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or chief magistrate, and the seal of the state or country, when
taken before a governor or chief magistrate, or under the hand
of the mayor and seal of the corporation, when taken before a
mayor, or under the seal of the court of justice, when taken be-
fore a court, or under the hand of the judge, and under the seal
of the court, when taken before a judge, and which said letter of
attorney, so proved, shall be deemed, adjudged and taken, as
good and sufficient evidence of the execution thereof, to au-
thorize the court, judge or justices of the peace of this state
as aforesaid, to take acknowledgment of any such deed or con-
veyance in virtue of such letter of attorney.
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SEC 3. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons who
may reside or be out of this state as aforesaid shall execute, or
be about to execute, any deed or conveyance for conveying or
declaring, or limiting any use in or for any lands, tenements or
hereditaments, lying within this state, which by law is neces-
sary to be acknowledged and recorded, instead of the same be-
ing acknowledged by letter of attorney, as herein before directed,
it shall and may be lawful for the clerk of any county court,
where the lands, tenements or hereditaments do lie, on applica-
tion being made to him by the person or persons intended to be
the grantee or grantees, bargainee or bargainees, named in the
said intended deed, and upon such intended grantee or grantees,
bargainee or bargainees, producing to the said clerk the assent,
in writing, of the intended grantor or grantors, bargainer or
bargainers, that such a commission shall issue, and naming in
such written assent the persons to whom the said commission
shall issue, to issue a commission to two or more persons, resi-
dents of the state or country where such bargainer, grantor,
vendor or donor, may reside or be, authorizing such commis-
sioners, or any two of them, to take the acknowledgment of any
such bargainer, grantor, vendor or donor, in any such deed or
conveyance mentioned; and such deed or conveyance, acknow-
ledged before such commissioners, or any two of them, and
such acknowledgment, certified under their hands and seals of
the said commissioners so taking the said acknowledgment, and
returned with such deed or conveyance and commission afore-
said, to the court from whence the said commission shall issue,
shall be recorded amongst the retords of the said county, and
shall be as valid and effectual in law, to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the same had been executed and acknowledged in
this state in the manner directed by law for the acknowledg-
ment of a deed or conveyance within this state.
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A commis-
sion may
issue for
taking the
acknow-
ledgment of
a deed ele-
cuted by a
non-resi-
dent.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That where any lands, tenements
or hereditaments, lying and being within this State, shall be
conveyed, or any use declared or limited, by any deed or con-
veyance whatsoever, wherein any feme covert shall be named
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A non-resi-
dent feme
covert may
acknow-
ledge a
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