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Alphabetical Indexes of the Persons and Lands affected by the Memorials to be made.
The aforesaid Series of Books to be continued for Three Years, and then a new Series to be begun, and afterwards to be quinquennial;
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XIV. And whereas it is expedient that more adequate Provision than has heretofore been made by Law should be made for the Preparation and Reduction of well-compiled and sufficient Alphabetical Indexes of the Persons and Lands affected by the Memorials; registered therein; for Remedy whereof be it further enacted, That previously to the said Thirty-first Day of December there shall be provided in the said Register Office a Series of Parchment Books of sufficient Size, which Series of Books shall be called the “Index of Names,” and One Book of the Series shall be appropriated to the Letter (A.), another Book to the Letter (B.), and so on through the Alphabet; provided that any One such Book may have a Second of even a Third unfrequently used Letter assigned to it, at the Discretion of the Registrar; and upon the Pages of every Book in such Series there shall, before the Year in which it is to be used begins, be distributed an Alphabet with the Letters of a Second Alphabet to each Letter, in the following Manner; (that is to say,) the Letters A A at the Head of a Page at the Beginning of the Book, A B at the Head of a Page next to or not more than a few Pages subsequent to the Page in which the Two former Letters were inserted and so on throughout a whole Alphabet preceded by the Letter (A.); then B A, and to the End of a Second Alphabet; then C A, and following the like Course until every Letter of the Alphabet, thus repeated with a consecutive Letter of a Second Alphabet, shall have been inserted, each as the Head of a separate Page of the Book; provided that any One or more of such Combinations of Letters, of which no Example of a Name beginning with such Letters had occurred in the said Register Office, may, at the Discretion of the Registrar, be omitted; into which Book there shall be entered, by and under the Two first Letters of the Name, the Surname, and if ennobled, the Title of Honour, of the Grantor in every Memorial registered in the Office; and to the said Surname of the Grantor there shall be subjoined the Christian Name of such Grantor, and also the Surname and the Christian Name of the Grantee, followed, where there shall be more than One Grantee, by the Words “and another,” or the Words “and others,” as the Case may be, and also the first Denomination of the Lands, and the Names of the County and Barony, or of the City of Town being a County of itself, and Parish, wherein the Lands affected by the Instrument of which the Memorial is registered is situated, and the Year of Registration, the respective Numbers of the Abstract and Transcript Books in which the Memorial shall have been entered, and the Number and File of the Memorial; and where there shall be more than One Grantor there shall be subjoined to the Name of the First Grantor the Words “and another,” or, as the Case may be, the Words “and others;” and the Name of the Second Grantor shall form a Second Head of Entry in the said Index, and be followed by like Words; and such last-mentioned Entry shall be accompanied with the like Particulars as last aforesaid; and where there shall be a Third Grantor, or any greater Number of Grantors, then in either of the said Cases there shall also be a further like Entry under the Name of such Third and every other Grantor; and all such Entries shall be made and completed before the Time of opening the Office for Business on the Morning next but Two after the Day on which such Memorial shall have been delivered into the Office for Registry; and the Series of Books last aforesaid shall be continued Three Years, and the Entries in that Series shall then be closed, and a new Series in a new Set of Books shall be begun; and this Second Series of Books shall be continued Four Years, and the Entries in that Series shall then be closed, and a new Series in a new Set of Books shall be begun in like Manner; (that is to say,) the First or Triennial Series of current Indexes shall continue to the End of the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five; and the Second or Quadrennial Series shall commence with the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and shall end with the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; and the next or Quinquennial Series shall begin with the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty, and shall continue to the End of the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-four; and so in like Manner shall each subsequent Series contain Five Years and no more.
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