312 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

C. P.

on the backside of such patent for Land are now wore out and
alsoe other Sales in paper Either worn out or Quite Lost for
which the purchase mony hath been bona fide paid —
Be itt further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
afd that all Sailes Guifts or grants att any time before the said
thirteenth day of Apll one Thousand Six hundred Seventy
four made by any person that had right as afd if either the
Sale gift grant or payment bona fide can be proved by witnesses
such Sale guift or grant shall forever hereafter be Accounted
good and Available in Law to barr the heirs of such Vendors
donors or grantors or any person Claiming Dower from such
Vender donor or grantor any Law Usage or Custome to the
Contrary thereof notwithstanding.
And be Jtt further Enacted by the Authority Advice and

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Consent afd that all Sailes and grants of any Lands Tenemts &
hereditamts made by deed Indented and Inrolled Since the
said thirteenth day of Apll one Thousand Six hundred Seventy
four or that hereafter shall be soe made and Inrolled shall be
good and Available in Law without Livery and Seizin. And
whereas in the year of our Lord one thousand Six hundred
Seventy four and in the forty second year of the Dominion
of the right honrble Cecilius Lord baron of Baltemore a
Very good Law was made whereby it was Enacted by his said
Lordship by and with the Advice and Consent of the Upper
and Lower houses of the then Gen^ll Assembly that no Man-
nours Lordships Lands Tenements and hereditamts whatsoever
within this province should alter pass or Change from one to
another (as by the said Act relation being thereunto had more
att Large doth appear) Except the same were Acknowledg'd
and Inrolled as in the said Law is directed —

Be itt therefore hereby declared and Enacted by the Au-
thority Advice and Consent afd that whatsovr Deed or Deeds
Conveyance or Conveyances dureing the Continuance of the
said Law were inrolled by Vertue of the said Law within the
time therein Limitted are and shall be taken and Adjudged
to be Effectuall 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 Convey-
ances made dureing the Continuance of that Act were Sealed

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and Delivered but not Enrolled According to the Intent of
the said Law, It is hereby Enacted and Declared that nothing
has past by such Deed or Deeds Conveyance or Conveyances
not Enrolled as afd the repeal of the said Law notwithstanding.
And whereas att an Assembly held att the Citty of St Maries
on the tenth day of May Anno Domini one Thousand Six
hundred Ninety two in the fourth year of the Reigne of our