Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692. 473

owners of such Cornfields shall bear their own loss comitted
by such horse or horses or other Cattle as aforesaid
June 2^d 1692 June the 2^d 1692
Assented to by the Councill Board The house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r have Assented.
John Llewellin Clk. Signed p Ord^r
Hen: Denton Clk.

An Act for the Enrolement of Conveyances
and securing the Estates of Purchasers.

For the better Establishing of a way and Method of con-
veying of Manners Lands Tenements & hereditaments within
this Province for the future and for the avoiding of all abuses
and deceipts in incumbering Estates by Mortgages and other-
wise by the owners of Lands and hereditaments to the prejudice
of Purchasers for valuable considerations and such as lend their
moneys upon reall Security Be it Enacted by the King and
Queens most Excellent Majesties by and with the advice and
consent of this present Generall Assembly and by the Authority
of the same. That from and after Publication hereof no Man-
nors Lands Tenem^ts or hereditaments whatsoever within this
Province or any the Lands Islands Territories or Places there-
unto belonging, shall Pass alter or change from one to another

Lib. L. L.
No. 1.

whereby the Estate of Inheritance or Freehold or any Estate
for Years other then such upon which the Improved yearly
Rents reserved to be paid shall be made to take Effect in any
Person or persons or any use or Trust thereof Except the
deed or Deeds Conveyance or Conveyances, by which the
same shall be intended to pass alter or change be made by
writing indented and sealed, and that the same be acknowl-
edged in the Provinciall Court of this Province or before two
of the Councill of this Province or in the Court of the same
County or before two of the Justices of the Peace of the
same County where the same Manners Lands Tenements &
hereditaments do ly and be Enrolled or the substance of the
same, That is to say the. certain dates names Sirnames and
Additions of the Parties thereunto with the certain considera-
tions for which the same were made and the certainty of the
premisses and of the Estate or Estates thereby intended to
pass be Enrolled in the Provinciall Court of this Province or
in the County Court where the Land doth lye, the same Enroll-
ment to be made within twelve months after the date of the
said Writings Indented for the Capcon of which said acknowl-
edgement, there shall be paid to the parties taking the same
twelve pence sterling and no more, and for which said Enroll-
ment there shall be paid to the Clerk of the said Provinciall or

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