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SECTION 10. And be it further enactedl, That suits may be Suits brought and prosecuted in the name of the said “The Maidstone Branch Ditch Company" upon any bond given to the said com-company. pany, or for any damage done to the ditch or ditches, drain or draids of said company.

SECTION 11. And be it further enacted, Tbat if any person or penalty for persons shall wilfully fill up or obstruct the ditch or ditches, works of the drain or drains of said company, or shall wilfully obstruct or impede the course of the water from running down the same, every person so offending shall be liable to pay to the treasurer of said company, or his successor in office, for the use of said company, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by said treasurer by suit in the name of the said company before the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for Kent county, or before any justice of the peace in and for said Kent county.

SECTION 12. And be it further enacted, That every owner of Right of swamp or low grounds rateable and assessed by virtue of this act shall, from time to time, have the right and privilege to discharge the water from their respective lands into the ditches or drains of the company, by ditches or drains to be cut and opened through the swamp or low grounds of other owners or possessors, in such place or places, and of such width and depth as the commissioners for the time being shall lay out and prescribe; such owners or possessors shall contribute such portion of the expenses Expenses. of cutting, opening and keeping open said ditch or ditches as the commissioners shall direct, to be recovered in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided for the recovery of the damages for filling up or obstructing ditches or drains; and the commissioners so laying out said ditch or ditches shall make return of Return. all their proceedings in and about the said service to the secretary of the said company, to be by him recorded ; and such owners and possessors to whom such ditch or ditches will be advantageous, shall pay to each commissioner so employed the sum of Pay of comtwo dollars for each and every days' service in laying out said ditch or ditches, and pay to the secretary one cent for every tary. twelve words for recording the same. Every owner or owners shall bave free privilege to cut, open and keep in repair any ditch or ditches through his, her, or their own swamp or low ground into any ditch or ditches of said company.

SECTION 13. And be it further enacted, That the election to be Elections. held under this act on the last Saturday in March next shall be When held. conducted by and under the government of the commissioners Who to connained in the third section of this act, and said commissioners shall exhibit at said meeting the certificate of their proceedings Exhibits of under this act, accompanied by a plot of said ditch or ditches, ers; Plot.

and Secre

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drain or drains, and the lateral branches thereof, made by a skillful surveyor by them named, and who shall have been sworn by one of said commissioners to make a true and faithful plot of said ditch or ditches, drain or drains, and the lateral branches thereof. The expense attending the survey and plot of said ditch or ditches, drain or drains, and the lateral branches thereof, shall be allowed and approved by said commissioners and paid out of the treasury of said company.

SECTION 14. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act.

Passed at Dover, March 11, 1869.

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CHAPTER 509.

ST. JONES' BRANCH DITCH COMPANY.

An Act to amend an act entitled, "An Act to incorporate the St. Jones'
Branch Ditch Company."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Sec. 5. Chap. the word "first," in the ninth line of the fifth section of said act, 25 amended. occurring between the words "the" and "Saturday," in said line, be stricken out and the word "third" be inserted in lieu thereof. Passed at Dover, April 8, 1869.

How.

Current Vol. 391.

Drawbridge authorized.

CHAPTER 510.

CEDAR CREEK NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Supplement to the act entitled, "An Act to incorporate the Cedar Creek
Navigation Company." passed at Dover, the twenty-third day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sirty-nine.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the Levy Court and Court of Appeals of Sussex county be and

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they are hereby authorized and empowered to make or build a drawbridge across the ditch or canal of the said company, or to make an appropriation or appropriations for the same to the said company: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render it obligatory upon the said Levy Court and Court of Appeals to build the said bridge or make the appropriations aforesaid, but it shall be at the sole discretion of the said Levy Court whether they shall or shall not make the appro. priations aforesaid.

Passed ot Dover, April 8, 1869.

CHAPTER 511.

LA FAYETTE LODGE NO. 2. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

Sec. 1. Incorporation : Name,

2. Corporate powers.
3. Election of officers ; By laws,

SEC. 4. Limit on company's right to hold pro

perty
5. Public act.

An Act to incorporate Lafayette Lodge, No. 2, Knights of Pythias, of

the State of Delaware, in the City of Wilmington:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (twothirds of the members of each branch thereof concurring), That IncorporaJames E. Reynolds, John Wright, Robert White, Aquilla Nebe-tion. ker, Samuel K. Cloud, Abner P. Bailey, Henry M. Lewis, Jerome B. Clark, Ferdinand Chairs, and such other persons as now are or hereafter may become members of Lafayette Lodge, No. 2, K. of P., located in the City of Wilmington, in New Castle county, State of Delaware, shall be by virtue of this act one body politic and corporate in fact and law, and shall have con- Name. tinuance and succession for twenty years by the name, style and title of Lafayette Lodge, No. 2, of the Order Knights of Pythias, of the State of Delaware, in the City of Wilmington.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation Corporate and their successors during the term of their corporate existence Powers, shall be able and capable in law to purchase, take, receive, and hold any lands, tenements, hereditaments, rents, leases, stocks, goods and chattels, bonds, notes, mortgages or money, or any

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Election of officers,

property whatsoever which may be devised, given or conveyed
to or received by the payment of fees, dues and fines, and also to
grant, sell, let, bestow, assign or transfer the same, and to do all
other matters relating thereto, by the name and title aforesaid,
and shall have a common seal, with authority to break, alter or
renew the same at pleasure, may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded in any court of law or equity in this State and else-
where, in any or all manner of actions, suits, complaints, pleas,
causes and matters whatsoever.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the members of this
corporation shall have power to appoint or elect such officers as
they shall deem necessary and proper to conduct the business of
said corporation, and properly to manage its affairs conformable

to the provisions of this act and to the by-laws of the said cor. By-laws.

poration, and from time to time to make and establish such by.
laws and rules as they shall deem proper and necessary for the
good government thereof, provided such by-laws and rules be
not contrary to the laws and constitution of this State or of the
United States.

SECTION +. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation righetu ya shall not have power to hold or possess in any manner goods,

chattels, rights, credits, lands or tenements, or any other property
the clear yearly income of which shall exceed the sum of five
thousand dollars, and shall not possess any banking powers other
than the lending of money on security for permanent investment.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be
deemed and taken to be public, and the power to revoke this
charter at any time is hereby reserved to this Legislature.

Passed at Dover, January 19, 1869.

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CHAPTER 512.

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MOXIMENT ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE.

SEC, 1. Comissioners.

Corporate name: Powers.

Sec. 2. Organization.

3. Public act.

An Art to incorporate the Soliliers' and Sailors' Monument Assoriation

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 thereof concurring herein),

pame.

SECTION 1. That Henry Du Pont, Alfred T. A. Torbert, Joshua CommissionS. Valentine, Evan C. Stotsen burg, George Z. Ty bout, John Jones, ers. William D. Nolan, Arthur H. Grimshaw, Frank A. Taylor, James Lewis, Albert S. Nones and Joseph S. Wheeler, and such persons as are now or may hereafter be associated with them and their successors, are hereby declared a body corporated under the name of The Soldiers and Sailors' Monument Association of Delaware, Corporate and by that name shall have perpetual succession, with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and Powers. equity, to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure, to take, hold, bargain, sell, alien, demise, lease and convey lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects of any kind whatsoever, to ordain by-laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this State, and generally to exercise and enjoy all the rights and privileges of a corporation aggregate except banking powers.

SECTION 2. The corporation shall be organized at such time as Organivathe corporators, or a majority of them, may designate, and upon its organization the members may elect such officers and transact such business as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the association.

SECTION 3. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be public aut. published as such, and the right to revoke the same is hereby reserved to the Legislature.

Passed at Dover, February 18, 1869.

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