The Brookhaven leader., 1890-04-10
LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI.


arising from the destruction of the rec
ords Of the counties of Pike and Lin
coin In the bcrniug OF the court houses
of said counties, approved March 9th,
1886, so far us concerns Lincoln county.
Section /. Be il enacted by the
Legislature of the State OF Mississip-
nj, That il shall be the duty of the As.
essor of the county of Lincoln i'm this
State, during the time that he is max
ing the assessment of said county in
the year of 1890 and such time there
after as may be necessary, to request
of each land owner of, and other per-
sons i'm said Lincoln county the pos
session of all patents, deeds, powers
of attorney, tax deeds, deeds in trust,
mortgages and other writings convey
ing land, in whole or in part, of the
said county of Lincoln and which con-
stitutes title or link in chain of
title, to any such land; and the as
SCISSOR shall carefully inspect the same
to ascertain if the said ins trument has
been recorded in the record of deeds OF
the said county, since the 31st of De-
cember, 1888, or if recorded there be-
fore that time, whether it was made
of record of deed book an" of said
county, which deed book an" was
saved from the fire which at that time
destroyed the records of said county.
fit shall happen that such instrument
of conveyance hath not been recorded
or rerecorded, since the 31st Deem
Der, 1888, and that it is not recorded
in deed book "N" of said county, then
it shall be the duty of the assessor to
retain, with the consent of the owner,
the said patent, deed, power of attor-
ney, tax deed, deed in trust, mort
gage or other instrument for the pur-
pose of this Act. He shall write on
such instrument the name and post
Office address of the person of whom
the said instrument was received, and
shall deliver to such person, if the
therefor and the assessor shall deposit
and file all such deeds, and other in
struments so received, within ten
days, or such other time as is practi-
cable, with the chancery clerk of the
said county, of Lincoln for record,
or rerecord, as the case may be, In
the record of deed, of the said county
of Lincoln, and the assessor may, if he
desire, take the clerks receipt thereof,
and the clerk shall give such receipt
if demanded.
Sec 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
chancery clerk of the said county of
Lincoln to place on record in the rec
ords of deeds of this county, by tran
scribing them therein, all such instru-
ments as shall be deposited and filed
with him, under this Act by the ases-
sOr of said county, and to return the
same to the persons from whom they
were received by the assessor as not
ed therein, by that officer, and this
too without cost to such persons.
If such deeds, after being so placed
of record, are not delivered in person
within three months after they are so
placed of record, then the chancery
clerk shall return them by mail, post
age prepaid, to the persons entitled to
their custody.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be e..duty of the.
chancery clerks of the counties of
Lawrence, Copiah, Franklin, and
Amite, from which the county of Lin
coin, was in part formed, to carefully
examine the record of deedssin their
respective counties, and to make
list therefrom, of all patents, deeds,
powers of attorney, tax deeds,
deeds in trust, mortgages and 9th
er instruments recorded therein
before April 7th, 1870 iat which
date the said county of Lin
coin ereated), which conveys or
embraces in whole or in part any lands
now in the county of Lincoln, and in
case of doubt us to whether deed or
other instrument contains lands so sit
uated the said instrument shall be list
ed; said list shall give the name of
the granter or granters in such in
struments, the date thereof, the name
of the grantee, or grantees, the land
conveyed, before whom acknowledged,
and when recorded, and in what deed
book, and i'll case of deeds in trust, the
name of the trustee or trustees and of
the beneficiary or benefciaries shall
be given. This list when so made out
shall be fled by the said clerks re-
spectively with the chancery clerk of
Lincoln county; and if the records of
either of said counties of Lawrence,
Copiah, Amite, or Franklin, contain
an abstract of titles then the said clerk
of said county shall make copy of
the same in so far as it pertains to
lands in Lincoln county, and shall file
said copy of such abstract also with
the chancery clerk of Lincoln county,
which copy or copies of such abstracts
of titles the chancery clerk of Lincoln
county shall transcribe into a well
bound book to be procured for such
purpose and shall therein designate
the deed book and page on which each
instrument so distracted can be found
as put ON record in his Office. The du-
ties prescribed by this section on the
said chancery clerks of the counties
from which Lincoln was formed lex
cept Pike, the records of which have
been destroyed shall rest continuous
ly on the said clerks until performed,
and shall be speedily performed, but
they shall not be in default thereof,
so as to be liable therefor until De-
cember the LIST, 1890.
Sec. 4. That the chancery clerk of
Lincoln county upon the receipt of
such lists, shall carefully compare the
said lists so received by him under Sec
ton three hereof with the records of
deeds in his office, and with the unre-
corded deeds therefor recorded under
this Act, and he shall strike from such
list all such. deeds, patents, and other
instruments as are there of record, or
are on deposit for record, in said Lin