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the records of his county ; and in like manner any such deed or
deeds already enrolled, or which may hereafter be enrolled, in
the records of the county where the lands or estate thereby con-
veyed lie, may, upon application of the party or parties claiming
by or under any such deed or deeds, be transmitted, with a
certificate of such enrolment annexed to the same, signed by
the clerk of such county court, and under the seal thereof, to
the clerk of the general court, who is hereby authorized and
required to enrol such deed or deeds, together with such certi-
ficate, in the records of the general court.
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Substance
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That after any deed shall be
enrolled in the records of any county court, the clerk of such
court, before he shall deliver to the bargainee or grantee the
original deed out of his office, shall, in a record book, (to be pro-
vided and kept for that purpose only,) carefully, and with accu-
racy, enter the substance of such deed ; that is to say, the date
of the deed, the Christian names and surnames of the parties,
with their additions (if any,) the name of the land or estate in
such deed mentioned to be conveyed, and the number of acres
of land, if expressed, and the place where the same may lie, and
the consideration for making the deed, and the estate expressed
in the premises, and the habendum of such deed in the very
expressions thereof; and the said clerk shall note and certify in
the said record book, immediately after and following such
entry, the day such deed was enrolled, and shall sign his name
thereto, and shall be entitled to receive for his trouble from the
bargainee or grantee two shillings current money; and the said
clerk shall annually, sometime in the month of May, transmit a
copy of such record entry to the clerk of the general court, who
shall enter the same in a record book, (to be provided and kept
for that purpose only,) and the transcript shall be safely kept
among the papers of the general court office ; and the clerk of
the county for such transcript shall be entitled to receive one
shilling current money for each deed mentioned in such tran-
script, to be paid by the party claiming under such deed ; and the
clerk of the general court, for his trouble, shall be entitled to
receive one shilling like money for each deed in such transcript
mentioned, to be paid as aforesaid ; and ia case any original
deed, and the record of the same at length, shall be lost or des-
troyed, then the said record entries, or copies of the same pro-
perly attested, shall be admitted ia evidence in all courts of this
state, and although the original deed or record thereof at length
may not be lost or destroyed, yet the judges of the general court
may, in their discretion, admit the record entries as aforesaid to
be made by the clerk of the general court, or attested copies of
the same, to be given in evidence in all cases in the said court
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