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APPENDIX. XXXIX.
acknowledgment " willingly and freely, and without being
" induced thereunto, by any force or threats used by her
" husband, or through fear of his displeasure?" And that, upon
such examination, she shall own the said acknowledgment to
be free and voluntary. And that the person or persons so
examining her, shall, in the note or certificate of the caption
of the said acknowledgment, certify such her examination
and acknowledgment thereupon. And that such certificate
be likewise enrolled upon record. In which case only every
such femme covert shall be barred, and not otherwise; any
thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
VI. Provided also, That no such writing indented, shall
be at any time enrolled within this province, before the
receiver general of the lord proprietary of this province for the
time being, or the deputy or deputies of such receiver-general
for the time being, shall set his or their recepimus thereunto, if
any fine for alienation for the said land be due, and by the
original grant reserved; any thing to the contrary hereof, in
this act, notwithstanding.
VII. And be it further enacted, That all laws for enrolment
of conveyances, and securing the estate of purchasers,
heretofore made, be hereby repealed.
Examined and compared with the record.
REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Passed sixth June 1674; recorded in liber W. H. and L.
folio 76: office of the court of appeals for the Western
shore; taken here from Bacon's edition.
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AN ACT FOR QUIETING POSSESSIONS, ENROLLING
CONVEYANCES, AND SECURING THE ESTATES OF
PURCHASERS.
Supplementary and other acts 1725, ch. 8, 1752, ch. 8,
November, 1766, ch. 14, June 1771, (expired) November, 1773,
ch. 3, November, 1779, ch. 10, November, 1782, ch. 23,
1785, ch. 9, ch. 66, ch. 72, 1791, ch. 45, 1794, ch. 57,
1796, ch. 43, 1797, ch. 103, 1798, ch. 103.
Forasmuch as a good and beneficial law, entitled, An act
for quieting of possessions, was made the twenty-seventh day
of March anno domini one thousand six hunderd seventy-one,
in this province, which by the use thereof hath been found
very much conducing to the benefit of the said province,
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