CHAPTER 650
Joint Resolution establishing the division line between the Counties of Kent and Sussex from a fork in the Mispillion Creek at the junction of the Tan-trough Branch and Beaver-dam Branch to the line dividing the State of Maryland and Delaware.
By a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met (adopted at Dover, March 9th, 1893, Chapter 835, Volume 19, Laws of Delaware), entitled "Joint resolution appointing commissioners to run and mark the division line between the counties of Kent and Sussex," Andrew Lord and Thomas Curry, of Sussex county, and Nicholas R. Johnson and Charles J. Harrington, of Kent county, were appointed commissioners to run and mark the division line between the counties of Kent and Sussex from a fork in the Mispillion creek at the junction of the Tan-trough branch and Beaver-dam branch to the line dividing the States of Maryland and Delaware, and William A. Atkinson was appointed surveyor to assist the said commissioners; and the said commissioners were required to make returns of their proceedings to the next General Assembly, together with the plot showing the courses and distances of said line and location of the stones by them established to mark said line; and
WHEREAS, The said William A. Atkinson, so appointed surveyor as aforesaid, died before entering upon any of the duties required of him in said joint resolution, and John C. Hopkins and Alfred Short were appointed in his place and stead as surveyors to assist said commissioners, by a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, passed at Dover, February 13th, 1895, Chapter 147, Volume 20, Laws of Delaware; and
WHEREAS, Also, the said commissioners have first fully completed and ended their duties required of them in said first recited joint resolution, and have duly made their report and return of their proceedings to the present General Assembly, together with a plot showing the courses and distances of said division line and the location of the stones by them established in said division line; and the said John C. Hopkins and Alfred Short have fully and faithfully performed their work as surveyors to assist said commissioners; now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
That the return and report of the proceedings of the said commissioners, together with the plot thereto annexed, be approved, and the line as therein marked and set forth be and the same is hereby established and declared to be the true division line between the counties of Kent and Sussex from a fork in the Mispillion creek, at the junction of the Tan-trough branch and Beaver-dam branch, to the line dividing the States of Maryland and Delaware.
And the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the sum of one hundred dollars to Charles J. Harrington for the services of the said Charles J. Harrington, Nicholas R. Johnson, Andrew Lord and Thomas Curry as such commissioners, and to pay the further sum of three hundred and fifty dollars to John C. Hopkins for the work and services of the said John C. Hopkins and Alfred Short, as surveyors in assisting said commissioners; and the State Treasurer is further authorized and required upon the recording of the plot and return aforesaid in the counties of Kent and Sussex, as prescribed in said first recited joint resolution, to pay to the recorder of deeds in and for said counties respectively, their proper and legal charges for the same; and all moneys necessary for the purposes as herein provided for, are hereby appropriated and set aside for said purposes.
Adopted at Dover, March 16, 1897.