior Court as afore-
said at the rate of one dollar for each
and every acre Of land included in said
survey, or at that rate for such number
Of acres as shall he found 10 have been
vacant at the time OF the passing of this
act by the determination of the said Su-
perior Court upon the hearing of a caveat
Cf any caveat shall be entered) and shall
produce a certificate of the said State
treasurer Of such payments to the seere-
tary of State and it shall be the duty Of
the said secretary Of State and he is
hereby directed to make out OF cause 10
be made out in favor OF the said John IL.
Truitt and Thomas Curry a patent for
the land unclaimed in said survey, OF plot,