Acts under made valid.

Certified copy to be recorded when.

LAWS OF DELAWARE.

OF JUDICIAL REPORTS.

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, procured of the Secretary of State, shall be duly recorded in the Recorder's office of one of the Counties of this State; and provided further, that no such copy of a voided act shall be received for record after the expiration of one year from the passage of this Act.

SECTION 2. That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act and be published as such. Approved June 1, A. D. 1898.

CHAPTER 12.

OF JUDICIAL REPORTS.

AN ACT in relation to the publication of the report of the Decisions of
James L. Wolcott, late Chancellor.

WHEREAS, In accordance with Chapter 223, Volume 14, Laws of Delaware being a Joint Resolution authorizing the publication of the reports of the Chancellor, the Chancellors of this State have collected, reported and from time to time published certain equity cases as therein provided; and

WHEREAS, James L. Wolcott, late Chancellor of this State died leaving certain cases determined by himself unpublished, which cases are altogether about sufficient to complete an additional Volume of Chancery reports; and

WHEREAS, The manuscripts of said cases are in the hands of James L. Wolcott, Jr., the administrator of said James L. Wolcott, deceased. Now therefore,

OF JUDICIAL REPORTS.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Chancery

of J. L. be pub

SECTION 1. That James L. Wolcott, Jr., be and he is Report of hereby authorized and requested to prepare for publication decisions and publish the cases in equity determined by the said James Wolcott to L. Wolcott, as Chancellor, upon the same terms and subject lished. to the requirements of the said resolution passed at Dover, March 29th, 1871, except as to the number of pages to be contained in such volume; and the said James L. Wolcott, Jr., shall have full power and authority to select such cases and other papers which came before the said James L. Wolcott as Chancellor, as in his discretion he may deem proper for publication.

to be de

of State,

SECTION 2. That when the said report shall have been 100 copies published, one hundred copies of the same shall be deposited livered to in the office of the Secretary of State for the use of the Secretary State, and upon the certificate of the Secretary of State of Payment such deposit, the State Treasurer shall pay to the said James for. L. Wolcott, Jr., eight hundred dollars out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to cover the expenses of the publication of the said report, and shall pay Compento the said James L. Wolcott, Jr., the sum of one hundred J. L. Woldollars out of any moneys in the State Treasury not other-cott, Jr. wise appropriated, for his services.

Approved May 19, A. D. 1898.

sation to

LAWS OF DELAWARE.

OF JUDICIAL REPORTS.

Marvel's

of law courts.

CHAPTER 13.

OF JUDICIAL REPORTS.

AN ACT authorizing the publication of the decisions of the Court of Errors and Appeals, the Superior Court, Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery and the Court of Oyer and Terminer from February 1, 1893, to June 10, 1897.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

SECTION I. That David T. Marvel, be and he is hereby decisions authorized to prepare for publication, and publish such decisions of the Superior Court, the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Jail Delivery, the Court of Oyer and Terminer and the Court of Errors and Appeals from February Ist, 1893, to June 10th, 1897, as he shall consider important to be published; and shall print and publish the same in volumes of not less than six hundred pages including an index. Delivery He shall deposit one hundred and ten copies of each volume of copies. of said reports in the State Library for the use of the State,

and upon the certificate of the Secretary of State of such Payment deposit the Governor shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the said David T. Marvel to pay for the same at the price of ten dollars per copy, which shall be paid by the State Treasurer out of any funds not otherwise appropriated.

Approved June 1, A. D. 1898.

TITLE SECOND.

Of the Public Revenue; and the Assessment, Collection and Appropriation of Taxes.

CHAPTER 14.

OF PUBLIC REVENUE.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the business of Pawn Brokers and Junk Dealers within New Castle County," and to reenact the provisions of said Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of

the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

SECTION I. That Section 1 of Chapter 374, Volume 20, Annual of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended peense for by inserting between the word "grant" and the word "license" brokers in the second line of said Section the words, "an annual." dealers. That Section I be further amended by adding after the word Exception "books" in the last line of Section I the words "or persons visions of dealing in second-hand furniture." That said Chapter 374 be act. and the same is hereby further amended by striking out the Number of word "two" at the end of the third line of Section 3. That not fixed. said Section 3 be further amended by striking out the word "sureties" in the fourth line of said Section 3 and inserting in Surety on lieu thereof the word "surety." That said Chapter 374 be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out in Method of the fourth and fifth lines of Section 9, the words "made at limited. public auction and not otherwise." That said Chapter 374 be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out the same. words "except by sale at public auction as hereinbefore provided" in the fourth and fifth lines of Section 13. That said Chapter 374, Volume 20, of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out Section 15, and inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 15, as follows:

OF PUBLIC REVENUE.

tion and

Preserva- SECTION 15. That no property of any kind received on holding of deposit, by purchase, or as a pledge by any pawn broker shall property. be permitted to be removed from the place of business of such

Andit of

accounts

the Peace.

pawn broker for the period of six months from the time of such deposit, purchase, or pledge (except the same be redeemed by the owner) nor shall any property coming into the hands of any pawn broker or junk dealer be disfigured or its identity destroyed or affected in any manner so long as it continues in pawn or in the possession of such pawn broker, junk dealer or person engaged in the second-hand business.

SECTION 2. That in the month of November in each year, of Clerk of it shall be the duty of the County Comptroller of New Castle County to audit the accounts of the Clerk of the Peace of the said County with pawn brokers and junk dealers, and to report in writing the result of his audit to the Levy Court Commissioners of New Castle County within thirty days thereafter.

SECTION 3. That the provisions of Chapter 374, Volume 20, of the Laws of Delaware as hereby amended be and the same are hereby re-enacted.

Approved March 10, A. D. 1898.

CHAPTER 15.

OF PUBLIC REVENUE.

AN ACT to amend Chapter 374, Volume 20, Laws of Delaware, being an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the business of Pawn Brokers and Junk Dealers within New Castle County."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

SECTION I. That Section 20 of Chapter 374, Volume 20, Laws of Delaware, being an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the business of pawn brokers and junk dealers within New Castle County," be and the same is hereby amended by inserting Fine made in line four of said Section 20 after the word "of" and before discretion- the word "five" as they occur in said line of said Section the limits. following, "not less than fifty dollars nor more than."

ary within

Approved June 1, A. D. 1898.