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estate or interest, or for declaring or limiting any use or trust in and ofthe same, before any judge of a court of record and of law of the stateand county in which such person or persons may be, or before any chan-cellor of any such state, or before any judge of the Supreme, circuit,district or territorial courts of the United States , or before any two jus-tices of the peace of the state, district or territory and county in whichsuch person or persons may be; and such judge, chancellor or justicesshall annex to such a deed, a certificate, under his or their hands, of theexecution and acknowledgment thereof, and that the grantor or grantorswas or were known to him or them, or that his, her or their identity hadbeen satisfactorily proved, and the register, clerk or prothonotary of suchcourt or county, shall also certify under his hand and the seal of hisoffice, that the judge, chancellor, or justices, is or are, was or were suchat the time of the execution and acknowledgment thereof; or if anysuch person or persons, seised or possessed as aforesaid, shall be in someforeign country, and shall execute and acknowledge any such deedbefore any judge or chancellor of any court, master or master extraordi-nary in chancery, or notary public, in such foreign country; and suchexecution and acknowledgment, and also the identity of the grantor orgrantors shall be certified upon, or annexed to, such deed, under thehand and seal of any such judge, chancellor, master or master extraordi-nary, or notary public, and such deed, so executed, acknowledged andcertified in the several and respective modes aforesaid, shall be recordedamongst the land records of the county of Washington , or the county ofAlexandria in the District of Columbia , within six calendar months fromthe day of its date, if executed and acknowledged within the UnitedStates or the territories thereof, or within twelve calendar months from theday of its date, if executed and acknowledged in some foreign country;such deed shall be good and effectual for the purpose or purposes thereinmentioned.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That if any feme covert in whomsuch estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her husband, execut-ing such deed, or shall only be relinquishing her right of dower, in orto such estate or interest, and the judge, chancellor, justices, master ormaster extraordinary in chancery, or notary public, aforesaid, before whomthe same may be executed and acknowledged, shall make the contentsthereof known to her, and shall examine her, out of the presence andhearing of her husband, whether she doth make her acknowledgment ofthe same voluntarily, and without being induced to do so by fear orthreats of, or ill usage by her husband, or fear of his displeasure ; andsuch examination and acknowledgment, and also the identity of theparty shall be certified in the mode prescribed in the first section of thisact, according to the place or country where such feme covert shall beat the time of such examination and acknowledgment, and such deedshall be recorded within the several and respective periods herein beforementioned; the same shall be good and available for the purposes thereinmentioned, and thereby intended.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the clerks of the circuit courtof the District of Columbia for the counties of Washington and Alexan-dria, respectively, are hereby authorized to record any deed or convey-ance, executed and authenticated agreeably to the.provisions of this act.

Approved, May 31, 1832.

Chap. CXII1. — Jin Ad vesting in the corporation of the city of Washington , allthe rights of the Washington Canal Company ; and for other purposes.

Whereas, it is represented that the mayor, board of aldermen andboard of common council of the city of Washington , have purchased,Vor,. IV.—66 2 x2

Before whomto be acknow-ledged.

Certificate.

Deeds by per-sons in foreigncountries.

Where andwhen to be re-corded.

Deeds to whichfeme covert is aparty.

Examinationof feme.

Certificate.

Record.

Clerks autho-rized to record.

Statute I.May 31, 1832.