Land Transfer (Ireland) Act, 1848

Indexes to be provided for books of copies of negative searches.

Power to search books.

3. The said registrars for the time being shall and they are hereby required respectively to cause a sufficient index or sufficient indexes to be prepared, in such form as the Treasury shall from time to time direct, to the books containing the copies of searches made pursuant to this Act; and in such indexes shall be entered, in some convenient manner for reference, the name or names of some one or more of the persons whose acts such negative search shall relate to; and the said registrar of deeds shall also cause to be prepared another sufficient index or other sufficient indexes to the said books containing the said copies of the said negative searches, in such form as the Treasury shall from time to time direct, wherein shall be entered, in some convenient form for reference, the name or names of some one or more of the denominations of land mentioned in the requisition for such negative search; and all persons shall be at liberty to search the said books, on payment of the fee mentioned in the schedule hereunto annexed.