CHAPTER 328
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
AUTHORIZING THE STATE TREASURER TO REDEEM AN OUT-DATED CHECK ISSUED BY A FORMER TREASURER OF DELAWARE ON APRIL 3, 1929, AND TO ISSUE A NEW CHECK IN LIEU THEREOF.
WHEREAS, the State Treasurer of the State of Delaware on April 3, 1929, issued a check No. 14783 for the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in payment of certain land condemned for state purposes and payable to the order of Walter C. Hyland at the Farmers Bank, Dover, Delaware, and delivered the said check to the said Walter C. Hyland; and
WHEREAS, certain repairs were to be made to a fence belonging to the said Walter C. Hyland by state authorities and the said Walter C. Hyland did not present for payment the check not cashed pending repair of the said fence; and
WHEREAS, the matter concerning the fence was never adjusted, and the check never presented for payment until a recent date when payment was refused because of the date of the check, Now, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and the House of Representatives concurring therein:
Section 1. That the present State Treasurer, on presentation of the said out-dated check for cancellation, be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the said Walter C. Hyland the holder of said check, the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), being the amount of said out-dated check.
Section 2. That this Joint Resolution shall be taken and deemed to be in the nature of a Supplementary Appropriation Act, and the money hereby authorized to be paid shall be paid out of the General Fund of the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved March 24, 1947.