414 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 5
Acts

by the said Henry Scarborough as an Exemplification of an Other
deed of the same Tenour and Date And Whereas Coll: John Perry
now Resident in Great Brittain by a Probate taken the Sixteenth
day of November One thousand Seven hundred and Twenty Six
before Sir Jn^o Eyles then Lord Mayor of London and Annexed to the
said Counter part or Duplicate Deed proved the said Counter part
or Duplicate Deed to be Executed by the said Mary Bateman the
Daughter and she to be the sole Daughter and only Child of the said
John Bateman And Whereas the said Duplicate or Counterpart deed
Appears by an Indorsment to have been Acknowledged by the said
Mary Bateman the Daughter before Jeremiah Mount & Thomas
Bates and no person whatsoever haveing been known or heard to
Claim any of the said Lands in the said Deed Menconed Except those
who have Derived under the said Originall purchase deed from the
said Mary Bateman and Henry Scarborough to Richard Perry af^d
Be it Enacted by the R^t Honble the Lord Prop^ry by and with the
Advice & Consent of his Lordships Governeur and the Upper and
Lower houses of this present Generall Assembly and the Authority
of the same that it shall and may be Lawfull for the said Recited
Counter part or Duplicate Indented deed and the Acknowledgment
made thereon by the said Mary Bateman the Daughter as af^d to be
Recorded in the Land Records of the Provincial Court of this
Province at any time within Six Months from the End of this
Present Session of Assembly and that the same Counter part or
Duplicate Indented deed with the af^d Acknowledgment thereon when
Recorded as af^d and Every part thereof shall be as Good and Valid
in Law to all Intents Constructions and purposes, and the said Land
and Premisses in the said recited Counter part or Duplicate deed
Menconed and Intended to be thereby Granted shall by Vertue
thereof and of this Act Pass from the said Mary Bateman and Henry
Scarborough and Each of them their & Each of their heirs and
assignes in as full and Ample Manner as if the said Originall Deed
or the said Recited Counterpart or duplicate deed or Either of them
from the said Mary Bateman and Henry Scarborough to the said
Richard Perry had been duly Acknowledged and Recorded in the
Land Records of the said Provinciall Court or in the Land Records
of any County Court of this province pursuant to the Directions of
and within the time Limittecl by the Act of Assembly then in force
for that Purpose the want of Recording the same Originall Deed or

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of the said Recited Counter part or Duplicate Deed or any Law
Statute useage or Custom to the Contrary thereof in any wise not-
withstanding Saveing to his Most Sacred Majesty: The R^t Honble
the Lord Prop^ry their heirs and Successors and all bodies Politick
and Corporate and all Others not Menconed in this Act their Severall
and Respective Rights.