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APPENDIX.
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. |
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2. AND FORASMUCH as the 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 of 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; |
The act of 1671,
ch. 5, continued
in force till the
13th April 1674. |
3. 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.
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| 1699. |
MARYLAND, sc.
At a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the Town
and Port of Annapolis, on the twenty-eighth day of June,
in the eleventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
William the third, by the grace of God, of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, &c. Annoque Domini one thousand
six hundred
and ninety-nine, and ended the twenty-second day of
July following,
HIS EXCELLENCY
NATHANIEL BLAKISTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
AMONGST OTHERS THE FOLLOWING LAWS WERE ENACTED, TO
WIT:
CHAP. XVIII.
An Act ascertaining the Bounds of Land. Lib. LL. No. 2,
fol. 207. |
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WHEREAS, at the first taking up of lands in this
province, necessity
constrained his Lordship to commissionate such persons to
be surveyors as was but very meanly skilful in the art of surveying;
and for the windings, courses and turnings of the several
rivers, rivulets, creeks, and coves, many times, by these branches
folding one in another, were unknown to the surveyors, nor for
fear of the Indian enemy, then numerous and strong, durst they |
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