Registers shall receive and record all certificates in equitable proceedings, copies of judgments and decrees certified by the clerk of courts in the county where the complaint is pending or the judgment or decree is rendered, certified copies of the proceedings of any court, corporation, municipal body or other tribunal through or by which the right of eminent domain has been or may hereafter be exercised to affect the title to real estate, copies of portions of wills devising real estate situated in their respective counties or districts and all other instruments which that they are by law required to record. They shall receive all copies of seizures on execution and special attachments made and attested by any officer of real property situate in their respective counties or districts and certify on them the time when they are received, and certificates of advertised stallions and copies of processes against domestic corporations filed for service by officers in the registry, keep them on file for the inspection of parties interested and enter them in suitable books, records properly indexed.

Sec. 5. 33 MRSA §654-A, as enacted by PL 1965, c. 425, §20-A, is repealed.

Sec. 6. 33 MRSA §660 is amended to read:

§660. Plans of townships; copies; filing and indexing

The county commissioners shall, at the expense of their respective counties, procure such plans of the townships in their counties as may be in existence. If the original plans are not in existence or cannot can not be had at a reasonable price, they shall procure copies of the most authentic plans known to exist. All such copies shall must be on the best quality of linen paper backed with cloth or polyester film with archival photographic image. Suitable filing cases shall must be provided in each registry of deeds for the reception and preservation of such the plans and a suitable index thereof shall of the plans must be made, having at least both alphabetical and chronological arrangement, and shall must be revised whenever new plans for recording are received.

Sec. 7. 33 MRSA §662 is amended to read:

§662. Plans showing allotment of lands in cities and

towns

The aldermen municipal officers of any a city and the selectmen of any or town may, and upon the written request of 3