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RESOLUTIONS.

CHAPTER 532.

Joint Resolution thanking the several railroad companies.

Resolved by the Senate aud House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met,

That the thanks of this General Assembly are hereby tenAssembly to dered to the several railroad companies, for the courtesy of the road passes to each of its members over their respective roads. Adopted at Dover, March 15, 1877.

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Preamble.

CHAPTER 533.

Joint Resolution for the relief of the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad
Company, and other purposes.

WHEREAS, The State of Delaware is the owner of a certain mortgage of the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad Company, for the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, upon which it is represented to this General Assembly, by the State Treasurer, [that] the interest due on the first day of January last, as well as some theretofore accrued, has not been paid, and whereas, the directors of the said Breakwater and Frankford Railroad Company have failed to make the returns and payments to the State Treasurer, required in section 6, of the act of the General Assembly, entitled "an act to aid the Breakwater and Frankford Railroad Company to construct their road and for other purposes," passed March 26, 1873, for a period of more than thirty days after the time appointed for such returns and payments to be made, and have otherwise failed, for a period of more than thirty days, to pay the interest on the said mortgage to the State after the same became due and payable; and whereas, by the terms of the said act, granting aid to the said Breakwater and Frankford Railroad Company, such default on the part of the directors of said company, makes the whole mortgage become due and payable therefore,

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State Treas State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That notwith-ceive arrears standing the failure to pay the interest on the aforesaid mort- of interest, gage for more than thirty days after it became due, so that standing thereby, according to its tenor, the whole of said mortgage when. has now become collectible, the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to receive such interest in arrear, if the same shall be paid or tendered by or before the first day of July, A. D., 1877, and he shall notify the president of the said company Notice. accordingly, and if such interest shall not have been paid by that date, the State Treasurer is hereby directed to cause proceedings to be instituted, either [by] Scire Facias at law, or by To institute Bill in Equity to foreclose for the collection of the moneys se- proceedings cured by said mortgage, if the Governor and Attorney ion; when. General shall deem it for the best interest of the State, and shall so advise the State Treasurer.

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Resolved, further, That it shall be the duty of the State State Treas Treasurer, and he is hereby authorized and directed to attend tend sale of any sale of said Breakwater and Frankford railroad which & Frankmay be made, whether upon the execution of said mortgage road, and or otherwise, by legal process, and upon giving notice of his buy same in intention to do so, to bid for the same, for and in the name of State; the State, to the amount of the principal and interest due the State from said railroad company, and if no more shall be bid therefor, to buy the same for and in the name of this State. He shall not be required, however, to pay any per centage to the No percentSheriff or other person making the sale thereof, at any such age to sale, on the purchase money therefor, or any portion thereof, when. at the return of the writ or order for sale; but a return that the same was so sold to the State, shall be a sufficient return to the writ or order for sale.

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Resolved, That the Secretary of State, be, and he is,hereby, Secretary of required to furnish the State Treasurer with a certified copy send copy of of the foregoing resolutions at an early date.

Adopted at Dover, March 23. 1877.

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TITLES OF ACTS OF INCORPORATION.

Excluded from Publication by act of February 17, 1866.

CHAPTER 534.

An Act to amend an act to incorporate the Kiamensi Woolen Company, passed at Dover, October 20, 1864.

Passed at Dover, January 15, 1877.

CHAPTER 535

An Act to incorporate the J. Marshall Company.

Passed at Dover, January 23, 1877.

CHAPTER 536.

A supplement to an act entitled, "An Act to incorporate the Delaware Fire Insurance Company."

Passed at Dover, January 23, 1877.

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TITLES OF ACTS OF INCORPORATION.

CHAPTER 537.

An Act to amend an act entitled, "An Act to incorporate the Casho Machine Company, passed at Dover, January 28, 1873.

Passed at Dover, January 24, 1877.

CHAPTER 538.

An Act to incorporate The Worden Manufacturing Company of Smyrna.

Passed at Dover, January 24, 1877.

CHAPTER 539.

An Act to incorporate the Newark Grange Co-operative Store
Company.

Passed at Dover, January 26, 1877.

CHAPTER 540.

An Act to incorporate the Beneficial Society of "The United
Children of the Light."

Passed at Dover, January 26, 1877.

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