VI.  And whereas, at a Session of ASsembly begun and held at the Port of
Annapolis, the Twenty-seventh Day of June, and ended the Twenty-second
Day of July, in the Eleventh Year of the Reign f our late Sovereign Lord
King William the Third, Anno Domini One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-nine,
An Act for enrolling of Conveyances, and securing the Estates of Purchasers,
was made, whereby, for the better establishing a Way and Method of conveying
of Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and for avoiding the
Abuses and Deceits by Mortgages, it was Enacted by the King's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the same Assembly, and
the Authority of the same, That no Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments
whatsoever, within this Province, should pass, alter or change from one
to another, whereby the Estate of Inheritance, or Free-hold, or any Estate
for above Seven Years, should be made to take Effect, &c. as by the said
Act, Relation being thereunto had, more at large doth appear; except the
Deed or Deeds, Conveyance or Conveyances, by which the same could be intended 
to pass, &c. were acknowledged and enrolled, as the Law direct;
Be it hereby Enacted and Declared, That whatsoever Deed or Deeds, Conveyance
or Conveyances, made during the Continuance of the said Law, were
enrolled by virtue of the said Law, within the Time therein limited, are, and
shall be taken and adjudged to be effectual in Law, according to the Purport,
Intent and Meaning of such Deed or Deeds, Conveyance or Conveyances,
made during 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 aforesaid, the Repeal of the said Act notwithstanding,

    VII.  And for the better ascertaining a Way and method for conveying of
Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments for the future, and for the
avoiding Abuses and Deceits by Mortgages; Be it Enacted, by the King's most
excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That from and
after the publication hereof, no Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments
whatsoever, within this Province, shall pass, alter or change, from one
to another, whereby the Estate of Inheritance, or Free-hold, 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 Bargain 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 Provincial Court, or before one Justice
thereof, or in the County Court, or before two Justices ofd the same, where
such manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments do lie, and enrolled within
Six Months after the Date of such Writing indented as aforesaid.  And for