CHAPTER DCXLV.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend Chapter 61 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, That the words in section 1 of that act, viz : "Nor shall any dam be so erected Or raised ns to back the water upon any lands of a contiguous owner, through or over which there is a fall of more than three feet," be, and the same are hereby, stricken out of said act, and in lieu thereof the words "where the fall is more than three feet upon the lands of any one person laying on or upon said stream, above the land of , the person or, persons who make application for the building or raising of said dam," be; and the same is hereby inserted.
Sec. 2. And, be.it further enacted, That the following words amended in section 1 of said act, viz: "Section 2 of" be; and the same are hereby, stricken out of said act.
Passed at Dover, February 24, 1859.