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An Act to amend the act entitled, An act concerning Apprentices and Servants 1851 599 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0169 and id is 1 raw text is: STATr OF DELAWARE. CHAPTER DXCVII. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled, An act more Dig. 483. efectually to prevent the profanation of the Lord's Day, common- Ante 195. ly called Sunday. SCT!ON 1. Be it enacted by he Senate and House of Representa- ives of the State of Delaware, in General dssembly met, That Selling liuor hereafter it shall not be lawful for any keeper of a public house of by tv. kep entertainment, tavern, inn, ale house, ordinary or victualling house, er on Lord's to sell any spiritous or intoxicating liquors, as a drink, or any other kind day prohibi. of liquor or beverage, usually sold at a tavern bar, on the Lord's ted. Day, or Sunday, and such sale shall be considered as a worldly em- ployment or business, and shall subject the offender, for the first offnce, to a fine of twenty dollars, and for the second offence to a Penalty. fine of fifty dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Gaol Delivery. STorON 2. And be it enacted, That the supplement to the act entitled, An act more effectually to prevent the profanation of the Repeal. Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, passed at Dover,.February 23, A. D., 1847, be and the same is hereby repealed. Passed at Dover, March 6, 1851. CHAPTER DXCV11I AN ACT to amend the act entitled, An act concerning Apprenti- Dia 34. ces and Servants. SECTION 1. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- tatives of the State of Delaware, in General .A1ssembly met, That the act concerning Apprentices and Servants, shall be altered, amend- Amended. ed and supplied as follows, viz: by striking out all after the third section after the word Poor in the second line, and inserting or one Justice of the Peace and one Trustee of the Poor, in ant for either of the counties of this State, after receiving information of any negro or mulatto child or children within their county, having no parents in this State, or who being under the age of fifteen years, who have not parents able to maintain them, or who do not bring them up to industry and suitable employment, shall, after notice given to the parents as hereinafter contained, issue process under their hands and seals, directed to any Constable of their county, commanding him to bring them at a time and place therein appoint-. 5o9

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