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Qualifica.

tions of voters.

Proviso.

Place of holding elections. Notice.

OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

by the inhabitants of the ward who shall have been assessed for and paid the school tax for the city of Wilmington for the preceding year and who shall have been otherwise qualified to vote at the last preceding city election. It shall be sufficient evidence that the person offering to vote has been duly registered if such person shall present to inspectors his tax receipt with that registration stamp thereon which designates that such person was a qualified voter at the said last preceding city election. Provided, however, that as to the qualifications of the female inhabitants of Wilmington to vote for members of "The Board of Public Education of Wilmington,' or to be eligible for membership therein, the same shall not be increased or changed by this act, but shall remain the same as are specified in Chapter 666, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware. A plurality of votes shall elect. No member of the City Council shall be a member of the Board of Public Education. The Board of Public Education shall appoint a place of holding election in each ward, and give notice thereof in the different newspapers published in the city of Wilmington for ten days previous to the time of holding said election, and also give at least four days' notice of it by handbills, under the name of the secretary of the board, posted in four or more of the Inspectors most public places in the ward. The Department of Elections of the city of Wilmington shall, at the request of said board, appoint three men as inspectors for each polling place designated as aforesaid, whose duty it shall be to hold said election and judge of the qualifications of voters, and otherwise conform to the requirements of the law in that behalf. Who may be The inspectors thus appointed shall be from among those inspector. persons who at the last preceding city election acted as inspectors in the same ward in which they are appointed to hold the school election, and they shall not all be of the same political faith. The election of members of the board shall be held on the second Saturday in June in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and at the same time in every second year thereafter. It shall be held in the afternoon, the polls being opened at twelve o'clock, or within Failure of thirty minutes thereafter, and closed at six o'clock. If the fulfill duties, inspectors appointed and directed as aforesaid to hold said election shall refuse or are not at the place of election at the time of opening the polls, the voters present shall, by plurality, without ballot, choose an officer for holding the election in place of the one or more refusing or not present.

appointed

Time of election of

board.

Inspectors to

OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

The officers holding the election shall, before opening the Oath of elecelection, each take an oath or affirmation, as follows:

I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that in holding the election this day for a member or members of the Board of Public Education, I will faithfully and impartially discharge my duty, and make true certificates thereof and deliver the same according to law, so help me God (or, so I solemnly affirın).

tion officers.

organization

The inspectors appointed or chosen as aforesaid to hold said Meeting and election shall meet at the polling place to which they are of Board of allotted, and shall organize as a board by selecting one of Education. their number to act as chairman, but in case of failure to so organize within fifteen minutes after the time fixed for meeting the chairman shall be selected by lot. The inspector selected as chairman is authorized to administer the oath or affirmation herein before provided to the other inspectors and either of them to him or to each other.

Any person applying to vote for members of said board Challenging may, on any day of election, be challenged by any qualified of voters. voter of the city of Wilmington; and any one of the inspectors of election at the polling place where said person is challenged may, at any such time or times, and one of them shall, administer to any person challenged the following oath or affirmation:

You do swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly Oath of answer such questions as shall be asked you touching your challenged. qualifications as an elector, so help you God (or so you solemnly affirm).

Provided, however, That the administration of said oath Proviso. shall not in any way relieve the person so offering to vote from the necessity of producing for the inspection of the election officers his tax receipt with that registration stamp thereon hereinbefore required. Any person who may be offered as a witness. witness to prove the qualification of any person so claiming the right to vote shall also be sworn or affirmed in like manner. Any person refusing to take such an oath or affirmation, if so required, or refusing to answer such questions as may be asked touching his qualifications as an elector, shall not be permitted to vote. If any person taking such an oath or False affirmation, as above mentioned, shall answer falsely, he swearing.

Penalty.

Canvass of votes.

OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

shall, upon conviction, suffer the same punishment as shall at the time be provided by law against willful and corrupt perjury.

The inspectors at each polling place shall, immediately after the close of the polls, canvass and count the votes cast, and they, or a majority of them, shall then immediately Certificates. make out certificates of the result of the election under their hands or the hands of a majority of them, and shall, within two days thereafter, deliver one of said certificates to the secMeeting for retary and one to each member elect. The said board shall organization of board. meet for organization on the first Tuesday after every biennial election, and it shall be the judge of the election of its own members.

Terms of office of present board

The terms of office of those members of said board which would expire during the month of May in the present year extended. shall be and they are hereby extended to and until the second Saturday in June, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, at which election their successors, being one member from each ward, shall be elected for the term of four years. The terms of office of those members of said board which would expire in May, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall be and they are hereby extended to and until the second Saturday in June, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, at which election their successors, being one member from each ward, shall be elected for the term of four years, and biennially thereafter, on the second Saturday in June, elections shall be held for one member for each ward, to hold office for the term of four years. Moving out of the ward shall vacate Vacancies, the office of the member so moving. All vacancies shall be filled by the board for the unexpired term of the member whose place is to be filled."

how filled.

Passed at Dover, April 30, 1891.

OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

CHAPTER 211.

OF HIGHWAYS.

AN ACT to provide Safe Travel over certain Highways in the City of
Wilmington.

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

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of bridge.

SECTION 1. That the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Railroad Company be and it is hereby ordered and directed to construct, construct a make and maintain a suitable overhead street bridge for pub-bridge. lic travel over the track and roadbed of said railroad company, where such track and roadbed intersects Lancaster avenue in the city of Wilmington. Such bridge shall be constructed within such times as the Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department of the city of Wilmington shall determine, and shall be of such height above such track and Dimensions roadbed, and of such width, and of such general construction as the said Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department may determine. The construction of said bridge shall include the making of all necessary and proper approaches to said bridge. The said railroad company shall Damages be solely responsible for all damages resulting to contiguous of bridge. property by reason of the making of said bridge, and the making of the approaches thereto. Should the said railroad Failure of company neglect or refuse to construct such bridge, or the RR. Co. to approaches thereto, in conformity with and within the time specified by the said Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department of the city of Wilmington, the said board of directors are hereby authorized and empowered to erect and construct such bridge and all necessary approaches thereto at the expense of the city, and "The Mayor and Council of Wilmington" may then collect the cost of such erection and construction in an action on the case against such delinquent railroad company.

from making

erect bridge.

SECTION 2. The Board of Directors of the Street and Supervision Sewer Department of the city of Wilmington shall have of bridge. supervision over the bridge by this act authorized to be constructed, and may, from time to time, order the widening or re

company to

direction, of

Board.

OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

pairing of said bridge by said railroad company in such manner and within such times as in their judgment public convenience may require; and in case the said railroad company Failure of shall neglect or refuse to obey any such order or direction in observe respect to the widening or repairing said bridge, said Board of Directors of the Street and Sewer Department for said city may cause the required widening or repairing to be executed at the expense of the city of Wilmington, and "The Mayor and Council of Wilmingtou" may then collect the amount of such expense in an action on the case brought in its corporate name against such delinquent railroad com

pany.

Passed at Dover, May 1, 1891.

Election of
Chief Engin-

sistants.

CHAPTER 212.

OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.

AN ACT to authorize the Fire Department of the City of Wilmington to elect its Chief Engineer and Assistants.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch therein concurring):

SECTION I. That the several fire companies of the city of eer and As Wilmington be and they are hereby directed to assemble at their respective engine houses on the second Tuesday in the month of May, A. D. 1892, and on the same day in every second year thereafter, between the hours of seven o'clock and ten o'clock P. M., and hold an election for Chief Engineer and First and Second Assistant Engineers of the Fire Department in the city of Wilmington aforesaid, to serve for the term of two years from the third Monday in May next ensuing their election or until their successors are elected.

Term of office.

Certificate

of election.

The judges of the election shall deliver to the clerk of the Council, on the day succeeding such election, a certificate of the votes cast by each company, setting forth the persons

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