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ers appointed as aforesaid shall be sworn or affirmed severally before entering upon the premises to perform the duties assigned them faithfully and impartially. Such oath or affirmation may be made before any judge or Justice of the Peace. The said free-holders shall give notice of the time of their meeting to view the premises. Such notice shall be given in the same manner and for the same time as is prescribed in this Section with respect to the notice of the presentation of the petition for the appointment of the free-holders aforesaid. The said free-holders, or a majority of them, shall certify their finding and award to the owner or owners of the real property aforesaid by serving a copy of such finding and award upon such owner or owners, if within the County aforesaid at such time, but if such owner or owners shall not be within said County at such time, then a copy of said finding and award shall be left with the tenant of the real property aforesaid, if there be a tenant, Findings to be or if there be no tenant, the said finding and award shall be printed in at least one issue of at least two newspapers published in said County. The said free-holders shall also certify their finding and award to the said To certify find- commission by serving a copy thereof upon any member thereof. If either party be dissatisfied with the damages assessed, the party so dissatisfied may, within twenIf either side is ty days after the date of the certifying of the finding and may present a award of the free-holders as aforesaid, present a petireview to Resi- tion for review to the Associate Judge of the State, resident in New Castle County, first giving notice to the other party or parties affected. If the party dissatisfied be the said commission, such notice shall be given to the owner or owners of the real property aforesaid in the same manner and for the same time as prescribed in this Section with respect to the notice of the time of presenting the petition for the appointment of the first set of free-holders. In case the party dissatisfied be the owner or owners of said real property, the notice of the pre

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petition for

dent Judge in New Castle

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tion for review

point five other

view premises

senting of the petition for review shall be given to any member of said commission. Upon the presentation of any such petition for review the said Judge shall appoint five other judicious and impartial free-holders of said County. The said free-holders shall be sworn or affirm- on presentaed severally as hereinbefore prescribed with regard to Judge to apthe freeholders appointed on the first petition and shall freeholders to give notice of the time of their meeting to view the premises and assess the damages precisely as prescribed with respect to the notice to be given of the time of the meeting of the freeholders appointed on the first petition, and the said freeholders, or a majority of them, shall certify their finding and award to the several parties affected in the same manner as in this Section prescribed with respect to the certifying of the finding and award of the first set of freeholders. The finding and award of the freeholders appointed on the petition for review, or majority of them, shall be final.

Findings o a tee to be final

second commit

attach plot of

In making return of their finding and award, said freeholders shall attach thereto a plot of the land taken. When said award becomes final and upon payment of the damages, said plot shall be recorded in the office of the Freeholders to Recorder of Deeds for New Castle County and the same the land with shall be indexed in the indices for Deed Records in said to be recorded office in the same manner as if a voluntary conveyance tary conveyhad been made by the owner to the State of Delaware.

In assessing the damages, either under the first petition or under the petition for review, the freeholders shall in no case award a sum less than what in their opinion is the actual cash value of the real property condemned.

The acts, doings and findings of a majority of the freeholders shall be as binding and effectual as the acts, doings and findings of all, both in the case of those free

final findings

as if a volun

ance

Sum to be

awarded not to value of land

be less than actual cost

Chancellor or

Chief Justice to

dent Judge of New Castle

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holders first appointed and in case of those appointed on the petition for review.

In case the Associate Judge of this State, resident in act when Resi- New Castle County shall, for any reason, be unable to act under the provisions of this Section, then either the County is una-Chancellor or Chief Justice is hereby authorized to act in the place of said Resident Judge.

ble so to

Failure to pre

age to be paid

days to Superior Court in New Castle

county or to Prothonotary for use of owner of land condemned

Section 5. Upon failure to present a petition for refor reviewition view as aforesaid, or upon final determination of the damages assessed under a petition for review, the said commission shall, within twenty days thereafter, decide whether such damages shall be paid and such real property acquired, and if it shall decide that said real property shall be acquired, it shall cause the damages so asAssessed dam- sessed to be paid within twenty days aforesaid to the within twenty party or parties entitled, or may pay the same into the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, in and for New Castle County or to the Prothonotary thereof in vacation, for the use of the owner or owners of the real property condemned as aforesaid. Upon payment of the damages as aforesaid, the title to the real property condemned shall be vested in the State of Delaware, and shall be and become its absolute property for the purposes set forth in this Act. All fees and costs of the proceedings for the condemnation of the real property aforesaid as provided in this Act, shall be paid by the said commission. Each freeholder appointed under the provisions of Section 4, hereof, who shall perform the duties as prescribed by this Act, shall be entitled to a fee of Three Dollars which shall be paid him by the said commission within twenty days after the completion of his duties.

Title to be

vested in the State of Delaware

Freeholder's

fee

In case the said commission shall pay any damages awarded in the condemnation proceedings authorized by

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this Act into the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, in and for New Castle County or to the Prothonotary thereof in vacation, for the use and benefit of the Pay or distri owner or owners of the real property condemned as age funds aforesaid, the said Court, shall, upon petition of any person interested in the damages so paid, make such order for the payment or distribution of the fund so paid as the Court shall determine to be proper, said funds being deemed to be subject to unpaid liens, which, at the time Funds for damof the condemnation, bound the real property aforesaid. unpaid liens

ages subject to

To endeavor to

complete build

ings by Sep

Section 6. The said commission shall use its best endeavor to complete the erection of the buildings and the installation of all appliances and equipment therefor, as required by this Act, by the first day of September A. D. tember 1914 1914, and shall, after the completion of said work, render to the General Assembly at its next session, a full report of its proceedings under the provisions of this Act.

thorized to

$120,000

Section 7. The Trustees of Delaware College are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow upon faith and credit of the State of Delaware, in such manner and up- Trustees auon such terms as a majority of said trustees shall deem borrow advisable, the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Thous-' and Dollars, which said sum, together with the first appropriation made under the provisions of Section 8 of this Act, or as much thereof as may be, shall be expended by the commission hereinbefore provided, in carrying out the provisions of this Act.

The said Trustees are hereby authorized to borrow

said

thorized to

sum or sums of money and to give therefor certificates or other evidence or evidences of indebtedness, executed in such manner and in such form as shall be con- Trustees ausidered advisable by said Trustees. Said Trustees shall give certificates have the power to fix the amount of any such certificates ness or other evidence or evidences of indebtedness, to fix the

of indebted

Rate of interest

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rate of interest which shall be paid on the sum or sums borrowed, to determine the date of maturity of such certificates or other evidence or evidences of indebtedness and the place where the same shall be payable when they shall become due. The said certificates or other evidence or evidences of indebtedness or any sum or sums which shall be borrowed as aforesaid, shall be in the name of the Trustees of Delaware College, and the same shall be executed in such manner as the Trustees of Delaware College shall by resolution determine. When the said sum or sums shall have been borrowed by the said Trustees, the same shall be paid by them to the commission raised by Trus- hereinbefore provided, to be used by said commission for the purpose aforesaid.

Sums when

tees to be paid

to Commission

Annual appropriation for five years

Section 8. The sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars is hereby appropriated annually for a period of five years, which said sum shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of the current funds of the State to the Trustees of Delaware College, which said sums shall be used by the To be used in Trustees of Delaware College only for the purpose of and liquidating paying the interest on the sums borrowed by them under the provisions of the preceding Section, and for the pur-. poses of liquidating the indebtedness created as aforesaid, when the same shall become due and payable.

paying interest

indebtedness created

Buildings and

be used for

lege

The faith and credit of the State of Delaware is hereby pledged to secure the indebtedness authorized to be created by Section 7 hereof.

Section 9. The buildings and all equipment thereof, equipment to when completed and accepted by the commission desigWomen's Col-nated in Section 1 hereof, shall be for the use of and under the control and superivsion of the Trustees of Delaware College for the establishment and maintenance of a Women's College affiliated with Delaware College; but

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