K.S.A. 58-319: Return of instruments to mortgagor by register of deeds.

Whenever any chattel mortgage or other instrument of writing or indebtedness which may have been filed in the office of the register of deeds of any county shall have been satisfied or paid, it shall be the duty of the register of deeds, after making a proper entry of such satisfaction or payment in the record where the instrument is recorded, to return the original, or the copy, if such it be, to the mortgagor or person executing the same.