A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE; GOVERNOR.

grantor shall supply a new instrument correspon-
dent 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
endorsement therein of said order, which record
and endorsement, shall secure to the party or par-
ties 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, correspondent to the one destroyed by fire,
then the said; Commissioner shall execute and de-
liver, in his capacity of Commissioner, a new and
confirmatory deed or instrument of writing, under
his hand and seal, to take the place of the record
destroyed by fire, and shall order and direct the
same to be so endorsed and recorded, and such en-
dorsement and record shall secure to the party or
parties interested the same rights, title and inter-
est which was designed and intended to be vested
by the original paper or instrument of writing and
reoord thereof, as fully and effectually as if the
record had not been destroyed by fire.

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Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That in all cases
where the records have been only partially de-
stroyed 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 Com-
missioner, it shall be the duty of the said Commis-
sioner to cause the said records to be restored to
their original condition, and to be recorded anew
by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county,
accompanied by a certificate to that effect, and for
the purpose of preserving the said records as con-
tinuously together as they were before burnt, the
said Commissioner is hereby authorized, if he see
fit, to cause the binding of any of the record books
to be renewed, so that the folios may be separated,
the burnt portions detached and the new record
thereof and correspondent thereto, be substituted
in the place of said burnt part, and to have the
said record book thus restored to its original con-
dition, rebound, and a certificate to that effect re-
corded therein.

Records to be
restored.