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SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
On Tuesday, January 6, A. D.
IN THE YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- SEVENTH
VOLUME XLIX
Milford Chronicle Publishing Company
Milford, Delaware               Object Description Rating Title Laws of the State of Delaware - Volume 49 Description Laws of the State of Delaware Creator Delaware Creator2 Delaware General Assembly Contributors Milford Chronicle Publishing Company Publisher Department of State Type Text Format PDF Full Text LAWS
OF AMERICA, THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVENTH
PROVIDING FOR DISTRIBUTION OF DELAWARE CODE OF 1953
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION AND SALE
OF HOUSE BILL NO. 9, THE PROPOSED DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Section 1. The Secretary of State shall distribute the
paper bound sets of House Bill No. 9, Proposed Delaware Code
of 1953 as follows:
One copy gratis to each member of the Senate and
House of Representatives;
One copy gratis to each of the following: the Attor-ney
General and each Deputy Attorney General and each State
or County office, department, commission, board, bureau or
agency, each State or County court and each judge thereof and
each justice of the peace; which shall be kept and remain in
their respective offices and be delivered to their successors as
the property of such offices;
One hundred and fifty sets to the Prothonotary of
New Castle County, twenty-five sets to the Prothonotary of
Kent County and twenty-five sets to the Prothonotary of Sussex
County for the purpose of sale to residents of this State. The
Secretary of State and the State Treasurer shall charge the
respective Prothonotaries with the sets of the Proposed Code
delivered to them at the selling price thereof;
The remaining sets to the State Library and into the
custody of the Librarian.
Section 2. The librarian shall distribute one set of the
Proposed Code to each of the following: the State Library of
each State of the United States, the Library of Congress, the
University of Delaware, the law library in each County, the
New Castle County Chancery Law Library, each public library
in this State, and the Historical Society of the State of Dela-ware.
The Librarian shall retain the custody of the remaining
sets of the Proposed Code, and shall sell or dispose of them to
residents of this State, as provided by law. The Librarian shall
be charged by the State Treasurer with all sets of this Code left
in his custody for sale and shall semi-annually, on or about the
first days of January and July, account to the State Treasurer
for all sales so made by him and for the unsold sets remaining in
his custody. Receipts from sales of this Code shall be paid cur-rently
to the State Treasurer.
Section 3. The selling price of the Proposed Code to resi-dents
of this State shall be $20.00 per set.
Section 4. The exclusive right to sell copies of the Code to
non-residents of this State has been granted to West Publishing
Co., of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Edward Thompson Co. of Brook-lyn,
New York, pursuant to chapter 128 of volume 48, Laws of
Delaware. Therefore, copies of this Code shall not be sold by
or on behalf of the State to any non-resident of the State or for
resale to a non-resident.
Section 5. The Prothonotaries of the respective counties
may obtain additional sets of the Proposed Code from time to
time, as necessity may require, from the Librarian, for which
they shall be charged by the State Treasurer at the aggregate
selling price of the additional sets so obtained. The Prothono-taries
shall be allowed a commission of 2 per cent for selling sets
of the Code delivered to them in accordance with this section.
The Prothonotaries shall currently pay to the State Treasurer
the proceeds of all sales less their commissions, and shall account
to the State Treasurer for all such sales, and for all unsold sets
in their hands from time to time and upon going out of office,
and shall deliver all unsold sets to their successors in office.
The commissions on sales shall be received by the Prothono-
taries for the sole use of the County of the Prothonotary, as in
the case of other fees of the office, and shall be paid by the
Prothonotaries to the respective Receivers of Taxes and County
Treasurers and accounted for as fees of the office.
Section 6. This act shall apply only to the distribution of
the paper bound sets of the Code now in possession of the
Secretary of State. Distribution as provided for in this act
may be made whether or not the Proposed Code is adopted by
the General Assembly. Such distribution may be made before,
after or during the consideration of the Proposed Code by the
General Assembly and is not dependent upon the action of the
Approved February 5, 1953.
RELATING TO MUNICIPAL PARKING AUTHORITIES
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 22, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953,
RELATING TO "MUNICIPALITIES" BY AUTHORIZING
MUNICIPALITIES ESTABLISHING PARKING AUTHOR-ITIES
TO FINANCE THE COST OF LAND ACQUISITION
FOR PARKING FACILITIES BY THE ISSUANCE OF
GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE MUNICIPAL-ITY.
Section 1. § 508, Title 22, Delaware Code of 1953, is amend-ed
by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows:
Any municipality establishing an authority under this chap-ter
may, under such terms and conditions as it may deem ap-propriate,
provide for and pay to such authority such sum or
sums of money necessary to acquire in whole or in part the
lands upon which such authority may undertake to erect a
parking facility as herein provided; the municipality for the
purpose of providing said money may issue its general obligation
bonds secured by the faith and credit of the municipality. The
aggregate amount of general obligation bonds issued by a munic-ipality
under this provision shall be in addition to and not within
the limitations of any existing statutory debt limitation of the
Approved June 4, 1953.
PROVIDING FOR THE OMISSION OF THE DELAWARE CODE OF 1953
FROM THE PRINTED SESSION LAWS
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE OMISSION OF HOUSE BILL
NUMBER 9, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953, FROM THE
PRINTED SESSION LAWS OF THE 117TH GENERAL
WHEREAS, House Bill No. 9, being the Delaware Code
of 1953, has been approved by both chambers and signed by
the Governor and whereas said bill consists of more than five
thousand printed pages;
AND, WHEREAS, § 907, Title 29, Delaware Code of 1953
requires the Secretary of State to have 1500 copies of the
session laws accurately printed;
AND, WHEREAS, a contract for the printing of the Dela-ware
Code of 1953 has been entered into on behalf of the State
by the Revised Code Commission under authority of the pro-visions
of Chapter 377, Volume 47, Laws of Delaware and
Chapter 128, Volume 48, Laws of Delaware, NOW, THERE-FORE,
Section 1. The printing of the Session Laws for the 117th
General Assembly as provided for in § 907, Title 29, Delaware
Code of 1953 shall not include House Bill No. 9, known as the
Delaware Code of 1953.
Approved March 23, 1953.
NOTE: House Bill No. 9, "AN ACT TO REVISE, RECODIFY,
ARRANGE AND CONSOLIDATE INTO A CODE THE PUBLIC
AND GENERAL STATUTES OF THE STATE OF DELA-WARE.",
known as the Delaware Code of 1953, approved by the
Governor February 12, 1953 was omitted from this volume pur-suant
to the above instructions.
ABOLISHING NEW CASTLE COUNTY BUREAU OF REGISTRATION
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 3, TITLE 15, OF THE DELA-WARE
CODE OF 1953 ENTITLED "BUREAU OF REG-ISTRATION
FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY", BY TRANS-FERRING
ITS POWERS AND DUTIES AND ABOLISH-ING
SAID BUREAU.
Section 1. Chapter 3, Title 15, Delaware Code of 1953 is
amended by repealing all § § 301, 302, 303, 304, 305,306 and
Section 2. The Department of Elections for New Castle
County shall have complete jurisdiction over all the matters,
powers, and functions now vested by law in the Bureau of
Registration for New Castle County as presently constituted
and established and shall possess and exercise all the rights,
powers and privileges which are now possessed and exercised
by the said Bureau of Registration as completely as the said
Bureau of Registration is now authorized to perform, as well as
such other rights, powers and privileges as by this Act con-ferred.
Section 3. Within ten days after the approval of this Act,
the Bureau of Registration for New Castle County and every
officer, clerk and every other person having possession of or
control of any records, books, papers and any other property
relating to registration in New Castle County, shall surrender
and deposit the same with the President of the Department of
Elections for New Castle County or with such person as the
President shall designate.
Section 4. The phrase "Bureau of Registration for New
Castle County", as used in the Laws of this State, shall be taken
to mean and hereafter shall be printed as "Department of
Elections for New Castle County."
Section 5. The word "Bureau" wherever appearing in this
title of the Delaware Code of 1953 shall be taken to mean and
be printed as "Department".
Section 6. The Bureau of Registration for New Castle
County is abolished.
Section 7. This Act shall become effective ten days after
its approval.
Section 8. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act are repealed to the extent of such incon-sistency.
Approved March 5, 1953.
RELATING TO NARCOTIC DRUGS
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 47 OF TITLE 16 OF THE
DELAWARE CODE OF 1953 RELATING TO NARCOTIC
Section 1. § 4722 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code of
1953 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"§ 4722. Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of
the provisions of this Chapter shall be imprisoned not less than
two (2) nor more than ten (10) years and in addition may be
fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00). For
a second offense, the offender shall be imprisoned not less than
five (5) nor more than ten (10) years and in addition may be
a third or subsequent offense, or if the offender shall previously
have been convicted two (2) or more times in the aggregate of
any violation of the laws of the United States or of this or
any other State, Territory or District relating to narcotic drugs
or marijuana, the offender shall be imprisoned not less than ten
(10) nor more than twenty (20) years and in addition may be
fined not more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00)."
CORRECTING ERROR IN DELAWARE CODE OF 1953 RELATING TO
SALARY OF BANK COMMISSIONER
AN ACT TO CORRECT AN ERROR IN THE DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953 BY PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECT
SALARY OF THE STATE BANK COMMISSIONER.
WHEREAS, The Delaware Code of 1953 provides that the
salary of the State Bank Commissioner shall be $6,000 per
AND, WHEREAS, this was a typographical error in the
Delaware Code of 1953 in as much as the salary of the said
Commissioner was set at $7,000 per year by Chapter 150, Section
1, Volume 48, Laws of Delaware; NOW, THEREFORE,
Section 1. § 102. (c), Title 5, Delaware' Code of 1953 is
amended by striking out the figures 16,000" as the same ap-pear
on line 2 of said subsection (c) and substituting in lieu
thereof the figures "$7,000".
PROHIBITING DETENTION OF CHILD IN DETENTION HOME
EXCEPT BY SPECIAL ORDER
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 31, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953
RELATING TO WELFARE, PROHIBITING THE DETEN-TION
OF A CHILD IN A DETENTION HOME, EXCEPT
Section 1, Title 31, Delaware Code of 1953, is amended by
adding a new § 5708, as follows :
§ 5708. Detention of juveniles by special order only
No child shall be detained in any detention home of this
State except when so ordered by a Judge of the Family Court
for New Castle County, by a Judge of the Juvenile Court for
Kent and Sussex Counties, or by the State Police or other ac-credited
agency in the discretion of their board of managers.
Approved March 6, 1953.
AUTHORIZING LEVY COURT APPROPRIATION FOR LEIPSIC
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE LEVY COURT OF KENT
COUNTY TO APPROPRIATE COUNTY MONIES TO THE
LEIPSIC VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY FOR THE
MAINTENANCE OF AN AMBULANCE.
Section 1. The Levy Court of Kent County shall and is
hereby authorized and directed to appropriate the sum of Five
Hundred ($500.00) Dollars annually to the Leipsic Volunteer
Fire Company to be useil in the maintenance of its ambulance.
The said sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars shall be
paid by the Levy Court of Kent County to the said Leipsic
Volunteer Fire Company on the first day of May of each year.
Approved March 17, 1953.
AUTHORIZING LEVY COURT APPROPRIATION FOR CHESWOLD
COUNTY TO APPROPRIATE COUNTY MONEYS TO
THE CHESWOLD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY FOR
THE MAINTENANCE OF AN AMBULANCE.
Hundred ($500.00) Dollars annually to the Cheswold Vollinteer
Fire Company to be used in the maintenance of its ambulance..
paid by the Levy Court of Kent County to the said Cheswold
AUTHORIZING LEVY COURT APPROPRIATION FOR HARRINGTON
THE HARRINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY FOR
Be it eno,cted by the General Assembly of the State of
.Hundred ($500.00) Dollars annually to the Harrington Volun-teer
Fire Company to be used in the maintenance of its ambu-lance.
paid by the Levy Court of Kent County to the said Harrington
AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FUNDS TO GENERAL FUND
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE STATE TREASURER TO
TRANSFER CERTAIN FUNDS TO THE CREDIT OF. THE
GENERAL FUND OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.
Section 1. The State Treasurer is authorized to transfer
to the credit of the General Fund of the State of Delaware the
amount of Fifty Four Thousand Four Hundred and Eighteen
Dollars and Nine Cents ($54,418.09) representing an unexpend-ed
balance of the Delaware Veterans' Military Pay Account
which sum is now on deposit at the Farmers Bank at Dover to
the credit of an account known as Delaware Veterans' Military
Pay Account.
Section 2. The State Treasurer is authorized to transfer
to the credit of the General Fund of the State of Delaware any
balance remaining as at June 30, 1954 on deposit at the Farmers
Bank at Dover to the credit of an account known as Delaware
Veterans' Military Pay Account.
Section 3. The sum authorized to be transferred to the
credit of the General Fund of the State of Delaware under
Section 1 and 2 of this Act, together with sums previously
reverted, shall constitute full repayment of the appropriation of
Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) from the General
Fund of the State of Delaware for the expenses of the adminis-tration
of the Veterans' Military Pay Act said repayment being
required by Section 8 of such Act as found in 47 Delaware
Laws, (Special Session), Chapter 1, Section 8.
AUTHORIZATION TO ISSUE CURRENTLY DATED CHECKS TO REPLACE
OUTSTANDING CHECKS OF DELAWARE VETERANS' MILITARY PAY
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE STATE TREASURER AND
STATE AUDITOR TO ISSUE CURRENTLY DATED
CHECKS IN PLACE OF CERTAIN OUTSTANDING
CHECKS ISSUED BY THE DELAWARE VETERANS'
MILITARY PAY COMMISSION.
Section 1. The State Treasurer and State Auditor are
authorized, upon submission of satisfactory proof thereof, to
issue currently dated checks against the Delaware Veterans'
Military Pay Account to replace any lost, out-dated or mutilated
checks which have not been cashed and to issue these checks in
the name of the original payee, or of his estate or legally ap-pointed
guardian or of the custodian of the funds of any incom-petent
PROHIBITING USE OF RAKES AND DREDGES IN CERTAIN WATERS
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 9, TITLE 7, DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953, ENTITLED "CONSERVATION" BY PRO-HIBITING
THE USE OF RAKES AND DREDGES IN
CERTAIN INLAND WATERS.
Section 1. Section 916, Title 7, Delaware Code of 1953,
is amended by adding a new paragraph at the end of the first
paragraph thereof as follows:
"No person shall operate at any time a sail boat or a boat
propelled by steam, gasoline, naphthalene or any other motor
power using rakes or dredges in the Indian River, Indian River
Bay, Assawoman Bay or Rehoboth Bay in areas set aside for
the use of the public and not heretofore leased to persons by the
Delaware Commission of Shell Fisheries."
PROVIDING FOR LICENSING COMBINATION VEHICLES
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21, CHAPTER 21 OF DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953 WITH REGARD TO REGISTERING OF
VEHICLES AND TAGS BY PROVIDING FOR "COMBI-NATION
VEHICLES".
Section 1. § 2155. (a), Title 21, Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking the phrase "commercial vehicles" wher-ever
it appears therein and substituting the phrase "combina-tion
Section 2. § 2121. (b), Title 21, Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as
"The number plates for combination vehicles as defined in
section 2155 of this title shall display thereon the letters P
PROHIBITING OUT OF DOOR FIRES AND SUSPENDING OPEN SEASON
ON GAME UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 21, TITLE 29, DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953, ENTITLED "GOVERNOR" BY AUTHOR-IZING
THE GOVERNOR TO PROHIBIT BY PROCLA-MATION
THE SETTING OF, OR PERMITTING ANY
OUT-OF-DOOR FIRES UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS
WITHIN DESIGNATED AREAS OF THIS STATE; TO
SUSPEND THE OPEN SEASON ON GAME WITHIN
SUCH AREAS; PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE
TIME AND RESCINDING OF SUCH PROCLAMATION
AND PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR.
Section 1. Title 29, Delaware Code of 1953, is amended by
adding the new section as follows:
§ 2111. Special powers in case of extreme fire hazard
The Governor, may by proclamation, upon the recommen-dation
of the State Forester of the existence of extreme wild
fire hazard under conditions of drought or other conditions or
situations creating a fire hazard detrimental to the public inter-est,
declare, designate, and establish definite areas within which
it shall be unlawful during the period covered by the proclama-tion
to set fire to or in any manner cause to be set on fire any
marsh, woods, cuttings of forest growth, leaves, grass or other
material or to kindle a camp fire or have any out-of-door fire.
The Governor may also by proclamation suspend any open
hunting season of wild life under the above conditions within
any designated areas.
Any such proclamation shall be in full force and effect
at the expiration of twenty-four (24) hours after public notice
is given in the manner the Governor shall determine and shall
remain in full force until rescinded by the Governor.
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REMOVING SPECIAL LIMITATIONS AS TO EMPLOYEES OF THE
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 5, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953
IN REGARD TO THE STATE BANK COMMISSIONER
BY REMOVING SPECIAL LIMITATIONS AS TO EM-PLOYEES
OF THE COMMISSION.
Section 1. § 103. (a), Title 5, Delaware Code of 1953 is
(a) The Commissioner may appoint not more than two
deputies and may employ such personnel as shall be necessary
for the making of examinations of and giving adequate super-vision
over the corporations under his jurisdiction and lending
such aid and counsel to the officers and directors of said corpor-ations
as the situation or the circumstances may require, and in
general, for the proper conduct of the affairs of the office and
to discharge in a proper manner the duties imposed upon him
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PROVID/NG FOR GENERAL REG/STRATION EVERY FOUR YEARS
AND LIMITED ABSENTEE REGISTRATION
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953
IN RESPECT TO REGISTRATION OF VOTERS BY PRO-V/
DING FOR A GENERAL REGISTRATION EVERY
FOUR YEARS; FOR LIMITED ABSENTEE REGISTRA-TION;
AND FOR GENERAL CHANGES IN REGISTRA-TION
TIMES, PLACES AND PROCEDURE.
Section 1. § 1102, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking all of § 1102 and inserting in lieu there-of
§ 1102. General registration every four years; effective
until next general registration
During the year 1954 and prior to the general elec-tion
to be held in that year, there shall be a registration of all
persons resident in this State who shall be qualified to vote in
the general election held in that year. During every fourth year
after the year 1954 and prior to the general election to be held
during every such fourth year, there shall also be a registration
of all persons resident in this State who shall be qualified to
vote in the general election to be held in the year of such regis-tration.
The registration in the year 1954 and in every fourth
year thereafter shall be known as a "genera/ registration", and
each genera/ registration shall be effective and have application
only until the next general registration had four years there-after.
During each year in which a general registration is
held, and prior to the genera/ election to be held in each such
year, there shall also be a registration of all persons qualified
to vote at the general election to be held in such year who are
temporarily absent from this State and are in the Armed Forces
24 Chapter 17
or Merchant Marine of the United States of America, or retainers
or persons accompanying or serving therewith, or who are absent
from this State because of illness or injury received while serv-ing
in any such capacity. The registration of all such persons
shall be a part of the general registration.
No person whose name appears in a general regis-tration
shall be required to register again until the next general
registration unless he becomes disqualified or ceases for any
reason to be a qualified voter in the election district in which
he is registered in the general registration or unless a special
registration, as provided for in sections 1104 and 1307 of this
title, is held in such election district.
With respect to any elections held in this State prior
to the year 1954, the registration heretofore applicable in this
State and the laws relating thereto, shall apply. Commencing
with the year 1954, the provisions of this chapter as to regis-tration
Section 2. § 1103, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking all of § 1103 and inserting in lieu thereof
§ 1103. Supplementary registrations every four years;
effective until next general registration
(a) During the year 1956, and prior to the general elec-tion
such general election and whose names do not appear as quali-fied
voters on the registration from the general registration
held in 1954. During every fourth year after the year 1956 and
prior to the general election to be held during every such fourth
year, there shall also be a registration of all persons resident
in this State who shall be qualified to vote in the general elec-tion
to be held in the year of such registration but whose names
do not appear as qualified voters on the registration from the
next previous general registration. The registration in the year
1956 and in every fourth year thereafter shall be known as a
Chapter 17 25
"supplementary registration", and shall be effective and have
application only until the next ensuing general registration had
in accordance with section 1102 of this title.
(b) During each year in which a supplementary regis-tration
is held, and prior to the general election to be held in
each such year, there shall also be registration of all persons
qualified to vote at the general election to be held in such year
who are temporarily absent from this State and are in the
Armed Forces or Merchant Marine of the United States of
America, or retainers or persons accompanying or serving there-with,
or who are absent from this State because of illness or
injury received while serving in any such capacity, and whose
names do not appear as qualified voters on the registration
from the next previous general registration. The registration
of all such persons shall be a part of the supplementary regis-tration
for each such year.
Section 3. § 1104, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking out all of § 1104 and inserting in lieu
§ 1104. Special registrations; books not available
If the registration books for any election district are lost,
destroyed, mutilated or defaced so that they are not available
for use at an ensuing election at which the books would other-wise
be used, a new registration, to be known as a "special
registration" shall be held in such election district in accord-ance
with the provisions of section 1307 of this title. But if one
of the Registers and one of the Books of Registered Voters for
such election district are in such condition that the contents
thereof can be accurately transcribed, no such special registra-tion
shall be held and the contents thereof shall be transcribed
in the manner prescribed by section 1306 of this title.
Section 4. § 1105, Title 15, Delaware Code of 1953 is
amended by striking out all of § 1105 and inserting in lieu there-of
§ 1105. Registration dates and hours in election districts
26 Chapter 17
Registration officers shall sit for the purpose of ascertain-ing
and registering the persons who are qualified to enjoy the
right of an elector and who apply in person for registration,
and whose names do not already appear as qualified voters on
the registration books for such election district, at the places
in their respective election districts as have been selected and
designated for the purpose of registration, from eight o'clock
A. M. until seven o'clock P. M. with an intermission from twelve
to one o'clock; on the second Wednesday of the month of July,
and on the first and third Saturdays of the month of October
prior to the election.
Section 5. § 1301, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking out all of § 1301 and inserting in lieu
§ 1301. Registration books; furnished by governor
The Governor in 1954, and every four years thereafter,
shall cause registration books to be prepared, at the expense of
the State, and not later than April 1 of the year 1954 and of
every fourth year thereafter, shall furnish the necessary regis-tration
books for the use of the Bureau and Departments, re-spectively,
and for the use of the local registration officers in
each election district in this State.
The cost of registration books supplied by the Governor
shall be paid by the State.
Section 6. § 1304, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking out all of § 1304 and inserting in lieu
§ 1304. Use of registration books for general and supple-mentary
registrations; use until filled
(a) The Registers and Books of Registered Voters which
are used in making a general registration shall also be used in
making the supplementary registration following such general
registration, until they become so filled with entries that they
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can no longer conveniently be used for such purpose, in which
case new books shall be obtained in accordance with the pro-visions
of section 1305 of this title.
The supplementary registration following a general
registration shall begin in the Register immediately after the
end of the general registration to which it is a supplement as
On each page of the Register where the said general
registration ends, the Registrar shall write the words "The Sup-plementary
Registration of Qualified Voters in
Election District of Representative District in
County for the year ," and shall, on
the line immediately below such entry, begin with the entries
concerning persons applying for registration at such supplemen-tary
Section 7. § 1307, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking out all of § 1307 and inserting in lieu
§ 1307. Registration books for special registration; pro-cedure
(a) If upon examination it is found that both sets of
registration books for any election district in this State are lost,
destroyed, mutilated, or defaced so that they are not available
for use at the next ensuing election at which such books would
otherwise be used, then the Bureau or Department having cus-tody
of the registration Woks shall certify such fact to the
Governor, who shall, prior to the first day of April of the year
in which such next ensuing election is to be held, supply the
Bureau or Department with the necessary registration books for
a special registration, in such election district, of the same form
and design as described in this chapter. The Bureau or Depart-ment
receiving registration books from the Governor for a spe-cial
registration shall deliver the books to the Registrars of
the election district wherein the special registration is to be had,
at least five days prior to the first registration day in the year
in which such next ensuing election is to be held.
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In making a special registration the registration offi-cers
shall, in the same manner as provided in section 1722 of
this title, record in the Registers the names of all persons ap-pearing
in person for registration, and shall enter opposite each
name the statements and facts set forth in such section 1722,
and they shall make up the Books of Registered Voters in the
same manner as provided in section 1723 of this title.
The Bureau or Department having custody of regis-tration
books shall, at least 10 days prior to the first day set for
the purpose of registration as aforesaid, give public notice, by
advertisements posted in 10 or more of the most public places
in such election district, that the original registration books are
no longer available and that it has become necessary to have a
special registration in the election district, and of the places
where the registration officers shall sit for the registration of
electors and the day or days when they will sit at each place.
Section 8. § 1308, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking all of § 1308 and inserting in lieu there-of
§ 1308. Status of new registration books; endorsements
The new registration books for a special registration shall
be respectively the Registers and the Books of Registered Voters
to be used for the next ensuing election.
The new Registers shall be endorsed upon the back of and
at the head thereof with the words "Register of
Election District Representative District of
County", together with the day, month and
year when the same were received by the Bureau or Depart-ment.
The new Books of Registered Voters shall be endorsed
"Books of Registered Voters of Election
District of Representative District
of County".
Endorsements as provided in this section shall be made
by the president of the Bureau or Department.
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Each of the Registrars, immediately upon receiving the new
Registers and Books of Registered Voters, shall endorse upon
the back and write at the head of each Register and Book of
Registered Voters delivered to him, the name of the County,
the name of the representuative district and the name of the
election district of which he is a Registrar and of which such
books shall respectively be the Registers and Books of Registered
Voters and the date when the books were received by him and
shall sign such endorsements..
Section 9. § 1309, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by adding at the end thereof a subsection to be known
as (c) as follows:
(c) If the Bureau or Department having jurisdiction de-termines
that the transfer of names provided for in subsections
(a) and (b) of this section cannot be accurately carried out, the
Bureau or Department may in its discretion require that a
special registration be held in the divided election districts. Such
special registrations shall be conducted in the same manner as
special registrations which are held when the registration books
are lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced.
Section 10. § 1702, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking all of § 1702 and inserting in lieu there-of
§ 1702. Registration of qualified voters and striking of
names at bureau or department
(a) In the month of April in each year in which a general
election is held, the Bureau of Registration for New Castle
County, the Department of Elections for Kent and Sussex Coun-ties,
respectively, shall appoint Auxiliary Registration Officers
who shall within their respective Counties have all the powers
and authority of local registration officers in their election
districts to register qualified voters who appear personally for
the purpose of registering and whose names do not appear as
qualified voters on the Registers and Books of Registered Voters
for the proper election district. The Auxiliary Registration
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Officers shall meet, at least once each week during the months
of April, May and June and not less than 15 days during the
regular work days and work hours of the public offices in the
building in which they shall meet during the month of Septem-ber
of the year of their appointment, at the respective offices
of the Department or Bureau by which they were appointed.
Public notice of the days and hours and place of said
meetings shall be given at least once, not less than ten days
prior to the commencement of said meetings, by the Bureau or
Department by advertisement published in one or more news-papers
of general circulation throughout the County and by notice
posted in two or more of the most public places in each election
The Auxiliary Registration Officers shall use the same
Registers and Books of Registered Voters as are used by the
local registration officers in their respective election districts
in performing the like duties.
In each year in which a general election is held in
this State, the Bureau of Registration for New Castle County,
the Department of Elections for Kent County and the Depart-ment
of Elections for Sussex County, respectively, shall meet_
at their respective County offices to strike off names under the
same conditions and restrictions, with right of appeal in all
cases, as in the case of local registration officers sitting in their
respective local election districts during a supplementary regis-tration
as described in this chapter, giving like public notice,
in all cases, of the days and hours of such sitting, as is required
to be given in the case of registration in the several election
districts, and using the same Registers and Books of Registered
Voters as are used by the local registration officers in their re-spective
election districts in performing the like duties.
Section 11. § 1703, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking all of § 1703 and inserting in lieu thereof
§ 1703. Auxiliary registration officers; appointment; pow-ers
and duties; term of office; compensation; recommendation of
political parties; oath
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(a). For the purposes of section 1702, the Bureau of
Registration for New Castle County, the Department of Elec-tions
for Kent County, and, the Department of Elections for
Sussex County, respectively, may appoint Auxiliary Registra-tion
Officers who shall be residents of the county in which they
are to serve. The Auxiliary Registration Officers shall have all
the powers that are vested in and shall be required to perform
all the duties, so far as consistent, that are imposed upon regis-tration
officers generally by any laws of this State. The Auxil-iary
Registration Officers before entering upon their duties
shall take and subscribe the oath required of other registration
The County Executive Committee of each of the two
principal parties shall furnish the Bureau or Department by the
first day of April of the year in which the appointments are to
be -Made a list of ten names of qualified persons from which the
Bureau or Department shall make its appointments. If the
Department or Bureau intends to appoint more than five Auxil-iary
Registration Officers from each of said parties, the Depart-ment
or Bureau may request additional names to be submitted
by the County Executive Committee of each of the two prin-cipal
parties. If the list of names is not furnished to the Bureau
or Department by the first day of April, or if the additional list
of names is not furnished within ten days after the delivery of
the request for additional names to the Secretary of the County
Executive Committee, the Bureau or Department may appoint
qualified persons of such political faith; otherwise an Auxiliary
Registration Officers shall be appointed from the list or lists
furnished as aforesaid.
Auxiliary Registration Officers appointed under the
provisions of this section shall be equally divided between the
two principal political parties in this State; their compensation
shall be fixed by, and they shall serve at the pleasure of, the
Bureau or Department making the appdintment. The compen-sation
of such Auxiliary Registration Officers shall be paid by
the Levy Court of the County in which such officers serve, upon
certification to the said Levy Court by the President and Secre-tary
of the Bureau or Department making the appointment. -
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Section 12. § 1704, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking out all of § 1704 and inserting in lieu
§ 1704. Striking names of persons disqualified
The Bureau and each Department in each year in which a
general election is held, and prior to the first registration clay in
the year, shall strike or cause to be struck from the Registers
and Books of Registered Voters in each election district the
name of every person appearing on the books who since his
registration has become disqualified, or for any reason has
ceased to be a qualified voter in the election district in which he
Before any name shall be stricken from the registration
books, for any of the causes stated in this section, the Bureau'
or Department shall give notice of such intention and the reason
therefor, by registered mail, directed to such registered voter
at the post office address as the same shall appear in the Reg-isters,
and the date when such matter shall be passed on by the
Bureau or Department. Such notice shall be mailed not later
than 5 days next preceding the sitting of the Bureau or Depart-ment
to act upon such notice of intention to strike such name
from the list of registered voters. If at such meeting of the
Bureau or Department it shall be established to their satisfaction
that the person is a duly qualified voter in the election district,
then his name shall not be stricken from the registration books;
but if it shall not be so established, the Bureau or Department
shall draw or cause to be drawn, in the Registers, a heavy line
in ink through the name of such person in the column headed
"Registered Voter" and a line shall be drawn through his name
as first entered, but in such a manner that his name shall re-main
legible, and in the column headed "Remarks" opposite his
name shall be written the reason for such disqualification.
Section 13. § 1707, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
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Section 14. § 1901, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by striking all of § 1901 and inserting in lieu there-of
§ 1901. Additional registration at administrative offices
or by absentee registration
In addition to the registration days as elsewhere pro-vided
by law, the Bureau of Registration for New Castle County
and the Department of Elections for Kent and Sussex Counties
shall sit each day, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays ex-cepted,
during the regular office hours of the Bureau or Depart-ment,
and such other hours as the Bureau or Department deems
necessary in the office of the Bureau or Department during all
of each year in which a general election is to be held in this
State and up until 10 days prior to the date of such general elec-tion,
for the purpose of registering every qualified elector who
is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of
America, or of the Merchant Marine of the United States of
America, or who is serving with the American Red Cross, the
Society of Friends, or the United Service Organizations, attach-ed
to and serving with the Armed Forces of the United States of
America, or who has received official notice of induction or
acceptance into any such services, and whose name does not
already appear as a registered voter on the registration books
for his or her election district and who appears in person at the
office of the Bureau or Department.
Every person who is absent from this State and is
a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America,
or of the Merchant Marine of the United States of America, or
is serving with the American Red Cross, the Society of Friends
the United Service Organizations and is therewith attached
America, or who is absent from this State because of illness or
injury received while serving in any such capacity, and further
who was a resident of an election district of this State at the
commencement of his said membership or service, may also
register in said election district under the provisions of section
1906 of this title as provided in Section 4 B, Article V of the
Constitution of the State of Delaware, provided that he-
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will be the age of twenty one years or older on or
before the day of the general election next succeeding his or
her registration; and
commenced his said membership or service at least
thirty days prior to the day of the general election next suc-ceeding
his registration; and
has either been a member of said armed forces or
said Merchant Marine or has been serving as aforesaid for at
least one year prior to the day of the general election next suc-ceeding
his registration or else was a bona fide resident of this
State one year or more prior to such day ; and, if the latter,
least six months prior to the day of the general election next
succeeding his registration or else was a bona fide resident of
the county in which said election district is located six months
or more prior to such day; and
can read the Constitution of this State in English,
and write his name, unless prevented by reason of physical
has not been convicted of a crime deemed by law a
felony and has not within 10 years next preceding the day of
the general election next succeeding his registration been con-victed
of violating Section 7 of Article V of the Constitution of
(c) Registration made under this section in a year in
which a general registration is held shall be a part of the general
registration for such year. Registration made under this section
in any year in which a "supplementary registration" is held shall
be a part of such supplementary registration. In either event,
registration under this section shall be good and effective only
until the next succeeding general registration as provided by
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Section 15. Chapter 19, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of
1953 is amended by adding thereto 4 new sections as follows:
§ 1906. Absentee registration; procedure
Any person meeting the tests laid down in section
1901 (b) of this title may register absentee by applying in
writing to the Bureau or Department for an absentee registra-tion
affidavit at any time during the year in which a general
election is to be held in this State up to, but not after, thirty
days before the general election is to be held and by returning
such affidavit to the said Bureau or Department no later than
ten days prior to election day. The application for such affidavit
must be received by the Bureau or Department no later than
thirty days prior to election day.
The absentee registration affidavit shall be in the
form set forth in section 1907 of this title and shall be made
before any commissioned officer of the armed forces or Mer-chant
Marine of the United States of America or before any
other officer authorized by law to administer oaths. It shall be
returned, duly authenticated as above, in an envelope addressed
to the Bureau or Department of the County in which the affiant
claims to be a resident.
The Bureau or Department, on request made in writ-ing
therefor, shall forthwith mail the necessary blank forms
of the absentee registration affidavit, in duplicate, to all persons
applying for them. The affiant may retain the duplicate copy
of such affidavit. Upon receipt of the affidavit by the Bureau
or Department within the time permitted herein, the Bureau or
Department shall record the affiant's name in the proper books
of registration as a qualified voter duly registered to vote. -
§ 1907. Absentee registration affidavit; form
The absentee registration affidavit shall be in substantially
the following form and contain the information requested in
such form:
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do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of the
election district of the
representative district in the County
of , State of Delaware, and am
entitled to register as a qualified voter in the general election
to be held in said district during the year in which this affidavit
is dated; that I am absent from the State of Delaware and do
not expect to be present in the State of Delaware at any time
from the date of this affidavit until ten days before the date of
such general election; that I am absent because:
I am a member of the Armed Forces of the United
States of America;
0 I am a member of the Merchant Marine of the United
I am serving with the American Red Cross attached to
and serving with the Armed Forces of the United
I am serving with the Society of Friends attached to
I am serving with the United Service Organizations
attached to and serving with the Armed Forces of
the United States of America ;
I am suffering from an illness or injury received while
serving in any of the foregoing capacities;
that I was a resident of the said election district at the com-mencement
of my aforesaid membership (or service) ; and that
the following information concerning me is true and correct:
Surname Christian Name Initial or Initials
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State: Length of:
County: Length of:
Election District: Length of:
If naturalized, the date:
If naturalized, what court:
Previously registered:
If so, where and when:
Date of commencement of membership
in Armed Forces or Merchant Marine or
Service with specified related services:
Convicted of a crime deemed by law a felony:
Convicted of violating Section 7, Article V
of Constitution of Delaware: If so, when:
Can read the Constitution of Delaware in
English, except for physical disability:
Can write name, except for physical
Subscribed and Sworn to (or affirmed) before me this
day of A D., 19.....
Commissioned Officer, Notary Public or
other qualified person (state
§ 1908. Absentee registration affidavit; application for by
applying for absentee ballot; mailing affidavit with absentee bal-lot;
registration by affidavit so received
Whenever any person not a registered elector for the year
in which a general election is to be held who meets the tests laid
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down in section 1901 (b) of this title shall apply in writing to
the Department of the County of which he claims to be a resi-dent,
for an absentee ballot, within the time provided therefor
by the laws of this State, the Department shall mail to the appli-cant
along with the absentee ballot, envelopes and instructions,
the necessary blank forms of the absentee registration affidavit,
in duplicate, in the form set forth in section 1907 of this title,
to be executed and returned by the applicant as provided in
section 1906 of this title.
If the absentee registration affidavit is properly executed,
authenticated and returned as provided in section 1906 of this
title, and if the information contained therein shows that the
applicant is otherwise qualified to vote under the laws of this
State, the applicant shall be deemed a qualified voter duly reg-istered
to vote to the same extent and with the same effect as
if he had followed one of the other authorized methods of regis-tration;
and the Bureau or Department shall record proper
entries in the registration books showing that the applicant is
duly registered to vote.
If the applicant is registered under the provisions of this
section, his absentee ballot, if it and the necessary affidavits
and envelopes in connection therewith are properly executed
and returned in accordance with the laws of this State, shall be
counted as every other valid and proper absentee ballot under
If the Bureau or Department determines from the absentee
registration affidavit that the applicant is not an otherwise qual-ified
voter under the laws of this State or that the affidavit is
not sufficiently executed, it shall mark "rejected" on the affida-vit
and write thereon the reasons therefor and shall not record
or enter the applicant as a duly registered elector and shall not
count his or her absentee ballot.
§ 1909. Retention of absentee registration affidavits
All absentee registration affidavits received by the Bureau
or Department shall be retained by it as part of its records until
the next succeeding general registration.
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Section 16. § 2109, Title 15 of the Delaware Code of 1953
is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to
read as follows :
Unless the Registrar is required to retain registration books
for appearance before a Judge or Court as provided in this
section such books shall be promptly returned to the Depart-ment
or Bureau after the registration day in the districts dur-ing
July and after the second registration day in the districts
during October.
Approved March 20, 1953.
PROVIDING FOR USE OF VOTING} MACHINES
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 15 DELAWARE CODE OF 1953,
RELATING TO ELECTIONS BY PROVIDING FOR THE
USE OF VOTING MACHINES, BY PROVIDING REGU-LATIONS
FOR THE ACQUISITION, STORAGE AND USE
OF VOTING MACHINES AND BY REQUIRING LEVY
COURTS TO ACQUIRE NECESSARY VOTING MACHINES
AND PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN VIO-LATIONS.
Section 1. Title 15 Delaware Code of 1953 is amended by
adding thereto a new chapter to be designated "CHAPTER 50."
CHAPTER 50. VOTING MACHINES
§ 5001. Definitions
"Ballot" means that portion of the cardboard or paper or
other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting
machine containing the name of the candidates and the desig-nation
of the party by which he was nominated and the state-ment
of any question submitted.
"Protective counter" means a separate counter built into
the voting machine, which cannot be reset, which records the
total number of movements of the operating lever.
"Question" means any proposition or other question to be
submitted to the voters.
(b) All definitions contained in section 4101 of this title
not inconsistent herewith are made applicable to this chapter.
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§ 5002. Requirements
(a) Any voting machine may be adopted, purchased or
used which shall be so constructed as to fulfill the following
Each voting machine shall have a serial number per-manently
attached to or stamped on the machine;
It shall secure to the voter secrecy in the act of voting
for or against as many questions as may be submitted;
It shall permit the voter to vote for the candidates of
one or more parties;
it shall permit the voter to vote for as many persons
for an office as he is lawfully entitled to vote for, but no more;
It shall prevent the voter from voting for the same per-son
more than once for the same office;
It shall permit the voter to vote for or against any
question he may have the right to vote upon, but no other;
If used in primary elections, it shall be so equipped
that the election officials can lock out all rows except those of
the voter's party by a single adjustment on the outside of the
It shall correctly register or record, and accurately
count all votes cast for any and all persons, and for or against
any and all questions;
It shall be provided with a protective counter or pro-tective
device whereby any operation of the machine before or
after the election will be detected ;
It shall be provided with a counter which will show
at all times durtng any election the total number of persons
who have voted,;
It shall be provided with one device for each party,
for voting for all presidential electors of that party by one
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Every voting machine shall be furnished with a means
of providing sufficient light to enable voters while in the voting
booth to read the ballots and suitable for use by the election
officers in examining the counters. All voting machines used
in any election shall be provided with a screen, hood or curtain
which shall be so made and adjusted as to conceal the voter
and his action while voting.
Voting machines of different kinds may be adopted
for use in different districts of the same county.
§ 5003. Compliance guarantee
Before any voting machine is purchased, rented or other-wise
acquired, or used, the person owning or manufacturing
such machine must give an adequate guarantee, in writing and
post a bond, accompanied by satisfactory surety with the De-partment
of Elections, guaranteeing and securing that such
machines comply fully with the requirements contained in sec-tion
5002 and will correctly, accurately and continuously register
and record every vote cast, and further guaranteeing such
machine against defects in workmanship and materials for a
period of five years from the date of acquisition thereof, or, in
the case of rented machines, for the period of rental.
§ 5004. When used
Voting machines shall be used throughout the State in all
general and special elections, in municipal elections in the City
of Wilmington, and in primary elections held under the pro-visions
of chapter 31 of this title in those districts where a con-test
exists. Voting machines shall not be used in elections held
under the provisions of title 14 of the Delaware Code of 1953
or in municipal elections other than municipal elections held
in the City of Wilmington.
§ 5005. Acquisition of machines
(a) Each Department of Elections shall certify to the
Levy Court :
1. The number of machines required and ;
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2. The makes of voting machines on which bids shall be
(b) As soon as possible after receiving the request for
voting machines, the Levy Court shall obtain competitive bids
for the purchase or rental of such machines. Thereafter, not
later than September 1, 1953, the Department of Elections shall
certify to the Levy Court the bid to be accepted and the Levy
Court shall award the rental or purchase contract. Such ma-chines
shall be delivered in such time that they will be available
at least one month prior to the next election.
§ 5006. Number of voters for each machine
In election districts containing 600 or less registered voters
there shall be one voting machine. In election districts contain-ing
more than 600 registered voters there shall be at least one
voting machine for each additional 600 registered voters or
majority fraction thereof.
§ 5007. Payment for machines
The Levy Court of each County shall provide voting ma-chines
by rental for a period of not more than five years on
terms approved by the Levy Court, or may purchase voting
machines and shall provide for the payment therefor in such
manner as it may deem for the best interest of the County.
§ 5008. Printing of official ballots for voting machines;
adjustment of machines for ballots; distribution of ballots
AU ballots provided for voting machines shall be
printed in black ink on clear, white material, of such size as will
fit the ballot frame, and in as plain, clear type as the space will
reasonably permit. The face of the ballot shall be completely
covered with a protective covering of smooth, hard, transpar-ent
material so that it shall be impossible to alter the face of
the ballot without removing or breaking such covering.
The party emblem for each political party represent-ed
on the machine, which has been duly adopted by such party
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in accordance with law, and the party name or other designa-tion
shall appear on the ballot. The titles of offices may be
arranged horizontally, with the names of candidates for an office
arranged vertically under the title of the office, or the titles of
offices May be arranged vertically, with the name of candidates
for an office, arranged horizontally opposite the title of the
office, each office to occupy as many columns or rows on the
machine as the number of candidates to be elected to that office.
The names of all candidates nominated by any party for an office
shall always appear in the row or column containing generally
the names of candidates nominated by such party for other
offices except as hereinafter provided.
The machine shall be so adjusted that when one or
more knobs, equaling the total number of persons to be elected
to that office shall have been operated, all other knobs used in
connection with that office shall be thereby locked. After the
last candidate's name at the right in any horizontal row, or be-low
the last candidate's name in any vertical column, the knob
or knobs, if there be any, under or opposite the title or titles of
office or offices shall be locked; all knobs shall be locked in any
row or column which contains no names of candidates and all
knobs shall be locked in spaces, if any, which do not contain
names of candidates even though names of candidates appear
in other spaces in the same row or column.
Official ballots provided for voting machines shall
be prepared and furnished by the Clerk of the .Peace of each
County in the same manner as now provided by law, and shall
be delivered to the Department of Elections not later than 15
days prior to the next succeeding election.
§ 5009. Number of official ballots to be furnished
The Clerk of the Peace shall provide and furnish to the
Department of Elections two sets of official ballots for each
voting machine, one set thereof shall be placed in the voting
machine and the other shall be retained in the custody of the
Department of Elections, unless it shall become necessary dur-ing
the course of the election to make use of the same in a
voting machine.
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§ 5010. Substitute ballots
If the official ballots for an election district shall not be
delivered in time for use on election day or after delivery shall
be lost, destroyed or stolen, the Clerk of the Peace shall cause
other ballots to be prepared, printed or written as nearly as
may be of the form and description of the official ballots, and
the Department of Elections shall cause the ballots so substi-tuted
to be used at the election in the same manner, as nearly
as may be, as the official ballots would have been.
§ 5011. Sample ballots
The Clerk of the Peace shall also provide for each
election district two sample ballots applicable to such election
district, which ballots shall measure approximately 10 inches
by 12 inches and shall be arranged in the form of a diagram
showing such portion of the front of the voting machine as
will appear after the official ballots are arranged therein for
voting. Such sample ballots shall be posted in a conspicuous
place in each polling place on election day. Such sample ballots
shall be delivered to the Department of Elections which shall
in turn deliver them with other election supplies to the proper
election officers throughout the County.
The Clerk of the Peace shall deliver to the county
chairman of each political party, free of charge, that number
of sample ballots which is 40 per cent of the number of voters
in each election district who at the last general election voted
for the head of the ticket of such political party. The total num-ber
of sample ballots delivered under this subsection shall not
exceed 80 per cent of the total number of voters in each election
district at the last general election. In the event there shall be
more than two political parties with candidates on the official
ballot, the Clerk of the Peace shall make an equitable division
of the sample ballots to be distributed under this subsection,
based upon the total vote received by each political party at the
last general election, but the chairman of each of the two major
political parties shall each receive not less than 30 per cent of
the sample ballots to be distributed under this subsection.
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In addition to the sample ballots mentioned in sub-sections
(a) and (b) of this section, the Clerk of the Peace in
each county shall cause to be printed such further number of
sample ballots as shall be directed by the chairman of any com-mittee
of any political party, in any county. However, the Clerk
of the Peace shall not have printed any sample ballots upon the
order or request of any chairman of any committee of any
political party unless the request shall have been made to him
in writing at least 65 days prior to the holding of the election
at which the sample ballots are to be used, nor unless a deposit
sufficient to cover the cost of the sample ballots be paid at the
time they are ordered.
The sample ballots to which the political parties shall
be entitled hereunder shall be delivered to the County chairman
of a political party or to his agent upon his request not more
than ten days and not less than five days before the election
for which said sample ballots have been prepared.
A copy of a sample ballot shall be published in the
same manner and under the same requirements as are appli-cable
to the publication of paper ballots.
§ 5012. Preparation of voting machines; notice; party
The Department of Elections shall have the voting
machines and all necessary furniture and appliances at the
proper polling places before the time fixed for opening of the
polls. The counters shall be set at zero (000), and otherwise
in good and proper order for use at such elections. The Depart-ment
of Elections shall arrange for the placing of ballots in
the ballot frames of the machine, the putting it in order, and the
testing, adjusting and delivering the machine.
Before preparing the voting machines for any elec-tion,
written notice shall be mailed by the Department of Elec-tions
to the chairman of the county committee of the two prin-cipal
parties, stating the time and place where the machines
will be prepared. It shall be the privilege of each political party
to have one representative present during the preparation and
testing of the voting machines.
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The Department of Elections shall cause the voting
machines to be prepared for the election and shall cause all
registering counters to be set at zero (000), and the Department
shall then cause each such registering counter to be tested for
accuracy by casting votes upon it until each such registering
counter is correctly registering each vote cast upon it. The
Department shall then cause each registering counter to be reset
at zero (000). The voting machine shall then be immediately
sealed with a numbered metal seal. The Department of Elec-tions
shall certify the numbers of the machines, that all of the
counters are set at zero (000), and the number registered on
the protective counter and on the seal. Such certification shall
be a public record in the office of the Department of Elections.
After the preparation of the machines, the President
of the Department of Elections or someone authorized by him,
other than the person who has prepared the machines for elec-tion,
shall examine each machine and report in writing, as to
whether or not all of the registering counters are set at zero
(000), the machine is arranged in all respects in good order for
the election and locked, and as to the number registered on the
protective counter, and on the seal.
When a voting machine has been properly prepared
for election, it shall be locked against voting and sealed; and the
keys thereof shall be delivered to the Department of Elections.
After the voting machine shall be transferred to the
polling place, it shall be the duty of the election officers to
provide ample protection against molestation or injury to the
machine. The light fixture shall be prepared in good order for
use before the opening of the polls.
§ 5013. Instruction of election officers
Not more than 21 days and not less than 10 days prior to
date of election, the Department of Elections shall cause the
election officers who are to serve in an election district to be
instructed in the use of the machines and in their duties in con-nection
therewith. The Dopartment of Elections shall give to
each election officer who has received such instruction and is
fully qualified to properly conduct the election with the machine,
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a certificate to that effect. For the purpose of giving such in-structions
the Department of Elections shall call such meetings
of the election officers as shall be necessary. The Department
of Elections shall within five days, file a report which shall be a
public record in the Department of Elections stating that the
election officers have been properly instructed. The election offi-cers
shall attend such meetings, as shall be called for the pur-pose
of receiving such instruction concerning their duties as
shall be necessary for the proper conduct of the election with
voting machines.
§ 5014. Instruction of voters before election
Each Department of Elections shall designate suitable and
adequate times and places where voting machines containing
sample ballots showing titles of offices to be filled, and so far as
practicable, the names of candidates to be voted for at the next
election shall be exhibited for the purpose of giving instruc-tions
as to the use of voting machines to all voters who apply
for the same. No voting machine which is to be assigned for
use in an election shall be used for such instruction after having
been prepared and sealed for the election. During public exhibi-tion
of any voting machine for the instruction of voters previous
to an election, the counting mechanism thereof shall be con-cealed
§ 5015. Voting machine out of order; procedure
(a) In case any voting machine used in any election
district shall, during the time the polls are open, become injured
so as to render it inoperative in whole or in part, the Depart-ment
of Elections shall, if possible, substitute a perfect machine
for the injured machine, and at the close of the polls, the record
of both machines shall be taken, and the votes shown on their
counters shall be added together in ascertaining and determining
the results of the election ; but if no other machine can be pre-pared
for use at such election, and the one injured cannot be
repaired in time for use at such election, official paper ballots
as provided in chapter 45 of this title may be used, received by
the election officers and placed in ballot boxes provided by the
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Department of Elections. Such paper ballots shall be counted,
accredited, delivered and preserved as provided in chapters 45,
47 and 49 of this title.
For possible use under provisions of this section the
Clerk of the Peace shall prepare and furnish to the Department
of Elections such official paper ballots as the Department of
Elections shall request in writing not later than 30 days prior
to an election.
The Department of Elections shall maintain and hold
in readiness a reasonable quantity of conventional election sup-plies
and shall be ready to send such supplies together with
paper ballots and instructions on election day to any election
district which is eligible for such supplies under subsection (a)
§ 5016. Procedure prior to opening of polls
(a) The election officers of each election district shall
attend at the polling place three-quarters of an hour before the
time set for opening of the polls, and shall proceed to arrange
the furniture, stationery and voting machine for the conduct
of the election. The Department of Elections shall have the
voting machines, ballots, and stationery required to be delivered
to the polling place for such election. If not previously done,
the election officers shall insert in their proper places on the
voting machine, the ballot containing the names of officers to be
filled at such election, and the names of candidates nominated
therefor. The election officers shall cause to be posted con-spicuously
within the polling place the two instruction cards
and two sample ballots. They shall see that the light for the
voting machine is in good order and that it is lighted, if that is
necessary, in order that the names upon the ballot shall be
clearly visible. They shall inspect the screen, hood or curtain
of the machine to make certain that it has not been damaged or
tampered with so as in any manner to lessen or endanger the
secrecy of voting. They shall see to it that no mirror is placed
or allowed to remain in such a position so as to permit a view
of any part of the front, sides or top of the voting machine.
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The keys to the voting machine shall be delivered
to the election officers at least three-quarters of an hour before
the time set for opening the polls, in a sealed envelope, on which
shall appear the number and location of the voting machine, the
number of the seal and the number registered on the protective
counter or device. The envelope containing the keys shall not
be opened until at least one election official from each of the two
political parties shall be present at the polling place, and shall
have examined the envelope to see that it has not been opened.
Before opening the envelope, all election officers present shall
examine the number on the seal on the machine, also the num-ber
registered on the protective counter, and shall see if they
are the same as the number written on the envelope; and if
they are not the same, the machine must not be opened until
the custodian or other authorized person shall have presented
himself at the polling place for the purpose of re-examining such
machine and shall certify that it is properly arranged.
If the numbers on the seal and protective counter are
found to agree with the numbers on the envelope, the election
officers shall proceed to open the doors concealing the counters,
and each officer shall carefully examine every counter and see
that it registers zero (000), and the same shall be subject to
the inspection of official watchers. The machine shall remain
locked against voting until the polls are formally opened, and
shall not be operated except by voters in voting. The doors con-cealing
the counters shall be locked before any vote is cast on
the voting machine and shall remain locked until after the polls
have closed. If any counter is found not to register zero (000),
the election officers shall immediately notify the Department
of Elections which shall cause each counter to be tested for
accuracy by casting votes upon it and when it is ascertained
that all of the counters are correctly registering each vote, the
counters shall be adjusted to zero (000). The reading of the
protective counter shall then be read and recorded. If it shall
be impracticable for a member or representative of the Depart-ment
of Elections to arrive in time to so adjust such counters
before the time set for opening the polls, the election officers
shall immediately make a written statement of the number on
each counter and shall sign and post the same upon the wall of
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the polling room, where it shall remain throughout the election
day, and in filling out the statement of canvass, they shall sub-tract
such number from the number then registered thereon.
§ 5017. Location of voting machines; inspection of ballots
The arrangement of the polling place shall be the
same as is now provided for by law; the exterior of the voting
machine shall at all times be in plain view of the election officers.
The voting machine shall be so placed that the ballots on the
face of the machine can be plainly seen by the election officers
and the party watchers when not in use by voters. No voting
machine while in use for the purpose of voting shall be hidden
or concealed in any voting place or in any manner, so as to hide
or obscure the same from public view. The election officers shall
not themselves be, or permit any other person to be in any
position or near any position that will permit one to see or
ascertain how a voter votes, or how he has voted.
The election officer attending the machine shall in-spect
the face of the machine after each voter has cast his
vote, to see that the ballots on the face of the machine are in
proper places and that the machine has not been injured. Dur-ing
elections the door or other covering of the counter compart-ment
of the machine shall not be unlocked or open, or the count-ers
exposed except for good and sufficient reasons, after the
failure of a voting machine, a statement of which shall be made
and signed by the election officers and shall be sent with the
§ 5018. Persons permitted at polling place
No person shall be permitted in or about the polling place
except as provided by law with respect to elections where paper
ballots and ballot boxes are used, with the exception of a member
or representative of the Department of Elections while engaged
in the testing, repairing or replacing of a voting machine which
is out of order.
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§ 5019. Voting machine curtains
Curtains on all voting machines shall be securely sealed
or fastened before being used in any election so that the clear-ance
lever cannot be operated without opening or closing cur-tains.
§ 5020. Manner of voting
When a voter presents himself for the purpose of voting,
the election officer shall ascertain whether his name is upon the
register of voters, and if his name appears thereon and is not
challenged or a challenge be decided in his favor, one of the
election officers to be stationed at the entrance of the voting
machine shall announce the name of the voter and permit him
to pass through the entrance to the booth of the voting machine
for the purpose of casting his vote. Each judge shall then
stamp or write the word "VOTED" in the column opposite the
name of the voter in the Books of Registered Voters in his
possession. No voter shall remain in the voting machine booth
longer than three minutes, unless for good and sufficient reason
he be granted a longer period of time by the election officers in
charge. When the voter has cast his vote the voter shall at once
leave the room. If he shall refuse to leave after a reasonable
period he shall be removed by the election officers. No voter
after having entered and emerged from the voting machine
booth shall be permitted to re-enter the same on any pretext
whatever. Only one voter at a time shall be permitted to enter
the voting machine booth.
§ 5021. Instructing voters on election day
Any voter requesting instruction shall be given such
instruction by an election officer with reference to the sample
ballots posted in the polling place.
In case any voter, after entering the voting machine
booth, shall ask for further instructions concerning the manner
of voting, two election officers of opposite political parties shall
give such instructions to him; but no person assisting a voter
shall in any manner seek to influence his vote. After giving
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instructions- and before such voter shall have registered his
vote, the persons assisting him shall retire and such voter shall
then register his vote in secret.
§ 5022. Blind or physically disabled voters
The provisions of the election law relating to the assistance
to be given to Wind or physically disabled voters shall apply
also where voting machines are used, and the word "booth",
when used in such sections, shall be interpreted to include the
voting machine enclosure or curtain.
§ 5023. Tabulation of vote and proclamation of result
As soon as the polls are closed, the Inspector of election
shall immediately lock and seal the voting machine against
voting. The Inspector then shall sign a certificate stating that
the machine has been locked against voting and sealed; the
number of voters as shown on the public counters; the number
on the seal; the number registered on the protective counter.
The judges then shall open the counting compartments in the
presence of the watchers and all other persons who may be
lawfully within the polling place, giving full view of all the
counter numbers. The inspector shall then read and announce
in distinct tones the vote recorded on each counter for each
candidate. He shall also in the same manner read and an-nounce
the vote on each question. The counter shall not be
read consecutively along the party row or column, but shall
always be read along the office columns or rows, completing the
tabulation for each office. The vote as registered shall be enter-ed
on the tabulation by the clerks. The figures shall be verified
by being called off in the same manner from the counters of the
machine by a Judge of opposite political faith from the Inspec-tor.
The certificates shall then be filled out, certified and placed
in envelopes and sealed in accordance with the provisions ap-plicable
to elections in which paper ballots are used, which shall
show the total number of votes cast for each candidate, as
shown on his counter. The counter compartment of the voting
machine shall remain open until the official returns and all other
reports have been fully completed and verified by the election
officers. Any candidate or duly accredited watcher who may
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desire to be present shall be admitted to the polling place from
the closing of the polls until count and tabulation are complete.
§ 5024. Inspection of voting machines by board of canvass
The Board of Canvass shall have the same power with
respect to examining the counters or the voting machines that
are now vested in the Board of Canvass with respect to opening
ballot boxes and making a recount of the ballots contained
§ 5025. Locking the machine
The election officers shall, as soon as the count is completed
and fully ascertained, as by this law required, lock the counter
compartment of such machine and the voting machine doors,
and it shall so remain until opened under authority of law.
§ 5026. Delivery of certificates and ballot boxes
The procedure set out in chapter 49 of this title with re-spect
to the holding and delivery of certificates of election
officers and ballot boxes shall apply to certificates and ballot
boxes provided for in this chapter, provided that where no
ballot box is used the certificate which would have been deposited
in the ballot box shall be delivered to the Department of Elec-tions
with the keys of the voting machine.
§ 5027. Custody of voting machines and keys
(a) The keys of the machine shall be enclosed in an enve-lope
to be supplied by the Department of Elections on which
shall be written the number of the machine and the election
district and representative district where it has been used,
which envelope shall be securely sealed and endorsed by the
election officers, and shall be returned to the Department of
Elections by one of the election officers on the day following
the election. The number on the seal and the number registered
on the protective counter shall be written on the envelope con-
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taining* the keys. All keys for voting machines shall be kept
securely locked. No unauthorized person shall have in his pos-session
any key of any voting machine and any persons en-trusted
with such keys for election purposes, or in the prepa-ration
of the machine therefor, shall not retain them longer
than necessary to use them for such legal purpose. All machines
shall be boxed and stored as soon after the close of the election
as possible, and the machines and the boxes for the machines
shall at all times be stored in a suitable place.
The voting machines as stored in accordance with the
provisions of this section shall be in the custody of the Prothon-otary
until after the Board of Canvass has completed its canvass
of the vote and the machines while in the custody of the Pro-thonotary
may be opened by order of the Board of Canvass or
After the Board of Canvass has completed its can-vass
of the vote the Prothonotary shall turn the custody of the
voting machines over to the Department of Elections and the
Department of Elections shall leave the machines undisturbed
and locked until the succeeding February first. During this
period the machines will be available for inspection by any
duly authorized member or agent of the General Assembly.
After February first the Department of Elections shall be free
to unlock, inspect and repair any voting machines.
§ 5028. Application of other election laws
All laws relating to elections now in force shall apply to
elections under this chapter so far as the same may not be in-consistent
with or in conflict with this chapter, and no laws
relating to elections now in force shall apply to elections under
this chapter to the extent that they are inconsistent with or in
conflict to this chapter.
Section 2. § 5117, Title 15, Delaware Cede of 1953 is
§ 5117. Tampering with election supplies or voting ma-chines
prior to opening of election
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Whoever, before the opening of the election
breaks any package containing ballots, envelopes,
pencils and rubber bands;
takes any ballot, envelope, pencil or rubber band
from such package; or
suffers the same to be done by another; or
registers any vote on a voting machine; or tam-
Ters with, disarranges, defaces or impairs in any manner
the use of or destroys a voting machine or the ballot on the
face of a voting machine, shall be fined not less than $300
nor more than $500 and may be imprisoned not less than
one nor more than two years.
Section 3. § 5134, Titie 15, Delaware Code of 1953 is
§ 5134. Fraudulent deposit or alteration of ballots or enter-ing
voting machine booth or casting vote
(a) Whoever, being an election officer, at any election
knowingly and wilfully puts or causes to be put
any ballot or ballots or other paper having the semblance
thereof into any box used at such election for the reception
of votes; or
knowingly and wilfully causes or permits any
ballot to be in the ballot box at the opening of the polls
and before voting shall have commenced; or
knowingly or wilfully or fraudulently puts any
ballot or other paper having the semblance thereof into
any ballot box unless the same is offered by an elector and
his name has been found and checked upon the Registers;
fraudulent before, during or after the reading
and count of the ballot, in any manner changes, substitutes
or alters any ballot; or
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removes any ballot or semblance thereof from,
or adds any ballot or semblance thereof to, the ballots found
in any such ballot box upon the closing of the polls ; or
vote to be registered on a voting machine, unless the vote
is cast by an elector whose name has been found and check-ed
upon the books of registered voters and who has not
previously voted, or knowingly or wilfully enters or per-mits
anyone to enter a voting machine booth, unless the
person is an elector whose name has been found or checked
upon the books of registered voters and who has not pre-viously
voted or is an election officer or member or em-ployee
of the Department of Elections whose entrance into
the voting machine booth is required by the provisions of
this title,
shall be deemed to have knowingly and wilfully violated his
official duty.
(b) Whoever, not being an election officer, does or causes
to be done any of the acts, matters or things mentioned in sub-section
(a) of this section, shall be fined not more than $200 or
imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
Section 4. § 5123, Title 15, Delaware Code of 1953 is
§ 5123. Removal or destruction of election supplies or
equipment or voting machine
(a) Whoever, during the general election
removes or destroys any of the supplies or other
conveniences placed in the booths or delivered to the voter
for the purpose of enabling him to prepare his ballot; or
removes, tears down or defaces the cards printed
for the instruction of the voters; or
(3) destroys or removes any booth, railing or other
conveniences provided for such election ; or
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(4) tampers with, disarranges, defaces or impairs
in any manner the use of or destroys any voting machine
or the ballots on the face of a voting machine,
shall be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than one
(b) Whoever induces or attempts to induce any person
to commit any of the acts described in subsection (a) of this
section, whether or not any such acts are committed or attempted
to be committed, shall be imprisoned not less than six months
nor more than one year.
Section 5. This act shall become effective July 1, 1953.
INCLUDING CHUKAR PARTRIDGE IN GAME BIRD CLASSIFICATION
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 7 TITLE 7 OF THE DELA-WARE
CODE OF 1953 RELATING TO REGULATIONS
AND PROHIBITIONS CONCERNING GAME AND FISH;
GAME BIRDS; BY INCLUDING CHUKAR PARTRIDGE
IN THE GAME BIRD CLASSIFICATION.
Section 1. § 702, Chapter 7, Title 7 of the Delaware Code
of 1953 is amended to read as follows:
§ 702. Game birds
The following shall be considered game birds : the Anatidae,
commonly known as geese, brant and river and sea ducks ; the
Rallidae, commonly known as rails, coots, mudhens and galli-nules
; the Limicolae, commonly known as shore birds, plovers,
surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sandpipers, tattlers and curlews ;
the Gallinae, commonly known as wild turkeys, grouse, prairie
chickens, pheasants, chukar partridges, partridges and quail ;
also the reed bird of the Icteridae and the dove.
RELATING TO REGULATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS ON GAME
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 7, TITLE 7, OF THE DELA-WARE
NUMBER OF GAME LAWFUL TO KILL; POSSESSION
AFTER CLOSE OF SEASON.
Section 1. § 716, Title 7, of the Delaware Code of 1953,
§ 716. Number of game lawful to kill; possession after
dose of season
No person shall take or.kill, in any one day, more migratory
birds or fowl than are permitted by federal laws and regula-tions,
or more than eight (8) birds or fowl of any other species,
and four (4) animals, or have such birds, fowl, or animals in
possession for more than thirty days after the close of the
season for killing the same, excepting when such birds or animals
are had in possession alive for scientific or propagating pur-poses:
The provisions of this section shall not apply to,
Animals habitually trapped for their pelts, protected
by the provisions of Part 1 of this Title;
Snipe, plover and reed birds; and
Birds covered by the provisions of § 714 of this title;
CORRECTING ERROR IN TITLE 10, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953, BY
PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL CONSTABLES
AN ACT TO CORRECT AN ERROR IN TITLE 10, DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953 RELATING TO "COURTS AND JUDICIAL
PROCEDURE" BY PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL CON-STABLES.
WHEREAS, Sections 1568, 1569, 1570 and 1572, Revised
Code of Delaware of 1935 were omitted from the Delaware
Code of 1953; through error, and,
WHEREAS, it was not the intention of the General As-sembly
that such sections be repealed ; NOW, THEREFORE,
Section 1. Subchapter 1 of Chapter 27, Title 10, Delaware
Code of 1953 is amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-lowing
new sections :
§ 2713. Delaware State Hospital; special constable
The Governor may, upon the application of the State Board
of Trustees of the Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst, ap-point
such persons connected with the hospital, as the trustees
may designate, to act as Special Constables for the protection
of the property under the control of the trustees and for the
preservation of peace and good order in and around the premises
of the Delaware State Hospital.
The Governor shall issue to every person so appointed a
Commission for the term of five years, unless sooner revoked ;
and the person so appointed shall, before acting as such Con-stable,
take and subscribe the oath or affirmation prescribed
by Article XIV, of the Constitution, and shall cause his com-mission,
with such affidavit endorsed thereon, to be duly recorded
in the Recorder's office of the County wherein he resides. Every
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such Special Constable so commissioned and qualified shall
possess and exercise in this State all the authority and powers
now conferred on policemen in the City of Wilmington.
The Governor may, at any time, revoke any commission
given under this section at his pleasure, and upon the written
application of the State Board of Trustees of the Delaware State
Hospital at Farnhurst shall revoke such commission ; such revo-cation
to be effected by an order in duplicate signed by the
Governor, one whereof shall be mailed to the Special Constable
at his last known place of residence and the other filed in the
Recorder's office where the commission is recorded and noted
on the record of such Commission.
The compensation of every such Special Constable shall be
wholly paid by the State Board of Trustees of the Delaware
State Hospital at Farnhurst.
§ 2714. St. Joseph's Industrial School; special constable
The Governor may appoint a Special Constable for St.
Joseph's Industrial School, at Clayton, Kent County, whose
duties and powers shall be the same as those possessed by County
§ 2715. Railroad companies; special constables
The Governor may appoint such number of Special Con-stables
for any railroad company of this State as such company
may apply for. Such Constable shall have all the powers of a
County Constable, but shall receive no compensation or fees
except such as are paid by such railroad company. Such Con-stables
shall not act as deputies of any sheriff or Constable
and no sheriff or other officer shall appoint or authorize any
person to act as his deputy in making arrests on the property
of any railroad company except in cases of riot.
In all cases of arrest by such Special Constables for vagran-cy
or trespass on the property of a railroad company, the person
so arrested, if proven guilty, may be committed to the County
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jail by any Justice of the Peace for a term of not exceeding five
§ 2716. Special constables for certain purposes
The Governor may upon the application of any individual,
firm or corporation engaged in carrying on any kind of business
in this State, and having an office or place of business in this
State, appoint such person, or persons, as the said individual,
firm or corporation may recommend or designate to act as Spe-cial
Constables for the protection of the property belonging to
or under the control of such individual, firm or corporation and
for the preservation of peace and good order in and about the
premises occupied by such individual, firm or corporation.
commission and the person so appointed shall, before acting as
such Special Constable, take and subscribe before any officer
authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths, the
oath or affirmation prescribed by Article XIV of the Constitu-tion.
Every such Special Constable shall have the powers of a
County Constable, provided that such Special Constable shall
have no power or authority to serve any writ or process in any
civil action or proceeding.
The Commission of any such Special Constable may at
any time be revoked by the Governor at his pleasure, or upon
the written application of the individual, firm or corporation at
whose instance such Special Constable was appointed.
wholly paid by the individual, firm or corporation at whose
instance he was appointed.
Every such Special Constable shall wear, when on duty, a
metallic badge with the words "Special Constable", and the
name of the person, firm or corporation, at whose instance he
was appointed, plainly inscribed thereon.
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Section 2. Every person who is duly commissioned under
1568, 1569, 1570 and 1572, Chapter 51, Revised Code of Dela-ware
1935, as Special Constable of this State be and is hereby
recommissioned under this law with full powers as such Con-stable
for the time set forth in his said commission.
AUTHORIZING NEW CASTLE CLERK OF ORPHANS' COURT AND
REGISTER IN CHANCERY TO PROCURE NEW PRESSES
AND SEALS OF OFFICE
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CLERK OF THE ORPHANS'
COURT AND REGISTER IN CHANCERY IN AND FOR
NEW CASTLE COUNTY TO PROCURE NEW PRESSES
AND SEALS OF OFFICE.
Section 1. The Clerk of the Orphans' Court and Register
in Chancery in and for New Castle County is authorized to
procure a new seal and press for each of his respective offices,
to be made of steel or brass, of the same diameter as the present
seals and engraved with the same devices respectively. When
completed they shall be the seals respectively of the office of
Clerk of the Orphans' Court and Register in Chancety in and
for New Castle County.
Section 2. When the said seals shall be so procured as
aforesaid, the Clerk of the Orphans' Court and Register in
Chancery shall cause the present seals in his offices to be broken
and destroyed in the presence of the high sheriff of said County.
Section 3. The Levy Court of New Castle County shall
pay the necessary costs and expenses of procuring the said new
presses and seals.
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AUTHORIZING NEW CASTLE COUNTY PROTHONOTARY TO PROCURE
NEW PRESSES AND SEAL OF OFFICE
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PROTHONOTARY OF NEW
CASTLE COUNTY TO PROCURE A NEW PRESS AND
SEAL OF OFFICE.
Section 1. The Prothonotary of New Castle County is
authorized to procure for his office a new seal and press, to be
made of steel or brass, of the same diameter as the present seal
and engraved with the same device. When completed it shall
be the seal of the office of Prothonotary of New Castle County.
Section 2. When the said seal shall be so procured as
aforesaid the said Prothonotary shall cause the present seal of
his office to be broken and destroyed in the presence of the high
sheriff of said County.
pay the necessary costs and expenses of procuring the said
new press and seal.
PITMAN PUBLIC BUILDINGS
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11, DELAWARE 'CODE OF 1953
RELATING TO "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
BY MAKING IT A MISDEMEANOR FOR A PERSON TO
CAUSE A FIRE IN A PUBLIC BUILDING, BOARDING
HOUSE, ROOM/NG HOUSE OR HOTEL BY THE CARE-LESS
USE OF A CIGARETTE, CIGAR OR PIPE OR
OTHER INFLAMMABLE DEVICE.
Section 1, Title 11 of Delaware Code of 1953 relating to
"Crimes and Criminal Procedure" is amended by adding a new
section § 522 as follows:
§ 522. Causing a fire by careless use of cigarettes, cigars,
pipes or other inflammable device
Whoever shall carelessly cause a fire to occur in a public
building, boarding house, rooming house or hotel by the careless
use of a cigarette, cigar, pipe or other inflammable device shall
be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and not more than
one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned not less than ten
days or more than three months.
Section 2. Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction of
this offense.
Approved March 30, 1953.
671)
NAMING STEIN HIGHWAY
AN ACT TO NAME THE STATE HIGHWAY LEADING FROM
SEAFORD TO RELIANCE.
WHEREAS, S. J. Stein, resident of Seaford, Delaware,
was instrumental in obtaining the private lands without charge
to the State of Delaware for the use and benefit of the State for
the purpose of building the state highway leading from Seaford
to Reliance and designated as Route #20, it is fitting and proper
that State Highway no be named "Stein Highway" in honor of
Mr. S. J. Stein.
Section 1. The state highway leading from Seaford to
Reliance, designated as State Highway Route 20, shall be named
and hereinafter known as the "Stein Highway".
Approved April 1, 1953.
LICENSING DOG KENNELS
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 17, TITLE 7 OF THE DELA-WARE
CODE OF 1953, RELATING TO THE LICENSING
OF DOG KENNELS.
Section 1. § 1701 (a) of Title 7 of the Delaware Code of
1953 is amended by adding at the end of said section the follow-ing
"No kennel within the corporate limits of a town or city,
outside the corporate limits of the City of Wilmington, shall be
licensed in accordance with the provisions of this section unless
the kennel has been approved by the authorities of the corporate
town or city within which the kennel will be located and a certifi-cate
of approval issued by such authorities."
Approved April 9, 1953.
KENT BOARD OP SOIL DISTRICT SUPERVISORS
COUNTY TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE BOARD OF
SOIL DISTRICT SUPERVISORS OF THE SOIL CONSER-VATION
DISTRICT OF KENT COUNTY CERTAIN
FUNDS FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF A MANAGER OF
Section 1. The Levy Court of Kent County is authorized to
make available for, and to pay to, the Board of Soil District
Supervisors of the Soil Conservation District of Kent County
the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, A. D. 1953 and ending on June 30, A. D.
1954, and a like sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for
the fiscal year beginning July 1, A. D. 1954 and ending on June
30, A. D. 1955.
Section 2. The funds hereby authorized to be made avail-able
to the Board of Soil District Supervisors of the Soil Con-servation
District of Kent County shall be used, when made
available, for the purpose of employing a manager of the drain-age
and other operations of the said District Supervisors of the
Soil Conservation District of Kent County.
DRAINAGE OF TAX DITCHES IN KENT COUNTY
AN ACT APPROPRIATING CERTAIN MONIES TO THE
STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION FOR THE
DRAINAGE OF TAX DITCHES IN KENT COUNTY.
WHEREAS, there exists a necessity to clean out and drain
certain tax ditches in Kent County, State of Delaware; and
WHEREAS, land owners, adjacent to and near said tax
ditches, have agreed to contribute funds for said purpose; NOW,
Section 1. There is appropriated to the State Soil Con-servation
Commission the sum of Twelve Thousand Five Hun-dred
Dollars ($12,500.00) for each of the fiscal years beginning
July 1, 1953 and ending June 30, 1954, and beginning July 1,
1954 and ending June 30, 1955, to be used and expended for the
purpose of contributing to the costs of clearing banks, removing
obstructions, straightening, cleaning out and draining the tax
ditches of Kent County.
Section 2. For the purposes of this Act, the Levy Court
of Kent County shall appropriate to the State Soil Conservation
Commission the further sum of Twelve Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($12,500.00) for each of the fiscal years beginning July
1, 1953 and ending June 30, 1954, and beginning July 1, 1954
and ending June 30, 1955, to be used and expended for the pur-pose
of contributing to the costs of clearing banks, removing
Section 3. The money hereby appropriated shall be paid to
the State Soil Conservation Commission by the State Treasurer
and the Levy Court of Kent County from time to time upon
certification to the State Treasurer and the Levy Court of Kent
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County by the Board of Soil District Supervisors of the Soil
Conservation District of Kent County that it has collected or
received, from farmers and others benefiting from such clearing
banks, removing obstructions, straightening, cleaning out and
draining of said tax ditches, a specified sum of money to be
used on said project. The State Treasurer, and the Levy Court
of Kent County, shall each make payment to said State Soil
Conservation Commission on the basis of Fifty Cents ($.50) for
every Dollar ($1.00) or more so certified to the State Treasurer
and the Levy Court of Kent County by the Board of Soil District
Supervisors of the Soil Conservation District of Kent County, as
having been by it collected or received from farmers and others
benefiting from such clearing banks, removing obstructions,
straightening, cleaning out or draining of said ditches in Kent
Section 4. The sums of money from time to time paid to
the State Soil Conservation Commission shall be transferred by
said Commission to the Board of Soil District Supervisors of
the Soil Conservation District of Kent County, and shall be used
and expended by said Board on such tax ditches for which con-tributions
from farmers and others benefiting from such clean-ing
out and draining have been collected or received as shall be
determined by the said Board of Soil District Supervisors.
Section 5. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary
Appropriation Act and the monies hereby appropriated shall be
paid out of the General Fund of the State Treasury, not other-wise
PROVIDING FOR SALE OF PHEASANTS AND QUAIL AS FOOD
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 7, TITLE 7 OF THE DELA-WARE
POSSESSION OF PROTECTED WILD LIFE; PROHIBI-TIONS;
PROVISION FOR PERMITTING HOTELS, RES-TAURANTS,
CLUBS AND OTHER FOOD DISPENSERS
TO POSSESS AND SELL PHEASANTS AND QUAIL AS
Section 1. § 721 (b), Chapter 7, Title 7 of the Delaware 1
Code of 1953 is amended to read as follows :
(b) No person shall have in possession any game fish
during the closed season for said fish, whether the same shall
have been taken within or without the State of Delaware, and
no person shall at any time of the year barter, sell, offer for
sale or buy any game birds, game animals, or game fish pro-tected
by the laws of this State, and killed or caught either law-fully
or unlawfully within or without this State, except always
the muskrat and the diamond back terrapin trade during the
seasons when it is lawful to have said animals and their meat in
possession, and trading at any and all times in muskrat skins
and other skins and in terrapin of lawful size which have been
lawfully taken; and further except always hotels, restaurants,
clubs and other food dispensers which may offer pheasants and
quail for food consumption, provided, however, that every such
food dispenser having pheasants and quail in its possession, has
an invoice covering the same, showing purchase thereof from
a licensed game breeder within or without this State, said in-voice
to have the game breeder's license number on it. Any one
person who has himself lawfully killed or trapped rabbit in the
county of his residence, may himself sell said rabbit within
such county, not exceeding the number of twenty (20) in any
one open season.
INSURANCE - RETALIATING TAXES
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 27, TITLE 18 OF THE DELA-WARE
CODE OF 1953, RELATING TO TAXES AND
FEES FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES, AGENTS AND
BROKERS; RETALIATING TAXES, FEES AND REGU-LATIONS.
Section 1. Chapter 27, Title 18 of the Delaware Code of
1953 is amended by adding a new section to be styled § 2709,
§ 2709. Retaliating taxes, fees and regulations
Notwithstanding any other provision of Title 18 of this
Code, when by the existing or future laws of any other state or
foreign country any premium, income or other taxes, or any
fees, fines, penalties, licenses, deposit requirements or other obli-gations,
prohibitions or restrictions are imposed upon insurance
companies incorporated under the laws of this State doing busi-ness,
or that might seek to do business in such other state or
country, or upon the agents of said insurance companies incor-porated
under the laws of this State, which in the aggregate
are in excess of such taxes, fees, fines, penalties, licenses, deposit
requirements or other obligations, prohibitions or restrictions
directly imposed upon similar insurance companies of such other
state or foreign country under the statutes of this state, so long
as such laws continue in force, the same taxes, fees, fines, pen-alties,
licenses, deposit requirements or other obligations, pro-hibitions
and restrictions of whatever kind shall be imposed
upon similar insurance companies of such other state or foreign
country doing business in this state. Any tax, license or other
obligation imposed by any city, county or other political sub-division
of any other state or foreign country on insurance com-panies
incorporated under the laws of this state or their agents
shall be deemed to be imposed by such other state or foreign
country within the meaning of this section.
TITLE TO CEMETERY IN WILMINGTON
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO
CONVEY TITLE TO REAL ESTATE LOCATED AT
12TH AND MADISON STREETS IN THE CITY OF
WILMINGTON TO "CATHEDRAL CEMETERY COM-PANY
OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE".
WHEREAS, Rebecca Gibbons and others, as described
and set forth in a certain Indenture bearing date the 1st day
of May, A. D. 1852, and recorded in the Office for the Recording
of Deeds &c., in and for New Castle County, and State of Dela-ware,
at Wilmington, in Deed Record K, Volume 6, page 508
&c., did by their said Indenture convey to the Right Reverend
John N. Newmann, Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia, cer-tain
real estate in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County,
and State of Delaware, bounded in part by Twelfth, Jefferson
and Madison Streets, and more particularly described in said
Indenture, under and subject to such uses and trusts as are set
forth in said Indenture; and
WHEREAS, George Jack and Georgiana Jack, his wife, by
Indenture bearing date the 15th day of October, A. D. 1870,
and recorded in the Office for the Recording of Deeds &c., in
and for New Castle County, and State of Delaware, at Wilming-ton,
in Deed Record E, Volume 9, Page 376 &c., did convey to the
Right Reverend Thomas A. Becker, D. D., Bishop of Wilmington,
other real estate now in the City of Wilmington, New Castle
County, and State of Delaware, and adjacent to the lands de-scribed
in the aforementioned Indenture of Rebecca Gibbons
and others, and more particularly described in the said Indenture
of said George Jack and Georgiana Jack, his wife, under and
subject to the uses and trusts as set forth in said Indenture; and
WHEREAS, doubt has been expressed as to the succession
of ownership and to the present ownership of the real estate
described in the two aforementioned Indentures, and it has.been
suggested that the title to the aforementioned real estate might
have escheated to the State of Delaware because of the provisions
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of Chapter 275, Volume 11, Laws of Delaware, Revised Code of
Delaware, 1935, §§ 2488, 2489, 2490 and 2491, as well as because
of the provisions of §§ 112 and 113, Chapter 1, Title 27, Delaware
Code of 1953; and
WHEREAS, the said real estate was used for charitable
purposes and none other, viz. : as a burying ground for the use
of Roman Catholics formerly of the Parish of Wilmington and
later of the Diocese of Wilmington, and said real estate was
continued in such use and no other until its use for interment of
bodies ceasid, and it has never been put to any use but the afore-described
charitable use; and
WHEREAS, the use of said real estate as a burial ground
has now terminated and the bodies therein interred have been or
are being or will be reinterred in other cemetery grounds be-longing
to "Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Dela-ware",
a corporation organized and existing pursuant to an Act
of the General Assembly, passed at Dover, March 10, 1881, the
said Act being of record in the Office of the Secretary of the State
of Delaware; and
WHEREAS, the said "Cathedral Cemetery Company of
Wilmington, Delaware", is successor to and carries on such char-itable
uses and trusts relating to the burial of the dead previously
exercised by the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of
Wilmington ; and
Wilmington, Delaware", is desirous of perfecting its title in
the aforedescribed real estate, so that its title be perfected in
order that the said corporation can convey good and clear title
to said real estate free and clear of all uses and trusts and doubts,
the proceeds thereof to be used in the carrying out of its corpor-ate
functions and purposes ; and
WHEREAS, it may be doubtful that the Secretary of State
can now convey proper title to the said corporation to said real
estatp as was allowed and provided by Section 5, Chapter 275,
Volume 11, Laws of Delaware, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935,
§ 2492, NOW, THEREFORE,
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The Secretary of State of the State of Delaware be and he is
hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver to the
"Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Delaware", a
corporation of the State of Delaware, its successors and assigns,
a complete and proper deed conveying unto the said "Cathedral
Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Delaware", its successors
and assigns, any and all right, title and interest in the lands
described in the aforementioned Indentures which may have
escheated, for any reason, to the State of Delaware, free and
clear of any doubts in the title and free and clear of any uses and
trusts which may have heretofore attached to said real estate.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE "CATHEDRAL CEMETERY
COMPANY OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE", TO CON-VEY
CERTAIN OF ITS REAL ESTATE FREE AND DIS-CHARGED
OF TRUSTS.
WHEREAS, Rebecca Gibbons and others, as described and
set forth in a certain Indenture bearing date the 1st day of
May, A. D. 1852, and recorded in the Office for the Recording of
Deeds &c., in and for New Castle County, and State of Dela-ware,
at Wilmington, in Deed Record K, Volume 6, page 508 &c.,
did by their said Indenture convey to the Right Reverend John
N. Newmann, Roman Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia, certain
real estate in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County, and
State of Delaware, bounded in part by Twelfth, Jefferson and
Madison Streets, and more particularly described in said Inden-ture,
under and subject to such uses and trusts as are set forth
in said Indenture; and
WHEREAS, George Jack and Georgiana Jack, his wife,
by Indenture bearing date the 15th day of October, A. D. 1870,
and recorded in the Office for the Recording of Deeds &e.,
in Deed Record E, Volume 9, Page 376 &c., did convey to
the Right Reverend Thomas A. Becker, D. D., Bishop of Wil-mington,
other real estate now in the City of Wilmington, New
Castle County, and State of Delaware, and adjacent to the lands
described in the aforementioned Indenture of Rebecca Gibbons
subject to the uses and trusts as set forth in said Indenture;
WHEREAS, all right, title and interest to the real estate
described in the aforementioned Indentures have, by mesne con-veyances,
been vested in "Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wil-mington,
Delaware" ; a corporation organized and existing pur-suant
to an Act of the General Assembly, passed at Dover,
March 10, 1881, the said Act being of record in the Office of the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and
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WHEREAS, the said cemetery at Twelfth and Madison
Streets in Wilmington has long been neglected and no bodies
have been buried therein for many years last passed, and no
funds are presently available to keep and maintain the said
cemetery property; and
Wilmington, Delaware", desires to convey the said cemetery
property since said cemetery property is relatively small and
cannot be enlarged by the acquisition of property located adja-cent
to it, and to use the proceeds resulting from the conveyance
for the general purposes and objects of the "Cathedral Cemetery
Company of Wilmington, Delaware"; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent and purpose of said "Cathedral
Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Delaware", with the consent
and approval, express or implied, of the relatives of the deceased
persons buried in said cemetery property to carefully disinter
the bodies of the deceased persons buried in said cemetery
property and reinter said bodies in other and well cared for
cemetery properties of "Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wil-mington,
Delaware", Lancaster Avenue at North Woodlawn,
"Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Delaware",
a corporation of the State of Delaware, be and it is hereby
authorized and empowered to sell, transfer and convey either
at public or private sale, on such terms as it may deem expedi-ent,
and free and clear from any and all uses and trusts as may
be recited in the aforementioned Indentures of Rebecca Gibbons
and others, and George Jack and Georgians Jack, his wife, and
from any and all other uses or trusts which may have attached
to the real estate described in said Indentures, and to convey the
said real estate in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers, by
good and sufficient deed or deeds, free from any and all uses
and trusts, and without liability on the part of the purchaser or
purchasers for the application, non-application or mis-applica-tion
of the purchase money; provided that the net proceeds aris-ii
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ing from the sale or sales of the real estate above described and
less any and all costs necessary to the disinterment and rein-terment
of the bodies in said cemetery property shall be held by
"Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Delaware" and
used in the carrying out of its corporate functions and purposes.
AN ACT AUTHORIZING "CATHEDRAL CEMETERY COM-PANY
OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE", TO DISINTER
AND REMOVE FROM THE OLD AND LONG UNUSED
CEMETERY LOCATED AT TWELFTH AND MADISON
STREETS IN WILMINGTON THE BODIES PRESENTLY
BURIED THEREIN AND TO REINTER SAID BODIES IN
OTHER CEMETERY PROPERTY OF "CATHEDRAL CEM-ETERY
COMPANY OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE".
Section 1. "Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington,
Delaware", a corporation organized and existing pursuant to an
Act of the General Assembly, passed at Dover, March 10, 1881,
the said Act being of record in the Office of the Secretary of
State of Delaware, be and it is hereby authorized and fully
empowered to carefully and properly disinter and remove all
of the bodies presently buried in the cemetery located at Twelfth
and Madison Streets in the City of Wilmington, and to reinter
said bodies in other cemetery property of "Cathedral Cemetery
Section 2. Before removing any of the said bodies from
said cemetery as aforesaid "Cathedral Cemetery Company of
Wilmington, Delaware", shall first make reasonable effort to
obtain the consent in writing of relatives of said deceased per-sons
whose bodies are buried in said cemetery, and which bodies
are proposed to be removed ; and if said "Cathedral Cemetery
Company of Wilmington, Delaware" is unable to find such rela-tives
and procure the express consent in writing to the removal
of said bodies, then said "Cathedral Cemetery Company of
Wilmington, Delaware" shall advertise in at least one newspaper
of general circulation in New Castle County for three successive
weeks that said "Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington,
Delaware" proposes to remove said bodies in accordance with
this Act; and if after such advertising said "Cathedral Ceme-tery
Company of Wilmington, Delaware" is unable to find and
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obtain the written consent to the removal of the bodies, and no
objection is made to removal by any child, grandchild, great
grandchild, or other lineal descendant, then and in such event
the said "Cathedral Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Dela-ware"
shall be presumed to have secured the implied consent of
any and all such relatives and shall thereupon proceed to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
Section 3. The provisions of this Act shall be final and
exclusive authority and shall be in lieu of any individual permit
or permits or writs required from any agency of the State of
Delaware, or of and from any agency of any municipality located
therein, or of any agency of any other geographical subdivision
Section 4. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act be and the same are for the purpose of
effectuating the objectives of this Act hereby repealed to the
extent and only to the extent of such inconsistency.
REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CLERKS IN OFFICE OF CLERK OF
PEACE FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 94, TITLE 9, DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953, RELATING TO CLERKS OF THE PEACE;
DEPUTIES AND CLERK.
Section 1. § 9403, Chapter 94, Title 9, Delaware Code of
1953 is amended by striking out in line one of paragraph (1) the
word "four" and substituting therefor the word "two."
PROHIBITING USE OF PROPERTY WHICH EMITS FOUL ODORS
NEAR GOVERNOR BACON HEALTH CENTER
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 16, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953
ENTITLED "HEALTH AND SAFETY" BY PROHIBITING
THE ERECTION OF ANY STRUCTURE OR THE USE OF
ANY STRUCTURE OR PREMISES FOR ANY PURPOSE
WHICH WILL OR MIGHT EMIT FOUL OR OFFENSIVE
ODORS WITHIN A RADIUS OF THREE MILES OF THE
GOVERNOR BACON HEALTH CENTER; EXCEPTIONS.
Section 1. Subchapter 1, Chapter 53, Title 16, Delaware
Code of 1953, is amended by adding thereto the following new
§ 5311. Restriction on offensive use of property within
No person shall erect or cause to be erected any struc-ture
or use or cause to be used any structure, or premises for any
purpose which will or might emit foul or offensive odors, gases,
efflusion or stenches within a radius of three miles of the Gover-nor
Bacon Health Center. However, nothing in this section shall
prohibit the raising of poultry, or live stock and the processing
of the same, or the processing of farm produce.
Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall
be guilty of maintaining a nuisance and shall be enjoined as
hereinafter provided.
Whenever such nuisance exists the Attorney General
of the State, or any person who is a citizen of the county, or has
an office therein, may bring an action in equity in the name of
the State of Delaware, upon the relation of such Attorney
General, or person, to abate such nuisance and to perpetually
enjoin the person maintaining the same from further mainte-nance
PROVIDING FOR INCOME TAX REFUND FUND
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30, DELAWARE CODE OF 1953,
ENTITLED "STATE TAXES' BY PROVIDING FOR A
REPAYMENT FUND FOR INCOME TAXES.
WHEREAS, Section 166 of the Revised Code of Delaware
of 1935 provided that the State Tax Department may retain cer-tain
funds in a repayment fund in order to pay income tax
AND, WHEREAS, the said provision does not appear in
the Delaware Code of 1953,
AND, WHEREAS, it was not the intention of the General
Assembly to abolish such fund, NOW, THEREFORE,
Section 1. § 1183, Title 30, Delaware Code of 1953 is
amended by adding thereto a subparagraph (e) as follows :
(e) The Tax Department shall retain out of the revenue
collected by it a sum sufficient to provide at all times a fund of
$20,000 out of which it shall pay any refunds provided for in this
chapter. The fund shall be deposited in the financial institution
which is the legal depository of State monies to the credit of the
State Tax Department and shall be disbursable on order of the
Tax Commissioner.
Section 2. This act shall be effective as of February 12,
Approved April 20, 1953.
VACCINATION AGAINST BANG'S DISEASE
AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE
BOARD OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE VACCINATION
OF CALVES AND TESTING OF CATTLE FOR BANG'S
Section 1. There is appropriated to the State Board of
Agriculture the sum of Seventeen Thousand Dollars ($17,000.00)
for the vaccination of calves and the testing of cattle for Bang's
Disease in accordance with the authority vested in said Board
under § 7323, Title 3 of the Delaware Code of 1953, of which the
sum of Eight Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($8,500.00) shall
be available for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1953, and the
be available for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1954. Such sums
shall be paid by the State Treasurer upon warrants signed by
the proper officers of the State Board of Agriculture.
Section 2. This Act shall be known as a Supplementary
Appropriation Act, and the funds hereby appropriated shall be
paid out of any monies in the General Fund of the State Treasury,
not otherwise appropriated.
AUTHORIZING EMPLOYMENT OF AN ADDITIONAL DEPUTY AND
CLERKS IN OFFICE OF PROTHONTARY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY
AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 23, TITLE 10, DELAWARE
CODE OF 1953, RELATING TO THE NUMBER OF DEP-UTIES
AND CLERKS THE PROTHONOTARY OF NEW
CASTLE COUNTY MAY EMPLOY.
Section 1. § 2302, Title 10, Delaware Code of 1953 is
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