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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :—
TLLLLIC.O./ 133
accession to
affecting 1 person and 1 of Bond affecting 1 person. In all 144. Memorials, 134 affecting 175 cok of Land and to co
affecting 10 persons. after, my ace Office the question was mooked as to whether the Clerk of Seed Registry was justified by the Schedule ofiles attached to Ordinance No 3 of 1844 in charging a separativas for ark Lot of Land affected by a Memorial registered in
this office or whether he ought Memorial only, and I sharge one other for each
to
submitted the matter to the
Attorney General for his opinion, who pronounced that " neither the letter nor
"The spirit of Section 117 of "Ordinance 3 of 1844 authorizes "the Land Office to charge " the Registration fee on the
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"Lot of Land but on the 63 ssurance by which it is " changed or conversed" and that though there should " be comprised in one assignment " mortgage or other alienation "(Schedule 2.571) all the Lots " of Land in the Toland still "only one thee of five dollars " would be payable upon " that one Assurance; for the "Registration is not of the "Land but of the feed". As the practice had hitherto been to charge a separate fee on each Lot of Land affected by a Memorial, esecept in the registration of Judgments of the Supreme Court, and as the proceeds from Fees will hereafter
be affected by the practice indicated by the Attorney General for the guidance of Clerk of Heed Registry at
the
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