CHAPTER 265.
GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 155 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware in relation to the Description of Money.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That Chapter 155 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by repealing and striking out Paragraph 4831. Sec. 26, and inserting in lieu thereof a new Paragraph, which shall be known as Paragraph 4831. Sec. 26, as follows:
When money is the subject of larceny, and the same be metal, it shall be sufficient to allege in any indictment, sundry coins of the aggregate value of ________ dollars; and if the same be paper money, it shall be sufficient to allege in any indictment, certain paper money of the aggregate value of _________ dollars.
In any indictment the words "money," "dollars" or "cents" shall be construed to mean lawful money of the United States of America.
Section 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Approved March 26, A. D. 1917.