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1794 479 (1794)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0382 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED Ar TIlE SEVENTEENTH SESSION OF TIE LEGISLATURE. CHAP. 1. AN ACT for registering deeds and conveyances relating to the military bounty lands. PASSED the 8th of January, 1794. Preamble. WHEREAS it is represented tn the legislature, that many frauds have been committed respecting the titles to the lands granted by this State, as bounty lands to the officers and troops of this State, who served in the army of the United States and to others on account of their mili- tary services in the army of the United States, by forging and antedat- ing conveyances, and by conveying the said lands to different persons and by various other contrivances, so that it has become very difficult to discover in whom the legal title to some of the said lands is now vested: For remedy whereof and in order to detect the said frauds and to prevent the like frauds in future. convey- Be it enacted, by the People of the State of Vew York represented in ances of Senate antd Assenbly, and it is hereby enacted by the authorio, of the same, bounty lands, rela- That all deeds and conveyances heretofore made and executed or pre. tivo to. tended so to be, of or concerning or whereby any of the said lands may be any way affected in law or equity, shall on or before the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety four be delivered to, and deposited with the clerk of the city and county of Albany for the time being, and all deeds and conveyances (except mortgages duly regis- tered according to law) heretofore made and executed, or pretended to so be, of or concerning, or whereby any of the said lands may be any way affected in law or equity, which shall not be delivered to, and deposited with, the said clerk, on or before the said first day of May aforesaid, shall be adjudged fraudulent and void, against any subsequent