Sec. 1.
That when a new county has been, or shall be organized, in whole or in part, from an organized county, or from territory attached to such organized county for judicial purposes, and the supervisors of such new county have or shall have neglected to cause copies or transcripts of the records of deeds, mortgages or other instruments relating to real estate in such new county, to be made as provided by law; or if from any cause the same has not, or shall not have been done; or in case there are or shall be informalities, irregularities or mistakes in the copying, transcribing or certifying of such records, then in either such case, any person may procure from the register of deeds of the county in which such original deed, mortgage or other instrument had been recorded, a copy, duly certified by such register, of the original record of any deed, mortgage or other instrument relative to or affecting the title of land, in which such person may be interested, and situated in such new county, and cause such certified copy to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county. When any such certified copy shall be presented to the register of deeds of any county in this state, it shall be the duty of such register to record the same in the same manner and with like effect as original instruments or papers entitled to record in his office, and when so recorded, such record shall have the same effect in all respects as original records.
History: 1879, Act 177, Eff. Aug. 30, 1879 ;-- How. 5698 ;-- CL 1897, 9004 ;-- CL 1915, 11739 ;-- CL 1929, 13382 ;-- CL 1948, 565.591