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ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1844 . 7


Registration ofdeeds wills &c.


some competent person , that the same contains a just and true account of
the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be taken before
the * Chief Magistrate of Police, or before any Justice of the Peace of the [* See Ordi
nance No. 6
said Colony . of 1862.]
6. And be it further enacted that every memorial of any judgment Particulars
which it is
shall contain the following particulars ; that is to say, the names and necessary for
the memorial
additions of the plaintiffs and defendants respectively, the sum thereby to contain.
recovered or secured , the time of entry or recording the same, and the sum
of money bona fide due thereon ; and every memorial of any deed or
conveyance will or other instrument shall contain and set forth the date of

such deed conveyance will or other instrument, and the particular nature
and object thereof the names and additions of all the parties to such deed
conveyance or instrument, and of the devisor devisee or devisees of such

will, and the names and additions of all the witnesses thereto , and shall

especially particularize and express the parcels of ground tenements and

premises affected or intended to be affected by such deed conveyance will
or instrument, and the proper and ordinary or accustomed names of the

places where the same shall be situated , and ( except in cases of wills ) the
pecuniary or other consideration for the same, in the form or to the effect
of the form numbered 1 in the schedule hereunto annexed . Provided

always, that when there shall be more writings than one for perfecting the
same conveyance devise or security affecting the same parcels of ground
tenements and premises, all such writings shall be stated in one and the
same memorial, in which it shall be sufficient to particularize such parcels
tenements and premises only once.
Such memo
7. And be it further enacted , that on delivery of any such memorial rial to be
as aforesaid, the said Land Officer shall number the same according to the numbered by
the Land
order of time in which it shall have been so delivered, and shall give a Officer and a
receipt to be
receipt for the same, in which receipt shall be specified the certain day and given for the
same and
time of day when such memorial shall have been so delivered , and the Land Officer
shall endorse
proper number thereof in the Register of the said Land Office, and he shall thereon a
certificate of
also in like manner immediately indorse on the back of such memorial a the day and
hour when
certificate, containing the day and time of day when the same was so suchmemorial
was delivered
delivered, and the name and place of abode of the person verifying the same into his office,
such certifi
and shall sign the certificate when so indorsed and such certificate shall be cate to be
taken and allowed as evidence of the registration , and time of registration evidence of
the time of
of every such judgment deed will devise conveyance or other instrument registration
the memorial.of
whereof such memorial shall be so made .