IN RELATION TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. CHAPTER 345. OF THE GOVERNOR. AN ACT to provide for the arrest of persons violating the laws of this may offer re rest and de. sons charged laws. reward is to mined. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Governor sentatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, wards for arThat the Governor of this State be and he is hereby author- livery of perized, whenever he is satisfied that the laws of this State have with viola been violated, and it is necessary for the purpose of securing tions of the the arrest of the persons offending that a reward should be offered for the arrest and delivery in a jail of this State of such How persons, to issue his proclamation, offering such reward as in amount of the opinion of himself and the Attorney General is proper for be detersuch arrests and delivery, and upon the arrest and delivery, the amount so offered shall be paid upon a warrant drawn by How paid. the Governor on the State Treasurer in favor of the persons certified by the Attorney General to be entitled thereto, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Provided such reward shall not exceed the sum of two hun- Proviso. dred and fifty dollars in cases of felonies and not capital, and not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in capital felonies, Am and provided further, that no reward shall be paid to any officer who shall arrest such person in the regular discharge Further of his duty by virtue of process in his hands to be executed, nor to any person who has arrested the offender previous to the publication of the reward. Passed at Dover, March 19, 1877. Amount proviso. CHAPTER 346. OF CONSTABLES. Amended Code, AN ACT to amend chapter 34 of the Revised Statutes, concerning 1874, 171. constables. Governor to appoint two SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- additional sentatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, constables That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and required Wilmington. IN RELATION TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. to appoint two additional constables in New Castle county, who shall be appointed for, and reside in, the city of Wilmington, and the terms of office of constables hereby created shall Ter, four continue for four years, and the appointments thereto shall be made and vacancies filled by the Governor for and during the said term of four years. years. To give bond for $4000 within 30 Governor. To be recorded. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That any constable days, to be to be appointed by virtue hereof shall, within thirty days after approved by his appointment, enter into bond to the State of Delaware, with one or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Governor, in the penal sum of four thousand dollars, conditional for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. The said bond shall be recorded in the recorder's office for New Castle county, and shall have the same force and effect Appointvoid if as a constable's bond taken by the Levy Court of said county. bond not so If the constable so to be appointed neglects to give the bond as required by this section, the appointment shall be deemed void, and the Governor shall fill the vacancy thereby created. Passed at Dover, March 1, 1877. given. Recorder of make an index, pursubell's sys CHAPTER 347. OF RECORDERS OF DEEDS. AN ACT to authorize the recorder of deeds, in and for New Castle county, to make a certain index. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, SECTION I. That the recorder of deeds, in and for New Nun Case Castle county, is hereby authorized and directed to make, or cause to be made, an index (pursuant to Campbell's system of ant to Camp-indexing) of all mortgages entered and recorded in the tam, of ce recorder's office, in and for New Castle county, from the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to the time at which Campbell's system of indexing was commenced in the said office. tain mort gages. IN RELATION TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. amine said certify its correctness if SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That Walter Cum-c Commismins and Alexander B. Cooper be, and they are hereby, ioners to exappointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to examine index and such index as aforesaid after the recorder of deeds shall have completed the same, and if they approve of the execution approved. and correctness of the same, they shall certify the same to be a true and correct index, and that then and after such certificate, the said index shall become and be the index of mortgages in the said recorder's office for the term aforesaid, in lieu of the indexes now used therein. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the Levy Court of New Castle county shall pay to the said recorder of deeds, and the commissioners, a just and reasonable compensation for their services. The award or allowance so made by the Levy Court for the services as mentioned in section one and two of this act, shall be conclusive and final. Passed at Dover, March 5, 1877. Compensa tion. CHAPTER 348. OF NOTARIES PUBLIC. AN ACT authorizing the appointment of an additional Notary Public. notary public town hun SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Additional sentatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, for GeorgeThat the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to appoint an additional notary public for Georgetown hundred, in Sussex county. Passed at Dover, February 6, 1877. dred., Additional IN RELATION TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. CHAPTER 349. OF NOTARIES PUBLIC. AN ACT authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional Notary Public in Baltimore hundred, Sussex county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprenotary public sentatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, in Baltimore That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to appoint an additional notary public in Baltimore hundred, Sussex county. Hundred. Passed at Dover, February 20, 1877. Additonal notary public to reside near Gumborough. CHAPTER 350. OF NOTARIES PUBLIC. AN ACT for the appointment of an additional Notary Public in Sussex county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met (two-thirds of each branch concurring), SECTION 1. That the county of Sussex will be entitled to one notary public in addition to the number now allowed by law, and that he shall be appointed and continue to reside at or near the town of Gumborough, in Gumborough hundred. Passed at Dover, March 8, 1877. IN RELATION TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. CHAPTER 351. OF NOTARIES PUBLIC. AN ACT to authorize the Governor to appoint an additional Notary Public for White Clay Creek hundred, New Castle county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, notary public SECTION 1. That the Governor be and he is hereby author- Additional ized to appoint an additional notary public for White Clay for White Creek hundred, New Castle county, who shall reside in the Clay Creek village of Christiana. Passed at Dover, March 21, 1877. hundred. CHAPTER 352. OF NOTARIES PUBLIC. AN ACT authorizing the appointment of an additional Notary Public. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, SECTION 1. That the Governor be and he is hereby author- Additional ized to appoint an additional notary public for Duck Creek notary pubhundred, to reside in Smyrna, in Kent County. Passed at Dover, March 22, 1877. lic for Duck Creek hundred. CHAPTER 353. OF PROTHONOTARIES. AN ACT to amend chapter 384, volume 14, Laws of Delaware. Volume 14 355. WHEREAS, It is represented to this general assembly, that Preamble. |