25 Del. C. § 157
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§ Â 157. Potter charity leases.
Official statutory text
The record or duly certified copies, heretofore made by authority of law, or which are hereafter made by order of the Court of Chancery, of any and every lease of any portion of the lands, tenements or hereditaments situated in Kent or Sussex Counties, which were devised by Benjamin Potter, deceased, to certain charitable uses, shall be competent evidence in the courts of this State. The fee for recording any such lease or certifying the record thereof by any register in chancery shall be the same as fixed by law, to be paid to the recorder of deeds for like services.
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