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APPENDIX.
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CÆCILIUS LORD BALTIMORE.
Acts made at a General Assembly, held at the City of St.
Mary's, the 19th day of Mary, and ended the 6th day
of
June, in the 42d year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable
Cæcilius, &c. Annoq. Domini 1674.
HIS EXCELLENCY
CHARLES CALVERT, ESQ.
GOVERNOR.
CHAP. I.
An act of Gratitude to his Excellency Charles Calvert, Esq. Governor.
Lib. C. and WH. fol. 222. Lib. WH. fol. 63, and
Lib.
WH. and L. fol. 73. Expired. |
1674
Passed 6th of June
1674. |
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CHAP. II.
An Act for the enrolling of Conveyances, and securing the Estates
of
Purchasers. Lib. C. and WH. fol. 226.
Lib. WH. fol. 118, and
Lib. WH. and L. fol. 76.
This act is confirmed by 1676, ch. 2,
and is also approved, and all the purchases
made under it, are confirmed by the act of 1715, ch. 57, s. 4. |
Ditto. |
FOR the better establishing of a way and method
of conveying of
manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, within this province,
for the future; and for the avoiding of all abuses and deceit, in incumbering
estates by mortgages, and otherwise, by the owners of
lands and hereditaments, to the prejudice of purchasers, for valuable
considerations, and such as lend their monies upon real securities; |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by his Lordship the Lord
Proprietary of this
Province, by and with the advice and consent of the Upper and Lower
Houses of this present General Assembly, That from and after the
publication hereof, no manors, lordships, lands, tenements or hereditaments
whatsoever, within this province, or any the lands, islands,
territories or places thereunto belonging, shall pass, alter or
change from one to another, whereby the estate of inheritance, or
freehold, or any estate for years (other than such upon which the
improved yearly rents reserved to be paid) shall be made to take effect
in any person or persons, or any use or trust thereof, except
the deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, by which the same
shall be intended to pass, alter or change, be made by writing indented
and sealed; and that the same be acknowledged in the provincial court
of this province, or before two of the privy council of
this province, or in the court of the same county, or before two of
the justices of the peace of the same county, where the same manors,
lordships, lands, tenements and hereditaments do lie, and be
enrolled, or the substance of the same; that is to say, the certain
dates, names, surnames, and additions of the parties thereunto,
with the certain considerations for which the same are made, and
the certainty of the premises, and of the estate and estates thereby
intended to pass, be enrolled in the provincial court of this province,
of in the county court where the land doth lie; the same enrolment
to be made within twelve months, next after the date of
the said writings indented; for the caption of which said acknowledgment, |
All conveyances
to be made by
writing indented
and sealed, and
to be acknowledged
and enrolled. |
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