NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 540

HOUSE BILL 656

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY TO INSTALL IN THE REGISTER OF DEEDS' OFFICE A RECORD BOOK, OR BOOKBINDER, TO BE DESIGNATED OR LABELED "MISCELLANEOUS", TO BE USED FOR CONDITIONAL SALES CONTRACTS, MORTGAGES, CROP LIENS, DEEDS OF TRUST AND SIMILAR INSTRUMENTS AND TO VALIDATE THE PREVIOUS USE OF SUCH A BOOK OR RECORD.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. That the Register of Deeds of Washington County is hereby authorized and empowered to install, keep and maintain in his office a bookbinder or record book, to be designated, or labeled, "Miscellaneous", the same to be used for the purpose of recording photostatic copies of deeds of trust, sales contracts, conditional sales contracts, chattel mortgages, crop liens and other similar instruments, said record to also be used for the permanent filing of copies of the original instruments above set forth which may be furnished by persons, firms and corporations using small print forms. That the instruments above described and designated shall be glued into or fastened by some appropriate method in said book or record, and the same shall constitute an official and lawful record of said office.

Sec. 2. That any book or record as described in Section 1 of this Act and which has heretofore been used in said office, the same being designated or labeled as "Miscellaneous", is hereby declared to be a good, lawful and valid record, and all instruments contained in said book are hereby declared to be lawful and official records of said office, and the prior use of same is hereby declared to be validated and lawful.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of May, 1959.