§ 316-a. Indexing and reindexing conveyances, mortgages and other\ninstruments. 1. Every instrument affecting real estate or chattels real,\nsituated in the county of Suffolk, which shall be, or which shall have\nbeen recorded in the office of the clerk of said county on and after the\nfirst day of January, nineteen hundred fifty-one, shall be recorded and\nindexed pursuant to the provisions of this act.\n 2. The clerk of the county of Suffolk is hereby directed and required,\nimmediately upon the passage of this act, to cause to be prepared one or\nmore books for each town in the said county of Suffolk for the indexing\ntherein, under the proper town so designated, of all instruments now\nrequired by law to be recorded in the books of conveyances. And said\nclerk shall also cause to be prepared one or more books for each of said\ntowns in said county for the indexing therein, under the proper town so\ndesignated, of all instruments now required by law to be recorded in the\nbooks of mortgages. Said indexes shall be deposited in the office of\nsaid clerk. They shall be prepared so as to contain the date of\nrecording of each instrument, the names of the parties to each\ninstrument and the liber and page of the record thereof and shall be\nsubstantially the forms of the schedules hereto annexed, designated\nrespectively as schedule A, schedule B, schedule C, schedule D, which\nschedules shall be deemed and taken to be a part of this act. Said books\nshall be entitled "town indexes of conveyances and mortgages"\nrespectively, and shall indicate the towns to which they respectively\nrelate.\n 3. It shall be the duty of the said clerk to provide and keep in his\noffice, besides said town indexes, a "daily index, or tickler of\nconveyances," and a "daily index, or tickler of mortgages," together\nwith books or records in which shall be recorded at length conveyances\nand mortgages recorded in his office, each of which shall be endorsed in\nits proper liber number.\n 4. Every instrument presented to said clerk for record, and requiring\nto be indexed under this act after the date when this act shall go into\noperation, in order to entitle the same to be recorded, shall have\nincluded therein, in the description of the premises, a designation of\nthe town in said county in which the land affected by the instrument\nlies, and if it lies in two or more towns of said county the name of\neach and every town in which the land affected by the instrument is\nsituated. Every assignment of a mortgage, and every agreement respecting\na mortgage, to entitle the same to be recorded, shall have included\ntherein a designation of the town in said county in which the land lies\nwhich is affected by the mortgage to which such assignment or agreement\nrelates, and if such land lies in two or more towns of said county the\nname of each and every town in which the land affected by the mortgage\nto which such assignment or agreement relates. And a record of the\ninstrument shall not be effectual by way of notice to bona fide\npurchasers or encumbrancers in respect to any land situated in any town\nof said county not so designated except as hereinafter provided.\n 5. Whenever any instrument affecting or relating to land in said\ncounty entitled to be recorded and required to be indexed under the\nprovisions of this act shall be presented to the said clerk for record,\nhe shall forthwith endorse thereupon the date, hour and minute of\nacceptance for recording by him, and enter in the proper index or\ntickler the name of every party executing said instrument, the date of\nrecord thereof and the name of every town designated as aforesaid for\nthe indexing of such instrument and as soon as practicable thereafter\nshall cause the said instrument to be indexed in the proper book or\nbooks of the town indexes under the proper town designated in which such\nproperty is situated.\n 6. The entries made in said indexes in conformity with the\nrequirements of t
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