CHAPTER 117.
OF THE SUPREME COURT.
AN ACT providing for a Clerk, and also Service of Process and Orders of the Supreme Court.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
SECTION 1. There shall be a clerk of the Supreme Court, who shall be appointed by the Governor. The person first appointed as aforesaid shall hold said office until the first Tuesday in January in the year one thousand nine hundred and three, and thereafter said appointments shall be made as aforesaid, for the term of four years, except appointments made to fill vacancies occurring before the expiration of a term. The said clerk shall have the custody of all records, books and papers belonging to the Supreme Court, and shall keep the same in a public office at the Capital of the State. He shall receive the same fee and compensation as provided by law for the "Clerk of the Court of Errors and Appeals," and all laws relating to the duties and requirements of the Clerk of the Court of Errors and Appeals shall be applied and extended to the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
SECTION 2. The Sheriff of Kent county shall attend the Supreme Court during its sessions, and shall be the officer for executing the process and orders of said court.
SECTION 3. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved March 1, A.D. 1898.