Public Records (Scotland) Act 1809

V Clerks of inferior Commissary Court to deliver their Registers of Deeds, and the Warrants to Sheriff Clerks.

And be it further enacted, That on or before the Expiration of Six Months after the palling of this Act, the Clerks of the several inferior Commissary Courts shall deliver to the Sheriff Clerks or Stewart Clerks of the Shires or Stewartries within which such Commissary Courts are respectively situated, all the Books or Registers of Deeds or of Probative Writings, if any, which have been kept by them and their Predecessors in Office, and which shall be in their Custody, together with -the Minute Books and Warrants of the same, and with an Inventory of the whole, to the Accuracy and Completeness of which- the said Clerks respectively shall make Oath in the Court of the Sheriff Depute or Stewart Depute, and that the said Sheriff Clerks and Stewart Clerks shall receive the aforesaid Books, Registers, and Warrants respectively, to be deposited with the other Public Records under their Custody and Care, and shall make and subscribe full Duplicates of the aforesaid Inventories to be delivered to and deposited by the said Commissary Clerks with the tether Public Records remaining under their Custody and Care.