Herring Pond, according to the terms and intent of his settle ment. A meeting-house was erected here as early as 1698, and a church founded. The house was small, standing on a hill, surrounded by the forest, and near to, and to the eastward of, Great Herring Pond. This house was taken down, and another built in 1838 (the same before-named as a schoolhouse), on a new and eligible site, in the village of Herring Pond, on the east side of the pond above named, and within a few rods of the same. Which is respectfully submitted, CHARLES MARSTON, Commissioner of Herring Pond Plantation. BARNSTABLE, December 31st, 1844. Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive. AN ACT Concerning Registers of Deeds. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 SECT. 1. Every Register of Deeds, in addition to 2 the duties now required by law, shall be and is here3 by required to keep two sets of indexes, each of which 4 shall be divided into five columns, with titles or heads 5 to the respective columns: On one set as follows, viz: Day and Year of Reception. Grantors. Grantees. Book. Page. 6 And in the other set as follows, viz: Day and Year of Reception. Grantees. Grantors. Book. Page. 1 SECT. 2. The Register of Deeds shall, within 2 twenty-four hours after any deed or other instrument, 3 which he is by law required to record, shall have been 4 left for record, cause the name of each and every 5 grantor, grantee, or other party to such deed or instru6 ment, to be entered at length and alphabetically in 7 its appropriate index,-and shall also, within a reason8 able time after such deed or instrument shall have 9 been recorded, affix to such entry the book and page 10 of the records, where such deed or instrument is re11 corded. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and FortyFive. AN ACT Concerning Limited Partnerships. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 From and after the passage of this act, no portion 2 of the seventh section of the thirty-fourth chapter of 3 the Revised Statutes, shall be so construed, as to 4 require any firm to insert all the names of the gene5 ral partners in the style of the firm, when a firm shall 6 consist of more than three general partners; and it |