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A Supplement to an act entitled An act to prevent the use of fire arms by free negroes and free mulattoes, and for other purposes. 1835 333 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0148 and id is 1 raw text is: Section 20. And be it further enacted: That in case the said canal Brdgesto be shall cross any public road, it shall be the duty of the said company tkptc across at the proper expense of the same, to make and keep good and suf- all public ficient bridges across the said canal, so as to prevent any imconve- roads. nience in the use of such roads, by reason of the said canal or ca- nals; and the Legislture of this state, at all times hereafter, shill Legislature have power to enact such laws, for the erecting and maintaining such no uert bridges across such canal, as may be required for public convenienco, tingbridges. and to subject said company to forfeitures, pains, and penalties, for not complying with such laws. Section 21. And be itfurther enacted: That whenever and as of- Legislature ten as the General Assembly of this state shall require it, the books, empowered to papers, and transactions of said company, shall be open to the exa. inspect tbo mination of the Auditor of accounts, or such other person or persons books, &c. as the General Assembly may appoint. And if any person or per- Destroying, sons shall destroy, damage, or in any manner injure or molest the iijuring the said canal or canals, or ioads, locks, works, or any of them, or any canal, &e. of the property of said company, or shall aid, -abet, or counsel the doing of the same, all and every such person or persons, so offending, shall be liable to indictment in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Gaol delivory, in Sussex county; and on conviction upon such indictment shall he fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand Penalty. dollars, at the discretion of the court; and such proceedings shall be had as in all other cases of indictable offences; or such person or per. sons shall be liable to the said company in a civil action for the injury sustained; and the form of such actions shall be 4 trespass vi et ar- mis, in which treble damages and full costs of suit shall be reco- vered. But in no ease shall both the same remedies be had by the Proviso. said company for one and the same offence and damage. Passed at Dover, February 2, 1835. CHAPTER CCCXXXIII. A supplement to an act entitled An act to prevent the use of fire Del. Lawe, arms by free negroes, and free mulattoes, and for other pur- l. poses. r a deoap. Section 1. Ro it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Proviso in Ist tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembig met, That the section, a- proviso in the first section of the act, to which this is a supplement, mended by be amended by adding after the word ** piece in the seventeenth insertg,ac. line, thereof the following, which shall continue in force for the term of one year firom the granting of such license, and be renewable in like manner, and the justice or justices of the peace, so grant. ing such licenses shall keel) a register of the same. OF DELAWARE. 333

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