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Indexes to be prepared.
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XXXIII. And whereas the Indexes or Calendars of the said Register Office in former Years are many of them in a dilapidated State, and some of the Indexes have been compiled upon an ineligible Plan; and, for the Benefit of all Persons requiring to make Searches in the said Office in the Years hitherto elapsed, it is very desirable that better and more complete Indexes and that Abstract Books should be prepared of all Memorials registered in the said Office, and to be registered therein, up to and including the said Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; be it therefore enacted, That like Indexes, and also Abstract Books, as and when the Funds of the Office will permit the same, Abstract Books also in respect of such last-mentioned Memorials as by this Act are required with regard to all Memorials to be registered after the said Thirty-first Day of December, shall, as far as the same may be practicable, be constructed, and the same shall be arranged in such Periods as to the Registrar shall seem most convenient and eligible, and in such Manner that when the same shall be completed the whole shall, with the Abstract Books and Indexes of Memorials registered after the said Thirty-first Day of December, form entire and consecutive Sets of Abstracts and Indexes to all Memorials in the said Office, having each Set respectively constructed throughout upon the same Plan.
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