OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. party which at the city election held in June, 1883, shall have had the majority in the Fifteenth Election District as heretofore constituted, and the inspector and one assistant inspector in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Election Districts, as herein created, shall be chosen from the same party which at the city election held in June, 1883, shall have had the majority in the Sixteenth Election District as heretofore constituted. The other assistant inspector for the city elections to be held in June, 1884, in each of the election districts herein created, shall be chosen by the council from the political party which shall have had the next highest number of votes at the city election in June, 1883, in the said election district for which the inspector and one assistant inspector aforesaid shall be respectively chosen. The inspector and assistant inspector so selected from either political party shall be appointed by the said council upon the nomination respectively of the members of said council who were elected as the candidates of such party or the majority Powers of of them. The inspectors and assistant inspectors so appointed as aforesaid shall have the same power and authority and be subject to the same provisions of law as are applicable to inspectors and assistant inspectors generally under the laws of this State governing city elections held in said city. inspectors. Duty of levy court in mat SECTION 4. The Levy Court of New Castle county shall, ters of ap biennially, on or before the third Monday in October prepointment. ceding the general election, appoint in every election district in Wilmington hundred created by this act an inspector and two judges to conduct the election in said hundred for state, county and hundred officers under the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States, and in all cases the Inspector inspector and one judge shall be selected from the political and judge. party which polled the majority of legal votes according to How selected the official canvass for governor or presidential electors, as the case may be, in the election district for which they may [be] appointed at the next preceding general election, and the other judge in such election district shall in all cases be selected from the political party which polled the next highest number of votes in the said election district at the said general election. The election officers so selected from either political party shall be appointed by the said levy court upon the nomination respectively of the members of said levy court who were elected as the candidates of such party or the majority of them. In case at any time there shall be no members of said levy court of the party from which any OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. inspectors and judges are to be selected as herein provided, then such inspectors and judges shall be appointed by the said levy court upon the nomination of the county executive committee for the time being of such party, provided such nomination shall be certified to the said levy court under the hand of the chairman of the said executive committee on or before the Thursday next after the second Tuesday in the month of October in which such inspectors and judges are to be appointed. The inspectors and judges for the general Inspector's election in 1884 shall be appointed as provided in this section for general except that the inspector and one judge shall be selected in each election district from the political party which polled pointed. the majority of legal votes in the said election district at the city election in said city to be held in the month of June 1884. In all other respects the provisions of this section shall apply to the appointment of the inspectors and judges for he said general election of 1884. and judge's election. How ap The inspectors and judges appointed under the provisions Powers. of this section shall have the same power and authority and be subject to the same provisions of law as applied to inspectors and judges generally under the laws of this State. SECTION 5. That in printing the Laws of the State of How printed Delaware passed at the present session of the General Assembly, Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall be printed as Sections 50 and 51 of the act entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the City of Wilmington," passed April 13, A. D. 1883. Passed at Dover, April 19, 1883. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. Section 47 of current vol. amended. CHAPTER 209. OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to Revise and Consolidate the Statutes relating to Wilmington," passed at Dover, April 13th, 1883. 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): SECTION I. That Section 47 of an act entitled "An act Chapter 207, to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the City of Wilmington," passed at Dover, April 13, 1883, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: 1. By inserting, after the words "President of Council-Two hundred dollars," the words "Clerk of City Council-Fifteen hundred dollars." 2. By striking out of said section in line 8 the words "One thousand," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Twelve hundred." 3. By striking out of the said section in line II the words "Eighteen hundred," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Two thousand." 4. By striking out of said section the word "Three," in the 14th line thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Five." 5. By striking out of said section in line 10 the words "One thousand," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Twelve hundred." Printing the laws. SECTION 2. That in printing the volume of Delaware Laws passed at the present (1883) session of the General Assembly the said "An act to revive and consolidate the statutes relating to the City of Wilmington" be printed as amended by this act. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith SECTION 3. Passed at Dover, April 20, 1873. TITLE ELEVENTH. Of the Domestic Relations. CHAPTER 210. OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. AN ACT to provide for the Education and Training of Juvenile Delinquents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: der 16 years fenses, ex cide or arson, mitted to Refuge in reformation. SECTION I. That it shall be lawful for the Court of Children unGeneral Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, of any of age concounty in this State, to commit to the care, custody and victed of of guardianship of the House of Refuge in the City of Phila- cept homidelphia and State of Pennsylvania, any child or children, may be com under the age of sixteen years, who may be convicted in any House of of the said courts of any offense except homicide or arson, Philadelphia to be educated, trained and treated in the same manner as Object-edthe children who have been or may be committed to the said cation and House of Refuge from the State of Pennsylvania, and whenever in the judgment of the managers of the said House of When reRefuge any child who has been committed from this State formed, manshall have become sufficiently improved and reformed, the institution said managers shall have authority to place the said child as tice the child an apprentice, to learn some useful trade or employment, in to learn any State in which the said managers are now or may be trade or reauthorized to place the children committed to their care by parents or the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, or to return said child to its parents or guardian. agers of the may appren or children turn to guardian. associate SECTION 2. That it shall be lawful for the resident Asso- Resident ciate Judge of the Superior Court in any county of this judge of any State, on complaint made by the parent or guardian of any county emchild or children under sixteen years of age that such child commit. powered to Power of managers. Governor warrant on urer for support of child or children Charges not OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. or children is or are disobedient and uncontrolable, to commit such child or children to the said House of Refuge to be educated, trained and treated, and to be indentured or discharged in the same manner as is provided in the first section of this act. The managers of the said House of Refuge shall have as full power and authority over the children committed to their care by this act as are granted to and exercised by the said managers over the children committed to the said House of Refuge by the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the State of Pennsylvania. SECTION 3. That the Governor shall, once in three months, shall draw a draw a warrant on the State Treasurer, payable to the order of State Treas the treasurer of the said House of Refuge, for the education, support and maintenance of any child or children who may committed. have been committed from this State under the provisions of Proviso. this act for the preceding quarter. Provided that the charges to exceed $3 and costs of such education, support and maintenance shall each child. not exceed the sum of three dollars per week for each child; and that the superintendent of the said House of Refuge shall furnish the Governor with a list of the children sent from this State remaining in the House of Refuge, together with the names of those who have been placed out and with whom, or returned to their parents or guardians. per week for Officers' costs taxed criminal cases. SECTION 4. That the costs and fees which may be charged as in other by any sheriff, clerk, or other officer in the execution of this act, not already provided for by law, shall be taxed and allowed by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and paid in the same manner as the costs in other criminal cases. Passed at Dover, March 9, 1883. |