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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, or shall be about to re-
linquish her right of dower of, in or to, any lands, tenements of
hereditaments as aforesaid, which by law is necessary to be
acknowledged and recorded, instead of being examined in the
manner herein before directed, it shall and may be lawful for
the clerk of the county court where the lands, tenements or
hereditaments lie, on application being made to him by the
person or persons intended to be the grantee or grantees, bar-
gainee 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 such feme
covert so intended to be examined, together with that of her
husband, 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 feme covert may reside
or be, authorizing such commissioners, or any two of them, to
take the private examination and acknowledgment of such
feme covert in the manner herein before directed, when such
feme covert shall be named as grantor, bargainer, vendor or
donor, in any such deed or conveyance, or be about to relinquish
her dower in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, mentioned
in such deed or conveyance ; and such deed or conveyance,
acknowledged before such commissioners, or any two of them,
in the manner herein before directed, and which examination
and acknowledgment being certified under the hands and seals
of the said commissioners, so taking such examination and
acknowledgment, and returned with such deed or conveyance
and commission aforesaid to the court from whence the said
commission shall issue, shall be recorded amongst the records of
the said court, and shall be as valid and effectual in law, to all
intents and purposes, as if the same had been executed or
acknowledged in this state agreeably to the provisions of the
several acts of assembly in force upon this subject previous to
the passing of this act.
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A non -resi-
dent feme
covert may
acknow-
ledge a
deed under
commission
to be issued
&c.
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SEC. 6. Provided always, and be it enacted, That any deed or
conveyance, executed and acknowledged in virtue of this act,
shall be recorded within the time prescribed by the act, entitled,
a further additional supplementary act to the act to which this
is also a further additional supplementary act, passed at Novem-
ber session, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun-
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Deeds by
non- resi-
dents, when
to be recor-
ded.
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