When any land or interest therein, incorporeal hereditament or right to the use of water is taken by appraisal under proceedings on application or petition to any judge or court therefor, the applicant or petitioner shall, within thirty days after the appraisers have made their report or, if such report is made to a court, within thirty days after its final acceptance, file for record, in the town clerk’s office of the town or towns in which such land or interest is situated, a certificate describing the land or interest, signed by the applicant or his attorney, which certificate shall be recorded by the town clerk in the land records of the town.