Registration of Deeds Act 1785

So much of the said first act as regulates the registering memorials of deeds &c. executed within 60 miles of Dublin, repealed, where lands, &c. in any deed, &c. are not situate in the county or county of the city of Dublin, a memorial thereof shall be entered in case an affidavit sworn before a judge of assize, &c. shall be brought therewith, wherein one witness shall swear to the execution of the deed.

III. And whereas the mode prescribed by the first mentioned act for registering memorials of deeds and conveyances, made and executed in any place, not within sixty miles of the city of Dublin, is uncertain and inconvenient; be it enacted, That so much of the said act as relates to the registering of such memorials shall be and is hereby repealed, and that in all cases where the lands, tenements, or hereditaments contained in any deed or conveyance are not situate in the county of Dublin, or in the county of the city of Dublin, a memorial of such deed or conveyance shall be entered by the register or his deputy, in case an affidavit sworn before one of the judges at the assizes, or before the justices of the peace at the general quarter sessions of the county where such lands, tenements, or hereditaments lie, or before a person commissioned for taking affidavits in the country, pursuant to the act of Parliament in that case made and provided, and for which a sum of one shilling and six pence shall be paid, to the person or persons taking such affidavit, shall be brought with the memorial to the said register or his deputy, wherein one of the witnesses to the execution of such deed or conveyance, shall swear he or the saw the same executed, and the memorial signed and sealed as by the said act is directed.