Wayne County, NC – Wayne & Randolph Counties - Act to Validate Deeds, 1826 ~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter LXIV - An Act to declare valid certain deeds registered in the counties of Wayne and Randolph. WHEREAS the registers of the counties of Wayne and Randolph have, in some instances, registered deeds in their offices, and omitted to register also the certificate of probate of the said deeds, and the original deeds being lost, persons holding under them have their titles brought into doubt; for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all copies of deeds from the registers' books of the counties of Wayne and Randolph, which have been heretofore registered in said books, duly certified as copies from said books, by the register of said counties, may be read in evidence as other copies from said books may by law be read in evidence, without the copy of certificate of probate of said deed: Provided, the register certify that there is no certificate of probate recorded in his books. Source: NC Archives Public and Private Laws of North Carolina ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Olde Dobbs Trail ______________________________________________________________________