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satisfaction.

22. Subject to and in accordance with any rules to be made under Entry of and for the purposes of this Ordinance, the Registrar may order a memo- satisfaction. randum of satisfaction to be written upon any registered copy of a bill of sale, on the prescribed evidence being given that the debt, if any, for which such bill of sale was made or given has been satisfied or dis- charged.

23.--(1.) Any person shall be entitled to have an office copy or ex- Right to have tract of any registered bill of sale and affidavit of execution filed there- copies. with, or copy thereof, and of any affidavit filed therewith, or registered affidavit of renewal, on paying for the same at the like rate as for office copies of judgments of the Supreme Court.

(2.) Any copy of a registered bill of sale, and affidavit purporting to be an office copy thereof, shall, in all Courts and before all arbitrators or other persons, be admitted as prima facie evidence thereof and of the fact and date of registration as shown thereon.

(3.) Any person shall be entitled at all reasonable times to search the register on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents, subject to such regula- tions as may be prescribed, and shall be entitled at all reasonable times to inspect, examine, and make extracts from any and every registered bill of sale, without being required to make a written application or to specify any particulars in reference thereto, on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents for each bill of sale inspected: Provided that the said extracts shall be limited to the dates of execution, registration, renewal of re- gistration, and satisfaction, to the names, addresses and occupations of the parties, to the amount of the consideration, and to any further parti- culars prescribed by any rules made under and for the purposes of this Ordinance.

24. -- (1.) Every affidavit required by or for the purposes of this Affidavits, Ordinance may be sworn before the Registrar or before any Commis- sioner empowered to administer oaths in the Supreme Court,

(2.) Every person who wilfully makes or uses any false affidavit or declaration for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury,

25. The fees mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance, and such other fees as may be hereafter prescribed, shall be paid to the Registrar, who shall account for the same in like manner as is now done with respect to other fees received by him by virtue of his office,

26.---(1.) Rules for the purposes of this Ordinance may be made and altered from time to time by the like persons and in the like manner in which rules may be made under and for the purposes of the Supreme Court under the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873.

Fees.

Second Schedule.

Making of rules.

No. 3 of 1873.

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