

DKl.AWAKK. 



January to March, was inaugurated th.s rear. 

 Tuitit.n has been made free to nil students U'lon.g- 



s has been ap- 



d to lotik after military instruction in the 

 scho. x*te. ami expects to IntrodttOi mili- 



-ill into all the public schools. 



EBB W. TfNNEUU GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE. 



I liarit leu. A com mitt co of the Legislature ap- 

 pointed to examine the affairs of the State Insane 

 Hospital reported May 7. The following items are 

 from the rejK.rt : Th : uiale and 105 female 



patient* in the institution. The total number "f 

 employees, exclusive of the mpefintattdent and his 

 assistant, is 86, the male attendants in the wards 

 receiving $19 a month and the female attendants 

 $14 a month. The average dailv cost for each 

 patient is aU>i; ts. The increased appro- 



priation asked by the Board of Trustees i- largely 



ex will 



ted for by the fart that the large annex 

 it necessary to employ from pj t<> 1 4 extra 

 attendants, and the extra lighting, heat in.'. 

 will entail more exjH-nse. It was recommended 

 inbecile patients* be returned to their counties, 

 and that an adja< -nt tract of 36 acres be bou- lit 

 for raising vegetables for the instituti'.n. The 

 annex referred to above was finished thi* 



The Slat- Industrial School f,, r Girls ha* \ . 



operation more than throe years, and now has 20 



inmate*. A grade system has been adopted. and 



prom end* upon conduct The grades are 



badges of various colors, and a 



r modal marks the grade ..f trust and honor. 



hone who have remained l..n;r enough in this 



grade to justify their doing ST.. the committee find 



suitable homes and a visiting committee continues 



to exercise care over them. 



Railroad*. The new Queen Anne Railroad was 

 formally opened April 8 from Greenwood to Queens- 



report of the treasurer of the Delaware Rail- 

 road Company in January showed : Gross earning 

 for the year, $1.296,358.64; net earnings, $443.- 



ired with is ( .t:> 

 89, Th.- lease to the 



\Uania road was renewed in May fi>r thirty 

 years .">n the -nine term*, a* heivt..f. 



A new mad. the I ' ' i.iral. i- proposed to 



run b, , ford. 



The Wilmington and Ni.rthern Kailnad Com- 

 pany H ' i"-- earn 



ll.trimi I mpru\ rmeiii. i . inn ial n port of 



the chief of ell- a!lii\. Ill < 



ber. ha* the following account of improvem, i 

 i in I In- 1 >ela\\.r 



rk on the iee harl.or at Man-u* II 

 which .11 in IHJIJ. ha> r. 



The olijeet of the impfo\ emeu ' 



"The total expelidltlin-* t- .llMH- :!!. IS'j;, ,,|, tlie 



eon*t ruction of a landing pier 1,7(MI feet Ion 

 tending into the Delaware Hay. oppn>ite the bl 



III.- work was liegnn in 



1880. The pier is of great use for the purpo-. 

 the enirini'er. lighthouse, and quarantine sci 

 Since 1888, irhen work on the Delaware I: 



. $2,721,992.14 has \yocn expended mi the 

 project?' 



Mineral Oil*. The export of mil from 



the customs district of the State in is'Nl amounted 



088, t^T gallons, valued at $4.723,0(l." i ' 

 the year ending -Inne :!(). 1SH7. it was '.'"'." 

 gallon*, valued at J<4.ol 1,500. 



M;itc Houndaries. A <leci<ion wa* made in 

 1-Vliniary in a cast 1 involving the line b< ; 

 lVnn*ylvania 1 "1 Delaware, that the new l.oundary 

 can not U- treated as legal until the work of the 

 I'.oiindary Commission has been ratified l.y the 

 atiires of the two - i approved l.y 



MM involving the boundary line be- 

 \v Jersey and !> Ahich "ha- 



on the Supreme Court of the I'nited States d< 

 for twenty year-, was revived in that court. >ct. PJ. 



h\- the entering of motion iy the Attorney-General 



of New Jersey 1 in th< interest of that 



State. The proceeding looking to the definr 

 talili*hment of the line had l.een instituted in 

 March. I 4 -;:, and had l.een po*tpom-d ly stipula- 

 tion from one term of the court to another. S 



ay -aid the fact of the long pendency of t he 

 case was significant of the real disposition of the 

 two States that they did not de-ire to I. ring it to 

 an issue. He suggested another rout inuaiice of 

 the case until the beginning "f the n-xt term -f 

 the court, with the undcrstandint: that if in the 

 meantime the case was not settled by the. two 

 it should be taken off the docket. This so- 

 lution was accepted. The ca-e involves the con- 

 trol of fi*hing rights in Delaware r: 



Constitutional Co mention. This body i 



\nnnal Cyc|..|,a-dia " 

 for 1896. page 241 1. and adjourned .Inn- 



The 5 t'nion Republioan member- fp-m Kent 

 County who at first declined t.. take their 

 finally decided to accept the places allotted to them, 



Their contention wa* that if they w. 

 their 5 colleagues on the Tnion Republican ticket 

 were also elected, and that all 10 should be made 

 to fare alike either he seated or reiected while 

 the convention had decide the contest by 



admitting 5 from each of the conte-ting par: 

 .lime m. i^!>7. was the date fixed for the amended 

 .tuti-.n U) T "-t. The convention de- 



cjded. by a vot. 



mitting it for ratification to a vote of the 



number of Representatives was fixed at '-'>~>, 

 and that of Senators at 17. The pro\i-ion of the 

 old Constitution that a Senator must have a free- 



