OF CITIES AND TOWNS. these provisions intended as protection against fire and safePenalty for guard to the health of the citizens, shall be presented to the violation. grand jury, or proceeded against before the alderman or justice of the peace, resident of the town, as provided in section eleven of this act, for maintaining a nuisance. Council shall appoint a Board of Health. SECTION 23. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the town council shall appoint in the month of March of every year three good and substantial citizens, one of whom shall be a practicing physician, who shall constitute a Board of Health for said town and who shall serve for one year, and whose duty shall be to have cognizance of the interests of health and life among the people of said town and to report to the town council whatever in their judgment is injurious to the health, or that shall contribute to useful sanitary information. Said board shall organize by the election of a president ized. and secretary within ten days after notice of their appointment, and said board shall keep a record of their proceedings and acts as a board. For so doing the secretary of said board shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for his services, to be determined by the town council. Board. Acts repealed. Aets of council ratified. Fines and penalties unaffected. SECTION 24. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Milford," and the several acts and parts passed at Dover of acts inconsistent with or supplied by this act, are hereby repealed and made null and void, saving and excepting, however, from the effect of such repeal and hereby enforced declaring that all the ordinances of the town of Milford heretofore enacted or adopted, and now in force in pursuance of any law of this State, shall continue in full force and effect until repealed, altered or amended by the council of said town. That all the acts and doings of the council of said town, or of any officers of said town, lawfully done or performed under the provisions of any law of this State, or of any ordinance. of the council of said town, are hereby ratified and confirmed. That all debts, fines or penalties and forfeitures due to said town of Milford, and all debts due from said town of Milford to any person or persons, or to any corporation, are declared to be unaffected and unimpaired by this repeal, and all laws of this State for the collection and Powers of enforcement thereof, shall continue in full force until the continued same shall be fully paid and discharged. That all the powers in force. now conferred by law upon the collector for the collection collector and enforcement of all taxes in said town heretofore assessed and uncollected shall continue in full force and effect until all OF CITIES AND TOWNS. said taxes shall be fully collected and paid. That the official bond of said collector shall be unaffected and unimpaired by this repeal, and that he and his sureties thereon shall continue liable for any breaches of any of the conditions of said bond, and that all proceedings, heretofore commenced for the collection of any penalty, fine, forfeiture or debt due to said town under any law or ordinances shall not be affected or impaired by this repeal, but the same may be prosecuted to judgment. and execution until the same be fully paid, liquidated and discharged. SECTION 25. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That Public act. this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act. Passed at Dover, February 28, 1887. CHAPTER 162. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT supplementary to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the commis SECTION 1. 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 herein concurring): That at the election to be held in the town of Camden on the second Monday in March, A. D., 1887, there shall be chosen by ballot five commissioners, three at least of whom Number of shall have a freehold therein. In voting for such commis- sioners sioners, two of them shall be elected for three years, two for Terms of two years and one for one year and at every subsequent elec- office. tion there shall likewise be chosen by ballot eligible persons in said town to serve as commissioners for three years in place of the commissioners whose term of office then expires, and also elect to fill vacancies for unexpired terms occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the town limits, or otherwise. There shall at all times be at least three freeholders in the board of commissioners. Commis sioners may annually raise $500. May pay annually. $40.00 to Camden Fire Department. Certain lands included town. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted. That the commissioners of the town of Camden may raise yearly by taxation on persons and property the sum of five hundred dollars as a maximum exclusive of dog taxes for the uses of said town, and may yearly pay and apply out of said town funds a sum not exceeding forty dollars yearly toward maintenance of the Camden Fire Department. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted. That all the lands and roads embraced within the territory bounded on the west within lim- by the eastern lines and limits of the town of Wyoming, on sts of said the southeast by the northwestern lines and limits of the town of Camden as surveyed and laid out under and by authority of the Act of Incorporation, passed at Dover, March 4th, A. D. 1869, and on the north bounded by the headwaters of the Howell mill pond, be and the same (all the said lands and roads) is hereby incorporated within and made a part of the town of Camden as fully, largely and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if originally included in said town limits, and all the roads and ways so embraced shall be controlled and managed exclusively by the town commissioners. Roads and lands. How controlled. Levy Court shall appriate an sum of SECTION 4. And be it further enacted. That the Levy Court of Kent County shall, in addition to the sum of one nually the hundred dollars heretofore annually appropriated to the comadditional missioners of Camden, make a further annual appropriation fifty dollars. of fifty dollars for the uses of said town, to be expended on the roads therein, and shall make an order annually for the payment of said additional fifty dollars, and the commissioners shall annually account to said Levy Court for the money so Levy Court appropriated as overseers of the roads in said county are required to account. Commissioners to account Commissioners powers in respect to SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the town commissioners shall find that any ditch or water drain, roads, streets, avenue or side walks in said town limits streets, &c. ought to be repaired or improved, they shall employ some suitable and competent person to superintend and direct in making such repairs and improvements, as shall be particularly described and ordered by said commisioners. Inconsistent Acts SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That all parts of the said act of incorporation passed at Dover, March 4, 1869, repealed. which are inconsistant with or repugnant to this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and this supplementary act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be printed among the laws of this State. Passed at Dover, March 9, 1887. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. CHAPTER 163. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. A FURTHER additional supplement to the act entitled "An act in relation to the town of Smyrna," passed at Dover, February 25, 1859. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring): priate for SECTION I. That the Levy Court of Kent County shall Levy Court annually appropriate for the repairs of the streets and roads shall annuin the town of Smyrna the sum of four hundred dollars, and appro shall make an order for the payment thereof to the commis- repairs of sioners of said town, who shall account to the said Levy Court for said money as overseers of the roads. streets $400. How SECTION 2. That the commissioners of the town of, CommisSmyrna shall hereafter be elected as follows: At the annual sioners. election to be held in said town on the first Monday of March, elected. A. D. 1888, two of the commissioners shall be elected for the term of one year; two for the term of two years, and three for the term of three years, and until their successors, respectively, shall be elected and qualified; and annually thereafter there shall be elected commissioners in lieu of those whose term have expired, to serve for the same period of time as that for which their immediate predecessors were elected. Passed at Dover, March 24, 1887. Preamble. Certain How as sessed. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. CHAPTER 164. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to amend Chapter 152, Volume 15, Laws of Delaware, entitled “ An act to incorporate the city of New Castle." WHEREAS, By reason of the extensive boundaries of the city of New Castle, much farm and rural property is at present subject to full city taxation, while by reason of its remoteness from the built-up parts of the city, it receives no benefit or advantage from the city government. It being manifestly unjust that such property should bear such full taxation; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring): SECTION I. That whenever the assessor of the city of properties. New Castle shall proceed to assess the persons and estates as required Section 18, Chapter 152, Volume 15, Laws of Delaware, he shall assess the property within the limits of said city, now owned by the following named persons at one-half the valuation, as fixed in the last county assessment to wit, the property of Henry C. Burgie, Henry F. Dure, Daniel Rogers, George Edwards, Benjamin F., George W. and Charles E. Eckles, John Janvier, Mary E. DuPont and Victor DuPont, Alvin Allen, Thomas Holcomb, Joseph J. Taggert, L. Taylor Dickson, estate of Daniel G. Nivin, and so much of the property of Thomas T. Tasker as is used for farming purposes. Passed at Dover, March 24, 1887. |
