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Pottawattamie County, Iowa

Transcribe Records

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the county Judge of Pottawatomie (sic) county, be and is hereby authorized and requested to employ some suitable person at the expense of said county, to transcribe all deeds and conveyances of real estate, recorded in Book A. of the records of Pottawattomie (sic) county, which have been executed and recorded subsequent to the acquisition of title to the lands in said county from the United States Government.

Certify

Sec. 2. That after a transcript of land record has been made as provided for in the first section of this Act, and certified as being a true transcript thereof by the person so transcribing the same, with an affidavit attached or annexed to the end of said transcript that he verily believes the same to be a full and true copy, the same or any part of said transcript shall have the same binding effect as the original, and said transcript or a certified copy, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters and things therein contained.

Approval

Sect. 3. The county Judge, after the transcribing of land records as provided aforesaid, and the proper indexing and writing the names of grantor and grantee on the margin of the record of each deed so transcribed and recorded, shall annex his signature and official seal thereto, approving the act, and shall draw a warrant for the expense incurred for the service rendered aforesaid.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa Capital Reporter and Council Bluffs Bugle, and no expense shall accrue to the State for said publication.

Approved Jan. 8th, 1857.

I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa Capital Reporter, and in the Council Bluffs Bugle, Feb. 3d, 1857.

Elijah Sells,
Secretary of State.

Acts, Resolutions & Memorial, Regular Session, Sixth General Assembly, Iowa, 1857.
Submitted by Cathy Danielson