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An Act to amend the Registration Laws of this State, and for other purposes. 1831 108 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0071 and id is 1 raw text is: Jo8 REGISTRATION. Snc. 4. Be it enacted, That the 11th section of the Itopealing clause act of 1827, chapter 112,be and the same is hereby re: pealed; and that hereafter the Shcriff of each courity in which a poor house is or may be established, shall pay over directly to the Treasurcr of the poor house, where one has been appointed as contemplated by this act, all such moneys as shall be appropriated by the county court for that establishment. cluso SEc. 5. Be it enacted, T.hat so much of the acts of 1826 and 1827, as comes within the purview and mean- ing of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. When act tobo SE. 6. Be it enacted, That this act shall be in force il fre from and after the first day of January next. F. W. IIULING, Speakcr qf the House Of Representatives. , BURCHET DOUGLASS, December 16, 1831. Speaker ofthe Senate. CHAPTER XC. An Act to amend the Registration Laws of this State, and for other purposes. Whereas, by the laws of this State, deeds for the con- veyance of land, Mortgages, Powers of Attorney, Bills of Sale and other instruments required by law to be regis- tered, may be proven and registered at any time within twelve months of the execution thereof, in consequence of which, numerous frauds are daily and secretly prac- tised, mortgaging and conveying property, which had been previously mortgaged or conveyed, to the great in- jury of the subsequent mortgagee or purchascr, and to the good people of this State generally-and whereas, the registration laws as they now exist, do not answer the purpose for which they were originally designed, (to wit:) to give'notice to creditors and subsequent purchasers; -ind whereas, they now have a manifest tendency to en- courage the commission of frauds by secret conveyances of property, for remedy whereof- Src. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Promato or in. of Tennessee, That all deeds for the absolute conveyance rumteno co n- of lands, tenements and hereditaments, all bills of sale voyance. for the absolute conveyance of slaves, or other personal property, all mortgages and deeds of trust of either real or personal property, all deeds of gift, all powers of at- torney, authorizing the conveyance of real or. personal estate, or for any other purpose,allmarringe contracts or Digitized from Best Copy Available

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