A.D. 1844.
LAND REGISTRATION,
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other instruments, wills, and testaments in his office until required by the party or parties depositing the same to deliver them back again: Provided that every such will or testament shall be enclosed within a cover or envelope, sealed with the seal of the testator or testatrix, whose name shall be indorsed by the Land Officer on such cover or envelope, and every such will or testament shall remain in the said office until the decease of the testator or testatrix, unless he or she previously requires the same to be delivered back, and on the death of the testator or testatrix the Land Officer shall (after examining such will or testament) deliver the same to the executor first named therein, or to such other person as may be duly authorized to receive the same.
23. If the Land Officer or any other person employed in the Land Office wilfully neglects or omits to number, register, or enter in manner hereinbefore directed any memorial or certificate delivered into the said office, he shall for every such offence forfeit and be liable to pay to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for the public purposes of the Colony, the penalty or sum of five hundred dollars, and be further liable in damages to the party injured to the extent of the loss or injury sustained.
24. If the Land Officer or any clerk or person whosoever wilfully destroys, embezzles, or secretes, forges, counterfeits, razes, defaces, or alters any memorial or any part thereof, or any indorsement thereon, or any entry or registry thereof in any book in the said office, with intent to defraud or injure any person or persons, such Land Officer, clerk, or person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding fourteen years and not less than seven years,
25. Any correction by erasure, interlineation, or otherwise in any memorial of the registry of any document required to be registered by this Ordinance shall be noted and set forth at length in red ink in the margin of the memorial wherein it is made, together with the reasons for making the same, and shall be attested and verified by the signature of the Land Officer.
26. The rent fees or sums of money mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance and no higher or other fees shall be demanded by and paid to the Land Officer in respect of anything done under or by virtue of this Ordinance; and the Land Officer is hereby required to keep an accurate account of such fees and to pay over the same to the Colonial Treasurer for the public purposes of the Colony.
Schedule.