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

C. P.

or Deeds Conveyance or Conveyances made dureing the
Continuance of the said Law were Enrolled by Vertue of the
said Law within the time therein Limitted are and shall be
taken and Adjudg'd to be Effectuall in Law According to the
purport Intt and meaning of Such Deed or Deeds Conveyance
or Conveyances Enrolled and if any Deed or Deeds Convey-
ance or Conveyances made dureing the Continuance of that
Act were Sealed and Delivered but not Enrolled According
to the Intent of the said Law, It is hereby Enacted and
Declared that nothing hath passed by such Deed or Deeds
Conveyance or Conveyances not Enrolled as afd the repeale
of the said Act notwithstanding. And for the better Ascer-
taining a way and Method for Conveying of Mannour Lands
Tenemts and hereditamts for the future and for Avoiding
abuses and Deceits by Mortgages —
Be itt Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent afd that from and after the pub-

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lication hereof no Manners Lands Tenements or hereditaments
whatsovr within this province shall pass alter or Change from
one to another whereby the Estate of Inheritance or ffreehold
or any Estate for above seven years shall be made or take
Effect in any person or persons or any use thereof to be
made by reason of any bargaine and Sale only Except the
deed or Conveyance by which the same shall be Intended to
pass Alter or Change the Same be made by writing Indented
and Sealed and the Same to be Acknowledged in the Provin-
ciall Court or before one Justice thereof or in the County
Court or before two Justices of the Same where such man-
nors Lands Tenements or hereditaments doe Lye and Enrolled
within Six months after the Date of such writing Indented as
afd and for the taking of such Acknowledgm^t there shall be
paid to the party or parties taking the same one Shilling and
no more and the Clerk shall Immediately upon the receipt of
such Deed Endorse the time of his receiving the same on the
back thereof and shall well and truly Enroll such Deed or
Conveyance in a good Sufficient book in folio to be regularly
Alphabeted in the names of both parties and to remaine in
the Custody of the Clerk of the Same Court for the time
being amoung the records of the same Court and that the
Same Clerk shall on the back of Every such Deed in a full

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Legible hand make an Endorsement of such Enrollment and
alsoe of the folio of the book in which the same shall be
Enrolled and shall to such Endorsment set his hand and Seale
Provided always and be itt ffurther Enacted by the Authority afd
that when the grantor or grantors bargainer or bargainors of
such Lands Tenements or hereditaments shall live remote
from either the provinciall Court or County Courts where the