The Arkansas advocate., 1832-07-11

An act for quieting possessions, enrolling
 eonyeyanees and securing the estates of
 purchasers within the District ofColum-
 bia.
 Be t e8ae3ed 6n tde Senate and House of Representatives. ofthe Uhited States of .dme- rjea in Congress asSembted, That If any person or persons, seized or possessed of, or holding any estate or interest III any lands, tenements or hereditaments5 lying and being within the District of Columbia, shall execute and acknowledge deed for the conveyance of such estate or interest, | or for declaring limiting any use or trust in and of the same, before any judge of court of record and of law of the State and county in which such person or persons may be, or before any chancellor of any such State, or before any Judge of the Supreme, Circuit, District or Terri torial Courts of the United States, or be- fore any two Justices of tho Peace of the State, District or Territory and county in which such person or persons may be l; and such Judge, Chancellor or Justices shall annex to such deed a certificate, under his or their hands of the execution and ac- acknowledgement thereof, and that the gram tor or grantors was or were known to him or them, or that his, her or their identity had been satisfactorily proved, and the Register, Clerk or Prothonotary of such Court or county, shall also certify under his hand and the seal of his office, that the Judge, Councillor, or Justices, is or are, was or were such at the time If the exc cution and actnowIedgmen thereof; or If any such person or persons, seized or possessed as aforesaid, shall be in some foreign country, aud shall execute and ac- knowledge any such deed before any Judge or Chancellor of any Court, master or master extraordinary, in chanCeTy, or notary public, in such foreign country ; and such execution and acknowl ledgme ent , and also the identity of the grantor or grantors shall be certified upon, or annex l ed to, such deed, under the hand and seal of any such judge, chancellor, master or master extraordinary, or notary pnblc, and such deed, so executed, acknowledge ed and certified in the several and respec
 tive modes aforesaid, shall be recorded amongst the land records of the county of Washington, or the county of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, within six calendar months from the day of its date, if executed and acknowledged with the 1 United States or the Territories thereof or within twelve calendar months from the day of it's date, if executed and &C., l deed shall be good and effectual for the purpose or purposes therein mentioned.
 Sec 2. .4nd be t further enacted, That ifany female covert in whom such estate or interest may be, shall be party with her husband, executing such decd, or shall on-
 ly be reiinqulshing her right or power, in
 or to such estate or interest, and the judge, chancellor, justices, master or master ex- traordinary Tn Ghancery or notary public
 aforesaid, before whom the same may be
 executed and acknowledged shall mako
 the contents thereof known to her. and 1 shall examine her, out of the presence
 and hearing of her husb and, whether she 1 doth malethe acknowledgment of the same
 voluntarily, and without being induced to 1 do so by fear or threats of. or i'll usage,
 by her husband, or fear of his dispieasure
 and such examination and acknowler-
 ment and also the identy of the party
 shall be certified in the mode prescribed
 in the first section of this act, according
 to the place or country where such feme
 covert shall be at the time Of such exami-
 nation and acknowled gment, and such I deed shall be recorded within the several
 and respective periods herein before men, toned the same shall be good and ayail- l able for the purposes herein mentioned,
 and thereby intended.
 Sec 3. .4nd De # further enacted, That
 the clerks of the circuit court of the Dis trict of Columbia for the counties of I Washington and Alexandria, respectively, l are hereby authorized 10 record any deed
 or conveyance, executed and autheDticat-
 ed agrceably to the provisions of this act ! Approved May 3l, ls32. B