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Manner of keeping the Abstract Book.
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XII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said Thirty-first Day of December, progressively as the said Memorials shall be received in the said Office, there shall be made and entered into a Parchment Book, to be called the “Abstract Book,” an Abstract or short Statement of the Effect of the Instrument set forth in every such Memorial, which Abstract shall contain the Year and Day of registering, the Volume and Number of the Memorial, the Name of the Instrument, the Date of die Instrument as given in the Memorial, the Names and Descriptions of all the Grantors and of One or more of die Grantees, the Consideration, the Term, the Rent, the Renewal Fines, the Name and Description of the Premises, and the County and Barony and Parish wherein the Premises are situated, the Nature of the Instrument, that is to say, whether a Trust, Marriage Settlement, Mortgage, or absolute or other Conveyance, or such and so many of the foregoing Particulars as are contained in the Memorial of such Instrument; and the Abstract shall be entered in the Abstract Book in the Form or to the Effect of the Model contained in the Schedule distinguished by the Letter (D.) to this Act annexed; and the said Abstracts shall be entered in the said Abstract Book in the same Order that the first Entries of the Memorials to which they relate were made in the Day Book, and each Abstract shall have prefixed to it the very same Number as the Memorial, and as the Day Book Entry of the Registration of the Memorial, of which it is an Abstract, shall have had put upon them; and the Abstract Books of each Year shall be kept separate, and such Books shall be divided into Parts to correspond with the Files and Volumes of Transcripts of such Year; and there shall be One at least Duplicate Copy of such Abstract Book made, wherein the Entries shall be continually kept up.
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