shall remain and continue open, for the trans- II. All Acts or parts of Acts of the General Repeals cerAssembly of this Island inconsistent with the tain Acts, &c. provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. CAP. VIII. An Act to revive and continue an Act relative to accidents by Fire, and for the improvement of property in Georgetown, and for the removal of nuisances from the streets and squares thereof. W (Passed June 29, 1872). HEREAS the Act of the Fourteenth Victoria, Chapter Twenty-eight, intituled an Act relative to accidents by fire, and for the improvement of property in Georgetown, and for the removal of nuisances from the streets and squares thereof, and continued by the Act Twenty-fourth Victoria, Chapter Twenty-five, expired at the end of the last session of the General Assembly, and certain proceedings have been taken under the operation of the said Act since the expiration thereof. Preamble. 28 revised. Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, I. That the said recited Act of the Fourteenth 14th Vic. cap. Victoria, Chapter Twenty-eight, intituled "An Act relative to accidents by fire, and for the improvement of property in Georgetown, and for the removal of nuisances from the streets and squares thereof," and every clause, matter and thing therein contained shall be, and the same is hereby revived from the last day of the last session of the said General Assembly, and shall be and continue in force for the period of one year from the passing thereof in all its force, virtue and effect, as fully and effectually in every respect as if the said recited Act, and every clause, matter and thing therein contained had been re-enacted by this Act, and as if the same had never expired. II. All proceedings had or taken under or in Confirms cer- supposed relation to any of the sections or protain proceed- visions of the said recited Act, either before or ings. since the expiration of the same, as aforesaid, shall be as good, valid and effectual, and as fully binding on the parties thereto as if the said recited Act had never expired. CAP. IX. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to regulate the Registry of Deeds and Instruments relating to the title to Land, and to repeal the laws heretoforé passed for that purpose." [Passed June 29, 1872.] WHEREAS the great increase in the num- Preamble. ber of Deeds and Instruments affecting Land, and the state of the present indices, require that an alteration in the method of recording Deeds should be made, and also that the duties of the Registrar should be more clearly defined: 1st January, 1873. present Books to be closed. I. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventythree, the present Books for the registry of deeds and conveyances shall be closed, and that from and after that day a separate Book and Indices thereto, of the description mentioned in the second section of the Registry Act of the third William the Fourth, chapter ten, shall be opened for King's, Queen's and County Prince Counties, respectively, and that all Books to be deeds, conveyances and writings relating to or concerning lands, tenements, or hereditaments (duly proved or acknowledged, according to the provisions of the said Act) shall, after that date, be registered in the Book for the County in which the lands thereby conveyed, are situated, and in no other book, and indexed in the manner in and by the said recited Act directed. F provided. of Books. II. That the Registry Book for King's Description County shall be bound in dark leather, and lettered " King's County, Register of Deeds, No. The Register Book for Queen's County shall be bound in red leather, and lettered "Queen's County, Register of Deeds, No. ;" and the Register Book for Prince County shall be bound in white leather, and lettered "Prince County, Register of Deeds, No. -;" and each book shall be regularly paged throughout in printed letters, and only one such book shall be in course of filling up for each County at one time. Names with prefix Mac, how indexed. Interlineations, how noticed. III. Whereas the surnames of many persons in this Island commence with the prefix of Mac, which renders a search among such names tedious and difficult Be it enacted that a sufficient number of pages in the indices immediately following the letter (M.), shall have a column for names headed Mac, and under that heading, at sufficient distances apart, alphabetical headings in their proper order, shall be arranged, and in indexing all such names, the said prefix shall be dropped, and the name without the prefix placed in such column under its proper initial letter for instance, MacDonald shall be indexed in such column, "Donald," and MacPhee shall be indexed in such column, Phee." But in the alphabetical lettering at the commencement of the index Mac, immediately after the letter M, shall only be used, and shall refer to that page in the body of the index on which the Mac column commences. IV. That when a Deed left for Registry shall contain interlineations, the words so interlined shall be copied as interlineations in the Register so as to make the registry in that respect a fac-simile of the original deed, and the Registrar shall, in the margin opposite such interlined words, mark the word "sic," to denote that it was so in the original deed, and shall also write his initials immediately under the said word "sic." V. That after any deed or instrument is Deeds to be copied into the Register, the copy shall be care- compared. fully compared with the original before it is delivered back to the owner thereof. Name of eve inserted in a new index. VI. And whereas it is found that it has been the practice where several grantors or grantees ry party to be are named in a deed to insert the name of one only of such grantors or grantees in the Index, by reason whereof purchasers and others are liable to be misled and subjected to loss, and also that parts of the indices in other respects are confused and defective and require to be copied anew. Be it therefore enacted that some fit and proper person or persons shall be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make a fair copy of such indices in a proper book or books to be for that purpose provided, and that in making such copy the names of the grantors or grantees so omitted to be indexed shall be ascertained by reference to the Deed in the Register, and shall be inserted in their proper place in the indices. VII. When a deed or instrument duly proved Deeds to be and acknowledged, affecting land shall be offered numbered. for registry, the Registrar shall mark thereon the Registry number of such deed, according to the order in which it was received, and shall also enter the same number in the margin of the Register Book opposite the commencement of the record of such deed, and every such deed and instrument shall be deemed to have been. |