Post: HOW TO RECORD A HOLE; by H. C. Gill, Clerk of Court
Posted by Hardy Parkerson, Atty. on 12/13/03
On March 5, 1895, an original instrument was filed for
record in the office of the Clerk of Court of Calcasieu
Parish, Louisiana, and a hole in the middle of the said
original occasioned the following footnote at the end of
the recordation of the instrument in Book 10 of
Conveyances, page 351, by the Clerk of Court, H.C. Gill:
F O O T N O T E BOOK 10, PAGE 351.
"I hereby certify in this foot note that the above
and foregoing certificate with a hole in the middle of it
was handed to this office by Mr. Gid Gray this day for
recordation, and this note is added by way of
explanation. I have tried to conduct the affairs of this
office along the line of absolute correctness, and make
all recordations a verbatim counterpart of the original.
But when it comes to recording a hole, my past efforts as
a whole are stopped short at this hole, and I hold and
gaze at the whole in despair, and upon the whole would
withhold making a hole where no hole should be. If I make
a hole in my record book, it will be a mutilation and an
offense. If I withhold making the hole, will I be held
blameless? The whole thing is not a whole by reason of
the hole. If I make a hole in this page, it will not be
whole, and would make a hole in the next page also, and
make a whole lot of trouble by making a hole in another
whole page where there should be no hole, and the result
would be a whole lot of holes. It is the first hole in my
whole life I could not avoid, go around, or get in or out
of. I thought of drawing a hole. I tried. I failed. Here
is an opportunity for genius. I tried my whole reason on
a hole and a whole lot of holes, and asked myself "What is
a hole?" The answer came, "A hole is a hole and nothing
but a hole." The original hole is not much of a hole,
upon the whole being about a two inch hole.
"The ________ in this record indicates where the hole
commences, if a hole can commence, and the letters
following the ________ indicate where the hold quits, if a
hole can quit. I would gladly have escaped this hole, but
Gray is behind me, failure ahead, and I am in the nine
hole. March 5, 1895. H.C. Gill, Clerk."
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