CHAPTER 678.

OF JURISDICTION IN CIVIL CASES BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

AN ACT to amend Chap. 99, Revised Code.

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

SECTION 1. That Chap. 99, Revised Code, be and is hereby amended, by striking out the word "one hundred," and insert in lieu thereof the word "two hundred," where it occurs in Section one; also in Section four; also in Section eight; also in Section twelve; also in Section twenty-five; also in Section twenty-six, and also in Section thirty-two, so that the full and true intent of this amendment to Chap. 99, Revised Code, shall be to allow all Justices of the Peace, in this State to have full jurisdiction in all civil cases where the amount at issue is two hundred dollars, or under.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws in this State, that conflict with this amendment, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect on and after the first day of July, A. D. 1889.

Passed at Dover, April 26, 1889.