Extensions of sewers Extension of sewers outside of corporate limits Petition of abutting owners OF CITIES AND TOWNS. or by the Act entitled "An Act to re-incorporate the Town of Newark," being Chapter 175, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. Section 26. Wherever and whenever the system of sewers built under the authority of this Act is extended to any point within the limits of the Town of Newark, the property abutting upon that portion of the streets, highways, lanes or alleys in which such extensions are built, shall pay to the Treasurer of "the Council of Newark” the same rates per front foot of property abutting upon said extensions, as the Sewer Commission and the Council of "the Council of Newark", in joint session, decide to assess against the front foot of property abutting upon the streets, highways, lanes or alleys in which the system of sewers is first built, as described in Section 12 of this Act, that is, each front foot of property situated within the Town of Newark and having access to a sewer built under the provisions of this Act, shall be assessed alike, and the assessments therefor shall be made and collected, in all respects, as already provided for herein. Section 27. The Council of "the Council of Newark" is hereby authorized and empowered to build sewers, through the agency of the Sewer Commission, if the same be in existence, and under its own direction if said Commission has ceased to exist, as provided for in this Act, in the roads or highways, lanes or alleys leading into, or within a distance of two miles from the limits of the Town of Newark, and to maintain the same, when a petition, signed by the owners of three-fourths of the property abutting on that portion of said public road, highway, lane or alley is presented to said Council, setting forth that the signers of said petition desire such sewer or sewers to be built, and agree to pay to said Council all the costs thereof, within such period as said Council may prescribe. Should said Council or Commission OF CITIES AND TOWNS. build such sewer or sewers as authorized in this section, mission to pre regulations for Council Section 28. The Sewer Commission shall prepare and Sewer Compresent to the Council of "the Council of Newark" for pare rules and its approval, rules and regulations governing the use of approval of the system of sewers and disposal works authorized under this Act, and the making connections therewith, and after such rules and regulations are approved by said Council, they shall become a law in as full force as any other law or ordinance passed by said Council, and shall be subject to such amendment from time to time as said Council shall prescribe. To become Commission to Section 29. The Sewer Commission created under the authority of this Act shall have charge of the construction and operation of all sewers and disposal works have full built during its existence, as fixed in this Act, and upon tion &e the termination of the life of such Commission the Council of the Council of Newark" shall assume and have 66 all the powers and duties herein granted to and imposed upon said Commission. charge opera Health of New mine whether Section 30. Upon the written notice from the Board of Board of Health of the Town of Newark of the existence of a ark may deternuisance detrimental to the public health of the inhabi- a nuisance can tants of said Town, and stating that such nuisance can constructing be abated by a sewer To connect with a sewer Penalty for failure to obey for preparations of plans and specifications OF CITIES AND TOWNS. be eliminated by connecting the property upon which said nuisance exists with the system of sewers built under this Act, the Council of "the Council of Newark" shall, and it is hereby directed to serve a written notice upon the owner of the property upon which such nuisance is alleged to exist, to connect such property with the system of sewers within thirty (30) days after the date of such notice. Should such property not be thus connected within the period fixed in such notice, the owner thereof, upon conviction before the Alderman of the Town of Newark, of his failure to obey the instructions of said Council as contained in such notice, be subject to a fine of not less than five (5), nor more than ten (10) dollars for each and every day beyond the expiration of the period named in such notice for connecting with the system of sewers which said connection remains unmade, and such nuisance is allowed to remain, said fine is to be collected as other fines for offences against the laws and ordinances of the Town of Newark are now, by law, collected. Section 31. Should the majority of the persons owning property abutting upon any street or streets, highway or highways, lane or lanes, alley or alleys in the Town of Newark, aforesaid, in which it is proposed to build any sewer or sewers, and the disposal works conCouncil to pay nected therewith, be opposed to the building of said sewer or sewers and disposal works, as evidenced by their votes cast at an election held under the provisions of this Act, the Council of "the Council of Newark" is hereby authorized and directed to pay all sums of money paid or contracted to be paid by the Sewer Commission in the preparation of the plans, specifications and estimates for such proposed sewer or sewers and disposal plant, out of any monies belonging to "the Council of Newark," or borrowed upon notes as herein provided. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. missioner may for other town Section 32. Nothing in this Act shall be taken or con- A Sewer Comstrued to prevent any member of the Sewer Commission be a candidate hereby appointed or hereafter elected, from occupying offices the office of President of the Council of "the Council of Newark," or a member of said Council, or from being a candidate, at any election held in said Town, for and elected to the office of President of said Council, or a member thereof. Section 33. All Acts, or parts of same, inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby repealed. Section 34. This Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 14, A. D. 1913. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. Sec. 1, Chap. 199, Vol. 24 amended Boundaries of CHAPTER 221. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to amend Section 1, Chapter 199, Volume 24, Laws of Dela- 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 branch of the Legislature concurring therein): Section 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 199, Volume 24, Laws of Delaware, entitled "An Act to re-incorporate the Town of Delaware City," be, and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of that part of said Section beginning with the word "the" in the first line of said Section, down to the word "provided" in the sixteenth line of said Section, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The Town of Delaware City shall be bounded as folDelaware City lows:-Beginning at low water mark in the Delaware River, at the entrance of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal; thence along the Southeast side of said Canal to the main drain passing under said Canal; thence with the Northeast side of said drain to the Dragon Creek; thence with the said Northeast side of said Dragon Creek to the South Side of the road leading from Delaware City to St. Georges; thence along said South side of said road to the intersection of said South side of said road with the Southeast side of Clinton Street, extended; thence along the said Southeast side of said |