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Defeasance or conditions of every bill of sale to be written on the same paper. Registrar to keep a book containing particulars of each bill of sale.* A fee of one dollar for filing bill of sale and Registrar to account for the same. Office copies or extracts to be given on paying as for copies of judgment. Satisfaction may be entered. Interpretation of terms.

ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1864. Bills of Sale.

3. If such bill of sale shall be made or given subject to any defeasance or condition or declaration of trust not contained in the body thereof, such defeasance or condition or declaration of trust shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be taken as part of such bill of sale and shall be written on the same paper on which such bill of sale shall be written, before the time when the same or a copy thereof respectively shall be filed; otherwise, such bill of sale shall be null and void to all intents and purposes as against the same person and as regards the same property and effects, as if such bill of sale or a copy thereof had not been filed according to the provisions of this Ordinance.

4. The Registrar shall cause every bill of sale, and every such schedule and inventory as aforesaid, and every such copy filed in his said office under the provisions of this Ordinance to be numbered, and shall keep a book in his said office in which he shall cause to be fairly entered an alphabetical list of every such bill of sale, containing therein the name, addition, and description of the person making or giving the same, or in case the same shall be made or given by any person under or in the execution of process as aforesaid, then the name, addition, and description of the person against whom such process shall have issued, and also of the person to whom or in whose favor the same shall have been given, together with the number and the dates of the execution and filing of the same, and the sum for which the same has been given, and the time or times (if any) when the same is thereby made payable according to the form contained in the schedule to this Ordinance, which said book and every bill of sale or copy thereof filed in the said office may be searched and viewed by all persons at all reasonable times, paying to the Registrar for every search against one person the sum of fifty cents and no more.

5. A fee of one dollar shall be paid for filing and entering every such bill of sale, and the Registrar shall account therefor in like manner as is now done with respect to other fees received by him by virtue of his said office.

6. Any person shall be entitled to have an office copy or an extract of every bill of sale or of the copy thereof filed as aforesaid, upon paying for the same at the like rate as for office copies of judgments.

7. It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice to order a memorandum of satisfaction to be written upon any bill of sale or copy thereof respectively as aforesaid, if it shall appear to him that the debt (if any) for which such bill of sale is given as security shall have been satisfied or discharged.

8. In construing this Ordinance, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such constructions; (that is to say, the expression "Bill of Sale" shall include bills of sale, assignments, transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, and other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities, or licenses to take possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, but shall not include the following documents, that is to say, assignments for the benefit of the creditors of the person making or giving the same, marriage settlements, transfers, or