Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 164

FEES OF PUBLIC OFFICERS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 156 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, ENTITLED "FEES OF PUBLIC OFFICERS," AS AMENDED, BY MAKING CERTAIN CHANGES IN THE AMOUNT OF FEES CHARGED BY THE PROTHONOTARIES OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES AND BY THE RECORDERS IN KENT AND SUSSEX COUNTIES.

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

Section 1. That Paragraph 5349. Sec. 6. of Chapter 156 of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out and repealing the twenty-sixth subparagraph thereof, as found on page 1083, and by inserting in lieu thereof a new twenty-sixth sub-paragraph, as follows:

Entering judgment upon bond with warrant of attorney to Prothonotary or attorney for confession of judgment 1.25

Section 2. That Paragraph 5349. Sec. 6. of Chapter 156, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out and repealing the sixty-ninth subparagraph thereof, being the third sub-paragraph under "Other Services" as found on page 1084, and by inserting in lieu thereof a new sixty-ninth sub-paragraph, as follows:

Entering satisfaction of a judgment, assignment of judgment or marking a judgment to the use of 0.00

Section 3. That Paragraph 5349. Sec. 6. of Chapter 156, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out and repealing the seventieth subparagraph thereof, being the fourth sub-paragraph under "Other Services" as found on page 1084, and by inserting in lieu thereof a new seventieth sub-paragraph, as follows:

Search upon application of a person, not an attorney of the Court 2.50

Section 4. That Paragraph 5356. Sec. 13. of Chapter 156, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out and repealing the ninth sub-paragraph thereof, as found on page 1090, and by inserting in lieu thereof a new ninth sub-paragraph, as follows:

Conveyance and lien searches, time consumed in making same, two dollars and fifty cents for first hour and one dollar additional for every additional hour.

Approved June 4, 1951.