It shall be the duty of all owners of unregistered real estate within the City limits, and of every subsequent purchaser, devisee or person acquiring title by partition or otherwise, to any real estate therein, within one month after acquiring such title, to furnish to the City Engineer at his office a description of their respective properties upon blanks furnished by the City, and to present their conveyances to be stamped by the Engineer without charge, as evidence of the registration thereof.
(1944 Code Ch. 27 §5.)