Pennsylvania Act 1913-52 — RECORDER OF DEEDS, PRESERVATION OF RECORDS - REPEALED

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RECORDER OF DEEDS, PRESERVATION OF RECORDS - REPEALED
                  Act of Apr. 15, 1913, P.L. 74, No. 52               Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     For the better preservation of the records contained in the
        offices of the recorder of deeds, of counties of this
        Commonwealth containing over one million and a half
        population; providing for the replacement and certification
        of worn or dilapidated records, and the payment of the cost
        thereof out of county funds.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the
     passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the recorder of
     deeds of all counties containing over one million and a half
     population, of this Commonwealth, whenever in his opinion it
     shall become necessary, to have copied or transcribed in a fair
     and reasonable manner any books of record in his office which
     may be certified by him to be dilapidated, fading, injured, or
     jeopardized from any other cause; the work to be done by the
     transcribing clerks of his office, and the cost of such copy or
     transcription shall be certified by the recorder of deeds, and
     be paid out of the county funds upon orders drawn by the
     commissioners on the treasurer of the proper county.
        Section 2.  When said copy shall have been completed, it
     shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds of the proper county,
     to which such book belongs, to certify at the end of the same
     that it is a true and correct copy of the original, and to affix
     the seal of his office thereto; and thereupon the said book
     shall have the same force and effect in law and in equity as the
     original record would have had.
        Section 3.  The original record so transcribed or copied
     shall not be destroyed; but shall be preserved by the recorder
     of deeds, with a certificate annexed thereto by him that it has
     been replaced with a copy under this statute.