Section 8

Section 8. That it shall be the duty of the prothonotary or clerk of the court of common pleas in each and every county in this Commonwealth, forthwith upon the passage of this act, to keep a daily record, separate and apart from all other records, of every single bill, bond, judgment, or other instrument securing a debt, entered of record in his office, which daily record shall set forth the following information, to wit: The date of the instrument, the names of the plaintiff and defendant, together with the precise residence of the plaintiff or person to whose use such bill, bond, judgment, or other obligation to pay money is marked, whenever such residence can be ascertained, the just sum secured, and the date or several dates when the said sum or portion of the same shall become due and payable, with the further information whether any of said bonds or judgments are accompanied with mortgages, and also the number of every single bill, bond, judgment or other instrument securing a debt, together with the amount of same, and the names of the plaintiff and defendant thereto, which shall have been that day satisfied; and it shall be the further duty of the prothonotary or clerk of the court of common pleas to file the aforesaid daily record of bills and so forth in the commissioners' office or with the board of revision of taxes of the proper county or city, on the first Monday of each month, and one certificate appended thereto shall be all that shall be required.