CHAPTER 180

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act concerning the publication of the Laws", being Chapter 1 of Vol. 13 of the Laws of Delaware.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

SECTION I. That the act entitled ``An act concerning the publication of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out all of Section 3 of said act, and inserting in lieu thereof the following as Section 3 of said act, viz:

"That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized and directed to demand and receive for the use of the State, on certifying any act of incorporation, the sum of twenty dollars when the capital stock of such incorporation shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars, and an additional sum of twenty cents for each and every thousand dollars above fifty thousand dollars, or when such corporation is given the power to increase its capital stock to an amount exceeding fifty thousand dollars, twenty cents for each and every thousand dollars which it is given power to increase above fifty thousand dollars; and on certifying any other act or resolution of a private nature, he shall demand and receive for the use of the State a fee of ten dollars, except that in all divorce acts, and in all acts of a private character pertaining to the acknowledgement or recording of deeds or other papers, or to titles or conveyance of real estate, he shall demand and receive for the use of the State a fee of twenty dollars in each case. That all corporations created by acts of the Legislature of this State, except municipal corporations, shall pay to the Secretary of State for the use of the State the cost of the publication of any such acts of incorporation which may be published in any edition of the Laws of this State to be hereafter issued.

This act shall not take effect until the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Passed at Dover, May 8, 1895.