NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 151

HOUSE BILL 289

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE "COTT INDEX SYSTEM" OF DEEDS, MORTGAGES, AND/OR DEEDS OF TRUST IN AND FOR PERQUIMANS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. The "Cott Index System", hereinafter called "index", whether one or more books, made and prepared by a former "W. P. A." project, of Grantors and Grantees of all deeds, mortgages, and/or deeds of trust, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Perquimans County, North Carolina, indexing said records from the beginning of said office, to some time during the year 1941, be accepted and that the same are hereby approved.

Sec. 2. The said "index" shall be continued, and all instruments, such as deeds, mortgages, and/or deeds of trust, shall be brought up to date on said "index", from the cessation of said "W. P. A." project, to and including the present date; and after the said "index" is brought up to date, the Register of Deeds then holding office shall keep the same up to date in lieu of the old indexes now kept by him.

Sec. 3. It is hereby made mandatory that said new "index" be brought up to date by the Commissioners of Perquimans County, North Carolina, within a period of not exceeding two (2) years, from and after the effective date of this Act; said Commissioners of Perquimans County, North Carolina, shall hire, or cause to be hired, all workers and personnel necessary in order to bring the said "index" up to date, and after the same has been accomplished, shall turn the same over to the Register of Deeds of Perquimans County then in office, with instructions that the said Register of Deeds keep the said "index" from that time on in lieu of the old indexes now kept by him.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1965.