61 John H. Harris, auditor of accounts for postage, three dollars and J. H. Harris. fifteen cents; to Augustus M. Schee, for printing the auditor's re- A. M. Schee. port for 1827, and for transporting the Journals of the House of Representatives of 1829 to New Castle and Georgetown, twenty main. five dollars; to James C. Lynch and William Surmain, for services J. C. Lynch and expenses in going to Norfolk, with a demand from the Gover- and W. Surnor of Delaware on the Governor of Virginia, for James R. Hearne and James L. Vincent, fugitives from justice, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-one cents; to Robert Porter for print- R. Porter. ing, eighteen dollars and twenty cents. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the State Treasurer be, and he Secretary of is hereby authorised to pay to the Secretary of State the sum of State. two hundred dollars, to be applied by him to the payment of the contingent expenses of his office, an account of which shall be submitted to the General Assembly at the next January session. Passed at Dover, Jan. 29, 1830. CHAPTER XLII. AN ACT for the payment of claims for the tuition of poor children in New Castle county. Trustee of the school fund authori SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the sed to pay trustee of the fund for establishing schools in this State be, and he out of the is hereby authorised and required to pay out of any unappropriated portion of money of that portion of the school fund in his hands belonging to New Castle county, and standing on the books of the trustee afore- New Castle that fund besaid, to the credit of the said county, the following claims for the tui- county, cerlunging to tion of poor children, that is to say: to Maria C. Smith, Free Harmony School, Wilmington, eighty dollars; to Miss Jane A. Barr, for M. C. Smith. the Female Benevolent Society of New Castle, eighty dollars; to J. A. Barr. Joseph Lobb, jr., nine dollars eighty-seven and a half cents; to Na- J. Lobb, jr. thaniel Cloud, five dollars and fifty one cents; to Isaac Grubb, jr., J. Grubb, jr. twenty-eight dollars, and to Albert Webster, fourteen dollars. Passed at Dover, Jan. 29, 1839. tain claims N. Cloud. A. Webster. CHAPTER XLIII. A FURTER ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled [2 v. 1132, "An act to authorise the owners and possessors of the marsh or 1219, 6 v. low ground commonly called and known by the name of "Cow 625.] Marsh," situate in the forest of Murderkill hundred in Kent coun ty, to cut a ditch or drain through the same. Passed at Dover, Jan. 29, 1830. RESOLUTIONS. ·000· Appointing bank direc tors. Dover. CHAPTER XLIV. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the following persons be, and they are hereby appointed directors of the Farmer's Bank of the State of Delaware on the part of the State, agreeable to an act of the General Assembly in such case made and provided: For Wilmington. the principal bank Joseph Smithers, William K. Lockwood, Hunn Jenkins; for the branch at Wilmington, John J. Milligan, Charles I. New Castle. du Pont, Harry Connelly; for the branch at New Castle, Thomas Stockton, Samuel Meeteer, Benjamin Watson; for the branch at Georgetown. Georgetown, William D. Waples, David Hazzard and Matthew Rench. Adopted at Dover, Jan. 8, 1830. Secretary of CHAPTER XLV. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State State to close of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the Secretary of State the 7th vol. be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to close the seventh volume of the laws of this State, with the acts passed at the last session. Del. Laws. To make a vate acts and &c. Resolved by the authority aforesaid, That the Secretary of State table of pri- be, and he hereby is directed to make out a table of private acts general index and a general index to the said seventh volume; that he cause two hundred copies of the said table of private acts and general index to be printed, fifty copies whereof he shall lodge with the prothonotary of each county, to be distributed gratis to such citizens as may call for the same, and the remaining fifty copies to be retained in the Secretary's office. Fifty copies to be bound up. Resolved by the authority aforesaid, That the Secretary of State cause to be bound up to correspond with the other bound volumes of the laws, fifty copies of the said seventh volume, with the table of private acts and general index; twenty-one copies of which he shall deposit in the library of the House of Representatives, nine copies in that of the Senate, for the use of the General Assembly, and the remaining twenty copies shall be deposited in the Secretary's office for the purpose of interchange agrecable to law. Pamphlet Resolved by the authority aforesaid, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby directed to cause to be bound up as many as of the copies, not exceeding three of each, of all the pamphlet laws of the several States several States and Territories of the United States, as he can ob- to be bound tain, either from the Secretary's office or from the library of the up. Senate or of the House of Representatives; and in case at least one complete copy of the laws of any State or Territory cannot be found (unless there have been a digest of said laws, which is in the possession of this State) he shall take proper measures to procure a complete copy thereof, which shall be bound up as aforesaid. Resolved, That the acts of the present session shall commence a Acts of 1830 new volume, to be entitled the eighth volume of the laws of Dela- to commence ware. the 8th vol. Adopted at Dover, Jan. 18, 1830. CHAPTER XLVI. Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, C. P. Comeby and with the consent of the Senate, That Cornelius P. Comegys gys appointbe, and he is hereby appointed State Treasurer. Adopted at Dover, Jan. 26, 1830. ed State Treasurer. CHAPTER XLVII. State Trea Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the State Treasurer surer to pay be, and he hereby is authorised and directed to pay to Willard Willard Hall Hall, for his services in digesting and preparing for publication the $2500. revised edition of the laws of Delaware, two thousand five hundred dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this General Assembly be, and they are hereby accorded to and tendered to the said Willard Hall, for the very able and faithful manner in which he has acquited himself of that important trust. Resolved further, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the speaker of the Senate to the said Willard Hall. Adopted at Dover, Jan. 29, 1830. State Trea of the trustee of the school fund. CHAPTER XLVIII. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State surer autho- of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the State Treasurer be, rised to bor- and he is hereby authorised and required, immediately after the row $10,000 passing of this resolution, to borrow of the trustee of the fund for establishing schools in this State, any sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which may now be in the hands of the said trustee, and which will not be required for the purposes of school appropriations, before the same can be replaced from the funds of the Appropria State: and the said State Treasurer is hereby directed and required to place the said sum so borrowed to the credit and for the use of this State, to be applied and used toward the payment of the salaries of the Chancellor and Judges, and for the support of governState pledged ment for the present year, and that the faith of the State be, and the same is hereby pledged for the re-payment of said sum of money within one year from the date of the loan, and that the treasurer shall receive one-eighth of one per cent. out of the money so obtained for his services. tion thereof. Faith of the for the re payment thereof. Adopted at Dover, Jan. 27, 1830. Resolution relative to CHAPTER XLIX. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 20, 1830. The committee to whom was referred so much of the Governor's Message as relates to the tariff of the United States, and the communication of Virginia upon that subject, have bestowed on the subject that consideration which its importance demands. The laws of the United States for the protection of domestic manufactures, have been so often debated in Congress, and so repeatedly pronounced to be in strict accordance with the spirit and meaning of the constitution of the United States, that your committee deem it wholly unnecessary to enter into any argument upon the subject. They therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolu tion: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the tariff of 1828 acthe tariff of cords with the spirit of the constitution of the United States, and is a protection to home industry, from the overwhelming influence of foreign rivalry. 1828. Resolved, That the Governor of the State be requested to com municate the foregoing resolution to the Executive of the several To be sent to States of the United States, with the request that the same be laid the several before their respective Legislatures. States. And to our Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit copies of the same resolution to the Senators and Representative of Dela- senators and ware, in the Congress of the United States, with the request to the representa. Representative, and instruction to the Senators, that the same be tive in conlaid by them before their respective Houses. Adopted at Dover, Jan. 26, 1830, gress. CHAPTER L. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 25, 1830. The committee to whom was referred so much of the message Decisions of of the late Governor as relates to the publishing reports of cases the High adjudged in the High Court of Errors and Appeals, beg leave to Court of Erreport, that they have conferred with Nicholas Ridgely, the Chan- rors and Apcellor, and that he is willing to undertake the service upon having of committee, peals; report the expense of paper, printing and binding advanced to him, and being indemnified other incidental charges. (Incidental expenses: they may be for copying, for copies of records, postage, and such necessary charges as may arise in the progress of the work. Mr. Ridgely will expect to have printed and bound and to sell the volumes, and their produce shall be paid in part, or in whole, as the case may be, to indemnification, and to reimburse any money advanced by the State to him. No charge of interest shall be made on either side. All that will be looked to will be principal. Mr. Ridgely will give his labor to the work; the State will patronise it. He expects that no profit will be made but by the paper-maker, the printer and book-binder. The Digest is not a model of printing and binding. In addition to such reports, Mr. Ridgely suggests, that it may be necessary, for the purpose of illustration, to report also in the form of notes, some few other decisions made in the other courts of this State. Mr. Ridgely supposes that the cases contemplated previous to this time, may form a volume as large, or nearly so, as the Digest of our laws. He states, that he is in possession of notes of all the cases, worthy of preservation, which have been heard and adjudged in the High Court of Errors and Appeals since he has held the office of Chancellor, but that of the previous cases he has notes of the causes only in which he acted as counsel for one of the parties. He expects, that by the kindness of other gentlemen, and with the aid of the records, he may be enabled to make true and full reports of such cases. The committee therefore recommend the following resolutions; |