Section 374. Deputy registrars' powers and duties

In any county where the
  business under this article so warrants, the  registrar  may  appoint  a
  chief deputy and as many other deputies as are needed. But no one unless
  he  is  also a deputy register or an assistant deputy register appointed
  under statutory authority, or a deputy county clerk, shall be  appointed
  as such deputy registrar unless he has qualified as an official examiner
  of  title  as  described  and  required  by  section  three  hundred and
  seventy-seven of this chapter.
    Deputies may perform any and all duties of the registrar in  the  name
  of  the registrar, and the acts of such deputies shall be held to be the
  acts of the registrar, and in case of the death of the registrar, or his
  removal from office, the chief deputy shall thereupon become the  acting
  registrar  until  such  vacancy shall be filled according to law, and he
  shall file a like bond and be vested with the same powers and subject to
  the same responsibilities and entitled to the same  compensation  as  in
  the case of the registrar.