FR ROM my experience of the mifchiefs arifing from the imperfection of the prefent registering Acts for the Counties of York and Middlesex, as well as from the want of an univerfal Inrolment of Deeds and Wills affecting Land, I feel it my duty to apprize the public of the evil they are fuffering, and to fuggeft a remedy, that will not only eradicate the diforder, but add ftrength and vigour to the part affected. For the fatisfaction, however, of the public and of myself, I first fubmitted it to the confideration of all the Judges and Law Officers of the country, to which I wish it to be applied; most of whom have done me the honour to express the strongest approbation of the plan, and a wish to fee it carried into execution. I do not fay this with a view to bias the opinion of any individual, but to prove that I have acquitted myself of every preliminary duty to the public, before I prefented to them this publication. It is now offered to them as the only mean, by which their previous fenfe of the expedient can be tried and known. As it is my defign to reduce the feveral acts of parliament upon the fubject, to one plain, confift ent and efficient ftatute, I expect that a candid public will approve of my going rather largely into the inconfiftencies and mischiefs of fuch acts, as I have thought neceffary to be repealed. The confiderations, motives, and reasons for my digesting and proposing to the public a plan for an univerfal Inrolment of all Deeds and Wills affect-、 ing Land, will, I hope, have their full weight in forming the opinions of individuals upon the expediency of it. These are, to the Land Owner, the encrease of the value of his land, by clearing and confirming his title to it, and facilitating the means of fettling, charging, or felling it to the Monied Man, the multiplication, certainty, and faith of land fecurities to the Lawyer, the ease, fatisfaction, and furety both of his client and himself in all negotiations refpecting lands: to the Financier, the general rife of the value of land in the market, which muft proportionably raise the price of the funds and to the Senator, the good and quiet of the fubject, the confiftency and certainty of the law, and the welfare and prosperity of the nation. Adelphi Terrace. FRANCIS PLOWDEN. CON. |
