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to break open Doors and Locks where they are upected to be concealed.

III. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That all Fees and Sums of Money which may hereafter be paid into the Court of Bladen County, upon any Suit depending, or Judgment not atisfied, on the Dockets detained by the aid Maturin Colville, as well uch Fees and Monies which are due to him the aid Maturin Colville as to others, hall be paid by the Clerk of the Court for the Time being to the Peron or Perons to whom the ame hall appear to be due.

 

HEREAS many Perons, through Ignorance of the Law, have neglected to have their Deeds and mene Conveyances proved and regitered according to the Directions of the everal Acts of Aembly in uch Cae made and provided: For Remedy whereof,

II. BE it Enacted, by the General Aembly of the State of North-Carolina, and by the Authority of the ame, That all Deeds and mene Conveyances of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, not already regitered, acknowledged, or proved, hall and may, within two Years after the paing of this Act, be acknowledged by the Grantor or Grantors, his or their Agents or Attorney, or proved by one or more of the ubcribing Witnees of the ame, and tendered or delivered to the Regiters of the Counties where uch Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, are repectively ituated; and all Deeds and mene Conveyences whatoever, which hall be acknowledged or proved according to the Directions of this Act, though not within two Years after the Date of the repective Conveyances, hall be good and valid in Law, and hall enure and take Effect as fully and effectually, to the Ue and Behoof of the Grantees, their Heirs and Aigns, and thoe claiming under them, as if uch Deeds and Conveyances were acknowledged or proved, and regitered, agreeable to the Directions of any Act of Aembly heretofore made.

 

E it Enacted, by the General Aembly of the State of North-Carolina, That a Fair hall and may be held in the Town of Halifax, in the County aforeaid, on the Firt Thurday in November next, and that after the preent Year two Fairs hall and may be annually held in the aid Town, on the Firt Thurday in May and the Firt Thurday in November in every Year, each Fair to continue for three Days, for the Sale of every Kind of Hores and black Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, Pork and all Kinds of Proviion, Tobacco, and every other natural Production of the Country,