Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 209

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 108, VOLUME 47, LAWS OF DELAWARE, ENTITLED "AN ACT EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF CAMDEN", BY ADDING A NEW AREA THERETO.

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

Section 1. Chapter 108, Volume 47, Laws of Delaware, be and is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as Section 1, Section (2) C, and which shall read as follows:

Section 1. Section (2) C. All that parcel and small tract of land situated in North Murderkill Hundred, Kent County and State of Delaware, lying on the northerly side of the street leading easterly from the Delaware Railroad in the Town of Wyoming, to North Main Street in Camden, said street known as Front and/or North Street in Wyoming and North Road or street in the Town of Camden, said tract of land or sub-division having about twenty-two lots and premises therein laid out and therein erected, bounded by the thread of the stream of Isaac's Branch Creek on the north, on the east by lands formerly of Charles Lord, now of Lord Brothers, on the south by the aforesaid North Road or street in Camden and on the west by land and premises now of Kathryn Cooper and the easterly corporate line of the Town of Wyoming and lands of the Simpson Elementary School formerly of George Lundgren now deceased, being more fully described in accordance with a survey made by J. E. Haddaway Engineer-Surveyor, during the years of 1954, 1955 and 1963, as follows, to wit:

Beginning--for this survey at a point in line and the old original corner for this tract along the former water line of Howell's Mill Pond and also in line of land of the Lord Brothers, thence running with the Lord Brothers' land, formerly of Charles Lord, deceased, south 13 degrees east (1011) feet to a point in the middle of North Road or street in Camden, said point being distant about (40) feet south of the north curb on North Street, thence turning and running therewith, toward Wyoming, and (40) feet south of the North Curb, south 86 degrees 15 minutes west (429) feet to a corner in said street for the corporate line of the Town of Wyoming, thence turning and running therewith and land and premises of Kathryn Cooper and land and premises of a certain Knight and also with land of the Simpson School and the Wyoming Town line north 3 degrees 15 minutes west (814) feet to the original corner for this whole tract and sub-division along the former water line of said Howell's Mill Pond, thence continuing with the same bearing a further distance of about (100) feet to a corner in the thread of the stream of Isaac's Branch Creek a corner for the Town of Wyoming, thence turning and running down and with the flow of said stream in a northeasterly direction about (300) feet more or less to a corner in line of the Fisher-Kemp annex to the Town of Wyoming, thence leaving said stream and running with lands of Lord Brothers south 13 degrees east about (150) feet more or less back to the place of the beginning an area of about (8.5) acres of land be the same more or less.

No annexation shall be made under the foregoing provisions without first holding a referendum on the question and receiving a favorable vote thereon.

Approved December 23, 1963.