(a) It shall be the duty of the recorder to endorse the precise time the instrument is filed for record in his or her office on every deed, bond, or instrument of writing affecting the title in law or equity to any property, real or personal, within this state which is or may be required by law to be acknowledged or proved and recorded.(b) It shall be the duty of the recorder to endorse on every mortgage filed in his or her office for record, and note in the record, the precise time the mortgage was filed for record.Rev. Stat., ch. 101, § 3; Acts 1846, § 1, p. 77; 1846, § 1, p. 108; C. & M. Dig., §§ 1536, 7383; Pope's Dig., §§ 1846, 9437; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 16-104, 16-114.
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