Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 118

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 229, TITLE 6, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO INLAND AND FOREIGN BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. Section 229, Title 6, Delaware Code, is repealed and a new Section 229 enacted in lieu thereof to read as follows:

An inland bill of exchange is a bill which is, or on its face purports to be, both drawn and payable within the United States. Any other bill is a foreign bill. Unless the contrary appears on the face of the bill, the holder may treat it as an inland bill. For the purposes of this paragraph 'United States' means the states, territories, dependencies and possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Approved July 19, 1963.