Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868

151 Provision for Lands held Burgage where no Burgh Register of Sasines is kept.

From and after the Commencement of this Act, and during the Period to which the Eights of any Town Clerk appointed prior to the Eighth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in any Burgh in which Lands are held Burgage, and no Register of Sasines is kept, extend under legal Appointment, and no longer, no Conveyance or Deed of or relating to Lands in such Burgh held Burgage, and which under the Provisions of this Act shall come in place of any Conveyance or Deed which such Town Clerk would by Law have been exclusively entitled to prepare had the Act Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Victoria, Chapter One hundred and forty-three, or this Act, not been passed, shall, as regards such Lands, be validly recorded in any Register of Sasines, unless the "Warrant of Registration of such Conveyance or Deed shall be subscribed or endorsed with the Signature of such Town Clerk, which Signature he shall be bound to attach or endorse on receipt in respect thereof of One Half of the Pees which would have been chargeable by him for the Preparation of the Conveyance or Deed which he would have been entitled to prepare as aforesaid, and of no other Pees; but if the said Conveyance or Deed be prepared by him, he shall not be entitled, in respect of his Signature as aforesaid, to any other beyond the ordinary Pees for preparing such Conveyance or Deed : Provided always, that in estimating the said Pees the said Conveyance or Deed which he would have been entitled to prepare as aforesaid, shall not be computed as of any greater Length than the Conveyance or Deed signed by such Town Clerk.