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SECTION 1. Section one hundred ninety-four of Act Numbered Two thousand seven hundred and eleven, known as Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Two thousand Eight hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 19. Recording of instruments or deeds relating to real estatenot registered under Act Numbered Four hun­dred and ninety-six or under the Spanish Mortgage Law.—

No instrument or deed establishing, transmitting, acknowl­edging, modifying or extinguishing rights with respect to real estate not registered under the provisions of Act Num­bered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled 'The Land Reg­istration Act,' and its amendments, or under the Spanish Mortgage Law, shall be valid, except as between the parties thereto, until such instrument or deed has been registered, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, in the office of the register of deeds for the province or city where the real estate lies.

"It shall be the duty of the register of deeds for each province or city to keep a day book and a register book for unregistered real estate, in accordance with a form to be prepared by the Chief of the General Land Registration Office, with the approval of the Secretary of Justice. The day book shall contain the names of the parties, the nature of the instrument or deed for which registration is re­quested, the hour and minute, date and month of the year when the instrument was received. The register book shall contain, among other particulars, the names, age, civil status, and the residences of the parties interested in the act or contract registered and in case of marriage, the name of the wife, or husband, as the case may be, the character of the contract and its conditions, the nature of each piece of land and its own improvements only, and not any other kind of real estate or properties, its situation, boundaries, area in square meters, whether or not the boundaries of the property are visible on the land by means of monuments or otherwise, and in the affirmative case, in what they con­sist; the permanent improvements existing on the property; the page number of the assessment of each property in the year when the entry is made, and the assessed value of the property for that year; the notary or the officer who ac­knowledged, issued, or certified the instrument or deed; the name of the person or persons who, according to the in­strument, are in present possession of each property; a note that the land has not been registered under Act Num­bered Four hundred and ninety-six nor under the Spanish Mortgage Law; that the parties have agreed to register said instrument under the provisions of this Act, and that the original instrument has been filed in the office of the reg­ister of deeds, indicating the file number, and that the duplicate has been delivered to the person concerned; the exact year, month, day, hour, and minute when the original of the instrument was received for registration, as stated in the day book. It shall also be the duty of the register of deeds to keep an index-book of persons and an index-book of estates, respectively, in accordance 'with a form to be also prepared by the Chief of the General Land Registration Office, with the approval of the Secretary of" Justice.

"Upon presentation of any instrument or deed relating to real estate not registered under Act Numbered Four hun­dred and ninety-six and its amendments or under. the Spanish Mortgage Law, which shall be accompanied by as many duplicates as there are parties interested, it shall be the duty of the register of deeds to ascertain whether said instrument has all the requirements for proper registration.

If the instrument is sufficient and there is no legitimate ~ objection thereto, or in case of there having been one, if the same has been dismissed by final judgment of the courts, and if there does not appear in the register any valid previous entry that may be affected wholly or in part by the registration of the instrument or deed presented, and if the case does not come under the prohibition of sec­tion fourteen hundred and fifty-two of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, the register of deeds shall register the instrument in the proper book. In case -the instrument or deed presented has defects preventing its registration, said register of deeds shall refuse to reg­ister it until the defects have been removed, stating in writing his reasons for refusing to record said instrument as requested. Any registration made under this section shall be understood to be without prejudice to a third party with a better right.

"The register of deeds shall be entitled to collect in advance as fees for the services to be rendered by him in accordance with this Act, the same fees established for similar services relating to instruments or deeds in connec­tion with real estate in section one hundred fourteen of Act Numbered Four hundred ninety-six, entitled "The Land Registration Act," as amended by Act Numbered Two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six."

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, December 8, 1926.