CHAPTER XVII.

AN ACT to amend Section 12 of Chapter 24, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met, That the twelfth section of Chapter 24, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware as the same is-printed, shall be and the same is hereby amended, by inserting in the sixth line of said section, immediately after the words, "prescribed in section," the figure "6," and by expunging from 'said-twelfth section the figure " 5;" and that in any edition of the Statutes hereafter.to be published, the printing thereof shall be conformed to the provisions of this act.

Passed at-Dover, January 28, 1853.