Election laws to apply to said districts Exception Assessor and Certificates of election. SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAP. 385 VOL. 13. CHAP. 37 VOL. 14. districts. The electors residing in said hundred shall vote in the election district in which they shall at the time reside. SEC. 4. All the laws of the State touching elections held in the several hundreds of the State shall apply to elections for the same officers of the said election districts, excepting only so far as the general law for the election of assessors and inspectors and road commissioners is qualified by the provisions hereinafter contained. SEC. 5. There shall be elected, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17 of the Revised Statutes, one assessor for Christiana hundred, and one inspector for each of the said districts. SEC. 6. Immediately upon closing the election for assessor and inspector in the said election districts, and ascertaining the state of the vote, the presiding officer and judges of the election in each of said districts shall make and sign certificates according to law of the election of inspectors, varying from the form prescribed for that purpose by omitting the assessor, and in lieu of including the election of assessor in such certificate they shall make and sign a certificate of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as assessor, and also of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as road commissioner. SEC. 7. The said presiding officers and judges of both the said election districts shall assemble on the day next succeeding said election, at 12 o'clock M., at the place of Presiding officers voting in Christiana North election district aforesaid, and ascertain the aggregate numto assemble; when and where, ber of votes given in both the said districts for each person voted for for road commissioner and for assessor. The candidate having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected assessor, and the candidate or candidates, according as there may be one or more to be elected, having the highest number of votes for road commissioner or commissioners, shall be declared duly elected road commissioner or road commissioners, and the presiding officers and judges shall make, sign and deliver certificates of said election according to law. If two candidates for said office shall have the highest and an equal number of votes, the collector or presiding officer of said Christiana North election district shall give a casting vote, which shall elect the candidate in whose favor it is given. Tie vote. Wilmington tion districts. Passed at Dover, February 9, 1869. CHAPTER 37. VOL. 14. LAWS OF Delaware. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR TWO COLLECTORS FOR WILMINGTON HUNDRED. SECTION 1. That Wilmington hundred shall be divided, for the purpose of a more Hundred divided convenient collection of taxes, into two collection districts, as follows: All that porinto two collection of the said hundred situate and lying north of the street called Sixth street, as now laid out and established by the ground plan of the City of Wilmington, shall be the North Collection District; and all that portion of the said hundred situate and lying south of the said street now called Sixth street, as aforesaid, shall be the South Collection District. SEC. 2. That one collector shall be appointed by the Levy Court for each of the collection districts aforesaid, according to the provisions of Section 19 of Chapter 8 of the Revised Statutes of this State, and all laws applicable to the collectors of the several hundreds, appointed under the provisions of the said section, shall be applicable to the collectors of the collection districts hereby established. SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAP. 37 VOL. 14. CHAP. 4 VOL 17. SEC. 3. That Chapter 283 of the 12th Volume of the Laws of Delaware, and all laws Chapter 283 of or parts of laws so far as they are inconsistent here with are hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, March 24, 1871. CHAPTER 4. VOL. 17. LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT DIVIDING THE CHRISTIANA HUNDRED NORTHERN ELEC TION DISTRICT INTO TWO ELECTION DISTRICTS. 12th Vol, of the Laws of Delaware repealed. dred northern Northern and Division SECTION 1. That for the purpose of holding elections for State and county officers, Christiana Hunin Christiana Hundred Northern Election District, the said northern election district election district shall be divided into two election districts, northern and western. The Christiana divided into two election districts. Hundred Western Election District shall be composed of all that portion of said hundred lying north and west of a line beginning at a road on the Brandywine Western at Rockland paper mills and running thence in a westerly direction by the course of said road to a point where said road intersects the public road leading from Flemings boundaries. to Center Meeting and south of DuPont's Station on Wilmington and Western Railroad, thence by said Fleming road to a point where the road leading to Campbell's shops intersects said Fleming road and north of said Wilmington and Northern Railroad, thence by said road leading to Campbell's shops, and by said road crossing the Kennet turnpike and continuing by the several courses of said road to the mill formerly known as Fulton's mill; thence by the stream running from said mill, by its several courses and windings, to where it empties into Red Clay Creek. SEC. 2. The elections for the said Western Election District shall be held at the Elections. public house belonging to George Lancaster, in Centreville, and the elections for the Where held. North Christiana Election District shall be held at the usual place as heretofore. SEC. 3. At the said places shall be held the general elections, all special elections Electors to vote; for the members of the General Assembly and Representative in Congress, elections where. for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and elections for Road Commissioners, for Assessors of said hundred, and for Inspectors of said election districts. The electors residing in said hundred shall vote in the election district in which they shall at the time reside. tions in said SEC. 4. All the laws of the State touching elections held in the several hundreds of Election laws to the State shall apply to elections for the same officers of the said election districts, ex- apply to eleccepting only so far as the general law for the election of assessors and inspectors and districts. road commissioners is qualified by the provisions hereinafter contained. Exception. SEC. 5. There shall be elected, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17 of Assessor and the Revised Statutes, one assessor for Christiana hundred and one inspector for each Inspector. of the said three districts. * * * * * * election. SEC. 6. Immediately upon closing the election for assessor and inspector in the said Certificates of election districts, and ascertaining the state of the vote, the presiding officer and judges of the election in each of the said districts shall make and sign certificates according to law of the election of inspectors, varying from the form prescribed for that purpose by omitting the assessor, and in lieu of including the election of assessor in such certificate they shall make and sign a certificate of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as assessor, and also of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for road commissioner. SEC. 7. The said presiding officer and judges of all the said election districts shall Presiding officers to assemble. assemble on the day next succeeding said election, at 12 o'clock M., at the voting When and place in Christiana North Election District aforesaid, and ascertain the aggregate where. Red Lion SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAP. 4 VOL. 17. CHAP. 386 VOL. 13. number of votes given in each of the said election districts for each person voted for for road commissioner and for assessor. The candidate having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected assessor, and the candidate or candidates, according as there may be one or more to be elected, having the highest number of votes for road commissioner or commissioners, shall be declared duly elected road commissioner or road commissioners; and the presiding officers and judges shall make, sign and deliver certificates of said election according to law. If two candidates for said office shall have the highest and equal number of votes, the collector or presiding officer of said Christiana North Election District shall give a casting vote, which shall elect the candidate in whose favor it is given. Passed at Dover, February 13, 1883. CHAPTER 386. VOL 13. LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT DIVIDING RED LION HUNDRED INTO TWO ELECTION DISTRICTS. SECTION 1. That for the purpose of holding elections for State and county officers into two election in Red Lion hundred, the said hundred shall be divided into two election districts Hundred divided eastern and western. The Red Lion Eastern election district shall be composed of all that portion of said hundred bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning on the Delaware river at the mouth of St. George's creek; thence proceeding up said creek to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal; thence continuing up said creek on the opposite side of said canal to Dragon creek; thence with said creek until it intersects the road leading from St. George's to New Castle; thence with said road north to Red Lion creek; thence down said creek to the Delaware river, and thence down said river, including Fort Delaware, to the place of beginning. All that portion of said hundred not included within the above described boundaries to be called Red Lion West Election district. SEC. 2. The elections for the said Red Lion East election district shall be held at the school house in district No. 76, in Delaware City, or such other place in Delaware City as the inspector, who publishes the election, shall designate, and the elections for Red Lion West election district shall be held at the usual place as heretofore. SEC. 3. At the said places shall be held the general elections, all special elections for the members of the General Assembly and representative in Congress, elections for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, and elections for road commissioners, one of whom shall reside in each election district, for assessor of the said hundred, and for inspectors of the said election districts. The electors residing in the said hundred shall vote in the election district in which they shall at the time reside. SEC. 4. All the laws of the State touching elections held in the several hundreds of the State shall apply to elections for the same officers of the said election districts, excepting only so far as the general law for the election of assessor and inspector and road commissioners is qualified by the provisions hereinafter contained. SEC. 5. There shail be elected, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17 of the Revised Statutes, one assessor for Red Lion hundred, and one inspector for each of the said districts. * * * * * SEC. 6. Immediately upon closing the election for assessor and inspector in the said election districts, and ascertaining the state of the vote, the presiding officer and judges of the election in each of said districts shall make and sign certificates accord SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAP. 386 VOL. 13. CHAP. 3 VOL. 15. ing to law of the election of inspectors, varying from the form prescribed for that purpose by omitting the assessor, and in lieu of including the election of assessor in such certificate they shall make and sign a certificate of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as assessor, and also of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as road commissioner. to assemble; SEC. 7. The said presiding officers and judges of both the said election districts Presiding officers shall assemble on the day next succeeding said election, at 12 o'clock M., at the place when and where. of voting in Red Lion West election district aforesaid, and ascertain the aggregate number of votes given in both the said districts for each person voted for for road commissioner and for assessor. The candidate having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected assessor, and the candidate or candidates, according as there may be one or more to be elected, having the highest number of votes for road commissioner or commissioners, shall be declared duly elected road commissioner or road commissioners, and the presiding officers and judges shall make, sign and deliver certificates of said election according to law. If two candidates for said office shall have Tie vote, the highest and an equal number of votes, the collector or presiding officer of said Red Lion West election district shall give a casting vote, which shall elect the candidate in whose favor it is given. Passed at Dover, February 23, 1869. CHAPTER 3. VOL. 15. LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF RED LION HUNDRED, NEW CASTLE COUNTY. Hundred en SECTION 1. That the boundary of Red Lion Hundred is hereby enlarged so as to in- Boundary of clude and embrace within said hundred, and become part and parcel thereof, all that Red Lion portion of the town of St. George's, together with the lands hereinafter described, larged. being before the passage of this act situated in St. George's hundred. cluded within SEC. 2. That is to say: The said enlargement or extension shall begin at a point Boundaries of on the Chesapeake and Delaware canal at the line dividing the lands of John P. Hud. the district inson from the lands of John Robson; thence and with said division line in a southerly the extension. direction to the public road leading from Summit bridge to the town of St. George's; thence in a north-easterly direction with the middle line of said road to the road leading from Odessa to the said town of St. George's; thence crossing said road to the line of the lands of Mrs. Letitia How, being the northern boundary of the road dividing the lands of the said Letitia How from the lands of Mrs. Margaret A. Osborn; thence and with said line and road to the line dividing the land of the said M. A. Osborn from the lands of Francis S. McWhorter and Brothers; thence with the line dividing said lands to Scott's run; thence down said run to the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, and thence with said canal and with the original division lines of said hundreds to the place of beginning. taxes. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all taxes now assessed against persons or pro- Assessment and perty residing or situated within the boundaries above described, and hereby estab- collection of lished, shall continue to be collected by St. George's hundred, and appropriated as before the passage of this act until the next general assessment, at which time the assessor for Red Lion hundred shall, and is hereby directed, to embrace the above described district and to include in said assessment the persons and property therein residing or situated as belonging to Red Lion hundred, and being citizens and part thereof by virtue of this act. Citizens of Red Conflicting boundary lines annulled. Public act Division of St George's hundred into two SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND LIMITS. CHAP. 3 VOL. 15. CHAP. 2 VOL. 14. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, that all legally qualified electors residing within the above described district, shall, in the exercise of the elective franchise, be deemed to be citizens of Red Lion hundred, and shall be admitted to all of the privileges of citizenship therein. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all old boundary lines conflicting herewith are hereby vacated and annulled, and any laws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed, in so far as they are in antagonism herewith. act. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be taken and deemed as a public Passed at Dover, March 1, 1875. CHAPTER 2. VOL. 14. LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT TO DIVIDE ST. GEORGE'S HUNDRED INTO TWO ELECTION DISTRICTS. SECTION. 1. That for the purpose of holding elections for State and County officers in St. George's Hundred, the said hundred shall be divided into two election districts, election districts. by the following line, to-wit: Beginning at the mouth of a small branch emptying into Appoquinimink Creek, between lands of William A. Cochran and lands of Alexander M. Vail: thence by a straight line through lands of William A. Cochran and lands of Richard W. Cochran to the mouth of the road leading from the Middletown and Odessa road to the "Brick Mill;" thence with said road and crossing the dam belonging to said mill to the road leading from Odessa to Armstrong's Corner; thence with the last named roads to the Delaware Railroad, and thence with the said railroad to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. All that part of the said hundred lying north and east of the said division line shall be St. George's East Election District, and all that part of said hundred lying south and west of said division line shall be St. George's West Election District. The elections for the said Eastern District shall be held in the village of Odessa, at the hotel now occupied by William T. Chance, and the elections for the said Western District shall be held in Middletown, at the hotel now occupied by George W. Ortlip. Where elections shall be held. Whom to be SEC. 2. At the said places shall be held the the general election, all special voted for at said elections for members of the General Assembly, and Representatives in Congress, elec elections Where the electors shall reside. Election laws to apply to said district. Exceptions. Assessor and Certificates of election. tions for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and elections for Road Commissioners, for Assessor of the said hundred, and for inspector of the said election districts. The electors residing in the said hundred shall vote in the election district in which they shall at the time reside. SEC. 3. All the laws of this State touching elections held in the several hundreds of the State shall apply to elections for the same officers of the said election districts, excepting only so far as the general law for the election of assessor and inspector and road commissioners is qualified by the provisions hereinafter contained. SEC. 4. There shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 17 of the Revised Statutes, one assessor for St. George's Hundred, and one inspector for each of the said districts. * SEC. 5. Immediately upon closing the election for assessor and inspector in, the said election districts, and ascertaining the state of the vote, the presiding officer and judges of election in each of the said districts shall make and sign certificates |