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IN RELATION TO RECORDS.

or such new index as aforesaid, after the said Prothonotary shall
have completed it or them, and if they approve of the execution
and correctness thereof they shall certify the same to be a true
and faithful copy or index, as the case may be, and that then and
after such certificate the said copy or new index shall become New index
and be the index to the judgments entered or signed as aforesaid, to be used.
or to the unsatisfied judgments in the said Superior Court for the
time aforesaid in lieu of the indexes now used therein.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Superior Compensa-
Court shall fix and certify to the Levy Court of New Castle tion.
county a reasonable and just compensation to the said commis-
sioners and Prothonotary for their services; upon which said
certificate or order of the said Superior Court the Levy Court of
New Castle county shall pay to the said commissioners and Pro-
thonotary the sum or sums so fixed and certified as above.
Passed at Dover, February 3, 1869.

CHAPTER 417.

REBINDING OF RECORDS.

An Act authorizing the Prothonotary of the Superior Court in and
for Sussex County to rebind certain Records in his Office.

sex county

rebind cer

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- Prothonotatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That you the Prothonotary of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware directed to in and for the County of Sussex is hereby authorized and directed tain records. to have the Judgment Records for 1843, 1850 and 1859, and Continuance Records for 1843 and 1850 in said office rebound, and for that purpose to have the said records placed in the hands of a suitable book-binder; the said records to be and continue under the control of the said Prothonotary during said rebinding.

Passed at Dover, April 8, 1869.

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CHAPTER 418.

BOARD OF STEWARDS OF THE WILMINGTON CONFERENCE OF THE M. E. CHURCH

tion.

Name.

An Act to Incorporate the Board of Stewards of the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Repre sentatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (twothirds of each branch concurring therein), That Charles Hill. Incorpora Joseph Cook, John Hough. T. E. Martindale, J. F. Williamson. Thomas Carrow and Robert F. Thompson, and their successors in office (to be elected according to the provisions of the second section of this act), be and they are hereby created and declared to be a body politic and incorporate under the name of "The Board of Stewards of the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church," and by that name shall have continuSuccession. ance and succession for twenty years, and are hereby authorized and empowered to receive, hold, invest and disburse, for the benefit of the disciplinary claimants on the said Wilmington Conference, any funds, property, securities or interests, which may be from time to time placed in their hands by the order of the said Wilmington Conference or by any will, bequest or donation of any person or persons whatever, to sue and be sued in any court of law or equity in this State, to have and to use a corporate seal, and to do and perform ali other acts necessary to carry into effect the legitimate business of the corporation hereby created: Provided, nevertheless, that the property, funds or assets held by said corporation shall at no time exceed in value fifty Limitation of thousand dollars: And provided further that the corporation hereby created shall make a report of all their transactions during the preceding year to the said Wilmington Conference at each annual session thereof, and which said report shall be subject to revision and approval by said conference.

Corporate powers.

property.

Report to Conference.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the Board of Stewards of the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated in the first section of this act, shall be composed of one minister and one layman for each presiding elder's district within the bounds of the said Wilming How chosen. ton Conference. to be chosen as follows: The ministerial members of said board shall be elected by ballot annually by said

How com

posed.

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of

bers.

Wilmington Conference, and the lay members of said board
shall be elected by ballot by the Board of District Stewards of
each and every presiding elder's district within the bounds of
the said Wilmington Conference for the term of four years and Term.
until their successors shall have been duly elected as aforesaid:
but for the first term of such lay members of said board, who First election
shall be elected under the provisions of this section, it shall be lay mem
the duty of the district stewards of Wilmington district, at their
first meeting after the passage of this act, to elect by ballot as
aforesaid one member for the term of one year; and it shall be
the duty of the district stewards of Dover district, at their first
meeting after the passage of this act, to elect by ballot as afore-
said one member for the term of two years; and it shall be the
duty of the district stewards of Easton district, at their first
meeting after the passage of this act, to elect by ballot as afore-
said one member for the term of three years; and it shall be the
duty of the district stewards of Snow Hill district, at their first
meeting after the passage of this act, to elect by ballot as afore-
said one member for the full term of four years; and if at any
time any additional district or districts should be formed within Members for
the bounds of said Wilmington Conference, the district stewards additiona
for such additional district or districts shall at their first meeting
of the creation of such district or districts be entitled to elect by
ballot as aforesaid one member for each such additional district
for the term of four years and until their successors shall have
been duly elected.

districts.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That this Public act. act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted as aforesaid. That the Repea Legislature hereby reserves the right to repeal this act.

Passed at Dover, April 1, 1869.

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CHAPTER 419.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS.

SEC. 1. Who may become incorporated.

Who may

become in

SEC. 3. Officers.

How to be incorporated

Election of Managers.

Certificate to Recorder of Deeds.

Appointment and removal of officers.

An Act for the Promotion of Sunday Schools and Young Men's Christian Associations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, (two-thirds of each branch of the Legislature concurring herein) as follows, to wit:

SECTION 1. That it shall and may be lawful for ten or more corporated. persons associated together for the promotion of the interests of Sunday schools, or as a Young Men's Christian Association for the promotion of religious knowledge and improvement, to beHow to be come incorporated by the election of managers, not less than three nor more than twelve, and by taking a corporate name and certifying the same, together with the object of the incorporation, Certificate to under the hands and seals of the managers, to the Recorder of Deeds. Deeds of the county, whose duty it shall be to record such certificate.

incorporated

Recorder of

SECTION 2. The managers so elected shall, upon the recording of such certificate, become a body corporate by the name so Succession. adopted and certified, and shall have succession for twenty years, with power to sue [and] be sued, and to purchase, receive, hold Corporate and enjoy property, real and personal, for the use and objects of the association, and to ordain by-laws for the regulation of its affairs not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States: Provided that such corporation shall hold no real estate What real except such as shall be actually occupied and used for the purbe held. poses specified in the certificate of incorporation.

powers.

estate may

Officers.

SECTION 3. The officers of the corporation, in addition to the managers aforesaid, shall be a president, who shall be one of the managers, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as the Election of by-laws shall prescribe. The managers shall be elected annually managers. at such place and in such mode as the by-laws shall direct, and Apadre. upon their election the managers shall appoint and may from time to time by resolution remove and reappoint the president, Powers of secretary, treasurer and other officers of the corporation. The managers shall have the management of the affairs and business of the corporation, and the acts of a majority shall be valid.

Appoint

moval of .officers.

managers.

Majority

may aer.

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SECTION 4. This act shall be a public act and shall be pub- Public act. lished. The Legislature reserves the power at any time to revoke Revocation the corporate powers of any association incorporated under this

An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An act establishing a College Current Vol. for Agriculture and "Mechanic Arts," passed at Dover, March 14, 1867.

127.

students

from each

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen· tatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That Number of the number of students from each county at any time shall not from each exceed thirty. Each hundred in each county shall have an county. equal number of the appointees to the college established by the Number act entitled "An act establishing a College for Agriculture and hundred Mechanic Arts in this State," passed at Dover, March 14, 1867, and in making the nominations of the pupils under the act aforesaid hereafter, the hundred as herein named shall always be con- Hundred, strued to mean such territory as was embraced within the limits how conof the respective hundreds in each county at the time the counties were each embraced within limits of ten hundreds only.

strued.

nated.

SECTION 2. They shall be nominated in this manner: each students, member of the General Assembly for the time being, whether honomiduring a session or in vacation as occasion may require, shall annually nominate the students to which his or their hundred shall be entitled, and nominations from hundreds within the meaning of this act shall be made whenever a vacancy occurs in a hun- when made dred by non-acceptance, death or otherwise. When there are How nomitwo or more members of the General Assembly from one hun-nated from dred, they shall decide who shall nominate from the hundred or having no hundreds within the meaning of this act having no resident mem- member.

Hundreds

resident