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evidence, it shall be his duty, if the party or parties grantor
shall supply a new instrument corresponding to the one destroyed
by fire, and confirmatory of the same, to accept such instrument,
and to order and direct the same to be recorded, with an endorse-
ment thereon of said order, which record and endorsement shall
secure to the party or parties concerned, all the rights, title and
interest, which was designed and intended to be vested by the
original paper or instrument of writing, as fully as if the record
thereof had not been destroyed by fire; but if for any reason,
the grantor or grantors should not supply a new or confirmatory
deed or other instrument of writing, as the case may be, corres-
ponding with the one destroyed by fire, then the said com-
missioner shall execute and deliver in his capacity of commis-
sioner, a new and confirmatory deed or instrument of writing,
under his hand and seal, properly acknowledged, to take the
place of the record destroyed by fire, and shall order and direct
the same to be recorded, after endorsement, which shall secure
to the party or parties interested, the same rights, title and
interest, which was designed and intended to be vested, by the
original paper or instrument of writing and record thereof, as
fully and effectually as if the record had not been destroyed by
fire.

12. In all cases where the records have been only partially
destroyed or injured by fire, so that they may be restored by
their own intrinsic evidence, or by the aid of other evidence
accessible to the said commissioner, it shall be the duty of the
said commissioner to cause the said records to be restored to
their original condition, and to be recorded anew, and for the
purpose of preserving the said records as continuously together
as they were before being burnt, the said commissioner is hereby
authorized, if he see fit, to cause the binding of any of the
record books to be removed, so that the folios may be separated,
the burnt portions detached, and the new record thereof and
corresponding thereto, be substituted in the place of said burnt
part, and to have the said record book thus restored to its origi-
nal condition, re-bound, and a certificate to that effect recorded
therein.