CONCERNING LIMITS. Exception. far as the general law for the election of assessor and inspector and road commissioners is qualified by the provisions hereinafter contained. Assessors and SECTION 5. There shall be elected, in accordance with the Inspectors. provisions of Chapter 17 of the Revised Statutes, one assessor for Red Lion hundred, and one inspector for each of the said districts. In such election for assessor and inspector the collector of said hundred shall be the presiding officer of Red Lion West election district, and some qualified voter of the district, to be appointed by the Levy Court of New Castle county in the month of March next previous to the election, shall be the presiding officer for Red Lion East election district, and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of the presiding officer of such election according to law; and if at any election for assessor and inspector in said Red Lion East election district a presiding officer shall not have been appointed, or shall not he present at the time and place of opening the election, the electors appointed. present shall choose a presiding officer for said election, according to the provisions of Section 10 of Chapter 18 of the Revised Statutes. The Levy Court of New Castle county shall, at the time of the appointment, make provision for the furnishing by List of voters the collector of a list of the voters of said hundred to the appointed as presiding officer as aforesaid. Presiding officer, when and how Certificates person SECTION 6. Immediately upon closing the election for assessor of election. and inspector in the said election districts, and ascertaining the state of the vote, the presiding officer and judges of the election in each of said districts shall make and sign certificates according to law of the election of inspectors, varying from the form prescribed for that purpose by omitting the assessor, and in lieu of including the election of assessor in such certificate they shall make and sign a certificate of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as assessor, and also of the number of votes given for each candidate voted for as road commissioner. Presiding officers to assemble, when and where. SECTION 7. The said presiding officers and judges of both the said election districts shall assemble on the day next succeeding said election, at 12 o'clock M., at the place of voting in Red Lion West election district aforesaid, and ascertain the aggregate number of votes given in both the said districts for each person voted for for road commissioner and for assessor. The candidate having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected assessor, and the candidate or candidates, according as there may be one or more to be elected, having the highest number of votes for road commnissioner or commissioners, shall be declared duly elected road commissioner or road commissioners, and the presiding officers and judges shall make, sign and deliver certificates CONCERNING LIMITS. of said election according to law. If two candidates for said office shall have the highest and an equal number of votes, the Tie vote. collector or presiding officer of said Red Lion West election district shall give a casting vote, which shall elect the candidate in whose favor it is given. Passed at Dover, February 23, 1869. CHAPTER 387. An Act Changing the Place of holding Elections for Brandywine West SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Chapters 19 and 82 of the 12th Volume of Laws of Delaware be amended by striking out all after the word "held," in line four of Section 2 of each of said Chapters, and inserting in lieu thereof, "at the school house in school district No. 7.* Passed at Dover, March 17, 1869. CHAPTER 388. OFFICE PROVIDED FOR REGISTER IN CHANCERY AND CLERK OF ORPHANS' COURT, IN SEC. 1. Levy Court of New Castle county au- Records, &c., to be removed when room SEC. 2. The Recorder of Deeds of said county to An Act relating to the Public Offices of New Castle County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, Levy Court of New Castle county authorized to provide a SECTION 1. That the Levy Court of New Castle county is hereby authorized to provide a suitable room in the main building or south- room for Chancery & of said coun CONCERNING PUBLIC OFFICES.-THE LAWS. Register in east wing of the Court House of said county, for the use of the RegClerk of or ister in Chancery and Clerk of the Orphans' Court of said county, phans' Court and that when said room shall be so provided, all of the books, ty. records, papers, and other things belonging to said offices respecRecords, &c., tively, shall be removed to the same; and it shall thenceforth be the office of the Register in Chancery and Clerk of the Orphans' the room is Court of said county, in lieu of the room now used for that to be re moved when completed. Recorder of county to use purpose. SECTION 2. That when the room now used as the office of the Deeds of said Register in Chancery and Clerk of the Orphans' Court of said the present county shall be vacated as aforesaid, the Recorder of said county Register in shall occupy the same as a part of his office in addition to the room now used by him. office of the Chancery Passed at Dover, April 7, 1869. Preamble. Preamble. CHAPTER 389. PRIVATE ACTS REVIVED SEC. 1. All acts that have become void for not SEC. 2. Certified copy must be procured and recorded within one year. An Act to Revice and Extend the Time for Recording Private Acts. WHEREAS by Chapter 4, Section 3 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, it is provided that private statutes (namely "such as are not of a public nature, or published as such,") shall be recorded in the Recorder's office in one of the counties of this State within twelve months after their passage, or they shall be void; AND WHEREAS by Chapter 1, Section 2 of Volume 13, Part 1, it is provided "that the Secretary of State be and he is hereby directed to exclude from the publication of the laws of this State all acts of incorporation, and other acts of a private nature, unless such acts contain a provision directing their publication"; AND WHEREAS a number of the private and unpublished acts heretofore passed have inadvertently been allowed to become void through ignorance of the aforesaid enactments; CONCERNING THE LAWS.-REVENUE. THEREFORE, for the purpose of relieving the parties interested of the embarrassments and disappointments arising from unintentional neglect in the premises, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, have become being recorded SECTION 1. That all unpublished acts heretofore passed, and all acts that that have become void on account of not being duly recorded void for not in compliance with the provisions aforesaid, be and the same are d hereby severally revived and re-enacted, and, together with the revived, provisions therein contained, are respectively declared to be in full force and all acts and transactions done and performed under the provisions of said acts respectively shall have the same force and effect, and be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the said acts had been severally recorded according to law; Provided. That this enactment shall not take effect in the case of any act that has become void as aforesaid until a certified copy thereof, Certified procured of the Secretary of State, shall be duly recorded in the procured Recorder's office of one of the counties of this State; And pro- within one vided further, That no such copy of a voided act shall be received year. for record after the expiration of one year from the passage of this act. Copy musi be and recorded SECTION 2. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public Public act. act and published as such. An Act Providing Revenue for this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, as follows, to wit: SALES AND MANUFACTURERS. SECTION 1. That from and after the passage of this act, in addition to the taxes now imposed by existing laws, there shall be paid to the State Treasurer, for the use of the State, by every individual, association of persons, firm, or corporation, engaged in the business and occupation of purchasing and selling produce, merchandise, goods, wares and property of any and every description whatsoever, one-tenth of one per cent. on the gross amount of sales, less commissions, freights and United States tax, by him, her, or them made-the same to be paid on the first day |