Proof of Crown Grants Act 1847 No 38a (NSW)

No. XXXVIII.

An Act to facilitate tlie proof of Letters Patent prooi- of crown

or Deeds of Grant from tlie Crown. \2nd

; October, 1847.]

\ \ f HEE/EAS it is expedient to facilitate the proof in all Courts of Preamble.

Law and Equity and in all other Courts in the Colony of New •Wales of the contents of Letters Patent and Deeds of Grant from the Crown hy which land in the said Colony hath been or shall after the passing of this Act be granted to any person or persons whomsoever

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for any estate or interest Be it therefore enacted hy Ilis Excellency Official record of

the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the receive? b ™vid7n« hereafter to be kept as of record or for public or official ])urposes in the office of the Colonial Secretary or of the llcgistrar General of tlie said Colony or of the Deputy Begistrar of the Supreme Court at Port Phillip purporting to be an entry or copy of any Letters Patent or

Deed

1782 No. 39. 11" VIC. 1847.

Aliens.

Deed of Grant from the Crown of any land situated in the said Colony to any person or persons whomsoever shall in case the Letters Patent or Deed of Grant of which the same purports to be an entry or copy shall not he produced in evidence be deemed and taken to he of the same force and effect as the original Letters Patent or Deed of Grant under the seal of the said Colony duly recorded and signed hy the Governor of the said Colony for the time being and a copy of any such entry or copy kept or hereafter to he kept as of record as afore­

ami also dulj' certi-

lied copies of such	said of any such Letters Patent or Deed of Grant certified to he a true
record.	copy under the hand of the said Colonial Secretary or the Registrar General or Deputy Registrar for the time being shall upon proof made that such certificate has been signed hy the said Colonial Secretary or Registrar General or Deputy Registrar for the time being (and whom it shall not he necessary to prove to he such Colonial Secretary or Registrar General or Deputy Registrar) shall have the same force and effect for the purposes of evidence to all intents and purposes what­ soever as if the original Letters Patent or Deeds of Grant of which the copy so produced and certified shall purport to be a copy of the entry or copy as aforesaid had been produced in evidence.
Fees.	2. And he it enacted That for every such copy a fee at the rate of one shilling and three-pence for every folio of seventy-two words shall he charged previously to the delivery of the same and the amount thereof shall be duly paid hy the officer receiving the same into the Colonial Treasury for the public uses of the said Colony and in support of the Government thereof.