CHAPTER 9
OF THE PASSING AND PUBLICATION OF LAWS.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 4 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, relating to the passing and publication of Laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Chapter 4 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware be and the same is hereby stricken out and the following inserted in lieu thereof:
"Whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote of both Houses of the General Assembly, first being duly enrolled and signed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and having been approved and signed by the Governor, or not having been returned by him with his objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall forthwith be received by the Secretary of State from the Governor ; and whenever a bill, order, resolution or vote is returned by the Governor with his objections and on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed and is approved by three-fifths of all the members elected to each House of the General Assembly and thereby becomes a law, or takes effect ; it shall be received by the Secretary of State from the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in whichsoever house it shall last printing have been so approved, and the Secretary of State, if the bill, order, resolution or vote, be of a public nature, shall immediately upon the adjournment of the General Assembly, have three thousand two hundred copies, accurately printed in pamphlet form, with proper notes and index, and shall carefully preserve the originals.
"The printing shall conform with this edition and each volume shall be closed when the pages exceed five hundred and the Secretary of State shall then have three hundred and fifty copies bound with a general index, which he shall distribute as follows: one hundred copies to the Prothonotary of New Castle County, fifty copies to the Prothonotary of Kent County and fifty copies to the Prothonotary of Sussex County; and he shall charge the respective Prothonotaries for the same at the rate of two dollars per volume; one copy to the executive ; one copy to each State officer ; one copy to each County officer of the respective Counties and the residue to the State Library for the Librarian to distribute ; one copy to the State Library of each of the United States and retain the residue. The copies Custody of delivered as herein provided, to the executive, the State and County officers, shall be kept and remain in their respective offices and by them delivered to their successors as the property of said offices.
SECTION 2. That Section 2 of Chapter 4 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, be and the same is hereby stricken out and the following inserted in lieu thereof : "The Laws when printed in pamphlet form, as directed in the foregoing Section shall be distributed, by the Secretary of State as follows, one thousand one hundred copies to the Prothonotary of New Castle County, seven hundred copies to the Prothonotary of Kent County, and eight hundred copies to the Prothonotary of Sussex County; one to the President of the United States ; one to each of the departments of the General Government, two to the Library of Congress ; one to Delaware College ; one to St. Mary College ; one to the Historical Society of Delaware; one to the executive of each of the United States ; retain three hundred and fifty copies in the office of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of being bound into suitable volumes, as provided in the foregoing Section and the residue to the State Library, for the Librarian to distribute one to the State Library of each of the United States and retain the residue."
SECTION 3. That Section 4 of Chapter 4. of the Revised Statutes be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "The Auditor's Report" in the third and fourth lines of said Section.
Approved April 28, A. D. 1898.