Milford chronicle., 1911-03-24
De TAILS OF THE NEW
ROAD BILL IN DELAWARE

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, Copies were printed and submitted
! to the Legislature on Monday of The
proposed amendments to the genera
r incorporation law drawn by Robert
H. Richards and Daniel 0. Hastings
to enable the construction of State
, highway by General T. Coleman
r DUPONT to be presented to the State.
The bill was introduced in tentative
form by Senator Charles r. Miller,
and the complete bill substituted
for the original draft on Monday by
the Senate committee on highways,
in order to get the proposed amend
ments to enable the construction OF
the highway and its acceptance by
the State before the Legislature for
formal action.
AS was stated several days ago,
the proposed amendment is to au-
thorize the formation of Boulevard
corporations, a boulevard being de-
fined as a broad strip Of land upon
which must exist well-built road
for vehicular travel, and upon which
may be constructed and operated a
railway or railways and also may be
erected poles to carry wires, and be-
meath the surface of which may be
laid mains, pipes and conduits for
distributing gas, oil, electricity steam
or power, and which strip may be
used for any other purpose not un-
lawful, and which also may be
beautifed by trees, flowers, grass or
shrubbery.
WANT q SECTIONS AMENDED.
The bill comprises twenty-six type
written pages and there are twenty
seven sections in it proposed as
amendments to the general incorpOr-
alton law, they being Sections l42
to I69 inclusive.
Section 143 provides that any
number of persons not less than five
may form a corporation under the
provisions of the act for the purpose
of locating, building and construct
inga boulevard extending from some
point in the northern part of New
Castle County to some point at the
southern boundary of the State, by
as nearly straight course as may
prove possible and practicable The
corporation shall sign articles of asso-
ciation in which will be stated the
name of the corporation, the point
where the boulevard will begin and
the point where it will end; the es-
timated length of the boulevard the
amount of capital stock which shall
not be less than 1000 for every mile
Of boulevard to-be constructed the
number of shares of capital stock
the names and places of residences
of the five directors of the corpora
tion, one Of whom shall be a resident
of the State and the location Of the
principal office of the company.
These articles of association shall |
be presented to a Judge Of the Super /
ior Court, who on finding that they /
conform to the law shall endorse /
his certificate thereon. and after the /
Secretary of State is satisfied that .
all conditions have been complied .
with and so endorses, the corporation
shall become effective. Powers given
to such corporation are
To enter upon lands and waters to
make surveys, but subject to respon-
sibility for any damage done; to
take and hold voluntary grants of
real estate to purchase, hold and
use such real estate and property as
may be necessary ; to build and con-
struct its boulevard or any part
thereof and to exercise any of the
powers. privileges or franchises con-
ferred upon boulevard corporations
or other rights or powers granted.
Every boulevard corporation shall
have the right to build and construct
upon and as a part of the boulevard
a good modern road for vehicular
.ravel, not less than twelve and not
more than eighteen feet wide, to de- {
bend upon the travel anticipated L
or particular portions The said i
'oad must be Of stone or such other f
oadbuilding material as shall be 0
most available and accessible and
hall by competent road engineers p
,e deemed most suited to conditions r
xisting. The road shall he prop C
rly drained and have on either side
uitable space for planting trees. The S
,ortion of the boulevard for vehicu- d
ar travel and its accessories shall D
ot he less than thirty feet wide. Il
IS soon as the road is completed \
uch corporation shall convey title
D that portion of the boulevard de- -
oted to the road and its accessories -
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