Evening journal., 1922-06-07
.FARMERSBALK
over BOUNDARY
Officials of New Castle and
Chester Counties in
Conference
BUCKINGHAM URGES
NEW LINE SURVEY

Levy Courtmen OF New Castle
County and County Commission
ers of Chester county, Pa. are
comforting along the disputed
boundary OF Delaware and Penn
sylvania in Mil Creek hundred
today. A dozen or more farmers
who claim Delaware as their domi-
cile are objeciing because their land
was transferred into Pennsylvania by
the last boundary sutvey. which has
been ratified by the Legislatures OF
both States and by Congress.
The upshot OF today's meeting is
expected to be the adoption of a
resolution calling on the Legislatures
Of Delaware and Pennsylvania to
create new commissions to revise
the present boundary so that those
in the disputed zone who wish TO
have their land in Delaware or
Pennsylvania. as the case may be,
can be satisfied as far as practicable.
Such a resolution is TO be offered
at public meeting at Union, in Mil
Creek Hundred, this afternoon.
Those in the New Castle county
official party at the conference are
Levy Courtmen Stetser. Jones, Ball.
Strahorn, Buckson and Mccoy. Levy
Courtman Lattomus was not present
Accompanying the Levy Courtmen
were County Engineer Charles E.
Grubb, County Comptroller James G.
Shaw, Representative buckingham,
Representative r. W. Kramer and
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neer.
In the Chester county official
party were Harris A. Butler. Lewis
A. Kley and J. Poulson Reese. county
commissioners; II. X. Ellis. county
engineer, and W. w. McElbree and
Carroll Hayes, attorneys for the
commissioners.
The officials gathered at Mil
Creek Meeting House at 11.3O o'clock
for a short conference.
A delegation of farmers whose
property, all at one time located in
Delaware and now wholly or in part
in Pennsylvania because of the
changed boundary were present.
They claim to be Delawareans and
refuse to pay taxes TO Chester coun-
". The land in dispute comprises
about 1900 acres. and includes ten
farms. The farmers present included
Harley Hopes. Frank Hill, Samuel
Moore. t. J. Thompson. William
Klair. Edward Sharpless and Kent
Ebright. Others present included S.
Frank Ewart. of Wilmington. for
merry OF Hockessin: Thomas Van
SAINT and Frank V. Whiteman.
Mr.. McElree OF Chester county.
in the course Of the conference, said
there was no law ever passed that
did not put somebody to disadvan-
tage..
II a survey should be made ac-
curately with a twelve-mlle radius
from New Castle it would transfer
5 900 acres instead OF 1900 acres
into Pennsylvania, Mr.. McElwee
added.
The New Castle County Levy
Courtmen while not committing 1
themselves openly inclined to the I
view that nothing could be done !
by them TO restore the disputed I
land 10 Delaware, inasmuch as the /
new boundary had been ratified by
both States.
The party left the meeting house 1
al noon 10 go over the disputed |
zone and had dinner at Union.
This afternoon a public meeting
will be held, at which the Della
ware farmers who object because
heir properties have been showed
INTO Pennsylvania will set forth
heir views, and II is expected Rep
resentative Buckingham, of Mill
Creek hundred. will offer a resolu-
ion urging new and more satisfac-
tory boundary survey Of that sec
lion of the twelve-mile circle sep
lrating the two States.