LEGISLATION CONCERNING LAND AND DEEDS IN HENRY COUNTY, GEORGIA

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1829. 
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1829 Vol. 1 -- Page: 124

Sequential Number: 112 

Full Title: AN ACT to legalize and make valid certain deed records, as recorded in book marked A, in the clerk's office of the superior court of Henry county, and to authorise the justices of the inferior court of said county to pay for transcribing the same.

Whereas at the organization of said county, a number of deeds of conveyance were recorded in books not bound, and the same having since been transcribed as aforesaid,

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the justices of the inferior court of said county, or a majority of them, to examine the said transcript, and compare the same with the original record, and if the same be correctly transcribed, they shall certify the same and deposit the said record book in the clerk's office of the superior court of said county, and the same shall become a part of the records of said county, and shall be held as good and valid in law as though the same had never been transcribed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the justices aforesaid shall allow whatever in their discretion shall seem to be a reasonable compensation for transcribing the aforesaid record out of the county funds of said county -- Provided, the said court is left discretional whether they will pay for said transcript or not.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

WARREN JOURDAN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

President of the Senate.

GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.
 

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