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An additional supplement to the act entitled An act to amend the act entitled An act directing the choosing of Commissioners to regulate and repair the streets of Milford, and for other purposes. 1853 47 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0177 and id is 1 raw text is: ST ATE OF DELAWARE. CHAPTER. XLVIII. AN ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENT to the act entit led An act to amend the act entitled ' An act directing the ehoo8ing of Commissioners to regulate and repair the Streets of Milford, and for other purposes.' SEcTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of .Repre- sentatives if the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, 'that the Town Commissioners shall have power, and it shall be their duty to direct the town assessor in making his assessment of property taxable within the town limits, to include therein all dogs owned or kept within the said town, and the owner or keeper of any dog or dogs so included within said assessment, shall bepowers of co, liable to pay a yearly tax of one dollar for one dog. and three ' o . be dollars for one bitch, and the additional sum of one dollar for taxed. cach and every dog more than one, and the additional sum of three dollars for each and every bitch more than one. An assess- dog'to'be tade. ment of dogs shall be made during the present year, and each and every year thereafter ; and the collector's powers in the col- rower to ccct lection of taxes on dogs, shall be the §ame as those conferred dog tax. upon him by the act to which this is an additional supplement for the collection of town taxes. SEc. 2. And be it enacted, That the following'words be- ginning at the fortieth line, And the said Commissioners are iereby authorized to employ some suitable person whose duty it it shall be to ring the bell at the hour of ten of the clock P. M., on each and every night, for which a reasonable compensation shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of said town; and after so ringing said bell, be repealed, and the same are hereby Repeal. made null and void : and add as an amendment to said first see- Amendment tion, immediately before the words, every negro, in the forty- fourth line of said section, these words, after the hour of ten o'clock P. . Pased at Dover, February 14, 1853. CHAPTER XLIX AN ACT to vest in Obediah 31acklin, all the riqht and title of this State, to certain personal property of which Henry Dono- van, late of Cedar Creek Ilundcred, in Sussex (iountyq, deceased, died possessed. Private act. Pased at Occer, 'ruary 1 4, 1SA. Digitized from Best Copy Available 41

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