Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-02-07

DEC. 4. ana DC ~ IuffheT etucteUJ lHdI Vne sun
of nine hundred thousand dollars 30 as aforesaid to be
paid to the State of Delaware by the United States Of
America IS hereby declared to be fund for securing
full and fair compensation hereinafter provided to
the owners of slaves who shall have been dvested of
their property by force of this act.
SEC. s. Aad be IL further enacted, That the mode
of compensation shall be follows There shall be
one Assessor and three Commissioners Of appeals in
each County. The said Assessor shall assess every
slave in his County annually until the year one
thousand eight hundred and seventytwo at the true
value thereof in money and in such assessment shall
estimate the value of the slave at the time of the
sessment though this act had not been passed. He
shall set down his assessment list the name OF the
owner master, the name, age, sex and description
of the slave and the time which such slave would
have had to serve but for this act and the amount at
which such slave is assessed.
The first assessment shall be completed within
ninety days after this act goes into operation aud every
subsequent assessment by the day OF
annually thereafter until the yenr eighteen hundred
and seventy-two On the Thursday next after the
ninety days limited for the completion of the first as
sessment, and OH the Thursday next after the said
day of annually thereafter, the Commissioners
of appeals and the assessors with their assessment
lists shall meet at the Court House in their respective
Counties and the said Commissioners shall hear ap-
peals, if any, and examine adjust and settle the as
sessed value of the slaves respectively and in so doing
they majority of them shall have power oncrease
or diminish any valuation which they may deem i'm.
proper and any such assessment when settled shall
be final and conclusive and the value settled shall be
considered the proper value of such slaves respective
\ ly until subsequent assessment shall be made in
like manner The list settled shall be signed By all
the Commissioners and each Assessor shall within ten
days after the said adjustment and settlement make
cut three copies of his assessment list as settled and
adjusted and retaining of the said copies himself
ftath In
another of said copies to the Auditor of Accounts
and the original list as settled and signed to tho
Clerk of the Peace of his County, to be by him filed
in his Office. Before entering upon their dutles the
Assessors and Commissioners shall be severally and
duly sworn or affirmed to discharge the duties Of
their respective offices with fidelity and mpartiality
The compensation of the Assessors, shall be as fol
lows To the Assessor of New Castle County, tive
hundred dollars; to the Assessor of Kent County
4 two hundred dollars and to the Assessor of Sussex
County, four hundred dollars for each year in which
an Assessment shall be made, to be paid by the
State Treasurer at any time after the return Of the
Assessment list to the Clerk of the Peace aforesaid
SEC 9. And be ID fartter enacted, That
is hereby
for KEN
County and
for Sussex County; and that
and
are hereby appointed Commissioners
of appeals for New Castle County;
and
for Kent County; and
and
for Sussex County; who shal
severaly discharge the duties prescribed for them re
spectively, until the session of the General Assembly
which shall be in the year eighteen hundred ant
sixty-seven at which session the General Assemb,
shall appoint one person assessor and three per
sons as commissioners for each of the said counte
who shall respectively be the assessor and commits
sioners until the first day of january eghtee
hundred and seventy-two. In case the Generu
Assembly shall then fail to appoint, the assesso
and commissioners then in office shall continue unit
! the General Assembly shall at some future sessio
: appoint other commissioners and assessors in the
I stead
= In case of vacancy in any office of assessor c
/ commissioner by death, refusal otherwise
the Governor shall appoint to fill the vacancy
and in case of the happening Of such vacancy In tn
Office of assessor the duties prescribed have been
f. part performed, the person appointed to fill tn
!, vacancy shall adopt the assessment Of his predece
sor if he can obtain it, and it shall be valid as far
=, it goes.
i SEC. 10. And be. il FURTHER enacted, That til
i several instalments Of ninety thousand dollars,
# they shall be seyerally received shall be held an
i applied by the State Treasurer, as follows
10 LIST. To the payment, as compensation Of the su
II assessed as the value of such slaves as may then
re of the age of thiry-ve years, to become Of t
~ age before the period of the payment of the next
stalment.