OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. perform such other police duties as may be requested and proper to female prisoners and refugees confined in said station-house. Police De SECTION IO. Said Board of Commissioners are hereby Physician of authorized to appoint and commission annually a physician partment. of integrity and capacity, resident of the city of Wilmington, and who shall have practiced medicine therein for at least three years next preceding the date of commission, to act as physician of Police Department of said city under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe for his conduct. The duties of said physician shall be to ex- Duty of amine thoroughly all applicants for position on police force Physician. of said city, and to test their entire fitness in every respect for said position; to visit all policemen, turnkeys, detectives and officers of police who may be returned as sick and report their condition to said board, and to perform all such other and further professional duties in connection with said department and force as said board may from time to time deem necessary. The annual salary of said physician shall be the Salary of sum of three hundred dollars, payable in equal monthly in- Physician. stallments; but the tenure of office of said physician shall Tenure of be determinable within the appointed year for cause by a majority of said board, and in their exclusive discretion, and said physician shall be compensated only up to the time of such determination at the rate of the annual salary aforesaid. office. Police De SECTION II. All the expenses of the Police Department, Expenses of including salaries, shall be paid by "The Council" upon partment, bills presented to it, marked with the approval of the said how paid. Board of Commissioners, and properly audited by the City Auditor, in the same manner as other bills against said city are now paid. Passed at Dover, May 15, 1891. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. Opening streets to lay etc. Proviso. CHAPTER 224. OF STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. AN ACT relating to Public Streets and Highways. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: SECTION I. No person or corporation shall open or excapipes, wires, vate the bed of any street or highway of any city, town or village in this State for the purpose of laying or placing pipes, wires, or other conductors therein without first obtaining the consent of the duly constituted authorities of such city, town, or village. Provided, however, That nothing. herein contained shall require such consent before opening or excavating the bed of any such street or highway for the purpose of repairing any pipes, wires, or other conductors theretofore lawfully laid or placed in such street or highway. Passed at Dover, May 14, 1891. Repairs. Registration of dogs. CHAPTER 225. OF LEIPSIC. AN ACT to further amend an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled 'An act to Incorporate the Town of Leipsic, in Kent County.'" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring therein): SECTION I. That from and after the passage of this act every owner, keeper or harborer of a dog, in the town of Leipsic, shall, on the day and hours that the town commissioners meet to hear appeals to the town assessment list, come forward and have registered his or her dog or dogs, for which he or she shall pay fifty cents for owner, keeper or harborer of one dog, and one dollar for each and every dog more than one. Any person owning, keeping or harboring a OF CITIES AND TOWNS. register or dog, after the day of appeals mentioned above, [who] shall Failure to neglect to come forward and have registered and pay to the pay fees. town treasurer the registering fee for any dog or dogs they may have after the day of appeal, for ten days, it shall be the duty of the town police, constable, or any one the town commissioners may direct, to kill or dispose of any and all dogs that have not been registered and paid the fee above mentioned. "Dog" how SECTION 5. The word "dog," in the above section, shall Word be taken and construed to mean all animals of the dog kind construed. over ten weeks old. SECTION 3. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, February 18, 1891. CHAPTER 226. OF MAGNOLIA. AN ACT to amend Sections 8 and 21 of Chapter 568, Volume 17 of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: and 21 of amended. That Section 8 and Section 21 of Chapter 568, Vol. 17, Sections 8 Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by Chapter 568, striking out the word "may" in both the twenty-fifth and Volume 17, twenty-sixth lines of said Section 8, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "shall," and again, in line nine, Section 21 of said chapter, between the words "assessment" and the word "and," the following words: "not to exceed the value of county assessments." Further amend in line 25, Section 8, after the word "tax" Dog tax. and insert the words: "of fifty cents on male dogs and one dollar on female dogs" before the word "on" in said line. Passed at Dover, February 26, 1891. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. Additional powers of Dover. tachment of CHAPTER 227. OF DOVER. AN ACT to further amend the 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, (twothirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring therein): SECTION I. That in addition to the powers now given to Collector of and possessed by the collector of town or other taxes for the town of Dover, it shall and may be lawful for the collector of the town of Dover, after demand made by him upon the person against whom a tax may be assessed, either poll, personal or real property, for the payment of the tax assessed, and the failure of said taxable to pay the same on said Notice of at- demand, to give written notice to any person or persons regoods, etc. siding in Kent county whom he may suppose to have in his or their possession any goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys or wages belonging to or owing to said taxable, stating the amount of taxes due from said delinquent taxable, and if the person served with notice, as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect for thirty days after such notice to file a statement with the said collector, giving in detail the goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys or wages in his hands belonging to said delinquent taxable, and to deliver the same to the collector, or to pay into the hands of the collector so much money as will satisfy said town and other tax due and owing to said town of Dover from said delinquent taxable, and all costs incurred in and about the collecting of said town and other taxes from said delinquent, the collector may proceed by suit, in the name of the town of Dover, before any justice of the peace in the town of Dover, [against] any person notified as aforesaid and failing as hereinbefore provided, and may recover against him, her or them a judg ment for the amount of the town and other taxes due from said delinquent taxable and all costs. The costs shall be fixed by the justice of the peace and shall conform as near as may in amount as fees in cases now cognizable before justices Trial, etc. of the peace. The process, mode of trial, right of appeal and form of proceeding shall be as prescribed in Chapter 99 of the Revised Statutes of this State. The cost for serving Suit. Costs. OF CITIES AND TOWNS. the written notice shall be the same as now provided by law in cases of attachment. The oath of the collector shall be sufficient evidence of the demand on the taxable and of the service of notice upon and refusal and neglect of the person in whose hands were or supposed to be goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys or wages. Evidence of demand. Town Coun SECTION 2. That the Town Council of the town of Dover Powers of may, by an ordinance enacted at any regular monthly meet-cil to release ing, or by special resolution adopted, release, relieve and certain taxes exonerate the real property, machinery, implements, tools and other necessary property of any person or persons or corporation used in the business of manufacturing within the limits of the town of Dover, employing not less than six persons, from any assessment for tax for town purposes or Assessment. other tax over which the Town Council have power or control and from the payment of the same. No property shall Exemption be exempt from taxation aforesaid until such ordinance is enacted or special resolution adopted. Passed at Dover, March 19, 1891. from taxes. CHAPTER 228. OF SMYRNA. AN ACT to incorporate the Board of Trade of the Town of Smyrna. 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): SECTION I. That James C. Robinson, A. E. Jardine, Corporators. William Faries, E. M. Fowler, Alfred L. Hudson, William W. Tschudy, William E. Hall, J. Wesley Denny, Clarence Prettyman, Edward G. Walls, and James W. Spruance, and such other persons as are now or may hereafter be associated with them, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of "The Board of Trade of Corporate the Town of Smyrna," and by that name shall have succession for twenty years, with power to sue and be sued, plead name. |