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branch of its railroad, beginning at or near the junction of the Location.
road of the Delaware Railroad Company with its road and ex-
tending from thence to the line dividing this State from the State
of Maryland, so as to form a connection with any railroad to be
built from Elkton, in the latter State, or thereabouts, to the said
State line, and for that purpose the said “ The New Castle and
Frenchtown Turnpike and Railroad Company” shall have all
powers in relation to condemnation of land or otherwise that are
granted by the charter of said company in relation to making
the road or roads by it authorized to be constructed or built.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein Contract ex-
contained shall be held or taken to impair or in any wise affect inte
the contract existing between this State and said company by State and
the act entitled, “An Act to provide for the payment of certain pany not to
sums of money to the State by the New Castle and Frenchtown
Turnpike and Railroad Company, and for other purposes," passed
at Dover, February 7, 1852 (10th vol. Del. Laws, page 652, &c.)

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the power to revoke this act is hereby reserved to the Legislature.

Passed at Dover, March 21, 1867.

said

be impaired.

An Act to amend an act entitled, “An Act to incorporate a Company for

the purpose of cutting and making a Canal between the Chesapeake Bay 3 Vol. 170.
and Bay or River Delaware, or the waters thereof," passed at Dover, 9 Vol. 26.
January 29th, 1801, and also to amend a Supplement thereto, passed at
Dover, June 15th, 1836.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (twothirds of each branch concurring,) That so much of the first sec

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tion of the said original act as makes or fixes the value of the original act shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company at two hundred dollars, be and the same is hereby repealed.

repealed.

Four shares

holders in

SECTION 2. And be it enacted, That the Chesapeake and Delaauthorized ware Canal Company shall have full power and authority to issue to the stock to the stockholders of said company four shares of the capital lien of each stock of the said company at the par value of fifty dollars per share, in lieu of each share of said stock now held by the said stockholders upon the surrender of the certificate thereof.

share now

held.

Additional annual

meeting.

SECTION 3. And be it enacted, That beside, and in addition to the general meeting of proprietors to be held on the first Monday of June, in every year, as provided for in the seventh section of said original act, there shall be a general meeting of the proprieWhen held. tors on the first Monday of December in every year, at the office of the said company, at which meeting an equal dividend of all the net profits arising from tolls may be ordered and made to and among all the proprietors of the said company, if, upon examination of the accounts and general affairs of the said company, which it is hereby made the duty of the president and directors to present at said meetings, it shall be deemed right and expedient by the proprietors so to order and make such dividend.

The object of

What num

SECTION 4. And be it enacted, That the presence of proprietors ber of shares having two thousand shares, at the least, shall be necessary to congeneral stitute all general meetings.

to constitute

meetings.

Sec. 11 of

passed June

SECTION 5. And be it enacted, That the eleventh section of the supplement aforesaid supplement, passed at Dover, June 15th, 1836, be and 15, 1836, re- the same is hereby repealed, and that the next following section, number six of this present act, be and the same is hereby substituted therefor.

pealed.

Holders of

debt to vote.

SECTION 6. And be it enacted, That in all elections hereafter to certificates of be held for president and directors of the said Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and at all meetings of stockholders to be called upon the business of the company, the holders of any certificates of debt, provided for in said supplement, and of any to be created by virtue of future loans in said supplement provided for, shall be entitled to participate and to vote in person or by proxy, and in voting shall have the same rights and privileges as the stockholders, and in estimating the number of votes which any holder of a certificate shall be entitled to give, every fifty dollars of the amount held by such person shall be taken and estimated as equal to one share of the stock: Provided always, That no person shall be entitled to vote upon any certificate which such person shall not have held at least two months before the election, or the meeting of business at which his vote

How many votes.

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may be offered, nor shall any vote by proxy be received unless such proxy shall have been created within ninety days next preceding that on which such vote shall be tendered.

SECTION 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect Acceptance from its acceptance by the stockholders of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, at the next general meeting of stockholders of the company, which acceptance shall be certified to the Governor of this state under the corporate seal of the company.

Passed at Dover, January 31, 1867.

An Act to revive and amend the act entitled, “An Act to incorporate the 12 Vol. 285,

Green Branch Ditch Company,” passed at Dover, February 18, 1863, 414.
as amended by the acts passed at Dover respectively, January 28, 1864,
and January 30, 1866.

Current Vol.

78.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-Original acts tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (two- revived. thirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring herein) That the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Green Branch Ditch Company," passed at Dover, February 18, 1863, as amended by the several acts passed at Dover respectively, January 28, 1864, and January 30, 1866, be and the same is hereby revived; and

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Act amended That the names of John M. Voshell and Tilghman Foxwell, in-how. the first and second lines of Section 2 of said act, be stricken out, and the names of Ayers H. Stockley and Enoch Spruance be inserted in lieu thereof; and that the figure 6, in the second line of Section 5 of the said act, be stricken out, and the figure 8 be inserted in lieu thereof.

Passed at Dover, January 31, 1867.

All the com. panies for

lands on

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CHAPTER 195.

ΡΟΚΟΜΟΚΕ RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.

SEC. 1. All the companies for the reclamation SEC. 5. Effects of proceedings of freeholders.

An Act to Incorporate the Pokomoke River Improvement Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representhe reclama- tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (twotion of low thirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring herein,) That Pokomoke all the different improvement companies for the reclamation of the low lands lying upon the Pokomoke river, and the different streams or branches tributary thereto, be and the same hereby are consolidated and made one great improvement company, and the owners of the lands embraced within their respective limits and

River consolidated.

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.

ed within

also the owners of all lands or low grounds benefited or to be benefited by the drainage now made or hereafter to be made by cleaning out the said river and the said streams or branches thereof, or the ditches cut or to be cut for the purpose of relieving the low lands bordering upon said river and formed by alluvial deposit near the same, be and they are hereby incorporated Incorporaand made a body politic and corporate in law and in fact, with ton. all the usual and necessary powers of like improvement companies, and subject likewise to the same obligations and duties as such companies are, by the name and style of “The Pokomoke Name. River Improvement Company," and as such shall have succession for the period of twenty years from the passage hereof, except the owners of low grounds lying west of the Pokomoke river run and the upper Pokomoke, beginning at George T. West's Certain upper line, which empties into said river, shall not be embraced wners of within the limits or operations of said company except for the nat embracsingle purpose of enabling the said company to collect from the the limits of

said comp'y. said owners of said land respectively such proportion of the expenses of said company in and about the ditching of said river below according to the report of the commissioners hereinafter mentioned.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the object and Purposes of purpose of the creation of said company is the more thorough

said comp'y. draining and reclaiming the low grounds lying upon the said river, and to be rendered more valuable by promoting the more rapid and unobstructed flowage of water down the same by ditches and drains into and down the said river.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose Commissionof the more complete relief of the low grounds of the said river ers appointfrom the water which stands upon the same for want of drainage, William P. Jones, Elisha W. Cannon and Joseph Ellis be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be, having first been sworn or affirmed before a justice of the peace Oath. to perform the duties devolved upon them by this act, to go upon the low grounds aforesaid and lay out upon the same such ditches or drains as they may deem necessary to relieve said grounds from water and fit them for profitable cultivation by ditches. their owners. They shall take to their assistance a surveyor and Employ surchain-carriers, and shall survey the line of the said ditches or drains, chain carand make a plot or plots of the same, showing the courses and distances thereof, and make a general description or delineation of ditches. of the said low lands bordering upon the said contemplated Plots. ditches or drains and to be improved thereby, giving the names of the owners thereof and the estimated quantity of acres held by each; and shall estimate the cost of opening and making the