264 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

And for the better ascertaining a way and Method for Con-
veying of Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments for
the future and for the avoiding the abuses and deceipts by
Mortgages —
Be it Enacted by the Queens most excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid that from and After
the publication hereof No Mannors Lands Tenements or Here-
ditaments whatsoever within this Province shall pass alter or
Change from one to another whereby the Estate of Inheritance
of ffreehold or any Estate for above seven years shall be made
to take Effect in any Person or persons or any use or trust
except the Deed or Conveyance by which the same shall be
intended to pass alter or Change the same be made by writ-
ing indented and seald and the same to be acknowledged in
the Provincial Court or before one Justice thereof or in the
County Court or before two Justices of the same where such
Mannours Lands Tenements or Hereditaments do lye and
inrolled within six Months after the date of such writing
Indented as aforesaid. And for the Caption of such ack-
nowledgment there shall be paid to the party or partys taking

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the same One shilling and no more. And the Clerk shall well
and truly inroll such Deed or Conveyance in a good Sufficient
book in ffolio to remaine in the Custody of the Clerk of the
same Court for the time being amongst the Records of the
same Court and that the same Clerk shall on the back of
every such deed in a full legible hand make an Indorsment of
such inrollment and also of the ffolio of the book in which the
same shall be Inrolled and shall to such Indorsment sett his
hand. Provided allways and be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid that when the Grantor or Grantors Bar-
gainer or Bargainors of such lands Tenements or Heredita-
ments shall live remote from either the Provincial Court or
County Court where the land lyeth It shall and maybe lawfull
for such grantor or Bargainer to acknowledge the same in the
County where such Bargainors liveth and a Certificate of such
acknowledgment under the hand of the County Clerk and
under the Seale of the same County of such acknowledgment
shall be taken deemed reputed and be as good and valid as if
the same had been acknowledged either in the Provincial or
County Court where such land lyeth and be a sufficient War-
rant for such County Clerk where the land lyes to inroll the
same And if any such grantor or bargainer of any Land or
Tenements as aforesaid shall happen to be out of this Province
within any of her Majestys Dominions at the time of the
ensealing such Writing or Writings indented so as the same
cannot be acknowledged as is before directed or inrolled
within the time for that purpose herein before limitted That in