Missouri Revised Statutes Title VI. County, Township and Political Subdivision Government § 59.330. What shall be recorded--legal description required, when--validity

(1) All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, deeds of trust, assignments, bonds, covenants, defeasances, or other instruments of writing, of or concerning any lands and tenements, or goods and chattels, which shall be proved or acknowledged, and authorized to be recorded in their offices;

(2) All papers and documents found in their respective offices, of and concerning lands and tenements, or goods and chattels, and which were received from the Spanish and French authorities at the change of government;

(3) All marriage contracts and certificates of marriage;

(4) All commissions and official bonds required by law to be recorded in their offices;

(5) All written statements furnished to him for record, showing the sex and date of birth of any child or children, the name, business and residence of the father and maiden name of the mother of such child or children.