CHAPTER 19.

OF THE REVENUES OF THE STATE.

AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled "An Act to Raise Revenue for the State by Taxing Certain Corporations" being Chapter 166, Volume 21, Laws of Delaware, amended and published as Chapter 15, Volume 22, Laws of Delaware.

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

Section 1. That Chapter 166, Volume 21, Laws of Delaware, amended and published as Chapter 15, Volume 22, Laws of Delaware, entitled "An Act to Raise Revenue for the State by Taxing Certain Corporations", as amended by the Acts amendatory thereto, be and the same is hereby amended in the manner following:

1st. By striking out the period after the word "time" in the thirty-first line of Section 2 as published in said Chapter 15, Volume 22, which line is the end of the first paragraph of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof a semi-colon (;), and then adding thereto the following words: "Each life insurance company shall state the total amount of premiums received by it for insurance upon the lives of persons resident within this State, during the same time."

2nd. By striking out everything after the word "tax" in the twenty-third line of Section 4 as published in said Chapter 15, Volume 22, down to and including the word "preceding" in the twenty-ninth line thereof, being the end of that sentence, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: "of two percentum upon the gross amount of the premium so returned or ascertained."

3d. By striking out the period at the end of Section 4 as published in said Chapter 15, Volume 22, and as amended by Chapter 259, Volume 22, Laws of Delaware, and inserting in lieu thereof a semi-colon (;), and then adding thereto the following words: "provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to exempt any life insurance company incorporated under the laws of Delaware, from the payment of any part of the tax hereinbefore specifically provided for such companies."

Approved March 31, A. D. 1913.