Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 105

MILTON - RESPECTING CITY LIMITS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 194, VOLUME 45, LAWS OF DELAWARE, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REINCORPORATE THE TOWN OF MILTON," WITH RESPECT TO THE CORPORATE LIMITS THEREOF.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all Members elected to each house concurring therein):

Section 1. That Section 2. of Chapter 194 of Volume 45, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of said Section 2. and by substituting in lieu thereof the following Section, to be known as Section 2., which will read as follows:

"Section 2. Corporate Limits:--The corporate limits of the Town hereby are established as follows:

"Beginning at a point on the Southwest prong of Paynter's Mill Pond; thence South sixty-four and one-half (641/2) degrees East two thousand eight hundred and ninety-two (2892) feet; thence North sixty and one-quarter (60%) degrees East one hundred thirty-nine (139) feet to the run of Round Pole Branch; thence down the same to Broadkiln Creek; thence up the same to Sand Haul; thence North fifteen (15) degrees West to Atlantic Avenue; thence with Atlantic Avenue eastward to the County road; thence with the same northerly to Bay Avenue; thence with Bay Avenue westerly to the old town limits; thence with the same North fifteen (15) degrees West to the public road leading to the Delaware Bay; thence with the same in a westerly direction to the western limits of the present Town; thence South fourteen (14) degrees East three thousand nine hundred fifty-one (3951) feet to a point on the Northwest prong of the Mill Pond, aforesaid; and thence with the same to the place of beginning.

"The Town, by resolution of its Mayor and Council, at any time and from time to time hereafter, may cause a resurvey or any supplemental survey of the Town, or any part thereof, to be made and a plot or plots to be prepared therefrom. When any such resurvey or supplemental survey and any plot prepared therefrom shall have been (1) approved by resolution of the Mayor and Council, (2) signed by the Mayor, who shall affix thereto the municipal corporate seal of the Town, attested by the Secretary of the Mayor and Council, and (3) such plot recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, aforesaid, then such survey and plot, or the record thereof, or a duly certified copy of such record, shall be evidence in all Courts of Law and Equity of this State."

Section 2. This Act shall go into effect immediately upon its approval, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Chapter 120 of Volume 42, Laws of Delaware.

Section 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency only.

Approved May 14, 1951.