CHAPTER 285
RELATING TO TOWN OF LEWES
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 196, PART 1, VOLUME 22, LAWS OF DELAWARE, BEING AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF LEWES TO APPOINT A BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE TOWN OF LEWES, WHICH SHALL ESTABLISH, CONTROL AND REGULATE AN ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT, WATER WORKS AND A SEWER SYSTEM FOR SAID TOWN; PRESCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD AND PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF THEIR SUCCESSORS", BY AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSIONERS OF LEWES TO PAY NOT EXCEEDING $5,000.00 A YEAR FOR STREET ILLUMINATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware (two-thirds of all the Members elected to each House of the General Assembly concurring therein):
Section 1. The last paragraph of Section 5, of Chapter 196, of Part 1, of Volume 22, Laws of Delaware, is amended to read as follows:
"The Commissioners of Lewes shall pay monthly out of the general fund of the town to the Board of Public Works for the purpose of street illumination the actual cost of street illumination or lighting, but not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars in any one calendar year".
Approved July 8, 1953.