Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 298

COUNTY OFFICES RESPECTING TIMES WHEN CERTAIN OFFICES SHALL BE KEPT OPEN

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 52 OF THE REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO "COUNTY OFFICES" BY CHANGING THE TIMES THAT THE OFFICES OF THE RESPECTIVE PROTHONOTABLES, CLERKS OF THE PEACE, CLERKS OF THE ORPHANS' COURT, REGISTERS OF WILLS, RECORDERS AND SHERIFFS SHALL BE KEPT OPEN.

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

Section 1. That 1588. Sec. 1. of Chapter 52, Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out and repealing the first paragraph and by inserting in lieu thereof a new first paragraph as follows:

The respective Prothonotaries, Clerks of the Peace, Clerks of the Orphans' Court, Registers in Chancery, Registers of Wills, Recorders, County Treasurers and Collectors of Taxes, Comptrollers and Sheriffs, shall keep all records, books, papers, and other things belonging to their respective offices, in their said offices respectively, which shall be kept open at all times (Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year excepted).

Approved June 5, 1951.