Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 79

SALARIES OF CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICERS

AN ACT, to amend Chapter 53 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware (as amended by Chapter 91, Volume 30, Laws of Delaware) in relation to the deputies and clerks of certain county offices of 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 53 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, as amended by Chapter 91, Volume 30, Laws of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended:

1439 Section 7. The officers mentioned in the first Section of this Chapter may select and employ Deputies and Clerks to assist them in the performance of the duties of their offices respectively, at the following annual salaries, namely:

In New Castle County, the Clerk of the .Peace may select and employ one deputy at a salary of two thousand and one hundred dollars, and three clerks, each at a salary of one thousand and eight hundred dollars; the Sheriff, three Deputies, one at a salary of two thousand and one hundred dollars, two at a salary of one thousand and eight hundred dollars ; the Coroner, one deputy at a salary of five hundred dollars ; the Prothonotary, one Deputy at a salary of two thousand and one hundred dollars, and one Clerk at a salary of one thousand and eight hundred dollars; the Recorder, one Deputy at a salary of two thousand and one hundred dollars, and four clerks, each at a salary of one thousand and eight hundred dollars; the Register of Wills, one Deputy at a salary of two thousand and one hundred dollars, and one clerk at a salary of one thousand and eight hundred dollars; the Register in Chancery and Clerk of the Orphans' Court may select and employ one Deputy at a salary of two thousand and one hundred dollars ; provided, however, that the Levy Court of New Castle County from time to time may authorize and direct, by resolution duly adopted, that any, either or all of said officers may select such other clerks and at such times and in such numbers as it shall, in its discretion deem proper to properly perform the public work required in any office or offices of any either or all of said offices. And provided, further, that any additional Clerks so authorized or employed shall receive the same compensation as is fixed by law for the other Clerks performing like or similar services, and payable in the manner fixed by law.

Section 2. There shall be one Deputy appointed by each of the aforesaid officers. And said Deputy of each office shall be possessed of all the authority of the offices, and in the absence or disability of the duly elected officer shall perform all the duties required by law of the officer so elected. In the event of resignation or death of the elected officer the Deputy shall perform the duties of the office, until the vacancy so created shall be filled as required by the Constitution of the State. This Act shall become effective July First, A. D. 1927. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 25, A. D. 1927.