Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 94

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZING COOPERATION WITH MARYLAND IN RESETTING MONUMENT ON MARYLAND-DELAWARE STATE LINE

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO COOPERATE WITH THE PROPER AUTHORITIES IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND IN RESETTING A MONUMENT OR MARKER ON THE MARYLAND-DELAWARE STATE LINE.

WHEREAS, there has come into the possession of the State Highway Department of the State of Delaware a monument or marker that formed a part of the Mason and Dixon Line, dividing the States of Maryland and Delaware; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable that said marker be reset at its original location in the line constituting a part of the boundary between the two States, and at or near Bohemia Mills; NOW, THEREFORE,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That the State Highway Department of the State of Delaware be and it is hereby authorized and directed to cooperate with the proper authorities of the State of Maryland to reset at its original location a marker or monument now in the possession of said Department and which constituted a part of the Mason and Dixon Line, and which marked a point in the boundary line between the States of Maryland and Delaware.

Section 2. That the said State Highway Department is hereby authorized and directed to expend from the State funds available to said Department such sum or sums or money as may be necessary to carry out, on behalf of the State of Delaware, the purposes of this Act.

Approved March 25, 1947.