May raise by taxation ient to pay principal when due. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. drawn out and used by "The Mayor and Council of New Castle" for the purpose of the said purchase or purchasers. SECTION 2. In order to provide for the payment of both sus suffic- the principal and interest of said certificates of indebtedness, as the same shall respectively become due and payable, the and interest City Council of New Castle shall raise annually, by taxation of the persons and property within the limits of said city, (according to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the City of New Castle," passed at Dover, February 25th, 1875, and any supplement or supplements thereto in regard to the assessment and collection of taxes within said city) such sum as may be necessary for the purpose of paying both the principal and interest, as they shall become due and payable in each and every year. May take additional security. Surplus. How used. This tax is to be in addition to and augmentation of, any other tax, now or hereafter to be assessed or collected by the said City Council of New Castle. SECTION 3. That "The Mavor and Council of New Castle" shall be authorized to demand and take from the treasurer and the collector of taxes of the said city of New Castle such additional security as they shall deem proper to secure the city against any loss which might or could occur under any of the provisions of this act. And upon the failure to give such security to appoint others in their places. SECTION 4. That if there should be any surplus of the money authorized to be borrowed by this act remaining in the hands of the treasurer of said city of New Castle after the purposes of this act are fully accomplished, it shall be used exclusively for the benefit, improvement and general management of the fire department of said city. SECTION 5. public act. This shall be deemed and taken to be a * Adopted at Dover, February 10, 1887. *So enrolled. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. CHAPTER 158. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of the town of Middletown to borrow money and erect water works. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, two-thirds of each branch thereof concurring therein: borrow Rate of in SECTION 1. That "The Town Commissioners of the town Commisof Middletown" shall have power and authority under and sioners may by virtue of an ordinance to be passed by the said commissioners, $15,00). to borrow on the faith and credit of said town a sum of money not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, and which shall be afplied, appropriated and expended for the purpose of supplying said town with water; the said commissioners shall also have authority to issue bonds therefor, of such denominations as May issue they shall deem best, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding bonds. six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually; the principal terest. of such bonds shall be made payable at such time or times not less than ten years nor more than twenty years from the Principal. date thereof, and in such manner as shall be prescribed by the able." said commissioners. The form of said bonds shall be pre- Bonds. scribed by the said commissioners, and shall be signed by the w President of the said "Town Commissioners" and the treasurer of said town, and sealed with the corporate seal of said town, and shall be exempt from all taxation. When pay How signed. shall give SECTION 2. That the treasurer of said town, in addition Treasurer to the security he is now required by law to give, shall give additional security for the proceeds of the aforesaid bonds, which said security. proceeds shall be kept separate from the other funds of said town and shall be subject to draft as hereinafter mentioned. SECTION 3. That Henry Clayton, George W. W. Nau- Commisdain, Martin B. Burris, John H. Parvis, and Gideon E. sioners. Hukill, be and are hereby appointed "Water Commissioners," who with the proceeds of the bonds aforesaid are hereby authorized and empowered to erect water works and lay pipes to supply the said town with water, and whenever it shall be necessary or expedient for the said commissioners to acquire land for any purpose connected with said water supply, and such land cannot be acquired by agreement with the owner or Land. owners thereof and the said commissioners, the same may be quired. taken for the purpose aforesaid, in the name of the said town How ac Commissioners to draw upon the treasurer. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. in the same manner and subject to the same conditions and proceedings as are now prescribed by law in relation to the said "Town of Middletown" for condemning and taking land for the purpose of laying out, opening, extending or widening any street, road, square, lane or alley in said town. SECTION 4. That the said "Water Commissioners" shall authorized have authority, from time to time, to draw upon the treasurer aforesaid of the money borrowed as aforesaid, sufficient to meet the cost of the said water works, and upon the completion of the said works, shall make a proper delivery of the same with all the appurtenances to the said "Town Commissioners" of said town and shall render to the said "Town Commissioners" a just and full account of their receipts and expenditures in the construction of the said water works; the compensation of all of the "Water Commissioners" shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of five hundred dollars. SECTION 5. That if any vacancy shall occur in the said board of "Water Commissioners" by death, resignation, removal from the town, or otherwise, the remaining members shall fill such vacancy by the appointment of a taxable citizen of said town. Vacancies. Duties of the commissioners ing to be called. When. SECTION 6. That the "Town Commissioners" aforesaid shall have authority to employ proper persons to operate said water works, and shall fix their compensation by ordinance; and in like manner shall fix the rent or rents which private consumers of water shall pay, and shall have all the powers to collect such rents, as collectors of county taxes now have, to collect such taxes. SECTION 7. That before the preceding provisions of this Town meet act shall go into effect, it shall be the duty of the said "Town Commissioners" within thirty days after the passage of this act, to call a town meeting, upon ten days notice, and at such meeting the borrowing of the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars as aforesaid, shall be approved by a majority of thevotes cast thereat; every resident of said town, who shall have paid a "town tax" for the year in which such meeting is held, or for the preceding year, shall have the right to cast one vote for every dollar and every fractional part of a dollar of "town tax" aforesaid by him or her paid. Chapter 189 SECTION 8. It is herein provided that Chapter 189, Volume 17, Laws of Delaware, is hereby repealed, being an act to enable the town of Middletown to borrow money for water purposes. Passed at Dover, February 10, 1887. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. CHAPTER 159. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. A SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled "An act to allow the Commissioners of the Town of Smyrna to issue bonds for certain purposes," passed at Dover, March 16, 1885. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch concurring therein): issue bonds amount not $8,000. SECTION I. That the Commissioners of the Town of CommisSmyrna be and they are hereby vested with full power and eas authority to issue bonds of the town of Smyrna to an amount to an not exceeding eight thousand dollars, and of such denomina- to exceed tions as they shall deem proper. Said bonds shall be made payable at such times and places as the said commissioners shall provide by ordinance. The rate of interest thereon Rate of shall not exceed six per centum per annum, and payable interest. semi-annually from the date thereof, and represented by coupons attached thereto. The form of said bonds shall be Bonds. prescribed by the said commissioners, which shall be signed How signed. by the President of said Commissioners and the Treasurer of said Town of Smyrna, and sealed with the corporate seal of said town and shall be exempt from State, county and Exempt municipal taxation. As the coupons and said bonds are paid from taxathe same shall be cancelled in such manner as the said commissioners shall direct. tion. Money bor used for SECTION 2. That the money realized or borrowed under this act shall be used and appropriated only for the purpose of rowed to be extending the water mains in said town, and putting in an what puradditional boiler and pumps at the water works, and of doing poses." whatever may be deemed necessary to increase the efficiency of the water works of the said town of Smyrna. May levy SECTION 3. That the said commissioners of the town of Smyrna are hereby authorized and required to levy upon all and collect the assessable real estate in said town of Smyrna annually a an addition.tax sufficient to pay the accruing interest on said bonds, and also to levy upon said real estate of said town of Smyrna annually such further tax as shall be deemed necessary to increase the sinking fund authorized by the act to which this is a supplement to such an amount as will make it adequate to. the payment and redemption of the bonds issued under this. act as well the bonds issued under the act to which this is a supplement. Faith of town SECTION 4. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. That the faith of the said town of Smyrna is leged for hereby pledged for the payment of the bonds authorized to be payinent. issued under this act. Passed at Dover, February 25, 1887. commis sioners. missioners CHAPTER 160. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Wyoming. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Time and That James Montague, Caleb Jackson and Carroll S. Fisher, place of holding an resident freeholders of the town of Wyoming, in Kent County, election for be and they are hereby authorized and directed to hold an election at some suitable place in said town by them chosen for that purpose, from 2 till 4 o'clock P. M., on the first Monday in March, A. D. 1887, for the purpose of choosing by ballot three commissioners for said town who shall be residents and have a freehold therein; and they, or a majority of them, may select other persons, residents and freeholders, to How com- assist them in conducting said election. At said election the are chosen. person having the highest number of votes shall be declared elected a commissioner for three years; the person having the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected a commissioner for two years; and the person having the next highest number of votes shall be declared elected a commissioner for one year, and until their successors be duly elected and qualified. At every subsequent election to be held from 2 till 4 o'clock P. M., on said first Monday in March annually, there shall be elected one commissioner to serve for a term of three years as a successor to the commissioner whose term of office then expires, and shall likewise elect to supply vacancies of unexpired terms occasioned by death, resignaWho may tion, removal beyond the town limits, or otherwise. All male citizens and every taxable feme soul therein, being twentyone years of age and upwards, and having paid all town taxes yote. |