For Office Copies of Deeds or other documents not exceeding four folios of 100 words

Every additional folio of 100 words

...

For every registration, cancellation, entry certificate, or other act to be made or done in the Deeds Registry Office, not being any of the matters or things aforesaid

For every deduction from a Diagram

£0 5 0 006

030

0 10 0

(2) UNDER REGULATIONS ISSUED UNDER ACT 19

of 1891.

...

Each time that a Deed which has been once rejected for any
defect is again tendered for registration without such
defect having been cured
For every search in connection with the issue of a certified
copy of a lost transfer, for every hour or fraction of an
hour

But not to exceed 10s. in the whole.

To the Registry Surveyor :—

1. For each deduction

2. For every search not exceeding half-an-hour

And for every additional half-hour or fraction thereof

3. For each certificate of remaining extent

4. For every copy of a simple diagram

5. For every copy of a complex diagram

6. For every report on an incorrect diagram submitted
for registry

7. For each report on every subsequent resubmission
of an incorrect diagram

060

020

0 10 0 030

0 1 0 030

0 7 6 100

076

076

STAMP DUTY PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF TRANSFERS

AND BONDS under Act 13 of 1870.

On all Transfers passed before the Registrar of Deeds :

And for every additional £100 or fraction thereof

Cessions of Mortgage Bonds, notarial or otherwise, one-fourth

of the stamp of the original Bonds.

On Mortgage Bonds passed before the Registrar of Deeds and General Mortgages, commonly called "Notarial Bonds" :

Amount secured exceeding £10 and not exceeding £20

£0 2 0

030

On deeds of Kinderbewys passed before Notaries, for securing the portions of minors, half of the amount of stamps required on Mortgage Bonds passed before the Registrar of Deeds.

All Notarial Bonds shall be either written upon or covered by stamped paper.

Underhand cessions of Mortgage Bonds must be written either upon stamped paper or upon paper having an adhesive stamp affixed and cancelled as in the 14th section of the Act 3 of 1864 mentioned, or upon the Bond ceded.

When written upon the Bond ceded an adhesive stamp of the required value must be affixed to or upon such cession before delivery of the ceded Bond to the cessionary, and the person ceding shall cancel such adhesive stamp by placing thereon in figures, in ink, the amount of the debt ceded, and by writing thereon his name, or the initials of his name, and the date on which he shall write the same.

(Note. If the proper stamp be not so affixed and cancelled the cession must be covered by stamps of five times the value of the stamp originally required, which must be cancelled by the Civil Commissioner in terms of section 18 of Act 3 of 1864. If the cession be understamped the penalty is five times the amount of the deficiency.)

King William's Town.-Registrar of Deeds: MR. WILLIAM BAZETT GOODWIN BLENKINS.

The jurisdiction of this office comprises what was formerly British Kaffraria, now comprising the Divisions of King William's Town, East London, Komgha, Stutterheim, and portions of Cathcart and Victoria East. It is governed by the same regulations and scales of fees and stamps as those in force in the Cape Town office. The Registrar of Deeds at King William's Town does not register Trade Marks, Designs, Books, Joint Stock Companies or Private Partnerships.

Kimberley.-Registrar of Deeds: Mr. EGBERT Garcia. The jurisdiction of this office extends over Griqualand West, which includes the Divisions of Kimberley, Barkly West, Herbert, and Hay. The regulations, fees and stamps are the same as those in force in the Cape Town office. Formerly this office registered Joint Stock Companies, but the interpretation clause of the Companies' Act, 1892 (sec. 2) defines "registrar" to be the Registrar of Deeds in Cape Town, and all companies are now registered in Cape Town. This office does not register Trade Marks, Designs, Books or Private Partnerships.

Vryburg. Registrar of Deeds: MR. ANDRIES BRINK HOF

MEYR.

A Deeds Registry was originally established at Vryburg under the Government of the Stellaland Republic early in 1883, for the purpose of registering grants of land made under the Van Niekerk Administration and Mortgage Bonds passed over such lands. In 1884, when the territory known as Stellaland was occupied by the British forces under General Sir Charles Warren, the Deeds Registry was allowed to continue. In 1885, British Bechuanaland, which includes the late Stellaland Republic and certain other surrounding districts, was annexed by the Imperial Government and the Deeds Registry Office was taken over and placed under the supervision of the Chief Magistrate at Vryburg till 1889, when it became a separate office and a Registrar of Deeds was appointed. On annexation of British Bechuanaland to the Cape Colony in 1895 the Deeds Registry continued to exercise the functions imposed upon it by virtue of previous British Bechuanaland Proclamations. The Annexation Act, No. 41 of 1895, provided that it should remain the Deeds Registry for British Bechuanaland for a period of five years; by subsequent Proclamation that period was extended for another five years, and it is possible that provision will be made in due course for its being permanently established at Vryburg. The jurisdiction of the Office extends over the districts of Vryburg, Mafeking, Gordonia, Kuruman and Taungs. By Proclamation B.B. 182 of 1893, its jurisdiction was further extended over the British Bechuanaland Protectorate in respect of the registration of certain grants, &c. The rules, regulations and fees are the same as those in vogue in the Cape Town Deeds Office. No Trade Marks, Designs, Copyright in Books, Patents and Joint Stock Companies are registered in this office now; all these being registered at Cape Town since 1895. In December, 1900, the Deeds Office was placed under the charge of the Civil Commissioner, Vryburg, who is now the Registrar.

TRANSVAAL.

Pretoria.-Registrar of Deeds: Mr. JOHANNES SMUTS.

The laws of the late South African Republic, having reference to the Deeds Registry Office, have been repealed by Proclamation No. 10 of 1902, and by it "The Deeds Office" was created and established in Pretoria for the registration of Deeds in the Transvaal Colony. The duties of the Registrar of Deeds, subject to the special provisions of the Proclamation and regulations. framed thereunder or of the Gold Law or any other law, are defined in the Proclamation to be as follows:

(a) To take charge of and preserve the records of the Registrar of Deeds of the late South African Republic and of the present Acting Registrar of Deeds which records shall be and form part of the records of the Deeds Office by this Proclamation created. (b) To register grants or original titles to immovable property issued by lawful authority.

(c) To certify sign and register deeds of transfer of immovable property and of any other property the transfer of which may be required by any special law in force in this Colony to be made before the Registrar of Deeds.

(d) To certify, sign and register mortgage bonds specially hypothecating immovable or other property as aforesaid.

(e) To register ante-nuptial contracts kinderbewijzen, notarial bonds and other notarial deeds having reference to persons or property within this Colony.

To register cessions of registered bonds.

(g) To cancel or partially cancel any registered bond or deed other than a deed of transfer of any immovable property or to release from the operation of any such bond the whole or any part of the property or things thereby specially hypothecated

or bound.

(h) To register all concessions, mynpachts and other Government grants and contracts proper for registration according to the law practice and usage of this Colony.

(i) To register against any property registered in the Deeds Office any lease, servitude or encumbrance contained in a deed of transfer or other duly registered deed or authorised by order of Court.

(j) In the registration of any deed to make all such indorsements on any registered title or other deed or instrument filed of record in his Office as may be necessary to give effect to such registration.

(k) To keep all such land, debt and other registers as may

be requisite for the due performance by him of any of his duties aforesaid and the establishment of an efficient system of registration calculated to furnish an increased security of title and an easy reference thereto.

(1) To keep a register of all interdicts and orders of Court served upon him and affecting the transfer of rights registered in the Deeds Office, and of all notices relating to estates furnished to him by the Master of the Supreme Court.

(m) Generally to exercise all such powers and discharge all such duties as are by general law and custom in South Africa exercised by and required of and from the Registrar of Deeds; and to permit the public upon payment of the prescribed fees to have such inspection of records, and to obtain from the Deeds Office such information concerning deeds filed of record as may be usual and customary.

The Governor may appoint an Acting and an Assistant Registrar, he may also frame rules and regulations-all such rules and regulations to be published in the Government Gazette (secs. 4, 5 and 6).

Before registration of a transfer or bond a certificate of some competent revenue officer must be produced to the effect that all government taxes and dues in respect of the property to be transferred or mortgaged have been paid (sec. 8).

The Registrar is obliged to give notice of all Deeds of Transfer, Mortgage bonds, or other Deeds, having reference to or affecting the ownership of land and registered by him, to the Resident Magistrate of the district in which such land is situated, and such Magistrate must, on receipt of such notice, make the necessary entry in the Land Register of his district (sec. 11).

Section 12 provides that any person being the registered owner of two or more pieces of land contiguous to each other, not being erven or portions of erven and not together comprising the whole of any two or more pieces of land registered as separate farms, may apply in writing to the Registrar for a certificate of registered title stating that such person is the registered owner of the land to be therein described, according to a diagram to be annexed, framed by a surveyor, which diagram shall include and indicate the aggregate extent of the several pieces of land so held by such person. The deeds of grant or transfer under which the applicant holds such ground, together with the diagrams, must be submitted to the Registrar in support of the application (sec. 13); the diagrams are then submitted to the Surveyor-General, and on his approval the certificate is issued (sec. 14). If the Registrar refuses the certificate application may be made to the Supreme Court, or to a Judge in Chambers, for an order directing the Registrar to issue such a certificate (sec. 15) and with such order