СНАР. 1800 or other four wheel carriage, and pair of horses, and passengers, eighteen cents; for a chair, or sulkey, horse and riders, ten cents; for a cart, one horse and driver, ladened or unladened, ten cents; for a waggon ladened or unladened, two horses and driver, eighteen cents: and for every other horse in a cart or waggon, or other carriage, two cents. SECT. 5. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That every person or persons who shall prefer an annual contract for the use of the said ferry, shall be entitled for himself and his family to all the benefits of the same, for the sum of four dollars, to be paid in such manner that a quarterly payment shall always be in advance; and if any person or persons, who shall wish to make such contracts, shall think the said annual payment unreasonable, and disproportionate to the number of their family, and their use of the said ferry, upon application to the said commissioners, for that purpose, they, or any two of them, are hereby empowered to decide, without further appeal, what deduction, if any, shall be made from the annual payment herein before specified. SECT. 6. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons having the care and keeping of the said ferry, shall exact or demand greater prices for the passing over the same, than what is herein before prescribed and specified, he or they so offending, shall for every offence, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, one moiety thereof to the party grieved, and the other moiety to the treasurer of the county, for the use of the county, to be recovered by indictment and conviction in the court of general sessions of the peace, to Thomas Duff, tained. SECT. 7. And be it further enacted, That the be- Compensation fore mentioned commissioners, or a majority of how to be ascer them, shall appoint one substantial freeholder, and Thomas Duff, of the village of Newport, his executors or administrators, shall appoint one other substantial freeholder; and those two, so appointed, shall choose a third, who are required and directed to go on the premises, view and ascertain a reasonable compensation to be made to said Thomas Duff, for expenditures heretofore made at the wharves or landing places, now to be made or erected. SECT. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said freeholders are required and directed to make their return in writing to the court of Common pleas, to be held for the county of New-Castle; and when confirmed by said court, the same shall be provided for, and paid by the county, in the same manner as is directed for the payment of the costs and charges of erecting and maintaining the wharves and landing-places, as before directed to be provided for by this act. Passed at Dover, January 21, 1800. CHA P. L. An ACT to authorise the State Treasurer to pay certain sums of money to the several persons therein named. SECTION. 1. B E IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in general assembly met, That the treasurer of the said State, be, and he is hereby authorised to pay, out of any monies CHAP. L. 1800 which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the following sums of money to the several persons herein after named, to wit, to the legal representatives of James Adams, late of the borough of Wilmington, printer, deceased, the sum of fiftyeight dollars and eighty cents; to George Read, attorney at law, ten dollars, to Peter Brynberg, the sum of five dollars and twenty cents; and to Samuel and John Adams, the sum of one dollar and seven teen cents. Passed at Dover, January 22, 1800. CHA P. LI. "An A further supplement to the act, entitled, Passed at Dover, January 23, 1800.-Private act. Preamble. CHAP. LII. An ACT to provide for the payment of the surplus of taxes granted for the support of government to the respective counties, and for other purposes. W HEREAS in assessing and levying the taxes granted for the support of government, the Levy-courts of the respective counties, for the purpose of covering the commissions and delinquencies, and raising the sums granted, clear of all charges of collection, are obliged to assess and ascertain a larger sum per centum, upon the whole rates of the counties, than each county's net proportion of such taxes would require, were no errors or delinquencies to happen, whereby it often is the case from the delinquencies eventually not being so large as the sums allowed therefor, that there is a surplus of such taxes, which according to the existing regulations, is paid into the treasury of this state. СНАР. LIL 1800 SEC. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, That the surplus of Surplus of the the taxes granted by an act, entitled, "An act for Taxes, the better ordering, assessing, levying and collecting of taxes, and making provision for the support of government for the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight ;" and by an act, entitled, “An act, making provision for the support of government for the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes;" and also an act, entitled, "An act making provision for the support of government for the year One thousand eight hundred ;" and of all taxes hereafter to be paid by to be granted for the support of government, if any surer to the such surplus there is, or shall be, after paying the County Treasur quota of the counties, shall be paid by the State treasurer to the treasurer of the county in which such surplus shall happen; who shall apply and dispose of the same to and for the use of the county, in such manner as the commissioners of the Levy court and the respective Court of appeals may order and direct. SEC. 2. And whereas there is a surplus of the tax granted by an act, entitled, "An act making the State Trea er, for the use of counties. R the several counties, remitted ac Surplus of tax in provision for the support of government for the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven," in the county of New-Castle, of the sum of seven hundred twenty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents; in the county of Kent, of forty seven dollars and fifty-seven cents; and in the county of Sussex, the sum of two hundred ninety-two dollars, and seventy-eight cents: Be it therefore, enacted, That there shall be, and is hereby remitted to the county of New-Castle, the sum of seven hundred twenty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents; to the county of Kent, the sum of forty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents; and to the county of Sussex, the sum of two hundred ninety-two dollars and seventy-eight cents, of the said counties' respective proportions of the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars, granted by an act, entitled, "An act making provision for the support of government for the year One thousand eight hundred." cording to their respective pro portions. Commissions to rer. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commisCounty Treasu- sions of the county treasurers respectively, on all such surplusages paid to them by the State treasurer, shall be at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents for every hundred dollars, and no more. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the clerks of the peace in each county, are hereby required and enjoined, to return to the auditor of accounts, on or before the first day of June in every year, an exact account in writing, of each hundred's proportion of county rates, levies and taxes, laid, assessed and granted at the then next preceding Levy court, for the maintenance of the poor, for repairing, amending, supporting and erecting bridges, causeways and roads, and for other county purposes, under several and distinct |