Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 106

BETHEL - RELATING TO WESTERN BOUNDARY

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BETHEL AS ESTABLISHED BY CHAPTER 282, VOLUME 46, LAWS OF DELAWARE, IN RELATION TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF SAID TOWN.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the Members elected to each Branch thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 282, Volume 46, Laws of Delaware, establishing the Charter of the Town of Bethel, be amended by adding at the end of the second paragraph of said Section the following words and figures:

"provided that the western boundary or limit of said Town shall begin at a concrete marker located at the southerly edge of a street known as Old Main Street, thence North 31 degrees East, through the lands of William E. Davies and 42 feet westerly from the line of lands now of Vernon Hopkins, 231/2 rods to a stake; thence still through the lands of the said William E. Davies North 52 degrees 05 minutes West 37.72 rods to a stake; thence still through the lands of said William E. Davies North 31 degrees East 39.44 rods to a stake located at the southern edge of a street known as Vine Street, and there terminating."

Section 2. The Town Council of Bethel shall cause to be recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds for Sussex County a plot designating and delineating the said western boundary of said Town as hereinabove described.

Approved May 14, 1951.