The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-26

ter to France?-has his appointment been re-
solved upon, and is it withheld from publication
for the present, for fear ofdamages in Kentucky
and Tennessee? We can hardly believe it; but
how is it?
Plan for Arranging and IndexlDg the RccoxI q
| of the Record Office.
The records affecting real estate now consist of the
conveyances mortgages, and instruments, on record
in the Registers office, comprising upwards of 1037
volumes; also of the records Of Wills of letters tesla
| mentary and Of administration, and DEGREES of the
Surrogate, on record in the Surogate's Office, com.
prsing 104 voumes and Of the dockets of judgments
mechanics liens, &C., in the County Clerks office,
comprised in about twenty.six volumes; in addition
to the liens for taxes and assessments the entries
whereof are in the Street Commissioners and Comp
trolers Offices, and the loans from the State which
recorded in the office of the Loan Commissioners.
To accomplish necessary search for title and in
cumbrances in these various Offices, requires delay,
difficulty, labor and expense great to amount,
in of moderate transaction and as to persons
of moderate means, to prohibition; the difficulty
and expense is increasing rapidly and unless soon
Temedied, searches will become generally next to i'm.
practicable.
| 1t is suggested by Mr.. Recorder Tillou that, by
law, the records Of the Surrogates and Loan Com
mssioners' Offices be united to the Registers Office
and placed under charge Of the Register; that, by
law, the dockets of all judgments received from and
after the day to which the indexes shall be COM
peted and all other judgment liens, in the clerks
Office, and all liens of taxes ard assessments shall
not by law, be liens encumbrances on real estate
unless docketed in the Registers office, which Office,
in fact, shall be the only Office where records Of
every kind affecting real estate shall be recorded
| docketed.
| That the records of the Register and Surrogate,
clerks and other officers operating such liens, or
affecting real estate in this county, be indexed to
the first day Of January next or to the first day Of
January Of the succeeding year after the law con-
| tcmplated shall be passed. That the same be
printed and edition Of about ore thousand copies
in the style Of good ordinary substantial law book,
both as to printing paper and binding, be published
and distributed; and that copy be deposited in the
Registers office, and copy in each Of the other
public Offices OF tie city and State.
That the Registers office be divided into depart
ments, one for judgments and oher liens from the
clerks office; one for taxes, assessments aud other
miscellaneous liens; for Surrogate records; and
one for each ward of the city, for conveyances and
mortgages (as the wards increase in number SO the
Gepaitnents)
Under the present arrangement Of the city there
would be twentyore ward departmentsfor records of
conveyances and mortgages and these in addition to
the three departments for the other records above
mentioned, would make in all twenty-four depart
men's for all the records.
That to each department should be assigned one
clerk, WHO should lie both recording and searching
clerk, and that the records dockets and indexes, in
each department, should commence from the date
to which the indexes of the records. above proposed
to be printed and published, should terminate.
by the above mentioned plan it would be found
that the indexes published which, it is estimated,
would comprise eighteen volumes, could be sold at
prices which would be within the pccuniary ability of
lawyers and others Of moderate means. That the
search, which now usually costs so much expense,
labor and delay could be made in few minutes
and for few shillings, and that in addition to
department clerk, a deputy register and porter
would be force sufficient, being in all twenty-six
persons, Cess than the number now employed to
conduct the business Of the whole DEPARTMENT. and
in searching for mortgages and conveyances, the
present ncsRv enient necessity Of searching the
records of all the city would be removed search in
the ward wherein the property is situated would be
sufficient.
it is also proposed to allow to the register all of
the building in which his Office now is; it could be
well arranged by the appropriation of the centre
room Down stairs for himself and his deplty the
room on one side of it for the records Of convey
ances the room on the other side for the records of
mortgages and wills, and other records; and the
rooms the upper story for his clerks and SERVE
rers where they would be secure from interruption.
To the index of the records of the Registers
Office it is proposed to include volume of the maps,
on file and referred to, and to embrace therein
map Of the island and city at different material
epochs, allowing the various Lies OF the farms 81
ces,Iyely as divided as wsx as the most minute ma
to which the records refer
BY the statement Of the Comptroller Of July 10th,
instant it appears that tho assessed value Of the real
estate Of the city and county exceeds 1854 500 900;
the importance Of having tie records arranged under
a simple, PLAIN, and secure system, and the import
ance Of correcting the evils Of The present system are
manifest.
IL is said that men of responsibility and fully
peiont are wiling, for The right OF selling the book
Of the inCtxtS 1T moderate and specific rrice, 10
incur tie whole eXpen,e Of the work and indemnity
The city aganst lose and agree 70 deliver to she city
and State such rumber of copies as shall be neees-
| sary for public pGIposes, without charge.
| TIE New PoLIcY or SPAIN.-The new mniste-
rial paper Viii has just been started in Madrid, gives
tie I, flowing az one OF its sentiments in the pro-
grammc Of principles which il is to be conducted
In sre 4. is necessary that the Spanish people. st,og
IN IKE records Of tner posetfuI and anceht merarchg
nd ryo;eotor Nccoo and active co operator ei
catholicism in the holy places The title King Of Jeruga
lem which belong still and always to the Queen OF both
CASTLES, cannot and ought not TO De an empty tius'