OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. ers, or to such concurrent legislation as may seem judicious and proper in the premises to the respective Legislatures thereof. Each State shall have and exercise exclusive jurisdiction within said river to arrest, try and punish its own inhabitants for violation of the concurrent legislation relating to fishery herein provided for." "Article V. All laws of said States relating to the regulation of fisheries in the Delaware River not inconsistent with the right of common fishery hereinabove mentioned, shall continue in force in said respective States until the enactment of said concurrent legislation as herein provided.' Now Therefore, In pursuance of the terms of said Compact, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: on part of Section I. That Alexander B. Cooper, William S. Hillis Commissioners and Walter H. Hayes' be and they are hereby appointed Com- Delaware. missioners on the part of the State of Delaware, to confer with like Commissioners appointed or to be appointed by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, to do and perform all the duties, acts, matters and things required and stipulated in the said Compact or Agreement hereinabove mentioned, to be by them done and performed. That in and upon said Duties and Commissioners are hereby vested and conferred all powers Commissioners and authorities necessary and convenient for the full and complete performance of all the duties, acts, matters and things by this Act imposed upon them. Said Delaware Commissioners shall fill any vacancies occuring in the membership of Vacancies, said Delaware Commission by the selection of some other suitable citizen or citizens of the State of Delaware. of how filled. Section 2. Said Commissioners shall, on or before the organization of first day of June, A. D. 1905, organize by the election from Commissioners their number of a president and a secretary. The president President, his so elected shall be the presiding officer at all separate meet- duties. ings of said Commissioners, and the general executive head of said commission. The Secretary so elected shall conduct Secretary, his the correspondence of said commission under its direction duties. and keep a record of all the meetings, acts and proceedings Commissioners may summon witness, and enforce produc etc. Witnesses, how paid OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. of said Delaware Commissioners and of all meetings, acts and proceedings of the joint commissioners in the performance of the duties, acts, matters and things stipulated for in the said compact. Said Delaware Commissioners shall have power to causethe production of books, papers and other things, and to tion of books, summon before themselves, or before the said joint Commission, witnesses, expert and otherwise, the testimony of which, in the opinion of said Commissioners, shall be material to enable them to justly and fully perform the duties on them hereby imposed. All witnesses may be summoned upon warrants therefor signed by the President of said DelawareCommission, and shall be paid, for attendance and mileage, the fees usually paid in the State of Delaware for the attendance of witnesses at the trial of civil causes in the Attendance of Superior Court of said State. The attendance of witnessesbe enforced by before said Delaware Commission or before said joint commission may be compelled by attachments issued by said Delaware Commission to the Sheriff of any County in the State of Delaware; said attachments shall be signed by the President of said Delaware Commission and countersigned' by the Secretary thereof, and shall be executed and returned by the Sheriff to whom the same shall be directed. Each of Commissioners said Commissioners shall have power and authority to adminadminister ister oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before them or before said joint commission. witnesses may attachment. have power to oaths. Appropriation of $1500 for expenses. Money, how drawn. Section 3. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the monies in the Treasury of this State,. not otherwise appropriated, to pay the necessary expensesattendant upon the execution of the duties of said Commissioners. Said monies shall be drawn from the said Treasury, from time to time as occasion shall demand, upon the warrant of the Governor of this State drawn upon the State Treasurer, upon the certificate in writing to said Governor signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of said Delaware Commission, giving the details of such expenditures: made or to be made as aforesaaid. Approved, March 23, A. D. 1905. OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAPTER 7. OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. AN ACT giving the consent of the Legislature of the State of Delaware to the purchase by the United States for Military purposes of land adjoining the Military Reservation of Fort du Pont, Delaware. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: State to pur ernment for reservation. Section 1. That the consent of the Legislature of Dela- Consent of ware be and the same is hereby given, pursuant to the seven- chase of land teenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the by U. S. GovConstitution of the United States, to the purchase by the metati United States of three tracts of land aggregating, approximately, two hundred and seven acres, situate in Red Lion Hundred, New Castle County, for the enlargement of the military reservation of Fort DuPont, Delaware, said tracts comprising about one hundred and eleven and five-tenths acres, acquired by deed from Harry C. Clark and wife, dated the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and recorded in Deed Record B, Volume eighteen, page two hundred and thirty, etc., in the Recorder's Office at Wilmington. Delaware; and two parcels aggregating about ninety-five and fifty-two hundredths acres, to be purchased from Thomas C. Reeves, et. al., heirs of Clement Reeves, deceased: Provided, That the sovereignty and juris- Sovereignty diction of this State shall extend over said lands so far as that and jurisdiction all civil process and such criminal process as may issue under tend over lands the authority of this State against any person or persons charged with crimes or other offenses committed without such lands may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if this consent had not been given. Approved, March 16, A. D. 1905. of State to ex OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. Preamble. Preamble. Certain void acts re-enacted. CHAPTER 8. OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. AN ACT to Revive and Extend the time of Recording Private Acts. Whereas, By Section three of Chapter 4 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, it is provided that privateStatutes, namely, such as are not of a public nature or published as such shall be recorded in the Recorder's office in one of the Counties of this State within twelve months after their passage or they will be void; And Whereas, A number of the private and unpublished Acts heretofore passed have been allowed to become void. through various causes; Therefore for the purpose of relieving the parties interested of the embarrassments and disappointments arising from such neglect in the premises, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each House concurring therein:) Section I. That all unpublished Acts heretofore passed that have become void on account of not having been duly recorded in compliance with the provisions aforesaid and that have not, by special Acts, been repealed or become void by lapse of the time for which they were limited, be and the same are hereby revived, renewed and re-enacted, and, together with the provisions therein contained, are respectively declarActs done under ed to be in full force for the period mentioned in the original void acts made Acts, and all Acts and transactions done and performed under the provisions of said Acts respectively shall have the same force and effect and be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the said Acts had been severally recorded according to Law. Provided, however, that this enactment shall not take effect in the case of any Act that has become void as aforesaid until a certified copy thereof procured of the Secretary of Stateshall be duly recorded in the Recorder's office of one of the Counties of this State; and Provided further that no such valid. When certified copy of void act to be recorded. OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. copy of a voided Act shall be received for record after the Approved, March 16, A. D. 1905. CHAPTER 9. OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS. AN ACT to amend Chapter 4 of the Revised Code, Laws of Delaware, in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: ter 4, Revised number of vol Section I. That Section 1 of Chapter 4, Revised Code, Section 1, ChapLaws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by Code amended inserting between the words "thousand" and "copies" in the increasing fourth line the words "and three hundred"; and that Section umes of Session 2 of the said Chapter be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word "three" in the tenth line and inserting in lieu thereof the word "five." Section 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, March 30, A. D. 1905. Laws published Increasing number of vol umes of Laws held for binding. |