COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH — NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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Reference :— CO 133
Accession to affecting 1 person and 1 Bond affecting 1 person. In all 144 Memorials, 134 affecting 175 lots of Land and 10 affecting 10 persons. After, in my Office the question was mooted as to whether the Clerk of Deeds Registry was justified by the Schedule of Fees attached to Ordinance No 3 of 1844 in charging a separate fee for each Lot of Land affected by a Memorial registered in this office or whether he ought to charge one fee for each Memorial only, and I 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 Lot of Land but on the Assurance by which it is charged or conveyed" and that though there should be comprised in one assignment, mortgage or other alienation (Schedule 2, s. 71) all the Lots of Land in the Colony still only one fee of five dollars would be payable upon that one Assurance; for the Registration is not of the Land but of the Deed. As the practice had hitherto been to charge a separate fee on each Lot of Land affected by a Memorial, except 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 Deeds Registry at the…
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COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
38
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
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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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