Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — THE TORRENS LAND-TITLE SYSTEM. [ARTICLE]

THE TORRENS LAND-TITLE SYSTEM.

-M. L. Untidy in t.’i.e ludinm: polls .Journal. The felly of* Chicago' n al Cook iHHiHty, friweis fttr the -Bout in i-ommerctoj matters, by a oifijori-’ ty ot Y7,'t oi ‘ io-:r viqiito pope- j lot ic>6, at the election fast Tuesday adopted the ToneuSfiytetTi of registering and giiaiairtooiag-laud' |it len. This tm-t fi*«l whs , fnangurated l*y our English-speaking cousins in Australia, who are governed as vte are by cu-terns and laws borrowed from tho mother country, and the law bears the name of the author. . This is the same country whose inventive genius has given us the blanket voting system which now prevails in so many States of our UnioD and is rapidly spreading so~as to cover alt of them. By the Torrens method the owner of land can baye bis title registered by an officer appointed for that purpose, receive a certificate of registry, by which the state guarantees ownership, and he can then sell and assign his certificate or pledge, and borrow money on it. like he could on a mortgage, without tne expense and delay of an abstract of title. It assimilates land titles to certificates of stock iu corporations or registered bonds of the United States, which have only t-o be assigned •nd delivered to pass title to a purchaser. A person may now transfer a stock eeHin a bank calling Aor sloo,ooo' by merely indorsing it, but if it be”af town 1< t at only 8100 the vender must incur the expense of an abstract and the consequent delay before the conveyance is completed. A more speedy and less expensive way of transferring the ownership of land is to be hoped Chicago has made no mistake in adopting the new method. It is known the late David Dudley Field, who did so much toward law reform by improving the forms of pleading and ! practice while a nu mber of the j commission to codify the laws of, i New York, intended to insert a ! provision similar to the Torrens law, but he was overruled by his colleagues, who preferred the existing clumsy method.

Ferguson & Wilson will practice in all the courts of the state. J. H. P< x sells the best coal ard wood in town at the old stand i. f Dexter <fe Cox. Ask your neighbors about our laundry work and they will tell you it is the best they ever had done. Stitlfr & Kigut. We are the only steam laundry in town. .j- Spitler & Right. Call on J. 11. Cox for hay, grain, lime and hair. And still Ihey come Mrith their work to the Rensselaer Laundry. “What do thp girls sav, Budy” Take your laundry to the Rensselaer Steam Laundry. Dr. Caldwill’s Syrup Pepsin is so pleasant to take and withal so effeci live nT results that *hr n once trieq nothing ever again takes its place: For Constipation, Indigestion, Chronic Sick Headache, Summfr Complaint or any trouble of ihe Stomach or Rowels, it bads all other r* medi*s. You don’t have to spend a dollar to try this remedy'lris put tip in 10c bottles an ! speaks for itself as well in a small as a large quantity. Regular s z u s 50c and fcl. For sale by F. B. Meyer’s.

We are firm and honest In our sta e ment that nothing equals Brant’s Balsam for cure of all coughs, colds, throat or lung trouble, as the many letters we have or file help to prove. A revent one from W, fe. Rumpel, Columbia, Mi h. says: "i caught s severe cold on my lungs last winter tout tried several other remedies which did me no good, until my lungs got in a very bad snspe’* (opistes always hurte *he lungs) “but two bottles ol Brant’s Balsam cured me. I felt better before hail used half a bottle. Gqt Brauts of A. F. Long & Co.