were enrolled by virtue of the said law within the time therein limitted, are and shall be taken and adjudged to be effectual in law, according to the purport, intent and meaning of such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, enrolled; and if any deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, made during the continuance of that act, were scaled and delivered, but not enrolled according to the intent of the said law, it is hereby enacted and declared, That nothing has passed by such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, not enrolled as aforesaid, the repeal of the said law notwithstanding.     VI. And, whereas at an assembly held at the city of St. Mary's on the tenth day of May, Anno Domini, one thousand six hundred ninety two, in the fourth year of the reign of our late sovereign lord and lady, king William and queen Mary, of blessed memory, an act for enrolment of conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers, was then made, whereby it was enacted, that no manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments whatsoever, within this province, shall pass, alter or change from one to another, whereby the estate of inheritance or free-hold, &c. shall take effect, &c. as by the said law (relation being thereunto had) more at large doth appear, except the deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, by which the same were intended to pass, alter or change, from one to another, were acknowledged and enrolled, as the law directs; BE IT HEREBY ENACTED AND DECLARED, by the authority, advice and consent aforesaid, That whatsoever deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, during the continuance of the said last mentioned act, were enrolled by virtue thereof within the time therein limitted, are and shall be taken and adjudged to be effectual in law, according to the purport, intent  and meaning of such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, enrolled; and if any deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, made during the continuance of that act, were sealed and delivered, but not enrolled according to the intent of the said law, IT IS HEREBY ENACTED AND DECLARED, That nothing has passed by such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, not enrolled as aforesaid, the repeal of the said act notwithstanding.     VII. And, whereas at a session of assembly, begun and held at the port of Annapolis the twenty-seventh day of June, and ended the twenty-second day of July, in the eleventh year of the reign of our late sovereign lord king William the third, anno domini one thousand six hundred ninety-nine, An act for enrolling of conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers, was made, whereby, for the better establishing a way and method of conveying of manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, and for avoiding the abuses and deceits by mortgages, it was enacted by the king's most excellent                     6