Violation OF THE LEVY COURT. by any Levy Court Commissioner or overseer of roads, and the same shall be forfeited. SECTION 6. Any Levy Court Commissioner or overseer of of the law a roads, in Sussex County, violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit all compensation for his services. misde meanor. All incon sistent acts SECTION 7. All acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with the repealed. provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, made null and void. Passed at Dover, March 7, 1879. Members of Levy Court not to receive tions made. CHAPTER 10. OF THE LEVY COURT. AN ACT to regulate the expenditure of the county funds by the Levy Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful for any member of the Levy Court of New Castle County to receive any money from money. the County Treasurer of said county other than for the services due him for his attendance upon said court, and that hereafter Appropria- no appropriation shall be made by said court in favor of any such member to be expended by him on behalf of the said county. SECTION 2. That in all cases after this act goes into effect, whenever it shall be necessary to expend money for work and How par service on behalf of the county, the party or parties performing work or furnishing materials therefor, or both, shall be paid by an order or orders on the County Treasurer drawn by the member or committee of the said court having the supervision of the said work; and the said member or committee shall, at the next meeting of the said court, make report of said order or orders so drawn by him or them as aforesaid. ties shall be paid. Orders drawn. How. Report. Sessions of the Levy Court. SECTION 3. The Levy Court of said county of New Castle shall sit on the first Tuesday in the months of February, March, and on the second Tuesday in October. Upon the written request of any five commissioners of the Levy Court of New Castle County, when said court is not in session, it shall be the duty of OF THE LEVY COURT. meetings. the chairman of said court immediately to give notice in writing. to the commissioners of said court of a special meeting thereof retin to be held at their usual place of meeting on some day to be named in said notice, not more than ten days thereafter. That at such Business to special meeting, or at any adjourned meeting, said court may acted at transact any business which might lawfully be done at any stated meet. meeting of said court, unless otherwise provided by law. be trans ings. statements thereof. What forth. SECTION 4. An itemized statement* of the orders drawn by Itemized each Levy Court Commissioner for service performed or material or labor. delivered in their respective hundreds, stating what for. When all the commissioners' statements are made out they shall be Publication compiled and published in pamphlet form. Along with which shall be published a statement of all orders drawn, appropriations or allowances made by authority of the said Levy Court, statements stating for what such orders, appropriations or allowances were must set made. The Levy Court shall have printed in pamphlet form two thousand copies, which shall be equally divided between the Copies to members of the court, who shall keep the same for delivery upon application to them by any voter of their respective hundreds. All orders drawn by any Levy Court Commissioner for work done or materials furnished shall be received by any tax collector of New Castle County as money in payment of taxes due the county. be printed. SECTION 5. The provisions of this act shall be applicable Applicable only to the county of New Castle. to Ñ. C. county. take effect. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after the first when to day of May, 1879, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, March 27, 1879. * So in the enrolled bill. Levy Court authorized money. OF ELECTIONS. CHAPTER 11. OF THE LEVY COURT. AN ACT to relieve the Levy Court of Kent County, in regard to the keeping in repair a certain road in Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County, and State of Delaware. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful for the Levy Court, of to expend Kent County, to expend any money for work and labor upon, or for continuing or keeping in repair, a road in Duck Creek Hundred,. Kent County, and State of Delaware, beginning at a joint in a road known as the Carrollton road, and extending to the upland on Bombay Hook Island: said road being commonly known as the Enoch Spruance road. SECTION 2. That whenever the Duck Creek Improvement Company shall put in repair and good condition their banks Appropria- and sluices, it shall be the duty of the said Levy Court to make Levy Court appropriations, and to expend money for the purposes of repairing and keeping in good order for public travel the said road. Passed at Dover, March 27, 1879. tions of the TITLE FOURTH. Of Elections. Chapter 18, amended. CHAPTER 12. OF THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. AN ACT to amend Chapter 18, Section 1, of the Revised Statutes, in relation to the voting place in Broad Creek Hundred. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION 1. That Chapter 18, Section 1, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the words "at the stone house now occupied by James Boyce," in 33rd and 34th lines of said Sec- tion 1, as published in the Revised Code, 1852, as amended, &c., 1874, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words at District School OF GENERAL ELECTIONS. AN ACT to change the place of holding elections in Gumborough Hun- Volume 15. 39. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met: That Section 1, Chapter 19, Volume 15, of the Laws of Delaware, be and the Chapter 19, same is hereby amended by striking out all after the word "the" amended. in the fifth line of Section 1 of said Chapter 19, and inserting in Place of lieu thereof the words "office now owned by Jane E. Hearn, the election in TITLE FIFTH. Of Certain Public Officers. SECTION 1. That Chapter 24 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, as reprinted and republished in 1874 be amended amended. OF PUBLIC OFFICERS. in the tenth section thereof by striking out the first four lines of said section ten, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following, viz: "If there will not be a regular term of the Superior Court tering into in any county within sixty days after the election or appointment of a Sheriff for such county, such Sheriff shall with suffiextended. cient sureties, within sixty days after his election or." sheriff en official re cognizance Passed at Dover, March 29, 1879. Revised Code, 1874. 172. Chapter 34, CHAPTER 15. OF CONSTABLES. AN ACT to amend Section 5, of Chapter 34, of the Revised Code of 1852, as amended and published in 1874. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: That Section 5 of Section 5, of Chapter 34, of the Revised Code of 1852, as of the Re- amended and published in 1874, be and the same is hereby amended. amended by inserting in the fourth line of said section, after the word "New Castle," and before the word "Christiana," the word "Brandywine." vised Code, SECTION 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the Section 1 provisions of said Section 5, of Chapter 34, of the Revised Code to constable of 1852, as amended and published in 1874, aud as further of Brandy- amended by Section 1 of this act, be and the same are hereby applicable wine Hd. extended, and shall apply to the additional constable authorized and required to be appointed for Brandywine Hundred, in the county of New Castle, by virtue of the act entitled "An act to allow an additional constable to the county of New Castle," passed at Dover, February 3rd, 1863. Passed at Dover, March 5, 1879. |