Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 115

APPROPRIATION - PROVIDING FOR PROTECTION OF BEACH OPPOSITE SLAUGHTER BEACH

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTING THE BEACH OR STRAND OPPOSITE THE TOWN OF SLAUGHTER BEACH, IN SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE, FROM EROSION AND INUNDATION; APPROPRIATION.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. The State Highway Department is directed to erect, build, rebuild, replace and repair such groins, jetties, banks, dikes or bulkheads along the beach or strand opposite and near the Town of Slaughter Beach, in Sussex County, Delaware, as may be necessary to protect the same from erosion or inundation by the waters of the Delaware Bay.

Section 2. A sum not in excess of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) is appropriated to the State Highway Department for such purposes and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same upon proper vouchers drawn by the State Highway Department.

Section 3. In the event that any part of said sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) shall remain unexpended on June 30, 1953, or on June 30, 1954, it shall not revert to the General Fund of the State Treasury but shall remain available for said purposes up to and including June 30, 1955.

Section 4. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary Appropriation Act and the moneys hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the General Fund of the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved June 11, 1953.