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as grantor, bargainer, vendor or donor, for transferring her estate
of inheritance in such lands, tenements or hereditaments, as
aforesaid, or declaring or limiting any use as aforesaid, or
wherein such feme covert may have only right or claim of
dower, where any such feme covert as aforesaid shall, at the
time of her executing such deed or conveyance, reside or be out
of this state, it shall and may be lawful for any such feme
covert to acknowledge such deed or conveyance before commis-
sioners as herein after directed, or before a justice of the supreme
or circuit court of the United States, or before the governor or
chief magistrate, the mayor of some corpration, court of justice,
or any judge thereof, of the state or country where such deed or
conveyance may be acknowledged; and such justice of the
supreme or circuit court of the United States, governor, chief
magistrate, mayor, court, or judge thereof, shall examine such
feme covert out of the hearing and presence of her husband,
whether she doth make such acknowledgment voluntarily; and
the justice of the supreme or circuit court of the United States,
or governor or chief magistrate, mayor, court, or judge thereof,
as aforesaid, so taking such examination and acknowledgment
as aforesaid, shall certify the said examination and acknowledg-
ment by an endorsement upon, or annexed to, such deed or
conveyance, under the hand of such justice and seal of the
court when taken before a justice of the supreme or circuit court
of the United States, or under the hand of the governor 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 the seal of the corporation, when taken before a
mayor, or the seal of the court, when taken before a court, or if
the same shall be taken before a judge of a court as aforesaid,
then the same shall be under the hand of such judge and the
seal of the court of which he is judge ; and a certificate of such
private examination and acknowledgment, so as aforesaid to be
taken and made, shall be adjudged and deemed good and availa-
ble in law, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever,
to bar such feme covert of her right of inheritance or dower, as
the case may be, to said lands, tenements and hereditaments,
according to the purport of such deed or acknowledgment, as
fully and effectually as if, at the time of executing and acknow-
ledging such deed or conveyance, she had been or was residing
within this state, and had here made such acknowledgment
agreeably to the directions of the several acts of assembly in
force upon this subject previous to the passing of this act, and
no further or otherwise, any law, usage or custom, to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if any feme covert, who may
reside or be out of this state as aforesaid, shall execute, or be
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