If any writing which it is lawful for a clerk to admit to record on proper acknowledgment or proof has been or shall be lodged in his office and has remained or shall remain therein six months without being acknowledged or proved, so that it can be duly admitted to record, the clerk shall, for the preservation thereof, when required by any person interested, copy the same in a book separate from those in which writings so admitted are recorded and keep an index to such book as in the case of writings duly admitted to record.

History

Code 1919, § 5213.