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Index of Lands to be provided.
The current Indexes to be in Periods of Five Years; and to be consolidated decennially.
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XVII. And be it further enacted, That previously to the said Thirty-first Day of December there shall be provided in the said Office another Series of sufficiently large Parchment Books, to be called the “Index of Lands;” and One Book of such Series shall be appropriated to each County, and One to each City being a County of itself, and One Book to every such Number of Towns, being Counties of themselves, as heretofore it has been customary to index together, and One Book to every such Number of other Towns as heretofore it has been customary to index apart from the Counties in which they are situated; and every Book appropriated to a County shall be divided into Baronies, and every Book appropriated to a City, being a County of itself, or to a Number of Towns, shall be divided into Parishes or Streets; and each such Book for Counties shall contain separate Divisions under the Heads of Baronies, and for Cities or Towns under the Heads of Parishes or Streets, arranged alphabetically, with alphabetical Subdivisions for Denomination of Lands; into which Books there shall be entered, by the Initial Letter of each Name, the Names of all Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments specified in every Memorial registered in the Office, and to the Name of the Land, Tenement, or Hereditament there shall be subjoined the Name of the Parish or the Place respectively in which the same shall be described to be situated, and also the Year of Registry, and the Page of the Day Book, and the Number and Volume respectively of the Abstract and Transcript Books, and the Number and File of the Memorial relating thereto; and all such Entries also shall be made and completed before the Time of opening the Office for Business on the Morning of the Seventh Day after the Day on which such Memorial shall have been delivered into the Office for Registration; and further, that such last-mentioned Series of Books shall, concomitantly with the Index of Names herein-before mentioned, be continued Three Years, and the Entries in that Series shall then be closed, and a new Series in a new Set of Books shall be begun; and the Series of Books last aforesaid shall terminate at the End of the Fourth Year, and thereupon in like Manner a new Series, in a new Set of such Books, shall be begun and be confirmed during a Period of Five Years; and a similar Arrangement shall be made at the End of every subsequent Period of Five Years; and at the End of Seven Years there shall be made a consolidated Index of the Two first Periods; and subsequently, at the End of every second Period of Five Years, a Decennial-like Consolidation of such Indexes of Lands, and for the same Times as sis herein-before provided for the Indexes of Names, shall be made; and opposite to every such Entry of Lands there shall also be entered the Surname and Christian Name of the Grantor; and also the Surname and Christian Name of the Grantee; but where there shall be more than One Grantor the Name of the first Grantor only shall be so entered, with the Word “another,” or others, and where more than One Grantee in like Manner the Name of the first Grantee only, with the Word “other,” or “others:” Provided always, that whenever and so often as it shall happen to be impracticable ticable to make and complete all said Entries within the Time aforesaid, the Registrar shall cause a public Notice to be posted in some conspicuous Part of said Office to be assigned for the Purpose of such Notices by the Registrar, stating to what Day such Entries are then made and completed.
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