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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The Statute, 33 Charles II., Chapter 12, inter alia provided that all Deeds should be recorded in the Office of Enrolments, the Chief Officer of which was the Island Secretary, within three months, and Patents within six months of their execution. This law also provided that the office should be situate in the town of St. Jago de la Vega, now known as Spanish Town. In the year 1712 the Legislature of the island, finding that the Public Records had received great damage by length of time, frequent searches, and 'the late violent hurricane,' passed a law providing for the books to be re-bound and re-transcribed where necessary, and for a proper index to be kept. In less, however, than thirty years the Legislature had to again come to the assistance of the Records, as in the year 1738 I find another Act was passed which, after reciting that many of the Public Records were damaged by the 'late violent hurricane and the length of time,' were very much decayed, by which the inhabitants of the island were endangered of their properties, provided that an inventory of the Public Record Books should be made and kept, and handed over by each retiring Secretary to his successor. |
