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CHAPTER 48.

OF THE GENERAL ELECTION.

AN ACT to amend Chapter 38, Volume 21, Laws of Delaware, being an act entitled "An Act in regard to General Elections."

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

Section 1. That Chapter 38, Volume 21, Laws of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by striking out of said act all of Section 3 thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof a new section to be known as Section 3 of said Act, which is as follows, viz:

"Section 3. The Sheriff of each county shall after the liver ballot Twenty-third day and before the Twenty-seventh day of October in the year of holding the General Election deliver to the inspector of each election district or other officer, authorized by law to hold the election therein (outside of the City of Wilmington) two suitable ballot boxes, with a piece of tape and sealing wax, together with a list of all the officers to be chosen at the then next General Election, written or printed forms of tally lists, of certificates of election in said election district, of the oath or affirmation of the inspector or other person authorized by law to hold the election therein, and persons to be taken as Judges of Election, and also of the clerks who shall be chosen to act at such election, and of the certificate of administering such oaths or affirmations, with printed or written directions as to correcting, completing and signing such oath or affirmation and certificate of administering the same, and shall also deliver to each inspector or other officer authorized by law to hold the election as aforesaid (outside of the City of Wilmington) a book of blank forms of oaths (or affirmations) provided for in Section 19 of this Act.

That the Department of Elections for the City of Wilmington shall in addition to the registers and things they are now required by law to furnish to the inspectors of election in said City shall between the Twenty-third and Twenty-seventh days of October in the year of holding the General Election deliver to the inspector of each election district or other officer authorized by law to hold the election therein, in the City of Wilmington, two suitable ballot boxes with a piece of tape and sealing wax together with a list of all the officers to be chosen at the then next General Election, written or printed forms of tally lists, of certificates of election in said election district, of the oath or affirmation of the inspector or other person authorized by law to hold the election therein, and the persons to be taken as Judges of Election, and also of the Clerks who shall be chosen to act at such election, and of the certificate of administering such oaths or affirmations with printed or written directions as to correcting, completing and signing such oath or affirmation, and certificate of administering the same, and shall also deliver to each inspector or other officer authorized by law to hold the election as aforesaid, in the City of Wilmington, a book of blank forms of oaths (or affirmations) provided for in Section 19 of this Act."

Section 2. That Chapter 38, Volume 21, Laws of Delaware be further amended by inserting in the third line of Section 8 thereof after the word "Sheriff" and before the word "a" the following: "or Department of Election for the City of Wilmington."

Approved April 4, A. D. 1911.