Acts. 87

and be subject to the same Penalties imposed by this and the above
recited Act, on all Constables who shall be appointed at the first
County Courts which shall be held after Michaelmas, respectively are.

Liber B. L. C.

22.^d June 1752
/Read and Assented to
by the/Lower House of
Assembly/
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Hon^ble/the Lord Prop^ry
of this Province/I will
this be a Law/
the great seal in
Wax Appendant

23.^d June 1752
Read and Assented to
by the/Upper House of
Assembly/
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 8 A Supplementary Act to an Act entituled, "An Act for quieting
Possessions, enrolling Conveyances, and securing the Estates of
Purchasers."

Whereas, by the Act of Assembly entituled, An Act for quieting
Possessions, enrolling Conveyances, and securing the Kstates of
Purchasers, or by any other Law of this Province, there is not any
express Provision made how, or in what Manner, the Acknowlege-
ment of any Feme Covert, named as a Grantor, Bargainer, or Donor,
in such Deed indented or mentioned in the said Act, for the convey-
ing Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which lay within this
Province, wherein such Feme Covert hath the Estate of Inheritance,
or taken only to bar her of Dower, where she resides out of this
Province, shall be taken: For Remedy whereof, and to direct the
Method of taking the Acknowlegement of such Feme Coverts for
the future, it is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted,

p. 563
[Preamble.]

And be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's President,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That from and after the End of this Session of Assembly,
where any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, lying and being
within this Province, shall be conveyed by any Deed what-
soever, wherein any Feme Covert shall be named as a Bargainer or
Vendor, for transferring her Estate of Inheritance in such Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments, as aforesaid, or wherein such Feme
Covert may have Right or Claim of Dower, only where any such
Feme Covert as aforesaid shall, at the Time of her executing such
Deed, reside and be be out of this Province, in Great-Britain, Ireland,
or within any Province or Colony within his Majesty's Dominions,
it shall and may be lawful for any such Feme Coverts to acknowlege
such Deed; and be examined apart from, and out of the Hearing
of her Husband, before the Mayor of some Corporation within
Great-Britain or Ireland, or before one of the Justices of the Su-
preme or Provincial Court of such Province or Colony within his
Majesty's Dominions, whether she doth make her Acknowlegement
of the same willingly and freely, and without being induced thereto

[Feme
Coverts may
dispose of
Lands Etc.
lying within
this Prov-
ince, though
themselves
be at the
same time in
any other
Part of his
Majesty's
Dominions.]