CHAPTER 92.
SALARY OF CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICERS.
AN ACT to amend Chapter 53 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, in relation to the number of Deputies and Clerks of certain County officers 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 be and the same is hereby amended by repealing the first paragraph of 1439, Section 7 thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the following which shall be the first paragraph of 1439, Section 7.
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 one thousand and five hundred dollars, and three clerks, each at a salary of twelve hundred dollars ; the Sheriff, three Deputies, one at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, one at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars and one at a salary of eight hundred dollars; the Coroner, one Deputy at a salary of five hundred dollars; the Prothonotary, one Deputy at a salary of one thousand and five hundred dollars, and one clerk at a salary of twelve hundred dollars; the Recorder, one Deputy at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, and four clerks, each at a salary of twelve hundred dollars; the Register of Wills, one Deputy at a salary of one thousand and five hundred dollars, and one Clerk at a salary of twelve hundred dollars ; the Register in Chancery and Clerk of the Orphans' Court may select and employ two Deputies at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each; provided, however, that the Levy Court Commissioners 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 or Deputies 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 officers. And provided further, that any additional Clerks or Deputies so authorized or employed shall receive the same compensation as is fixed by law for the other Clerks or Deputies performing like or similar services, and payable in the manner fixed by law.
Section 2. This Act shall become operative on the first day of July, A. D. 1917.
Approved April 18, A. D. 1917.