OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. allowed such amount for their expenses as the General Mayor and Wilming ton may borrow not $50,000 for CHAPTER 99. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to "An act to provide for Public Parks for the use of the citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity", passed March 13th, 1883. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch herein concurring): SECTION I. That the Mayor and Council of Wilmington are hereby empowered, under an ordinance or ordinances of the City Council to be passed with the concurrence of twoexceeding thirds of all the members thereof, to borrow a sum or sums purchase of not exceeding in the aggregate fifty thousand dollars to be to parks. applied and expended under the charge of the Board of Park Commissioners of the said city in the purchase or acquisition, in the manner authorized by the act to which this is a supplement, of lands to be used as additions to said parks. additions Bonds, how issued. Not less than $15,000 SECTION 2. That the bonds of the City of Wilmington authorized to be issued under the provisions of this act shall be issued, and payment made in the manner provided by an act passed at Dover, February 9th, 1855, entitled "An act to provide a sinking fund for the payment of the city debt of Wilmington, and the various amendments and supplements thereto. SECTION 3. That the amounts to be appropriated in purto 150 suance of Section 4 of the act to which this is a supplement in any one shall not be less than fifteen thousand dollars for any one fiscal year. year. Passed at Dover, April 27, 1895. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 100. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to vacate Brobson's Lane in the City of Wilmington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives [of the State of Delaware] in General Assembly met: lane to be when Scott SECTION I. That a lane situated in the City of Wilming- Brobson's ton extending from Pennsylvania avenue to Eleventh street vacated and known as Brobson's lane shall be vacated when Scott street is street extending from Pennsylvania avenue to Eleventh opened. street in said city shall be opened and free for travel. lands to en SECTION 2. The lane when vacated shall belong to and owners of become the property of the respective owners of real estate adiacent adjacent thereto, each of the said owners having respectively close same. the ownership therein the width of his front to the middle line of said lane. Passed at Dover, April 27, 1895. CHAPTER 101. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to further amend the Charter of the City of Wilmington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (twothirds of each branch concurring): mington SECTION I. That the boundaries of the City of Wilming- Boundaries ton be further extended so as to include the territory bounded of Wiland described as follows, viz: Beginning at a point where extended. the northeasterly boundary line of the City of Wilmington Territory intersects the northerly side of Wooddale avenue extended at included. right angles to Thirty-second street, as laid down on the city. map; thence northeasterly along the northerly side of Wooddale avenue extended at right angles with Thirty-second Jurisdic authorities to new OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. street as aforesaid, twelve hundred and twenty feet (1220) to a point; thence southeasterly by a line measured at right angles to the first-described line, crossing the Philadelphia and Wilmington Turnpike road at a point about six hundred and thirty feet (630) east of the present city line at intersection of Market street and Eastlawn avenue, to a point where it intersects the present city line at or near the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad; thence northwesterly along said present city line by its various courses to the place of beginning. SECTION 2. Within the limits of the City of Wilmington, tion of city extended by this act, the Mayor and Council of Wilmington extended shall be vested with all power, rights, privileges and immuniterritory. ties which before this time belonged to them as a municipal corporation, and all the laws, ordinances and regulations in force within the former city limits, and not locally inappli cable, shall be extended and applied to the new territory comprised within the boundaries as set forth in the first section of this act. Assessment of taxes. SECTION 3. The real estate by this act added to and included within the city limits, and all persons now or hereafter residing within said new boundaries, shall be subject to assessment for municipal taxes in the same manner and subject to the same rights, rules and restrictions as in other cases within the said city; provided the real estate by this act added to and included within the city limits and all persons now or hereafter residing within said new boundaries shall be subject to assessment for municipal taxes in the same manner and subject to the same rights, rules and restrictions as in For 5 years other cases within the said city; provided, however, that the taxes to be rate of taxation of said real estate shall be for the period of fourth rate. five years ensuing the passage of this act at one-quarter the For ensuing rate of taxation on city property generally and for the ensuing five years at five years thereafter at one-half rate and thereafter at full rate. rate, and The new territory hereby added to the said City of Wilmingat full rate. ton shall be a part and parcel of the Ninth ward thereof, and To be part a part of the Third assessment district of the City of Wilmingward and ton for the purpose of assessment and collection of taxes for assessment county purposes. municipal at one one-half thereafter of Ninth of Third district. SECTION 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, April 29, 1895. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. CHAPTER 102. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to further amend Chapter 188 of Volume 18 of the Laws of Delaware and also to authorize "The Mayor and Council of Wilmington" to borrow a certain sum of money for public improvements in the City of Wilmington, Delaware. 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 herein): Volume 18, 659, Volume SECTION I. That the act entitled "An act in relation to Chapter 188, the streets and sewers of the City of Wilmington", passed at as amended Dover, April 20, 1887, being Chapter 188 of Volume 18 of by Chapter the Laws of Delaware, as amended by an act entitled "An 18, amended act to amend Chapter 188 of Volume 18 of the Laws of Delaware', passed at Dover, April 19, 1889, being Chapter 659 of Volume 18 of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By striking out of Section 5 of said Chapter 188 of Volume 18 of the Laws of Delaware as amended as aforesaid the following words and figures therein occurring after the word "exceed" in the fifty-seventh line of said Section 5, to-wit: One hundred and twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) for the fiscal year one thousand eight hundred and eightynine and ninety (1889-1890), and the increase shall not for any succeeding fiscal year be greater than five per centum Annual apadditional upon the aggregate amount for the fiscal year pre-propriation ceding", and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures, and Sewer "one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the current Departand ordinary expenses of the said department for any one City fiscal year". to the Street ment by the Council. shall bor row $250,000 and issue bonds for SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority Mayor and aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of Wilmington Council shall have power and they are hereby directed to borrow the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) and to issue bonds of said city for the payment thereof with same. interest, said payment to be made at such times and in such manner as the City Council of the said City of Wilmington shall by ordinance prescribe and appoint, and the said sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) shall, in the discretion of the Board of Directors of the said Street and To be exImprove streets and pended in ments of sewers. To be borrowed in portions as tors of the the direc Sewer De not exceed OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. Sewer Department of the said City of Wilmington, be appropriated, applied and expended by the said board for the following public improvements, that is to say: For the opening, widening, paving and improvement of streets, avenues, lanes or alleys in the said City of Wilmington and for the construction of sewers and water ways in said city. SECTION 3. That any and all moneys so borrowed under the authority of this act shall be borrowed by the said the Mayor and Council of Wilmington at such times and in such Street and amounts as the Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer partment Department of the said City of Wilmington may direct; promay direct, vided, however, that in no event shall the amount to be boring $125,000 rowed under the provisions of this act exceed the sum of one in one year. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) in any one year and the same shall be applied and expended through and by the said Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department of the City of Wilmington, which shall have the supervision, management, direction and control over the said. work and the expenditure of money necessary with respect thereto. All moneys borrowed as aforesaid for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned shall be placed on special deposit by the said Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department of the said City of Wilmington, and no warrant or order for the payment of money shall be drawn against such fund except such order or warrant is for payment for work done upon and about the improvements provided for in this act. How kept on deposit. How applied. Payment, how pro SECTION 4. That the bonds of the City of Wilmington vided for. authorized to be issued under the provisions of this act shall be issued and payment made in the manner provided for in the act passed at Dover, February 9, 1855, entitled "An act to provide a sinking fund for the City of Wilmington", and the various amendments and supplements thereto. No reduc made in propriation SECTION 5. That no reduction in the amount now payable tion to be by the Council to the Board of Directors of the Street and regular ap- Sewer Department of the said City of Wilmington for their curof Council rent and ordinary expenses as now provided by law shall take mentre place before the said department receives such installment. ceives in-of the money directed to be borrowed by this act as it may new loan. properly demand. till depart stallment SECTION 6. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, April 30, 1895. |