“CHAPTER CCCLXVIII.
AN ACT concerning Fees.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the following shall hereafter be the rate of fees, for the services hereinafter prescribed, that is to say:
Justices of the Peace shall receive
For opening judgment for new trial, ten cents:
For issuing notice for new trial, thirteen cents:
For entry of stay on account of freehold, ten cents:
For postponement of a case, on the application of either party, to be paid by the party so applying, ten cents:
For transferring indentures, thirty cents:
For licenses to negroes to keep a gun, twenty-five cents.
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Full Text: 1841, DE, Laws of the State of Delaware, ch. 368, § 1
Laws of the State of Delaware: Passed at a Session of the General Assembly Commenced and Held at Dover on Tuesday the Fifth Day of January in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-One and of the the [Sic] Independence of the United States the Sixty-Fifth (Dover, DE: S. Kimmey, 1841), 430-431. Passed February 22, 1841.