CHAPTER 275
REGISTER OF WILLS
AN ACT to amend Chapter 156 of the Revised Code relating to Fees of the Register of Wills in and for New Castle County.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That Chapter 156 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware be and it is hereby amended by repealing 4860 Sec. 13 thereof, and by substituting in lieu thereof the following Section, to be styled: "4860. Sec. 13."
4860. Sec. 13. Register of Wills in New Castle County:
For filing petition for granting of letters of administration or testamentary $ .50
For granting letters of administration under seal, taking bond and making registry thereof and
Appointing appraisers, if the estate does not exceed $100 1.25
Over $100. and not exceeding $500. 2.00
Over $500. and not exceeding $2000. 3.00
Over $2000. and not exceeding $5000. 4.00
Over $5000. and not exceeding $10,000. 7.00
Over $10,000. and not exceeding $20,000. 10.00
Over $20,000. and not exceeding $50,000. 12.00
Over $50,000. and not exceeding $75,000. 15.00
Over $75,000. and not exceeding $100,000. 20.00
Over $100,000. 25.00
Taking and registering probate of will 2.00
For granting letters testamentary under seal, same as for letters of administration
Copy of will annexed to letters testamentary, one and one-half cents per line of eight words
Entering renunciation .25
Making and registering order for advertising letters of administration or testamentary 1.00
Hand Bills 1.00
Filing inventory, and making registry of such filing and of appraised value of goods and chattels therein .25
Filing list of debts .25
Taking affidavit .25
Filing, adjusting and settling account, certifying such settlement, if the sum of debts and credits
Inclusive of interest calculated shall not exceed $100 1.00
Over $100. and not exceeding $500. 2.00
Over $500. and not exceeding $1000 3.00
Over $1000. and not exceeding $5000. 5.00
Over $5000. and not exceeding $10,000. 8.00
Over $10,000. and not exceeding $15,000. 10.00
Over $15,000. and not exceeding $20,000. 12.00
Over $20,000. and not exceeding $30,000. 15.00
Over $30,000. and not exceeding $40,000. 17.50
Over $40,000. one-fourth of one per cent, not exceeding in any case, however, the sum of $20,000.00
For copy of account fifty cents per page, provided that each page of the account as stated shall
constitute a page.
For recording and indexing, direct and indirect, accounts and settlements, where the total estate
does not exceed $100.00 1.00
Over $100.00 and not exceeding $500.00 2.00
Over $500.00 and not exceeding $1000.00 3.00
And for every additional $500.00 or fractional part thereof, in excess of $1,000.00, twenty-five cents,
Not exceeding, however, in any case the sum of $1,500.00
Entering caveat .50
Issuing citation .50
Issuing subpoena to give evidence, all witnesses named before the issuing of the subpoena
to be Named therein .50
Issuing an attachment 1.00
Taking depositions at large upon the litigation of a cause, two cents per line, and twenty-five cents
Additional for each deposition
Entering interlocutory order upon the litigation of a cause .50
Entering sentence or decree upon the actual litigation of a cause 1.00
Filing any petition, exception or other paper .50
Fee for sitting in trial of cause, per day 5.00
For recording release, acquittance or receipt 1.00
And for each additional acknowledgment or certificate .25
Fee for acknowledging an acquittance, or any paper necessary to have acknowledgment thereto .50
For recording will and probate, or any other writing proper to be recorded, and not otherwise
Provided for, one and one-half cents per line of eight words
Certifying an extract, two cents per line of eight words
Affixing seal of office to any writing not hereinbefore mentioned, and for which no other fee is allowed .50
Making search .25
Copy for exemplification of a record under seal not before provided for, one and one-half cents
per line of eight words.
In recording any will or paper or in giving any copy or exemplification of any paper, account or
record which does not make one full page of the record the same shall be considered as a full page.
Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall become operative forthwith upon its approval by the Governor of the State and shall be applicable to all estates in which no final account shall have been settled and passed at the time of said approval.
Approved April 11, 1929.