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Manner of keeping the Day Book and numbering and filing Memorials.
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XI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said Thirty-first Day of December there shall be kept in the said Office a Book to be called, the “Day Book,” in which Book the first Entry of every Memorial received into the said Office shall be made, and in the same Order in which the Memorial shall be received in the Office; and such Entries shall be in the Form or to the Effect of the Model of such a Book set forth in the Schedule marked (C.) to this Act annexed; and the Number, of every such first Entry shall be the Number of the Memorial, and such Number, shall also forthwith be marked upon the Memorial itself, and shall ever after, in association with the Year and the Volume in which the Memorial shall be transcribed, remain the Number of that Memorial; and moreover, that as soon as Three hundred Memorials shall have been received, that Number of Memorials shall form the First Series of Memorials of the current Year, and shall be made up into One File, on which File there shall be indorsed in very legible Characters the Year in which the Memorials therein contained were, received, and also the Number of the Volume in which the Transcripts of the same Memorials shall be entered; and the Files of all the Memorials received in each Year shall be deposited and kept in a separate Press, or Shelf, on which Press or shelf the Year shall be distinctly marked; and further, that so soon as one Series of Three hundred Memorials shall have been received, another Series, to consist of a like Number, and to be numbered in like Manner from One to Three hundred, shall be begun, and so on in all Time to come, except the last Series of each Year, which shall terminate with whatever Number the last Memorial received on the last Office Day in the Year may bear, and the first Memorial received in every new Year shall be marked and entered as Number One of the First Series of Memorials which shall be received in that Year.
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