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the Sitting of such Court that such Matter of fact shall be or
Expected to be tryed in.

And be itt further Enacted by the Authority Advice and
Consent afd that itt shall & may be Lawfull for the Justices of
the provinciall Court to allow unto Every person or persons
that shall be Legally Sumoned to give their Evidence in the
said Courts the sutne of forty pounds of Tob^o and no more for
Every day they Attend att such Court together with their
Itinerant Charges as usuall to be Allowed by the Court & paid
by the person Summoning them and to be Charged in the bill
of Costs in Cases of meum and Tuum and in all Cases
Criminall to be paid according to the Directions of the Act of
Assembly of this province for Speedy Tryall of Criminalls and
for the payment of their ffees and that itt shall and may be
Lawfull for the Justices of the Sev^ll and respective County

C. P.

Courts of this province to Allow Unto Every person or per-
sons that shall be Sumoned to give their Evidence in their
Sev^ll and respective Courts in Any Action or Controversy
Depending in the said Courts the sume of thirty pounds of
Tob^o for Every day they Attend as an Evidence untill such
cause shall be ended and no more to be paid in the same
Manner as Evidences that Attend the provinciall Court are
herein before directed to be paid.

An Act for Quietting Possessions Enrolling Conveyances and
Secureing the Estates of purchasers.

Forasmuch as a good and beneficiall Law Entituled An Act
for Quietting of possessions was made the Twenty Seventh day
of March Anno Domini one Thousd Six hundred Seventy one
in this province which by the use thereof hath been found
Very much Conduceing to the benefitt of the said province —
Be itt therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent
Majesty by an with the Advice and Consent of his Majesties
Governt Councill & Assembly of this province and the
Authority of the same that all Sailes guifts and Grants att any
time before the thirteenth day of Apl one Thousd Six hundred
Seventy four (and not after) of any Lands Tenements or
hereditaments within this Province by any person or persons

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whatsoever that had right to sell give or grant Such Lands
Tenemts or hereditamts made by writing only with or without
Scale shall forever hereafter be Accounted good and Avail-
able in Law to bar the heirs of such Venders donors of
Grantors any Error in the forme only of such writing to the
Contrary Notwithstanding.
And forasmuch as diverse Assignments of Patents written

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