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An Act regulating the taking of passengers on the Delaware Railroad. 1859 759 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0187 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF DELAWARE. to a certain new road in Cedar Grek Hundred, in the County ofcreek Hundred, Suosex County, Sussex, now open and conmnencing at a point in the road leading I use, s from Waples' Mill, thence through Prime Hook Neck, in said lilthie. hundred, to the Delaware Bay, and if they, or a majority of them, should be of the opinion that the road above named is more direct, better located and more convenient to public'travel, than the old roul which leads front the point aforesaid (and running partly parallel to the road lately opened) by the louse of Thomas R1. Wilson to the Delaware Bay, they shall est:ablish the same. Sic. 2. The old road commencing at the point aforesaid, and When now mad leading by the house of Thomas R. Wilson, and partly parallel to beo t the road above established (if the commissioners establish the vacad. new roa(l mentioned in the first section) shall be, and the same is hereby, Tacated and declared no longer to be a public road. Sic. 3. The expenses, if any, attending the establishing of the xPmor etn- new road, and the vacating of the old road, shall be defrayed by roadbyio voluntary subscription of such persons as may be interested in borne. the opening of said road; and when established and accepted by 1 'ccpt the Levy Court of the said county, the same shall be kept in to be kept In r. pair by the repair as other putbbie roads in sLid county are. county. Pasetd at Dover, February 25, 185. CHAPTER DCLXIV. AN ACT retulating the takig of passengefr on the 1Delaw'ara Railroad. Be it enacted by the %'nate and House of Representatives of the State <f Delaware, in General Assembly met, Afterltof(tay, SECTION 1. Tht oi and after the first day of May next, it Pviih..Wano shall be unlawful for the Philadelphia, Wilmington and BaltimoreiC ohrited Railroad Company, or any of its agents, to take or carry any lou i negro or mulatto in any car on tile Delaware Railroad, which is a, irten led for intended to take, carry or convey white passenigers, without the Dl. R.R,wl. request of somine white passenger in behalf of his or her sOrvaIt Retinvt suf or slave. SEC. 2. ALdy be i. encted, That for each and every negro or muld atto which the ;Aid Phil adelphio., Wibaiingtol an Pd Plt iitore 759

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