CHAPTER 152.
An Act concerning Vessels anchoring "Deep Hole" at or near the month of Broadkiln Creek.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met,
SECTION 1. That whenever any captain or commander of a vessel shall anchor any vessel under his charge within the limits of the place known as the "Deep Hole," just below the mouth of Broadkiln Creek, in Sussex County, and whenever, if by reason of the anchoring of said vessel in said place the said vessel so anchoring as aforesaid be injured by collision with another vessel, the captain or commander of the vessel so anchoring, shall be held liable as, for gross negligence, and shall pay to the owner or owners of the vessel suffering such injury all the actual damages sustained, with costs of suit, to be recovered by an action of trespass on the case.
SECTION 2. And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever by reason of the anchoring of any vessel in said place any other vessel is injured by collision with the vessel so anchoring as aforesaid, the owner or owners of the said vessel so anchoring as aforesaid, shall be held liable to the owner or owners of the vessel so injured as aforesaid, as for gross negligence, and shall pay to the owner or owners of the vessel suffering such injury all the actual damages sustained, with costs of suit, to be recovered by an action of trespass on the case.
Passed at Dover, March 20, 1867.