The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-02
STATE LAWS.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
IN tho gear Of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and taoenty-eight.
mo. III
AN ACT relating to the Public Records
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AN ACT relating to the Public Records
in the County of Barnstable.
SEC l. Be at enacted byt the Senate and House
of Representatives. in General Court assembled,
and by the authority of the same, That it shall
be the duty of the Selectmen of each of the
towns in the county of Barnstable to cause to
be fairly recorded in Books to be furnished them
as hereinafter mentioned, all deeds for the con-
veyance of any real estate or any interest there
in lying in their town, which shall be brought
to them for that purpose, within nine months
from the passing of this act-and which bear
date not more than forty years since, and have
been once recorded In the Registry of Deeds of
said county before the twenty -third day of Octo-
Der last past-and shall also cause to be recorded
with each deed the certificate of the Register of
Deeds which is thereon. And the said Select
men shall cause to be made alphabetical lists of
the names of the Grantors and Grantees in such
deeds with proper references to the pages or
leaves of the books, where the same are record
ed is such manner as the County Commission
ers of said county shall direct, and the said Re-
cords and lists shall be completed by the first
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-nine, and within one month thereafter
shall be transmitted to, and deposited in the
office of the Register of Deeds of said county,
there to remain, and the records of such deeds
made as aforesaid shall be as effectual in law,
and may be used for the like purposes, as the
first records thereofmight have been ifthey had
not been destroyed by fire.
Sec. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That the in
habitants of each of said towns, qualified to vote
shall at some legal meeting holden for that pur-
pose, in April or May next, choose some suit
able person for Town Register of Deeds, who
( shall, under the superintendent of the Select
men, make the Records and lists, which are by
this act required to be made, and shall certify
under his hand on each deed, in what book, and
leaf or page thereof he has recorded the same
and If the person so chosen shall refuse to &C.
cept the said office, or if at any time said office
shall become vacant, by the death, resignation
I or removal of any Register before the service
I aforesaid is completed, the Selectmen shall ap.
point some other suitable person to fill his
place.
SEC. 3. BE IL further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners Of
said County as soon as may be after the passing
Of this act, to furnish the said Selectmen at the
expense of the County with proper Books fol
the aforesaid purposes, to be numbered anc
marked, in such manner as said Commissioners
shall direct, and the said Commissioners when
the said records and lists arc completed to Their
satisfaction and deposited as aforesaid, shall al
low to each of said towns the sum of twelve and
half cents for each deed so recorded, to be
paid out of the County Treasury of said County
for the use of the person or persons who did
the service.
SEc.,4. Be 10 further enacted, That when.
ever any deed shall be brought to the Register
OF Deeds of said county to be recorded, and il
shall appear by the'certiicate of Registry there
on, that it has been once recorded in his office
before the twenty third day Of October last past