OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. engage help The Board of Assessment, Revision and Appeals may Board may engage the services of experts and such other employees as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section, and shall fix their duties, compensation and terms of service. All necessary expenses of the said Board of Assessment, Revision and Appeals shall be paid by The Council upon bills presented to it, marked with the approval of the said Board and properly audited by the City Auditor in the same manner as other bills against said City of Wilmington are now passed. be open to To better enable said Board of Assessment, Revision All records to and Appeals, and the Assessors and Collectors to make Board &c said assessments they shall have the right to examine all records in the county office, kept at the Court House in the City of Wilmington in and for New Castle County, free of all costs and charges. made prior to Section 2. That the Board of Assessment, Revision First assessand Appeals for the City of Wilmington, shall be and ment to be they are hereby authorized to make the first assessment May 31, 1913 on street railway lines, gas mains, electric light poles and wires, poles and wires used in transmitting heat, light or power, pipes, conduits and other underground construction, used as electric light, telephone or telegraph lines or in transmitting electric light, heat or power, and all pipes or conduits used in carrying water, as provided for in this Act at any time prior to the thirty-first day of May, A. D. 1913, for the next fiscal year, previous notice of such intended assessment, designating the time at which the same will be made, being given by the Board in writing to the owner, owners, operator or operators of said property. 177. Vol. 24 Section 3. That Section 16 of Chapter 177, Volume 24, Sec. 16, Chap. Laws of Delaware, approved March 25, A. D. 1907, in so repealed in part far as it is inconsistent herewith, as well as other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Approved April 7, A. D. 1913. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 206. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to allow the Street and Sewer Department of the City of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the members elected to each House thereof concurring herein). Sewer Dept. to from sewer Section 1. That from and after the passage of this Street and Act all moneys received by the Board of Directors of the retain money Street and Sewer Department of the City of Wilming- liens ton from sewer liens dated subsequent to July 1, 1912, may be retained by the said Street and Sewer Department and The Council is hereby authorized to pay to the said Street and Sewer Department the sums transferred to The Council by the Street and Sewer Department for receipts from sewer liens dated subsequent to July 1, 1912. Section 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby superseded and repealed. Approved February 18, A. D. 1913. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. Sec. 1, Chap. 407, Vol. 22 amended CHAPTER 207. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled, "An Act in Relation to Ninth Street West of Market Street in the City of Wilmington, Prohibiting Street Cars Thereon." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of the members elected to each Branch thereof concurring herein) : Section 1. That Section 1 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to Ninth Street West of Market Street in the City of Wilmington, prohibiting Street Cars thereon," being Chapter 407, Volume 22, Laws of Delaware, be amended by adding at the end of Section 1 thereof the words: "Provided, however, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to that portion of Ninth Street West of the Easterly boundary line of Union Street in said City of Wilmington; and provided further that no franchise hereafter granted for the laying of tracks or the operation of a railway on said Ninth Street West of the Easterly boundary of Union Street, shall be for a term in excess of fifteen years. Approved March 26, A. D. 1913. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. 1 CHAPTER 208. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT relating to the Assessment and Collection of Taxes in and 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): 207, Vol. 17 Section 1. That Section 80, Chapter 207, Volume 17, Sec. 80, Chap. Laws of Delaware, be and the same hereby is amended amended by the striking out of the words "Every male citizen above the age of twenty-one years shall be rated for a capitation or poll-tax in addition to the assessments of his real estate, at a capital not exceeding three thousand dollars nor less than one hundred dollars;" contained in the said Section 80, Chapter 207, Volume 17, Laws of Delaware. Section 2. This Act shall be effective immediately after it becomes a Public Act and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved March 28, A. D. 1913. |