CHAPTER 73.
OF SALARIES.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 60, of Volume 23, Laws of Delaware, entitled, "An Act requiring and enforcing payment to the County Treasurer of all fees of certain offices, regulating accounts of fees and audits thereof and fixing the compensation of such County officers and of their Deputies and clerks", approved April 6, 1905, as the same has been amended by abolishing the salaries therein provided for certain Deputies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That Chapter 60, of Volume 23, Laws of Delaware, entitled, "An Act requiring and enforcing payment to the County Treasurer of all fees of certain offices, regulating accounts of fees and audits thereof and fixing the compensation of such County officers and of their Deputies and clerks," be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the third paragraph of Section 8, of said Act, reading as follows:
"In Kent and in Sussex County each of said officers, except the Coroner enumerated in this Section, may select and employ one Deputy at a salary of Six Hundred Dollars"; Also by striking out all of Section 9 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"Section 9: That in Kent County and in Sussex County the Sheriff may appoint a Deputy at a salary of Six Hundred Dollars per annum and in Kent County the Recorder of Deeds may appoint a Deputy at a salary of Six Hundred Dollars, which shall be paid to such Deputies by warrants drawn by the Levy Court of the respective Counties on the County Treasurer in equal monthly installments, upon the certificate in writing of the officers employing them that they have faithfully performed their duties during the preceding month. The other officers enumerated in Section 7 may each appoint a Deputy who shall have such powers and be charged with such duties as shall be enumerated in a Certificate of Appointment to be issued to him by the officer so appointing, which certificate shall be immediately recorded in the Recorder's Office of the County in which such office is located; except that in case of the Register of Wills such Deputy shall have the powers and perform the duties now prescribed by law. Such Deputies except the Deputies of the Sheriffs of Kent and Sussex Counties and the Deputy of the Recorder of Deeds of Kent County shall receive no salary from the County."
Section 2. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the salaries of the Deputies of the said officers now in office.
Approved March 26, A. D. 1913.