WHEREAS, at a General Assembly, begun and held at St. Mary's,
in the Province of Maryland, the Twenty-seventh Day of March
in the Nine and thirtieth Year of the Dominion of CÆCILIUS,
&c. Annoq; Domini 1671, it was then and there, amongst other
Things, Enacted
(viz.) An Act for Quieting Possessions; which Act did
assure and confirm
all Estates made by real Purchasers of all Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments
whatsoever, before the Day of the Date thereof, and not after.
II. And whereas
at a General Assembly, held at the City of St. Mary's,
the Thirteenth Day of April, in the Two and fortieth Year of
the Dominion
of CÆCILIUS, &c. Annoq; Domini 1674, entitled, An
Act of Enrolling
Conveyances, and Securing the Estates of real Purchasers, it
was therein contained,
amongst other Things (viz.) That all that from thenceforth should
purchase any Land of Inheritance, should purchase the same by Deed
Indented,
or other sure Deed, and enroll the same in the County where the Land
lieth, or in the Provincial Court, or the principal Heads of the same
Deed,
clearly shewing and declaring the Manner how Lands should pass from
Man
to Man.
III. And forasmuch
as the same Law did not provide for the Security of
all those Titles that did pass from Man to Man, from the Twenty-seventh
Day of March, One Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy-one, until
the Thirteenth
Day of April, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred
Seventy and Four, nor no other Law extant for securing those Titles,
being
under the same Circumstances as those of One Thousand Six Hundred and
Seventy-one. We the Deputies and Delegates of this present General
Assembly,
do pray that it may be Enacted;
IV. And be it
Enacted by the King and Queen's most excellent Majesties, by
and with the Advice and Consent of this present General Assembly,
and the Authority
of the same, That the aforesaid Law, entitled, An Act for
Quieting of
Possessions, and all the Branches and Provisoes therein contained,
be in full
Force and Virtue until the Thirteenth Day of April, in the Year
of our Lord
One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy-four, and not after.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN
THOMAS BACON.
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Preamble,
reciting the
Acts of 1671,
ch. 6.
and 1674,
ch. 2.
The Act of
1671, ch. 6,
continued in
Force till the
13th April
1674. |
An Act confirming the Acts of the last Session of Assembly of this
Province, now
remaining upon Record in the Secretary's Office,
to be the * Body of Laws, until
the same shall arrive from England.
OBS.
* Viz. The
Copy of those Laws of 1692, marked L, bound up with Lib, WH, and
for Distinction
marked in the References of that Year, WH and L*:
The original Laws having by
Mistake been sent to England, it was necessary
to give a Sanction to the above Copy, till an exact
One could be had from the Plantation Office at Whiteball,
which accordingly came in attested
by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Secretary of the Province,
in the Year 1696. See the Note at the
Beginning of the Year 1692.
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Ditto. |
