Acts. 235

part thereof by such Conveyances intended to be given granted
released Surrendered declared Settled or otherwise disposed of shall
by such execution of the said Conveyance or Conveyances examina-
tion Acknowledgment and enrollment be barred and foreclosed to
all intents and purposes whatsoever and that such examination and

Liber H. S.
No. 1

Acknowledgment and enrollment without her joining in the said
Deed or Conveyance shall be good and sufficient to barr any Feme
Covert of her Right of Dower

[Barred of
Dower]

Provided that such Feme Covert in both cases be at the time of
such execution examination and Acknowledgment of the full age
of Twenty one years of Sound mind and out of prison and where
any such Feme Covert shall live out of this Province within any of
his Majesty's Dominions such Examination and Acknowledgment as
aforesaid taken before the Mayor of some Corporation within Great
Britain or Ireland or other of his Majestys European Islands or
before one Justice of the Supreme or Provisional Court of any
Province or Colony or Governor or Chief Officer within any of his
Majestys Dominions and certified by Indorsement on the Deed or
conveyance by such Mayor or Justice under his hand and Seal of the
Corporation when taken before a Mayor or the seal of the Province
or Colony Governor or Chief Officer when taken before such Justice
Governor or Chief Officer shall be as good and effectual in Law for
barring such Feme Covert of her Right of Dower or Inheritance as
the case may be as if the same examination and acknowledgment
were taken and certified within this Province According to the
directions of the said recited Act any thing therein or in any other
Act Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary Notwithstanding

[Femme
Covert Non-
Resident,
how her
Examination
and Ac-
knowledge-
ment is to be
taken and
Certified]
p. 627

25th Nov.^r 1766
Read and Assented to
by the Lower house of
Assembly
Signed p Order
MMacnemara ClLo ho.

On Behalf of the right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor..^o Sharpe

2.^d Dec.^r 1766
Read and Assented to
by the Upper house of
[Assembly
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great seal
in Wax Append^t

No. 15 An Act to Ease the Inhabitants of this Province and to Impower
the Justices of the several Counties to bind out the persons therein
mentioned Apprentices

Whereas there is no Provision made by the Laws now in being
for the binding out Children apprentices where their Fathers have
departed this Province or removed from the Counties where they
resided without Leaving a Sufficiency for such Childrens Support
nor is there any express Provision made for binding out poor
Orphan Children before the Ballances of their Fathers Estate are
Transmitted to the County Court which in many cases never happens

[Preamble]