That the commissioners of the County of Dare are hereby authorized to have transcribed from the deed books of the said Counties of Hyde, Tyrrell and Currituck, all deeds of bargain and sale, deeds of trust, mortgages, bonds to make title, contracts to sell real estate, decrees or orders of court affecting the title of any real estate now lying in whole or in part, in the said County of Dare, and record the same, with all the certificates and probates thereto attached, on the regular deed books of the register's office for the County of Dare. All papers so transcribed and recorded shall be duly certified as a true copy of a deed recorded in the office of register of deeds for the County of .
(Pub. Laws 1876-77, ch. 118, § 1.)