OF CITIES AND TOWNS. sioners of Rehoboth before the Mayor of Rehoboth or any Justice of the Peace residing in Sussex County. If the borrowing of the said money shall not be approved by a majority of the said votes at said special election, the said The Commissioners of Rehoboth are authorized and directed to call another special election not less than ninety days nor more than six months thereafter to be held in like manner and for the same purpose. If Second special at the second special election the borrowing of said sum borrowing is of money shall not be approved by a majority of the said at first one vote, then the said The Commissioners of Rehoboth are authorized and directed to submit the question to the voters, qualified as aforesaid, at the annual election to be held in the year 1914. election if not approved Other elections The ballots to be used at said election shall be in the Form of ballots form prescribed by The Commissioners of Rehoboth, who shall prepare and have them printed. On the day of election the Secretary, or one of the Commissioners designated by the President of The Commissioners for that purpose, shall sit at the usual place of meeting of The Commissioners in the Town of Rehoboth from ten o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock noon, and deliver, upon application, said ballots to those entitled to vote at said election. At twelve o'clock noon all ballots remain- of ballots ing in the Secretary's hands shall be delivered to the election officers to be by them placed in a convenient, public place in or near the election room for use of the voters. The Collector of Taxes of Rehoboth shall, and he is hereby required to attend and be present at said election from the time it is opened until it is closed and Collector of to have with him his tax duplicate; and as each person present at offers to vote shall certify orally to the election officers the number of votes to which such person is entitled on the basis hereinbefore provided. The election officers shall plainly mark on the back of the ballot, before being Duties of deposited in the ballot box, the number of votes to which taxes to be election election officers OF CITIES AND TOWNS. the person voting such ballot is entitled, and in counting said ballots and in ascertaining the result of the election the number marked on the back of the ballot shall be the number of votes counted as cast by said ballot. Section 5. That the aith of the said Town of Rehoboth is hereby pledged for the payment of the bonds authorized to be issued under the provisions of this Act. Approved February 18, A. D. 1913. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. CHAPTER 249. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT Authorizing the Commissioners of Rehoboth to Levy a special Tax for the Support of the Water Works System in the Town of Rehoboth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (two-thirds of the members of each branch thereof concurring therein): of Rehoboth levy special of water works Section 1. That the Commissioners of Rehoboth are Commissioners authorized and required to levy upon all the assessable authorized to real estate and the improvements upon public lands with- tax for upkeep in the limits of the town of Rehoboth or vested in said town, annually, a special tax sufficient to pay all the expenses of properly keeping up and operating the Water Works System of said town which the rents and revenues derived from said Water Works System may be inadequate to meet; provided that this special tax shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars in any one year. Section 2. The special tax provided for in this Act Method of shall be collected from the owners of real estate and im- collection provements on public lands in the same manner as the other taxes levied by the said Commissioners of Rehoboth are collected. Approved February 18, A. D. 1913. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. Sec. 5, Chap. 183, Vol. 23 amended CHAPTER 250. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to Amend An Act entitled "An Act to Re-incorporate the 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 therein): Section 1. That Chapter 183, Volume 23, Laws of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words, "three hundred" in the forty-ninth line of the fifth section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "four hundred". Approved March 17, A. D. 1913. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. CHAPTER 251. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to reincorporate the 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 therein.): 214, Vol 24 Section 1. That Chapter 214, Volume 24, Laws of Del-Sec. 8, Chap. aware, entitled, "An Act to reincorporate the Town of amended Laurel" is hereby amended by striking out Section 8 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the following: members of bers-at-large "Members of the Council shall be elected by the qual- Election of ified voters of said Town, their terms of office shall begin Council on the first day of April, next succeeding their election and shall be for a term of two years. At the first town election to be held under the provisions of this Act* there shall be elected five members of Council, three of whom shall be from the three Wards respectively and two Terms of memshall be elected from the Town at large.** The two to and members be chosen at large at the next election shall be chosen for wards one year only and at the expiration of that term their successors shall be chosen biennially, and one person shall be chosen as a member of the Council by the qualified voters in each of the three Wards described and defined in Section 2 of this Act for the term of two years. Said members shall be chosen by plurality of the votes *Chapter 252 of Vol. 27 insert an amendment here. ** This sentence stricken out by Chapter 252 of Vol. 27. from different |
