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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Governor of the State of Delaware to appoint a Commission to meet with a like Commission from the State of New Jersey and draft modifications of the laws regulating the taking of fish in the Delaware River and Bay and report same to the General Assembly of the State of Delaware.

WHEREAS, it is desirable to modify the laws regulating the taking of fish in the waters of the Delaware River and Bay between the States of New Jersey and Delaware; and

WHEREAS, under the terms of the compact now existing between the State of New Jersey and State of Delaware such modifications can be made only by concurrent legislation of the said two States; therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That the Governor of the State of Delaware is hereby authorized to appoint a Commission consisting of three members, to confer with a like Commission of the State of New Jersey, and draft modifications of the laws regulating the taking of fish in the aforesaid waters and to report the same to the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, now in session.

Approved February 4, A. D. 1921.

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION relating to Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Light, on the Delaware Bay shore at Rehoboth.

WHEREAS, it has been definitely determined that the Break-` water constructed in the Delaware Bay, at Lewes, Delaware, to protect the harbor at that point, has deflected the current during storms on to the beach at Rehoboth, and on to the banks in front of the Henlopen Light, so that the beach at Rehoboth is being destroyed, and threatens the breaking up of the summer resort, and the Light-House at Cape Henlopen known as, the Henlopen Light-House, is threatened; and

WHEREAS, two departments of the United States Government, viz., the War Department, and the Department of Commerce, are both necessarily involved in any discussion of the matter with the Federal Government, so that it is necessary to ask for relief from the Chief Executive. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met:

That the President of the United States be, and he is, hereby requested to have the situation at Rehoboth Beach, and the Henlopen Light, investigated on behalf of the Federal Government, and to provide for a conference between the proper officers and departments of the Federal Government, and the Governor of the State of Delaware, with a view to adopting practical means for counteracting the effects aforesaid.

Approved March 7, A. D. 1921.

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 2.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. -creating a Commission to view the situation on Indian River Inlet, Sussex County, and report the advisability of opening said inlet from said Indian River into the ocean and the estimated cost thereof.

WHEREAS, the Commission appointed under Senate Joint Resolution No. 3 of the Ninety-seventh General Assembly to view and report on the condition of Indian River Inlet made a report to the Ninety-seventh General Assembly that the inlet was entirely closed and that the waters of Indian River Inlet and Rehoboth Bay, an area of twenty-five square miles, was thus rendered of no value for fishing purposes and constituted a menace to the health of the State and recommended the opening of an inlet into said waters; and

WHEREAS, By the Provisions of Chapter 17, Volume 30, Laws of Delaware, a Commission consisting of Asa Bennett, Robert H. Hollett and William H. *Zanzenbaker was appointed to continue until the end of the Ninety-eighth General Assembly, and was directed to open an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean to the waters of Indian River and Rehoboth Bay and to select the location and course of said inlet; and

WHEREAS, By said Act the appropriation provided for in said Senate Joint Resolution No. 3 of the Ninety-seventh General Assembly was continued for the use of the said Commission, and a further sum of not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) was by said Act appropriated for the use of said Commission in the opening of said inlet; and

WHEREAS, The said Commission has found the appropriations so made largely insufficient to carry into effect the provisions of the said Act; now, therefore,

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Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Wallace S. Handy, Charles Hopkins, of Kent County, A. Jefferson Staats, of New Castle County, and Harry E. Clendaniel of Sussex County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view the present situation of the Indian River Inlet and to estimate the cost of making an inlet sufficient to admit the proper quantity of the waters of the ocean into Indian River and Rehoboth Bay and to report to this, the Ninety-eighth General Assembly, their findings as to the advisability of opening the inlet and the probable cost thereof.

Section 2. Said Commission shall be styled "A Commission To View Indian River Inlet."

Section 3. That said Commission may employ an Engineer and necessary assistants, and the expense thereof, together with the expense of the said Commission, not to exceed the sum of Three Hundred Dollars, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be drawn on the warrants of the said Commission, or a majority of them, and approved by the Governor.

Section 4. That said Senate Joint Resolution No. 3, of the Ninety-seventh General Assembly, entitled, "Creating a Commission to View the Situation on Indian River Inlet and Report the Estimated Cost and Advisability of Opening Same," approved March 6th, A. D. 1919, and Chapter 17, Volume 30, Laws of Delaware, entitled, "An Act Providing for Opening an Inlet for Indian River and Rehoboth Bay to Be Known as The Indian River Inlet," be and they are hereby repealed.

Approved February 4, A. D. 1921.

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JOINT RESOLUTION appointing Directors on the part of the State for the Farmers' Bank of the State of Delaware, at Dover.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

That Cornelius B. Hope, William D. Denney and William Watson Harrington, be and they are hereby appointed Directors, on the part of the State, of the Farmers' Bank of the State of Delaware at Dover.

Approved March 25, A. D. 1921.