Section 15
SEC. 15. Every register of deeds shall keep a book of records of chattel mortgages; shall certify on each mortgage left for record the records date, hour, and minute when the same was by him received; record in such book any chattel mortgage, transfer, or discharge, and the officer's return of sale upon any mortgage, making reference upon the margin of the record of such officer's return to the volume and page of the record of the mortgage, and a reference of such return on the record of the mortgage itself, and give a certified copy thereof, when requested, upon the payment of the lawful fees for such copy; and certify upon each mortgage officers return of sale or discharge of mortgage, the date, hour, and minute when the same is received for record and record such certificate with the return itself and keep an alphabetical index of mortgagors and mortgagees, which record and index shall be open to public inspection. Duly certified copies of such records shall be receivable as evidence in any court, as provided in Act Numbered One hundred and ninety. The register of deeds for each province or tin; city of Manila, as the resisters of case may be, shall be entitled to receive the following fees for services under the provisions of this Act: For filing and recording each chattel mortgage, including the necessary certificates and affidavits, three pesos; Recording each release of a chattel mortgage, including the necessary index and references, forty centavos: For recording each sheriff's return of sale, including the necessary index and references, twenty centavos for each folio of one hundred words; Fees so received shall accrue to the treasuries of the respective provinces, or of the city of Manila, as the case may be.