ART. 14. ] KENT COUNTY. 579

annum, payable half yearly: which said bonds shall be delivered to the said rail-
road company in payment for said stock, and which said bonds may be hypothecated
or gold and assigned by the said railroad company. That the said bonds shall be
exempt from county, school, state and municipal taxation, and that the faith of Kent
county is hereby pledged for the redemption thereof. That the said county com-
missioners shall from time to time levy on all property subject to taxation for the
ordinary expenses of said county such sum or sums of money as shall be neces-
sary for the prompt payment of the principal and interest of the said bonds, and
shall provide for the mode and manner in which such payment shall be made, the
said taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes in said county are levied and
collected. That the said county commissioners are hereby authorized at any time or
times to sell or pledge the shares of stock which may be subscribed for under the
provisions of this act, or any part thereof, and to apply the proceeds of such sales or
pledges, together with the dividends accruing on such shares, to the payment of
said bonds or the interest thereon. That for the purpose of protecting the interest
of said county in the said railroad company after such subscription or stock shall
be made, and in lieu of the right to vote the said stock in the election of president
and directors of the said railroad company, the said county shall be represented by
one director, at the said board of the president and directors aforesaid; that Wil-
liam Lamb, of said county, shall represent the county as such director, for one year,
and until his successor shall be appointed, and that the county commissioners shall,
in the month of June, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and annually
at the same time thereafter appoint a director to represent said county as aforesaid.
That the said bonds and coupons shall be receivable for taxes by the collectors of
taxes, and when so received, on account of the same, shall be returned to the county
commissioners by the said collectors who shall be entitled to an equal amount of the
money levied to meet or liquidate their payment.

OLD CREW'S LANDING.

1867, c. 73 provides that the county commissioners of Kent county are authorized
and empowered to convey unto Isaac Parsons, Henry T. Jump, James A. Rosebury,
George Gale, Alexander Wilson, William Busick, Thomas J. Shellcross, and others
who may unite with them, thirty feet front of the public landing at or near the
mouth of Sassafras river, known as the Old Crew's Landing, in Kent county, the
said thirty feet to he located at the lower or westernmost end of said landing. That
the county commissioners aforesaid are authorized and empowered to have surveyed
and laid off a portion of the bed of Sassafras river opposite to said part of said pub-
lic landing, and extending from high water mark on said landing to a point in said
river of sufficient depth of water for the accommodation at low water of sailing or
steamboats, carrying grain, peaches and other products, and to condemn the same
for the use of the said Isaac Parsons, Henry T. Jump, and others who may unite
with them, and their successors, in erecting a wharf and other improvements; pro-
vided, the wharf and other improvements to be erected shall not, in the judgment
of said commissioners, obstruct or damage the navigation of said river. That the
aforesaid commissioners are authorized and empowered to annex such conditions
and restrictions to said conveyance and condemnation as in their judgment will
promote the public interest.

QUAKER NECK LANDING.

1887, c. 67 provides that the commissioners of Kent county are authorized and
empowered to convey unto John Haddaway, of Kent county, and others who may