CHAPTER 34.

GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING PUBLIC OFFICERS.

AN ACT to Amend Chapter 11 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, by providing for the Cancellation of Official Bonds of Certain Public Officers.

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

That Chapter 11 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the following Sections to be styled as 379A

Section 3A, 379B Section 3B, and 379C Section 3C.

379A, Section 3A. The several Bonds and recognizances of the several officers provided for in 379 Section 3 and 381 Section 5 of Chapter 11 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware shall be cancelled three years after the expiration of the terms of office of the said several officers and shall after such time cease to be a lien on any property of any kind of the said several officers or their respective Bondsmen.

379B, Section 3B. The said Bonds filed and recorded in the offices of the Recorders of Deeds in this State shall at the time heretofore designated be marked by him "Cancelled" and under the word "Cancelled" he shall sign his name as Recorder and shall affix the official seal of his office. The Bond filed and recorded in the offices of the Prothonotaries of the Superior Courts in this State shall at the time heretofore designated be marked by him "Cancelled" and under the word "Cancelled" he shall sign his name as Prothonotary and shall affix the official seal of his office, and the original bonds shall be returned to the obligors, or if they be dead, to their legal representatives.

379C, Section 3C. The provisions of this Act shall apply to the several officers mentioned in 379 Section 3 and 381 Section 5 of the Revised Code whose terms may have expired prior to the passage of this Amendment.

Approved February 17, A. D. 1915.