"An act to amend Chapter 353, Volume 16, Laws of Delaware, entitled 'An act to incorporate the Roman Catholic Male Protectory, of Wilmington, Delaware.'"

Mr. Cooper, Clerk of the House, being admitted, informed the Senate that the House had passed and asked the concurrence of the Senate in the following House bills, viz:

"An act to divorce Millie F. Rathel from her husband William J. Rathel, and to change her name;"

"An act authorizing the laying out of a new public road in North West Fork Hundred, Sussex County;"

"An act authorizing and requiring the School Committee of School District No. 75, in Sussex County, to raise twenty-five dollars for school purposes in addition to the amount now required by law to be raised;"

"An act to amend the Charter of the Allen Dredging Company;"

"An act to amend the act to renew and to amend the act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Agricultural Canal Company of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County.'

On motion of Mr. Dorman the House bill entitled,

"An act to amend the act to renew and to amend the act entitled 'An act to incorporate the Agricultural Canal Company of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County,'

Was read.

On motion of Mr. McWhorter, the House amendment to the Senate bill entitled,

"An act relating to the government of the City of Wilmington,"

Was read,

And, on his further motion, was

Ordered that the House be informed thereof.

Concurred in.

On motion of Mr. Dorman, the House bill entitled,

"An act entitled 'An act to extend the limits of United Districts Nos. 97 and 135, Sussex County,"

Was read.

On motion of Mr., Bacon, the House bill entitled,

"An act to divorce Millie F. Rathel from her husband William J. Rathel, and to change her name,"

Was read.

On motion of Mr. Lewis, the House bill entitled,

"An act to amend the charter of the Kent County Mutual Insurance Company,"

Was read a second time by its title,

And, on his further motion, was referred to the Committee on Corporations.

Mr. Lewis, from the Committee on Corporations, reported back, with favorable recommendation, the House bill entitled,

"An act to amend the charter of the Kent County Mutual Insurance Company,"

And, on his motion, the rule was suspended,

And, on his further motion, the bill was taken up for consider-` ation,

And further, on his motion, was read a third time, by paragraphs, in order to pass the Senate.

On the question, "Shall this bill pass the Senate ?"

The yeas and nays were ordered, which, being taken, were as follows:

Yeas-Messrs. Bacon, Crossan, Dorman, Ferguson, Lewis, Martin, and Mr. Speaker-7.

Nays-None.

So the question was decided in the affirmative, and the bill, having received the required constitutional majority,

Passed the Senate.

Ordered that the House be informed thereof and the bill returned to that body.

On motion of Mr. Martin, the House bill entitled,

"An act authorzing the Governor to appoint an additional Justice of the Peace in and for Sussex County,"

Was read.

On his motion all rules were suspended, and the bill read a second time by its title,

And, on his further motion, was referred to the Committee on Revised Statutes.

Mr. Martin, from the Committee on Revised Statutes, reported back, with favorable recommendation, the House bill entitled,

"An act authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional Justice of the Peace in and for Sussex County,"

Which, on his motion, was taken up for consideration,

And, on his further motion, was read a third time, by paragraphs, in order to pass the Senate.

On the question, "Shall this bill pass the Senate?"

It was decided in the affirmative, and the bill, having received the required majority,

Passed the Senate.

Ordered that the House be informed thereof and the bill returned to that body.

On motion, the Senate adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, March 2d, 1887-11 o'clock, A. M.

Senate met pursuant to adjournment.

Prayer by the Chaplain.

Roll called-Members present-Messrs. Bacon, Cooper, Crossan, Dorman, Ferguson, Lewis, Martin, McWhorter, and Mr. Speaker.

Journal read and approved.

Mr. Ferguson gave notice that, on to-morrow or some future day, he would ask leave to introduce a bill entitled,

"An act to divide School District No. 81 in New Castle County."

Mr. Cooper, Clerk of the House, being admitted, presented for the signature of the Speaker of the Senate the following duly and correctly enrolled House bill, the same having been signed by the Speaker of the House, viz:

"An act to reïncorporate the Town of Milford."

Mr. Cooper, Clerk of the House, being admitted, informed the Senate that the House had passed and asked the concurrence of the Senate in the following House bills, viz:

"An act to amend Section 3, of Chapter 514, of Volume 13, of the Laws of Delaware, entitled, 'An act to incorporate the New Castle Water Works Company;""

"An act to lay out a new public road in West Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware;"

"An act to incorporate Hockesson Grange, No. 4, Patrons of Husbandry, Hockesson, Delaware;"

"An act for the relief of School District No. 29 in New Castle County;"

"An act to reïncorporate Cooper's Cemetery of North Murderkill Hundred, in Kent County."

Mr. Cooper, Clerk of the House, being admitted, informed the Senate that the House had adopted the report of the conference committee in relation to the act entitled,

"An act to reincorporate the Town of Milford."

He also presented to the Senate the, Report of the State Board of Agriculture.

Mr. Crossan, from the Committee on Enrolled bills, reported as duly and correctly enrolled, and ready for the signature of the Speaker of the Senate, the following Senate bills and joint resolutions, viz:

"An act to divorce Charlotte Hanna and Alfred Hanna from the bonds of matrimony;"

"An act to punish false pretenses in obtaining certificates of registration of cattle and other animals, and to prevent giving false pedigrees;"

"An act to revise and renew Friendship Church Cemetery of Appoquinimink Hundred;"

"Joint resolution to pay the Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children five hundred dollars;"

"Joint resolution authorizing the State Treasurer to pay W. F. Causey, Esquire, seventy-five dollars."

Also, the House bill entitled,

"An act for the relief of Thomas Draper and Thomas H. Shockley,"

Also, the Senate bill entitled,

"An act to extend the act entitled, 'An act to reïncorporate Hebron Lodge, No. 14, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Seaford, Delaware.""