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An Act to provide for recording acts and resolutions of the General Assembly not of a public nature and for other purposes. 1825 390 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0075 and id is 1 raw text is: OF DELAWARE. will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight CHAP. hundred and thirty-nine and no longer. CCu11. 1825. PASSED AT DOVER,? January 26, 18.5. S CRAPTER CCLIV. AN ACT toprovidefjhr recording acts and resolutions of the General Assembly not ofapubic nature andfor other purposes. SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED (ythe Senate and .ouse of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That whenever any act or Private acts resolution shall be passed or adopted by the Legisla-not n cord-d n th offlice ture of this State, which shall not be of a public naturer! in)trm or printed or published as such, it shall and may beofdecds- lawful for the person or persons, in whose favour such act or resolution shall pass or be adopted,- to procure a copy of the same, attested by the Sectrary of State under the seal of his office, to be recorded in thte office for recording of deeds, in one of the counties of this State, within twelve months after the samte shall twelve piss or be adopted as aforesaid, in a book provided nontis nfler i r that purpos e; and the record thereof, or a copy pssng- o the same under the hand of the Recorder and seal of his office, shall be evidence in all Courts of laiv or equity in this State: and every such act or resolu- tion, not recorded within the tine aforesaid, shall beto be void. void and of no eflect. SE c. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any Ten donlr. . . to be paid for such act or resolution as aforesaiu shall authorize any ,.ach slave person or persons to bring into this State any negro ago endt or mulatto servant or slave, the pirson or persons, in o thisate whose favour such act or resolution shall pass or beby privatea ct adopted, shall at the time of procuring a copy of theme.csoluionl same from the Secretary of the State, pay to the said -hn and to whom to be Secretar3 , for the use of the State, the sum of ten pav,,d. Digitized from Best Copy Available 390

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