Repeal of part of §6, ch. 129, 7 v. 257. the act to which this is a supplement as is expressed in the words following, to wit: "The State hereby reserves to itself the power of imposing such tax on the capital stock of the said company, as shall be actually paid in, as may be equitable" be, and the same is hereby repealed, made null and void. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXI. (Private Act.) AN ACT authorising James W. Thompson to remove a certain negro slave into this State, from the State of Virginia. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. Mispillion hundred to be divided. Dividing line. Mispillion hundred. Milford hundred. Milford hun 173. CHAPTER XXXII. AN ACT to divide Mispillion hundred into two hundreds. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Mispillion hundred shall be divided and formed into two hundreds; the dividing line to be the road leading directly from the division line, between Murderkill and Mispillion hundreds, to Williamsville, being the same which was formerly used and occupied by the Philadelphia, Dover and Norfolk Steamboat and Transportation Company; and that part of the said hundred lying westerly of said road, shall form and be one hundred, which shall be called Mispillion hundred, and the residue of said hundred shall form and be one hundred, which shall be called Milford hundred. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Milford hundred as formdred to be ed according to the preceding section, shall be the fifth election the fifth elec- district of Kent-county, and the electors of the said hundred shall tion district, hold their general elections and their special elections under the act entitled "An act regulating the general election," passed at Place of elec- Dover, January 28, 1825, at the tavern-house now occupied by tion, Milford. Edward Stapleford in Milford, in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as if the said Mispillion hundred had been the fifth election district according to said act, and the place in the said act appointed for holding said elections had been the tavernMispillion house now occupied by Edward Stapleford in Milford; and that sixth election Mispillion hundred, as formed according to the preceding section, district. shall be the sixth election district of Kent county; and the electors hundred the tion-Pros pect. 57 of said hundred shall hold their general and special elections under said act, at the tavern-house now occupied by Mrs. Anderson, in Place of electhe village of Prospect, in the same manner and under the same regulations as if the said Mispillion hundred had been the sixth election district of said county, and the place in said act appointed for holding said elections had been the said tavern-house now occupied by Mrs. Anderson, in the village of Prospect; and that all laws that apply to hundreds, as such, shall apply to Milford hundred and Mispillion hundred as formed as aforesaid, as entire and distinct hundreds, and the citizens residing in each accordingly. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be one com- One Levy missioner of the Levy Court and Court of Appeal residing in Mil-Court comford hundred, as formed as aforesaid; and one commissioner of the missioner in Levy Court and Court of Appeal, each residing in Mispillion hun- each hundred, as formed as aforesaid; and that there shall be one trustee of One trustee the poor in said Milford hundred, and one trustee of the poor in of the poor Mispillion hundred. dred. in each. to make each of these SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Levy Court and Court of Appeal, calling to their assistance the last assessors for Mispillion hundred, shall have power and authority, and are hereby transfers on Levy Court required to effect all proper transfers and divisions in the assess- the assessment lists of what has heretofore been Mispillion hundred, in such ment lists. manner that the taxables and property heretofore assessed within the bounds of Milford hundred and Mispillion hundred, may stand and remain as the proper assessment lists of said hundreds, as said last mentioned hundreds are formed and created by this act; and the said Levy Court and Court of Appeal are hereby directed and authorised to appoint a collector for each of said hundreds for the To appoint a present and each succeeding year, who are hereby authorised and collector for required respectively to give the security, and to receive and col- hundreds. lect the taxes according to the duplicates delivered to them in the same manner and to as full an effect as is provided by law for the collection of the taxes of the other hundreds in Kent county; and the Levy Court and Court of Appeal shall take bond and security To take bond of said collectors, and duplicates of taxes and taxables for the hun- from such dred for which they shall respectively be appointed, shall be delivered to each of them in the same manner, and under the same collectors, regulations, as are provided by law in relation to the other hundreds; and generally, the said Levy Court and Court of Appeal shall take the same measures, and proceed in the same manner, to effect the levying and collecting, and paying over the taxes of said hundreds respectively, as are by law provided for effecting the same objects in the other hundreds of Kent county. &c. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the unpaid taxes Unpaid taxes assessed or levied upon the taxables and property of Mispillion hun- for 1829, to dred for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine (as said hun- be collected dred heretofore stood,) shall be collected by the collector hereto- by the prefore appointed for that purpose and all the powers of such collector tor. 8 sent collec assessor to Present in this behalf, shall be continued until such collection is completed; and the present assessor for such hundred (as the same heretofore complete his assessment. stood,) shall have power to complete the assessment thereof, for the said last-mentioned year, if such assessment be not already completed; and the constables now residing in said hundred (as it Present con- heretofore stood) shall continue in office, and do business as heretofore, until their respective terms of office shall expire; and after the expiration of said terms, there shall be one constable for Milford hundred, and one constable for Mispillion hundred, as those hundreds are formed by the first section of this act. stables to continue in office until, &c. One consta ble for Mil ford hundred, and one for Mispillion hundred. Part of ch. 1, p. 173, repealed. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of the General Assembly of this State, entitled "An act regulating the general election, as provides that the election for the hundred of Mispillion, shall be held at the house, formerly Daliner's, now occupied by Adam Marvil; and also, so much of every act relating to said hundred, as the same heretofore stood, or to the elections therein held, as is hereby altered or supplied, be and the same is hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXIII. (Private Act.) AN ACT to make void the marriage contract between Ann R. Wilson and her husband James Wilson. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXIV. (Private Act.) AN ACT to divorce Lavinia Wainwright and her husband from the bonds of matrimony. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXV. (Private Act.) AN ACT to dissolve the bonds of matrimony between Mary Friel and her husband William Friel. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXVI. (Private Act.) AN ACT to divorce from the bonds of matrimony Benona Tibbett and Mary Tibbett. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXVII. (Private Act.) AN ACT to carry into effect the last will and testament of William Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXVIII. AN ACT to cede to the United States, the jurisdiction over a piece of land and marsh adjoining the Delaware bay. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Five acres of tives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That for marsh ceded the purpose of erecting a light-house, five acres of land and marsh to the U. S. upon either side of Mahon's ditch, adjoining low water mark of the Delaware bay, are hereby ceded and granted to the United States, upon this condition that a light-house shall thereon be erected, at Upon condithe expense of the United States, within ten years from the date of tion. this act, and be continued and kept lighted thereafter; and provided said five acres shall be located at any time within said term of ten years, and a good and sufficient plot thereof be made and recorded at the expense of the United States, in the office for the recording of deeds in Kent county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this State doth retain Reservation concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over the said tract of jurisdicor piece of land and marsh, so far that process civil and criminal, tion. issuing under the authority of said State may be executed in any part of the said tract or piece of land and marsh, or in any building thereon to be erected. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XXXIX. (Private Act.) AN ACT to grant the escheated house and lot in Milford in Kent county, to Elizabeth James and her children. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. CHAPTER XL. (Private Act.) AN ACT granting to John Short and John Johnson a certain piece of land therein mentioned. Passed at Dover, Jan. 28, 1830. State Trea certain claims to ter. S. M. Har rington. ford. CHAPTER XLI. AN ACT for the payment of claims against the State. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives surer autho- of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the State rised to pay Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to pay the following claims, to wit: to Joseph Buckmaster, cryer of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, for services, eleven dollars; to Samuel M. Harrington, Secretary of State, for making an index to the laws of 1829, and other services, ninety-four dollars and eighty E. Cowgill. eight cents; to Ezekiel Cowgill, the late State Treasurer, for travelling expenses to and from Philadelphia, in relation to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal stock, and stock of the Bank of the United States, twenty-three dollars and forty-four cents; to William W. H. Craw- H. Crawford, the sum of thirty-five dollars and forty-two cents, being the amount by him paid to the sheriff of New Castle county for a certain Peregrine Brown, who was indicted as a free negro, and as such convicted and sold under an order of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and for said county, in the month of June last, and who was afterwards claimed as a runaway slave by a certain Richard Lynch, and by him recovered as such from the said William H. Crawford; to Nehemiah Clark, sheriff of Kent county, for attendance on the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and for his fees for summoning witnesses in relation to the escheated lands at Cantwell's Bridge, thirty-six dollars and eighteen cents; to Samuel Harker for printing, twenty-three dollars and W. W. Green twenty cents; to William W. Green, late adjutant general for postage and blanks, forty six dollars and forty-two and a half cents; to N. Clark. S. Harker. |
