Section 373. Registrar's bond

Every registrar, before entering upon his
  duties as registrar, shall give a bond with sufficient security,  to  be
  approved by a justice of the supreme court, payable to the people of the
  state  of  New  York,  in  a  penal sum the same as that for his bond as
  register or county clerk or in a sum which may be fixed  by  the  county
  board  of  supervisors,  conditioned  for  the faithful discharge of his
  duties, and to deliver up all papers, books, records and other  property
  belonging  to  the  county or appertaining to his office as registrar of
  titles, whole, safe and undefaced, when  lawfully  required  so  to  do,
  which bond shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.