580 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

unite with him, the following part of the public landing in Quaker Neck, on Chester
river, which was condemned and taken off the lands of Thomas Lusby and said
John Haddaway, and contains one-half of an acre of land. That the commission-
ers aforesaid are authorized and empowered to have surveyed and laid off a portion
of the bed of Chester river, opposite the aforesaid part of the said public landing
extending from high water mark to a depth of water sufficient for vessels carrying
grain and other produce to float at ebb tide, and to condemn the same for the use
of the said John Haddaway and others who may unite with him, and their heirs,
in building a wharf and other improvements; provided, such appropriation of the
said river shall not, in their opinion, obstruct or prejudice the navigation thereof;
and provided further, that ample room shall be left at the terminus of the public
road leading to the said landing and river, and also of the said landing, to allow
the loading and unloading of boats or vessels that may be, or lie off the same, and
not at the wharf to be erected as aforesaid That the commissioners aforesaid are
authorized and empowered to annex such condition and restrictions to said convey-
ance and condemnation as they may deem conducive to the public interest.

QUEEN ANNE AND KENT COUNTY RAILROAD.

NOTE. —For the act of 1667, C. 316 relating to this road, see Public Local Laws, Art. XVII,
Queen Anne.

SASSAFRAS.

1867, c. 47 enacts the following:

1867, C 47, s 1. Incorporated, rights and pri- vileges.	157. The citizens of the village of the Head of Sas- safras, in Kent county are hereby constituted and made a body corporate, by the name of Sassafras, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and perpetual succession.
Ibid F. 2 Election of commissioners	158. The free white male citizens of the Head of Sassafras aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who have resided in the said village for or during the space of six months next preceding the first "Wednesday in April next, may on that day, at the hotel of James L. Pryor, in said village, in the house formerly Voshell's hotel, and the free white male citizens of the town of Sassafras aforesaid, having the qualification aforesaid, on the first Wednesday in April in every year thereafter, be authorized to elect five commissioners for said town, who shall be entitled to vote, and have resided within the limits of the same one year next preceding the election.
Ibid s. 3 Judge of elec- tion	159. Any justice of the peace residing in the first election district in Kent county shall appoint by