Registration of Deeds Act 1785
REGISTRATION OF DEEDS ACT 1785 | ||
CHAP. XLVII. | ||
An Act for amending the several Laws relating to the registering of Wills and Deeds in the Registry Office of this Kingdom, and for the better regulating and conducting the Business of the said Office. | ||
6th queen Aune, c. 2. | ||
8th Anne, c. 10. | ||
as relates to hours of attendance of the register or deputy repealed, | ||
hour of attendance shall he between 10 and 4 o’clock. | ||
WHEREAS the registry of deeds, pursuant to an act of Parliament passed in this kingdom in the sixth year of the reign of her late Majesty queen Anne, entitled, An act for the publick registering of all deeds, conveyances, and wills that shall be made of any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments; and also to another act for amending the same, made in the eighth year of her said late Majesty queen Anne, has been found of general and great utility; and whereas the hours heretofore appointed by the said first recited act, for the attendance of the register or his deputy, are since found to be very inconvenient to the publick; be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the twenty fourth day of June next, so much of a clause in the said first recited act, which requires the attendance of the said register or his deputy, between the hours of nine and twelve in the forenoon, and between the hours of three and fix in the afternoon, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that from and after the time aforesaid, the said register, or his sufficient deputy, shall give due attendance at his office every day in the week, except Sundays and holidays, between the hours of ten of the clock in the forenoon and four of the clock in the afternoon, for dispatch of all business belonging to the find office. |