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President.

Secretary.

Treasurer.

may be deemed best by said commissioners. It shall be the Duty of duty of the president of the Board of Light and Water Commissioners to sign all orders on the treasurer for all bills and expenses contracted for and approved by said board for the construction, management and operating said water works and electric light plant, and shall sign all contracts and notices. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep an Duty of accurate record of all the business transacted by the said commissioners, and shall attest all orders on the treasurer and other papers signed by the president. It shall be the Duty of duty of the treasurer to have the custody of all money arising from the sale of the bonds authorized by this act, as the same may be negotiated and sold, and of all money derived from water rents and electric lighting; he shall keep an accurate account of all money received and disbursed by him, and annually make a full report to the Town Council of the same, and at the expiration of his term turn over all money, books and papers belonging to his office to his successor. The treasurer shall also give bond for the faithful performance Bond of of his duty in such sum as the Board of Light and Water Commissioners may require, and said secretary and treasurer Compensashall receive such compensation as the said Board of Light and Water Commissioners may allow.

Treasurer.

tions.

Light and

SECTION 5. The said Light and Water Commissioners are Powers of hereby authorized and empowered to do all things necessary Water Com for the location, erection, construction, equipment, and missioners. operating said water works and electric light plant, for furnishing said town of Milford with an ample supply of water and light, as aforesaid, and to purchase hose and hose carriages, and such other instruments and machines for use in the suppression of fires as to them may seem expedient, and to provide for the care and maintenance of the same, and to purchase engines, boilers, poles, and wires, and all such instruments and machines as may be necessary for the purpose of establishing an electric light plant to light the streets of said town, and for furnishing the citizens with electric illumination for private use, and to effect this object shall have power to lay pipes and to erect wires above, under, or along any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of said town, or any roads adjacent thereto, and whenever it shall be necessary or ex- Acquiring pedient for the said light and water commissioners to acquire lands, etc., lands for any purpose connected with said light and water for laying supply, and such lands cannot be acquired by agreement with the owner or owners thereof and the said light and

pipes, etc.

regulations

light and

water.

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water commissioners, the same may be taken for the purpose aforesaid in the name of the said town of Milford, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions and proceedings as are now provided by law in the charter of the said town of Milford for condemning and taking lands for the purpose of laying out, opening, extending, or widening any Rules and street, road, square, lane, or alley in said town. The said as to use of light and water commissioners shall grant to all persons whomsoever the privilege of using the light and water conveyed and distributed by them in said town in such a manner and on such terms and conditions as to them may seem just and proper, and shall pass and adopt such rules and regulations touching the said light and water, its distribution through the said town and the streets thereof, the regulation of the use of water in case of fire, and the general management and control of the light and water supply as to them the said Light and Water Commissioners shall at any time seem most expedient.

Application of water rents and

other reve

nues,

SECTION 6. That the said Light and Water Commissioners of the said town of Milford be and they are hereby directed and required to apply all the water rents and other revenues which may be derived from the water works, and the revenue from light, provided for by this act, to paying the expenses of properly keeping up and operating said works as directed by this act, and shall pay over the surplus, if any remains, to the Town Council of the said town of Milford, to be used for the redemption of said bonds in the Deficiencies manner provided for in this act; and if at any time the revenues shall be insufficient for conducting and operating the said light and water works before the same shall become self-sustaining, then said Light and Water Commissioners shall have authority and are hereby empowered to draft upon the said Town Council to meet such deficiency, and said Town Council shall honor the same out of the special fund which may have been laid and collected for that purpose; provided, however, that for the purposes of street illumination the Town Council shall pay annually to the Light and Water Commissioners the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), payable monthly, out of the general funds of the

in expenses, how remedied.

Proviso.

Injuring works and

town.

SECTION 7. That any person or persons designedly or obstructing negligently injuring the said water works, or any part thereof, or obstructing the passage of water to or from the same, or

water, etc.

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in any manner polluting the water required for said water works, at its source or at any point below said source, or shall designedly or negligently injure the machinery, apparatus, appliances, poles, wires, or lamps of the electric plant, shall, for every offense forfeit and pay to the Town Council of Milford a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be Fines and recovered by said Council of the town of Milford, before the penalties. alderman of said town, or any justice of the peace residing in Kent or Sussex counties, and the said Town Council of Milford shall have power to impose fines and penalties for the enforcement of all such ordinances as they shall make touching the protection of the light and water works provided for by this act.

precedent to

ing effect.

election.

SECTION 8. That before the provisions of this act shall Conditions go into effect the sum or sums of money proposed to be bor- this act takrowed or raised under this act shall be submitted to a vote of the freeholders and ground rent lease holders of the town, and be approved by a majority of the votes cast at a special election, which the said Council of Milford is hereby author- Election. ized to call at such time as it shall deem necessary, but in case the proposal to borrow the aforesaid sum of money shall not be approved by a majority of the votes cast at such special election, the Town Council shall, on the application Other of twenty resident freeholders of said town, call another election, provided six months shall have elapsed since any preceding election for the same purpose was held, and at every such election each freeholder or ground rent lease Qualifica holder within the town of Milford, being a resident thereof, voters. shall have a right to cast one vote for every dollar and fractional part of a dollar of tax levied against his or her real or ground rent lease hold estate at the time of holding such election, and any female, having a right to vote, may vote personally or by proxy, as she may elect. Notice of such Notice of election shall be given by the secretary of said Town Coun- election. cil of Milford, by public notice, posted in at least ten public places in the town of Milford, at least ten days before the time of such election.

tions of

faith.

SECTION 9. That the faith of the said town of Milford is Pledge of hereby pledged for the payment of the bonds authorized to be issued under this act; and Chapter 174, Vol. 18, entitled Chapter 174, "An act to allow the Town Council of Milford to issue bonds for certain purposes," passed at Dover, April 20, 1887, is

Volume 18, repealed.

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Public act. hereby repealed. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be published as such."

Passed at Dover, March 31, 1891.

Section 27,
Chapter 175,

CHAPTER 233.

OF NEWARK.

AN ACT to amend Sections 27, 35, and 38, Chapter 175, Vol. 18, Laws of Delaware.

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

SECTION I.

That Section 27, Chapter 175, Vol. 18, Laws Volume 18, of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking amended. out the word "six" in line four, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "five."

Section 35,
Chapter 175,

SECTION 2. That Section 35, Chapter 175, Vol. 18, Laws Volume 18,' of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking amended. out all of that section after the word "inspection," in line Pamphlets twelve, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "And of statement. not less than 200 copies of said annual statement shall be published in pamphlet form for free distribution among the taxpayers of said town."

Chapter 175,

Section 38, SECTION 3. That Section 38, Chapter 175, Vol. 18, Laws Volume 18,' of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking amended. out all of that section after the word "county" in line sixty

one, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "And from and after the passage of this act the road commissioners of White Clay Creek hundred shall not levy or collect any road tax on or from any property situate within the limits of the To be laid town of Newark, but the Council of Newark shall meet annually, in April, and ascertain what sum of money will be necessary for the roads and streets of said town, and shall calculate the rate per centum on the assessment of the town, and shall lay the tax accordingly. And the Council shall appoint a fit person in said town to be collector of the road

by council.

Collector, bond of.

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Newark to

tax so laid, who shall give bond and security for the faithful performance of his duty, in the name of the Council and its successors, in double the sum to be raised. On his death, Death, reresignation, or removal from the town, or from office, his offi- removal of cial books and papers shall be delivered to his successor, if collector. any, or if not, to the Council, together with any balance of money in his hands. And the Council of Newark shall an- Council of nually, on or before the first day of September in each year, pay $300 to pay or cause to be paid to the road commissioners of White Road ComClay Creek hundred the sum of three hundred dollars, which sum is to be applied by the said commissioners in the same manner as other taxes collected by them. Provided, That Proviso. nothing in this section shall be taken to impair the right of the road commissioners of White Clay Creek hundred to collect any tax which may have been levied upon, but uncollected, from any property within the limits of the town of Newark previous to the passage of this act.

Passed at Dover, April 9, 1891.

missioners.

CHAPTER 234.

OF MILFORD.

AN ACT to amend Section 13, Chapter 161, Volume 18, Laws of Dela

ware.

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), as follows:

Chapter 161,

SECTION I. That Section 13 of Chapter 161, Volume 18, Section 13, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by Volume 18, adding to the said section the following:

amended.

That all persons owning a dog or dogs within the corpo- Registration rate limits of the said town of Milford shall, on or before the of dogs. first day of July in each and every year, go before the Alderman of said town and there register said dog or dogs so owned by them, and pay to the said Alderman a tax or regis- Tax.

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