OF VALUATION AND TAXATION OF PROPERTY.

tion to tax said marsh to an amount equal to, if not exceeding, in some cases, the rental value thereof,

AND WHEREAS, It is a maxim of municipal law that property in a city shall pay a reasonable tax for the protection given it by the city, and from this is deduced the rule, that property that protects the city should not be taxed by it,

AND WHEREAS, It is all important to the lives, health and protection of the citizens of the city of Wilmington, that the owners of said marsh lands shall continue in the future, (as they have in the past) to keep up their banks, and to that end they should, in all justice and fairness, be exempted from all taxes and assessments heretofore levied upon them by the said city of Wilmington; therefore

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

Low lands

of Wilming

from muni

years.

SECTION I. That each and every acre, and all parts and portions of an acre, of the improved marsh and meadow in the city Îands within the limits of the city of Wilmington, except all ton exempt such marsh and meadow lands within the limits of said city on t which have heretofore been exempted from taxation by act of tion for ten General Assembly, be and the same are hereby declared to be exempt from all municipal taxes, assessments, burdens, and impositions of any kind or nature, whatsoever, for and during the period and term of ten years from and after the passage of this act; and no municipal tax shall be levied or collected by the said city of Wilmington, from the owner or owners of any part or parts of said marsh and meadow lands, during the period and term of ten years as aforesaid.

Passed at Dover, April 23, 1889.

TITLE FOURTH

Of the General Election.

General election in

CHAPTER 467.

OF ELECTIONS.

AN ACT to change the place of holding the General Election in Blackbird Hundred.

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

SECTION I. That the place of holding the General Election in Blackbird hundred be and is hereby changed from the Blackbird house formerly occupied as a tavern by Bassett Ferguson in hundred, the village of Blackbird, to the office of the road commission-ers for Blackbird Hundred in the aforesaid village.

place of holding.

Passed at Dover, March 22, 1889.

TITLE FIFTH.

Of Certain Public Offices.

CHAPTER 468.

OE THE CLERK OF THE PEACE.

AN ACT to authorize the Clerk of the Peace of Kent County to procure a new seal of office.

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

How en

SECTION I. That Alfred H. Cahall, Clerk of the Peace in New seat and for Kent County, be and he is hereby authorized to procure of office. a new seal for his office, to be made of brass of the size of the one now in use, and engraved with the devices of the present graved." seal, which said seal when completed shall be taken and deemed to be the seal of the Clerk of the Peace of Kent County in the State of Delaware, and shall thereafter be affixed to all writings, papers, and records, where the seal of said Clerk of the Peace is required and the present seal shall then be broken Old seal to up and destroyed by said Clerk of the Peace.

be de

stroyed.

SECTION 2. That the Levy Court and Court of Appeals of Levy Court Kent County shall pay the necessary costs and expenses of to pos procuring the said new seal.

Passed at Dover, January 23, 1889.

expenses.

OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.

An additional No

for White

CHAPTER 469.

OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.

AN ACT authorizing the Governor to appoint an additional Notary Public for White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County.

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

That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to aptary Public point an additional Notary Public for White Clay Creek Clay Creek Hundred to reside in the town of Newark in said hundred. Hundred. Passed at Dover, February 19, 1889.

banks of Wilming

ton and

CHAPTER 470.

OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.

AN ACT in relation to Notaries Public in the city of Wilmington and New
Castle.

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

SECTION I. That from and after the passage of this act it Notaries in shall be lawful and sufficient for any Notary Public appointed for and resident in any bank in the city of Wilmington or the New Castle, City of New Castle, or any other Notary Public in either of said cities, to give notice of the non-acceptance, non-payment and protest of any bill of exchange, promissory note, check, draft or other negotiable instrument, by mailing said notice on said cities. the same day in which the protest was made, in the post-office at Wilmington or New Castle respectively according to the place of protest, directed to the address* either place of business or place of residence, of the person sought to be charged by said notice.

May give notice by mail in

Notice, how directed.

*So enrolled.

OF NOTARIES PUBLIC.

mail said

SECTION 2. That said notice shall be deposited in the Notary to post-office in whichever of said cities said protest was made, notice. in person by the Notary Public making the protest; to which fact the said Notary shall be able to make oath or affirmation if called upon so to do.

mailing.

SECTION 3. That the expense of mailing said city notices Cost of shall be borne by the notary making the protest, and shall not be annexed to the costs of protesting.

SECTION 4. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be printed among the Laws of this State. Passed at Dover, April 4, 1889.

CHAPTER 471.

OF NOTARIES PUBLIC AND COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS.

AN ACT to amend Chapter XXXVI of the Revised Code, Laws of Delaware.

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

Chapter 36

Code in re

Notaries

SECTION I. That Section 4, Chapter 36, Revised Code, be of Revised and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the lation to word "in" and the word "other" in line 2 of said Section 4, and Comthe following: "Or having a business office" in.

Passed at Dover, April 17, 1889.

missioners

of Deeds.