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DELAWARE. 



DENMARK. 



in the case of wheat, which, owing to low 

 prices, had a decreased acreage. 



Miscellaneous. Toward the close of the year 

 Secretary Teller was succeeded by M. L. Mc- 

 Cormack. The Legislature of the proposed 

 State met at Huron, Dec. 14, and chose A. G. 

 C. Moody and A. J. Edgerton as United States 

 Senators. 



DELAWARE. State Government. The follow- 

 ing were the State officers during the year : 

 Governor, Charles 0. Stockley, Democrat; Sec- 

 retary of State, William F. Causey ; Treasurer, 

 John M. Houston ; Auditor, Jesse L. Long ; 

 Attorney - General, George Gray, succeeded 

 by John H. Paynter ; Superintendent of Free 

 Schools, Thomas N". Williams. Judiciary, Su- 

 preme Court: Chief- Justice, Joseph P. Co- 

 megys ; Associate Justices, William G. White- 

 ly, John W. Houston, and Edward Wooton. 

 Chancellor, Willard Saulsbury. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 Jan. 6, and adjourned on April 17. About 

 twenty acts were passed relating to the city of 

 Wilmington, a large number of incorporation 

 acts, and a large number relating to roads and 

 school districts. Thirty -two divorces were 

 granted. Among the more important acts of 

 the session were the following: 



Authorizing the Wilmington City Council to bor- 

 row $150,000 to purchase ground for a public park. 



Concerning legal holidays requiring the following 

 day to be observed when a legal holiday falls on Sunday. 



To provide for additional safeguards against injuries 

 from explosives. 



To complete and make good tbe title of land sold 

 in the State to aliens prior to Jan. 1, 1885, and author- 

 izing them to hold or sell the same as though they 

 were naturalized citizens. 



Amending the law in relation to divorce suits in the 

 courts, by making one month's notice, by advertise- 

 ment, to the defendant necessary, instead of three 

 months as heretofore. 



To amend the act for the protection of fishermen by 

 prohibiting fishing in the waters of the State by non- 

 residents. 



Amendmentto oyster law, restricting time for dredg- 

 ing to April, instead of May. 



To regulate the practice of dentistry. 



To regulate the tonging of oysters. 



To amend the law excluding the judiciary from con- 

 nection with corporations, by exempting religious and 

 charitable corporations. 



To amend the act in relation to sales of real estate 

 by executors and administrators. 



m Amendment to act in relation to registration ot 

 births, deaths, and marriages to make the registra- 

 tion more complete. 



To provide for the refunding of $120,000 of the 

 State debt falling due July 1, 1886. 



To amend the act for the regulation of weights and 

 measures, so as to authorize the inspector to test 

 weights used for both buying and selling. 



To amend the revenue laws by requiring each agent 

 lor a foreign insurance company other than fire or life 

 to pay $50 for a license and 2* per cent, of the gross 

 amount of premiums received and assessments col- 

 lected. 



Authorizing plate-glass insurance companies having 

 a capital of $100,000 to do business in the State. 



Authorizing the issue of fractional licenses to hotels, 

 when changing owners before the expiration of the 

 regular license, and authorizing the owners of new 

 hotels to procure from the resident associate iudge a 

 fractional license good until the ensuing term of court. 



Kequiring locomotive engineers to blow the usual 

 signal on the whistle within 400 yards of all highway 

 crossings. 



Amending chapter 12, volume 17, regulating the 

 time for dredging for oysters. 



Authorizing sheriffs to make deeds, after the expira- 

 tion of their terms of office, for properties sold by them. 



Kequiring the annual statements of the levy courts 

 to be issued in December, instead of May. 



To exempt the Dover glass-works from taxation for 

 ten years. 



For the protection of livery and boarding stable 

 keepers, giving them a lien on property committed to 

 their care until all charges are paid. 



To provide for the adoption of children by applica- 

 tion to the Orphans' Court. 



To increase the salaries of the Chancellor and judi- 

 ciary. 



Defining the duties of the State Treasurer. 



Authorizing^tbe Pilot Commissioners to issue licenses 

 to pilots working under the Pennsylvania laws. 



To authorize the appointment by the Court of Chan- 

 cery, of a trustee, to act with the husband of an insane 

 wife in the transfer of property. 



To amend chapter 62, volume 16, authorizing the 

 confiscation of dogs or game-cocks used or kept lor 

 the purpose of fighting. 



Legalizing the publication of official advertisements 

 in Sunday newspapers. 



To amend chapter 80^ volume 14, so as to allow a 

 married woman not living with or supported by her 

 husband to have the free right hi and use of her own 

 money and property. 



names of parties to be placed at the bead of tickets, 

 without regard to the political complexion of a major- 

 ity of the candidates on the tickets. 



To provide for the better analyzation of phosphates 

 by permitting the State chemist to draw his own 

 samples. 



For the payment of claims against the State. 



Prohibiting shad-fishing between sunset, Saturday 

 evening, and sunrise, Monday morning. 



A Wilmington journal says: "The Legisla- 

 ture of 1885 will be memorable chiefly for 

 what it has not done. It has not given New 

 Castle County the increased representation 

 which the party had pledged should be given. 

 It has not given the people the privilege of 

 convoking a constitutional convention. It has 

 not passed the judiciary amendment, nor the in- 

 corporation amendment. It, or rather a small, 

 obstructive, short-sighted minority of its mem- 

 bers, has broken faith with the people, and in- 

 spired in them a distrust of future pledges." 



Senatorship. Attorney - General Gray was 

 elected to the United States Senate, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator 

 Bayard, appointed Secretary of State in Presi- 

 dent Cleveland's Cabinet. 



DENMARK, a kingdom in northern Europe. 

 The Constitution is embodied in the charter of 

 June 5, 1849, which was modified in 1855 and 

 1863, but restored in an altered form in 1866. 

 The executive power is exercised by the King, 

 through a ministry responsible to him and in- 

 dictable by the Folkething before the Eigsret 

 for transgressions of the Constitution, and the 

 legislative power by the Rigsdag or Diet. The 

 upper house is called the Landsthing, and con- 

 sists of 66 members, of whom 12 are nomi- 

 nated for life by the Crown, from actual or 



