62 Assembly Proceedings, February — March 1638/9.

Liber
C & W H

Record in which he shall enter all grants Conveyances Titles
and successions to Land whatsoever at the request of any one
desireing the same to be entred And the Commander of any
hundred may likewise keep a book of Record in which he shall
or may enter all grants titles and Successions to any freehold
within the hundred at the request of any one desireing it
And the partie or parties makeing such request shall set forth
the Special matter or title by which he claimes And if the
partie claime by Law only as the widow for her dower the
heire for his inheritance the Lord of the fee for his Escheat or
the tenant by the Courtisie of Maryland for his wifes Inherit-
ance the partie claiming shall averre or make such proofe as
the Court shall think fitt that he or she is the widow husband
or heir of the last tennant upon record or that he or she is
Lord of the fee and that the last tennant upon record died
without heir
And if the partie clayme by matter of Record grant deed or
legacie the partie clayming shall alledge the matter of Record
or exhibite the grant deed or testam^t by which the clayms upon
which clayme so entred the partie clayming may enter upon
the Land so claymed if no other be possessed thereof
And at the next County Court or otherwise at the next
hundred Court (if the land claymed be a freehold only) the
Register of the said County or hundred Court shall proclaime
and publish the said Claime of the partie and such proclama-
tion shall be Continued and renewed in open Court once at
least in every year for three years together and if within
that Space no matter be alledged by any person to the Con-

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trary the party claiming shall be entered Tenant upon Record
to the Land so claimed & such entry upon Record shall be a
barre for ever to all other persons whatsoever from claiming
the said Land other then such as Shall clayme by from or
under the partie so admitted upon Record
Provided that the neerest heir liveing within the Province
and claiming or entring upon any Land shall not be admitted
Tennant upon upon Record till after ten years according to
the Statute in that behalf provided intituled An Act for the
descending of Land and that the Lord Proprietor nor Lord of
the fee shall not be admitted by Escheat for want of heirs liveing
within the Province untill after ten Years likewise according to
the Statute aforesaid any thing in this Act to the Contrary
notwithstanding This Act to Continue till the end of the
next Generall Assembly