OF INDICES OF RECORDS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY. CHAPTER 78. OF INDICES OF RECORDS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY. AN ACT in relation to the Indices of the Records of New Castle County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: tain offices in When to be Section I. Whenever the index or indices of any record Indices for cerof the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for New Castle New Castle County, or of any record of the office of the County. Register of Wills of said County, or of any record of the made. office of the Recorder of said County, or of any record of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware in and for said County, or of any record of the Orphans' Court of the State of Delaware in and for said County, shall need renewing, revising, altering or recopying, or any of said records not being sufficiently indexed shall be in need of a new or better system of ascertaining its contents, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware sitting in and for said County shall have power to order and direct that a renewed, revised, altered, recopied or sufficient index or indices shall be made for any of the said records of the said Superior Court, Register of Wills or Recorder; the Chancellor of the State of Delaware sitting in and for said County shall have like power to order By whom and direct that a renewed, revised, altered, recopied or suffi- made. cient index or indices shall be made for any of the said records of the said Court of Chancery; and the said Judges of the Orphans' Court of the State of Delaware sitting in and for said County shall have like power to order and direct that a renewed, revised, altered, recopied or sufficient index or indices shall be made for any of the said records of the said Orphans' Court. ordered to be not to include, Section 2. Whenever a new index or indices are made Indices, what for the records of Judgments, Mechanics Liens, Foreign or Domestic Attachments, Mortgages or Recognizances the said new index or indices shall omit all such as have been fully and legally satisfied. No other change shall be made in the manner or system of keeping any index except by direction of the said Judges of the said Superior Court, Chancellor Officer in charge of indexed to make new indices. OF INDICES OF RECORDS OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY. or said Judges of the said Orphans' Court, respectively so ordering and directing as aforesaid. Section 3. That when the said Judges of the said Superior records to be Court, Chancellor or said Judges of the Orphans' Court, respectively, shall so order and direct the making of any index or indices as hereinbefore provided, the officer in charge of the records for which said index or indices are to be made, shall be authorized and required to make or cause the same to be made, pursuant to the provision of this Act and the order and direction of the said Judges of the said Superior Court, Chancellor or said Judges of the said Orphans' Court respectively so ordering and directing as aforesaid, and he Books, how to shall be authorized to procure such books as shall be neces-sary and proper for that purpose, the cost of which shall be paid by the Levy Court of New Castle County. be procured. Commissioners to be appointed. by resident Judge of New to examine new indices. Section 4. That whenever it is directed that any index or indices shall be made as hereinbefore provided, the resident Castle County Associate Judge of New Castle County, shall appoint two commissioners whose duty it shall be to examine such index or indices as aforesaid and if they approve of the execution and exactness thereof, they shall certify the same to be a true and correct index or indices; and then and after such certification the said index or indices shall become and be the New indices, index or indices of New Castle County in lieu of those thereofficial indices. tofore in use. when to be Compensation of officer and pensation, Section 5. That after the said Commissioners shall have commissioners. certified as aforesaid the Levy Court of New Castle County shall pay to the officer by whom the said index or indices shall have been made and to the said commissioners, a just and reasonable compensation for their services, to be fixed by the said Levy Court upon application by the said officer Application for and by the said commissioners. Provided that upon the what to con said application by the said officer or by the said commissioners for the fixing of their compensation for said services, they shall present to the said Levy Court, so fixing said compensation a sworn itemized account of the time spent and disbursements made, if any, by said officer or commissioner respectively in and about the preparation or examination of said Records or Indices so made or examined by them aforesaid. tain. Approved, April 3, A. D. 1905. *So Enrolled. OF CLERK OF THE ORPHANS' COUrt. CHAPTER 79. OF CLERK OF THE ORPHANS' COURT. AN ACT authorizing the Clerk of the Orphans' Court of Kent County to make new Indices to Unsatisfied Recognizances. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Kent County to indices. Section 1. That the Clerk of the Orphans' Court of the Clerk of OrState of Delaware in and for Kent County, be and he is phans Court of hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to make, or make certain cause to be made, a true and correct copy of the indices to the unsatisfied recognizances entered in his office, pursuant to the Campbell system, in one or more Volumes as he may deem advisable; and he is hereby authorized to procure such Indices, how books as shall be necessary and proper for that purpose, the cost of which shall be paid by the Levy Court of Kent Cost, how paid. County. procured. appoint two Section 2. That the Levy Court of Kent County be, and Levy Court to the same is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed, to commissioners appoint two Commissioner,* whose duty it shall be to ex- Duty. amine said indices after the said Clerk of the said Orphans' Court shall have completed the same, and if they approve of the execution and correctness of the said indices, they shall certify their approval on each record thereof, and that then and after such certification the said indices shall become and be the indices to all the recognizances* records in the office of the Clerk of the Orphans' Court of the State of Delaware in and for Kent County aforesaid. Commissioners Section 3. That after said Commissioners shall have cer- Compensation tified as aforesaid, the Levy Court of Kent County shall clerk and determine and make a just and reasonable allowance to the said Clerk and Commissioners for their services in this behalf, which allowance shall be paid by the said Levy Court at such time or times within a period of two years as the said Levy Court shall deem meet and proper. Approved, April 6, A. D. 1905. *So Enrolled OF THE REGISTER OF WILLS. New seal of office for Reg Kent County. CHAPTER 80. OF THE REGISTER OF WILLS. AN ACT to authorize the Register of Wills in and for Kent County to procure a new seal of office, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Section I. That William D. Hudson, Register of Wills, ister of Wills of in and for Kent County, be and he is hereby authorized to procure a new seal for his office, to be made of brass or steel of the dimensions, and engraved with the same devices, of the present seal, which said seal when completed shall be taken. and deemed to be the seal of the Register of Wills of Kent County in the State of Delaware, and shall thereafter be affixed to all writings, papers and records, where the seal of said Court is required, and the present seal shall then be broken up and destroyed by the said Register in the presence of the Sheriff of Kent County. How paid for. Section 2. The Levy Court of Kent County shall pay the necessary costs of procuring the said new seal. Approved, March 20, A. D. 1905. OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. CHAPTER 81. OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. AN ACT for the renewal of "An Act for the Encouragement of Immigration, and to foster the agricultural interests of the State," being Chapter 333, Volume 22, Laws of Delaware, Approved March 19, 1903. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Volume 22, Section 1. That Chapter 333, Volume 22, Laws of Dela- Chapter 333, ware, entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Immigra- re-enacted and tion and to foster the Agricultural Interests of the State," renewed, etc. approved March 19, 1903, be and the same is hereby reenacted, renewed, extended and continued in force for the term of two years from and after the nineteenth day of March, A. D. 1905, and at the expiration of that term the same shall cease, terminate and become inoperative. Section 2. This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a public Act. Approved, April 20, A. D. 1905. |