OF RAILROADS. exceeding three hundred dollars at the discretion of the Fine. court. SECTION 9. This act is hereby declared to be an act for public improvement, and shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and the power to revoke the same at any time for any abuse or misuse of the franchises hereby granted is hereby expressly reserved to the Legislature. Passed at Dover, May 1, 1895. CHAPTER 91. OF RAILROADS. A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to incorporate "The Gordon Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch thereof concurring): branch to Pennsyl capital SECTION I. That "The Gordon Heights Railway Com- May extend pany" shall be and it is hereby authorized to locate, extend, point in construct, operate and maintain a branch line of railway line. from any point on its present line to any point selected by its board of directors in the Delaware and Pennsylvania State line, by such route as said board shall select after careful survey, and shall have power to increase its capital stock May into such amount, from time to time, as may be determined on crease by issuing such amounts of common or preferred stock, or stock. both, as may be deemed proper; provided, that said increase of capital stock shall not exceed the sum of seven hundred exceed thousand dollars; and with respect to the said branch hereby authorized to be located and constructed the said corporation shall have and exercise all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and responsibilities which did or shall belong to or devolve upon said corporation with respect to the railway originally located, constructed and maintained under the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement. Passed at Dover, May 6, 1895. Not to $700,000. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. Chapter215, amended. Discount on paving bif paid bill within 60 days. CHAPTER 92. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to further amend an act entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the City of Wilmington", passed at Dover, April 13th, 1883, and amended May 5th, 1891, Chapter 215, Volume 19, Laws of Delaware. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch thereof herein concurring): SECTION 1. That Section 119 of an act entitled "An act Volume 19, to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the City of Wilmington", passed at Dover, April 13, 1883, and amended May 5, 1891, Chapter 215, Vol. 19, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the word "owner" and the word "and" in the fortieth line of said amended Section the following: "And if any account liened or assessed in the manner aforesaid is paid within sixty days after the date of the presentation of the bill of such assessment to the owner or agent of the property a discount of (5%) five per cent. will be allowed on the face of the bill so presented; and upon all assessments paid after sixty days and on or before ninety days after presentation of the bill the face of the bill shall be payable; and upon all assessments not paid within ninety days after the date of the presentation of the bill as aforesaid, interest at the rate of six per cent. (6%) per annum shall be charged from ninety days after the date of such assessments as aforesaid until the same is paid in full; and that the said section be and the same is hereby further The col- amended by striking out the words "within sixty days" in lected out the fortieth and forty-first lines of said amended section and after 1 year. inserting in lieu thereof the words "At the end of one year”. Interest added after 90 days. be of property Act retroactive. SECTION 2. The board of directors of the Street and Sewer Department are hereby authorized to apply the provisions of this act to any and all assessments heretofore made. for curbing and paving now existing and uncollected; provided, that nothing in this Section shall operate or be construed to invalidate any assessment or the lien thereof. Passed at Dover, March 26, 1895. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 93. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT in relation to the Liens entered against Property for curbing and paving Sidewalks or Streets and the construction of Sewers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch concurring herein): be satisfied duction of payment. SECTION I. That the board of directors of the Street Lien for and Sewer Department of the City of Wilmington, or their d successors, shall by resolution from time to time, as occasion upon promay require, cancel and satisfy of record at any meeting of evidence of said board of directors, any and all liens entered against' abutting property for the paving or curbing of any footway, sidewalk or street, as well as liens entered for the construction of any public sewer or drain, upon the presentation by the owners or agents of any property liened for purposes aforesaid, of evidence of previous payment to the proper municipal authorities of the City of Wilmington for the whole number of feet contained in the street line of the property of such owners respectively, of any curbing or paving in front or alongside of, or the drainage from said property. without payment erty drain prior to SECTION 2. Upon the absence of evidence of any previous Lien may payment for liens as aforesaid, the said board of directors be satisfied are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to cancel and evidence of satisfy of record, any and all liens entered subsequent to the where proppassage of the Sewer Lien Law, April 29th, A. D. 1891, ed into a against abutting property, where the property so liened has publicsewer been and is draining into a public sewer previous to and at lien. the time of the entry of the lien, as aforesaid; provided, however, that it shall not be lawful to cancel any sewer assessment or lien made or entered against unimproved land Not to (without buildings or building) abutting a natural water apply to course used for sewage (excepting a natural stream), unless ed land. such cancellation be by payment in the usual manner made and provided. unimprov SECTION 3. That all the public acts and doings of the Doings of board of directors of the Street and Sewer Department of Street and Wilmington, so far as the same applies to the cancellation of Sewer Deany account liened (under the jurisdiction or control of said made valid. partment OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. department) shall be and the same are hereby confirmed, established and declared to be valid and effectual. SECTION 4. That this act shall repeal all laws or parts of same so far as they may be inconsistent herewith. Public bath house may be con near water works. CHAPTER 94. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a Board of Water Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring): SECTION 1. The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Wilmington are hereby authorized and empowered, structed at such time as they shall deem proper, to construct, erect and maintain a public bath house at or near the city water works on the Brandywine river, the cost of such bath house Expenses, and expense of maintenance to be included in and paid as one of the operating expenses of the water works for the year in which such cost or expense is incurred. how borne. Two patrol officers may be ap prevent the the waters SECTION 2. That for the better protection of the witer of the Brandywine river and its tributaries, the Board of pointed to Water Commissioners for the City of Wilmington are hereby pollution of given power and authority to appoint two patrol officers who shall be vested with police powers and who shall be under the control and subject to the rules and regulations of the Board of Water Commissioners. Their jurisdiction shall extend to the State line within which they shall have authority to make arrests for any violation of the State laws in regard to the pollution of streams. of the Brandywine. Jurisdiction. Passed at Dover, March 28, 1895. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 95. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to amend an aot entitled "An act amendatory of the Charter of the City of Wilmington". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch therein concurring): Volume 18, SECTION I. That Section 1 of an act entitled "An act Chapter177, amendatory of the charter of the City of Wilmington", Vonded. passed at Dover, February 7th, 1887, being Chapter 177, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of said section after the word Not ex"sum" in the eleventh line and inserting in lieu thereof the ceeding following: "not exceeding two thousand dollars annually to approthe Washington Fire Company, No. 7, for the use of their the Washchemical engine". Passed at Dover, April 13, 1895. $2000 to be priated to ington Fire Co., No. 7. CHAPTER 96. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to vacate certain Roads and Streets in the City of Wilmington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch concurring): road SECTION I. That those parts or portions of "The Town- Portion of send Road" commencing at its intersection with the westerly Townsend side of Buttonwood street and Lobdell street, and extending vacated. in a westerly direction to its intersection with Market street at "A" street excepting such portion of said road as may be within the lines of "A" street as laid out on the plans of Owners of Wilmington, be and the same is hereby vacated, and the land may adjacent |
