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578 KENT COUNTY. [ART 14.
hogs were ignorant of the provisions of this act, or
had no intention to evade them, or upon reasonable
notice of its existence, shall proceed to mark said
cattle, sheep or hogs in the manner required by
this act, the eighty-eighth and eighty-ninth sections
hereof shall not be applicable to such case.
In force from February 21, 1867.
FAIRLEE GREEK.
By 1865, c. 58 the commissioners of Kent county are authorized and empowered
to levy upon the taxable property of said county, a sum of money not exceeding
one thousand dollars for the purpose of improving the navigation of the month of
Fairlee creek, in said county; the said money to be expended under the direction
of G. D. S. Handy, William F. Francis and William Tomlinson.
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GRAY'S INN CREEK.
1865, c. 54 enacts the following:
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1865, c. 64.
Wharfage to be
charged.
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110. The commissioners of Kent county are au-
thorized and empowered to charge rent or wharfage
for the use of the county wharf, situate on the head
waters of Gray's Inn creek, in said county. So
much of the money received as rent for said wharf
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Wharf to be
repaired
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as may be necessary to keep it in good repair, shall
be applied to that purpose, and the balance if any,
shall belong to the county and be under the control
of the commissioners.
In force from March 20, 1865.
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KENT COUNTY RAILROAD.
1367, c, 139 provides that the county commissioners of Kent county, or a majority
of them, are authorized, empowered and required, as soon as thay may receive notice
from the Kent County Railroad Company, to subscribe in behalf of Kent county for
four thousand shares of the stock of said Kent County Railroad Company, and in
payment for said subscription to issue bonds in the name of the county commissioners
of said county in such sums us the president and directors of the said railroad com-
pany may prescribe, redeemable in such time or times within twenty years as the
said president and directors may designate, (but not in less than fifteen years, ) and
which shall be stated on the face of said bonds; and to each of which said bonds
shall be attached coupons for the interest thereon, at the rate of six per cent, per
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