Proposed Amendment in AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. "Section 3. Shares of the capital stock of Corporations crelieu of Section ated under the laws of this State, when owned by persons not the Constitut- residing herein, shall not be subject to taxation by any law now 3 of Article 9 of tion. existing or hereafter enacted." Second. That all of Section 6 of Article 9 of the Constitu tion of this State be stricken out. Approved March 9, A. D. 1901. NOTE-Published as enrolled. TITLE FIRST. Of the Jurisdiction and Property of the State; its CHAPTER 2. OF LIMITS. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH BULKHEAD, Wharf AND PIER LINES ON THE Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Exterior bulk Section 1. That the bulkhead line or lines of solid filling, and the pier line in the tide-waters of the River Delaware, lying between the Christiana River and the northerly boundary of Edgemoor, opposite the City of Wilmington and Edgemoor, as fixed, established and adopted, or hereafter to be fixed, established and adopted, by the Secretary of War of the United States, head and pie under the acts of Congress in that behalf, are hereby adopted to be as and declared to be fixed and established as the exterior bulkhead and adopted by the Secreand pier lines between the points aforesaid, as such exterior tary of War. bulkhead and pier lines so fixed, established and adopted, are or may hereafter be shown upon the manuscript map or maps, report or reports, filed in the office of the said Secretary of War or War Department. established Secretary of cure duplicate &c. State to procopies of maps, To file one in other in office Section 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed to procure duplicate copies of the said manuscript map or maps, report or reports, accompanying the same, from time to time, and file one of said copies in his office at Dover, and the other of said copies in the office of the Recorder of Deeds Deeds, New his office, an Recorder of OF LIMITS. When filed Castle County. for New Castle County; which said copies when so filed, or certified copies thercof, shall be competent evidence for all purposes. shall be evi- Not lawful to Littoral proprietors may etc. Section 3. That it shall not be lawful to fill in with earth, stone or other solid material in the tide-waters of said river between the aforesaid points, beyond the bulkhead line or lines of solid filling by this act adopted, fixed, established, laid down and exhibited on the aforesaid map or maps, report or reports, except in the construction of duly authorized piers; and no erection or structure of any kind shall hereafter be erected, allowed or maintained beyond or exterior to the aforesaid bulkhead line. or lines of solid filling, except duly authorized piers which shall not be less than one hundred and fifty feet distant one from the other, and which shall in no case extend beyond the lines indicated for piers on said map or maps, report or reports. Section 4. That the littoral proprietors abutting on the River erect bulkeads, Delaware, between Christiana River and the northerly boundary of Edgemoor, are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to erect bulkheads, wharves and piers on the line or lines now or hereafter to be fixed, established and adopted as provided in Section one (1) of this act, opposite their respective littoral holdings on said river, between said Christiana River and the northerly boundary of Edgemoor; and to fill in with earth, stones or other material, the space or spaces between said bulkhead line or lines of solid filling, shown or exhibited on the map or maps, report or reports aforesaid, and the westerly bank of said river, (designating the high water mark thereof), between said Christiana River and the northerly boundary of Edgemoor aforesaid. United States Provided, that nothing herein contained shall operate to prevent the United States from utilizing all or any portion of the space between said bulkhead and the westerly bank of said river for the deposit of dredged material taken from said River Delaware in the progress of the improvement thereof, not exceeding twelve Filling in sub- feet in height above mean low water. And provided, further, that the filling in of said space between said lines by any littoral proprietor shall be under and subject to the regulations of the War Department of the United States. may utilize space for de posit of dredg ing material. ject to regulations of War Department. Section 5. That the land under the waters of said river, within the limits aforesaid as hereafter determined, on the front of the Land so made littoral holdings of said littoral proprietors respectively, and bein littoral pro- tween the bulkhead line or lines of solid filling, as shown and exhibited on the maps aforesaid, and the westerly bank of said to vest in fee prietors. OF LIMITS. eral and Secre prepare grants river, (designating the high water mark thereof), shall vest in fee in said littoral proprietors, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, respectively. And when a suitable bulkhead shall have been constructed front of any of said littoral holdings, of any of said littoral proprietors, it shall be the duty of the Attorney GenAttorney General, upon satisfactory evidence to him of that fact, tary of State to and the tender to him of the reasonable and necessary expenses therefor. of preparing the conveyance or conveyances hereinafter named, to seasonably prepare, and of the Secretary of State to forthwith execute under the seal of the State, a grant assuring to said littoral proprietors, respectively, their heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, the lands under water in front of their respective littoral holdings aforesaid, between said bulkhead line and the said river bank. ter front deter bulkhead line. Section 6. The breadth of water front appertaining to each Lengths of walittoral proprietor or owner of land abutting on the said river mined by extending lines bank shall be determined by protracting the line of the land to of lands to the bulkhead line established under this Act, wherever the protraction of said lines would not result in giving the said owner more, or to any other littoral proprietor less, than his proportionate share of frontage on said bulkhead line; and in case of a conflict arising from the divergence or convergence of the lines of said littoral proprietors, or of the public streets, the Attorney Attorney GenGeneral is hereby authorized and empowered to settle the said jurisdiction in lines outside of said river bank so that equal justice shall be done to all concerned. eral to have case of dispute. prietors may and recover Section 7. That it may and shall be lawful for the said littoral Littoral proproprietors, respectively, to own and hold all bulkheads, docks, own bulkheads wharves, buildings and piers that hereafter may be erected pur- wharfage, &c. suant to this act on the front of their littoral holdings respectively; and to use, possess, repair, and keep the same in order, and to lay any steamboat, vessel, or other craft at the same; and to demand, take, sue for, and recover reasonable wharfage, demurrage, rent or dockage of and from any steamboat, vessel, or other craft using the same, and from all persons who may use said bulkhead. docks, wharves, buildings and piers in any way whatsoever, and shall also be authorized to sue for and recover any damage that may be done to the same. Section 8. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act and shall be published as such; and that all acts and parts of |