At a General Assembly Begun at Dover, in the Delaware State, ... the Following Acts Were Passed ...

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J. Adams., 1883

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Page 223 - Three for one year, three for two years, and three for three years, and members shall be eligible for reappointment.
Page 518 - There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the...
Page 689 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 216 - ... business, and issue stock to the amount of the value thereof in payment therefor, and the stock so issued shall be...
Page 519 - That a committee of three on the part of the house and two on the part of the senate...
Page 178 - By that act it is declared that "after the 1st of August, 1821, if any person shall accept a bill of exchange payable at the house of a banker or other place, without further expression in his acceptance, such acceptance shall be deemed and taken to be, to all intents and purposes, a general acceptance of such bill.
Page 55 - ... whose right to the office is contested, which, if taken from him, would reduce the number of his legal votes below the number of votes given to some other person for the same office, after deducting therefrom the illegal votes which may be shown to have been given to such other person.
Page 56 - ... deliver to the opposite party, at least three days before such trial, a written list of the number of illegal votes, and by whom given, which he intends to prove on such trial.
Page 217 - All corporations, whether they expire by their own limitation, or are otherwise dissolved, shall nevertheless be continued for the term of three years from such expiration or dissolution bodies corporate for the purpose of prosecuting and defending suits by or against them, and of enabling them gradually to settle and close their...
Page 250 - ... shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the county into which such pauper shall be brought...

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