Pennsylvania Act 1817-13 — DEEDS PROOF OF EMPOWER MAYOR AND RECORDER OF PHILADELPHIA

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DEEDS PROOF OF EMPOWER MAYOR AND RECORDER OF PHILADELPHIA
                   Act of Jan. 9, 1817, P.L. 16, No. 13               Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To empower the Mayor and Recorder of the city of Philadelphia,
        to take the proof of deeds and for other purposes.
        Section 1.  Probate of deeds, etc; may be taken by the mayor
     and recorder of Philadelphia
        The mayor and recorder of the City of Philadelphia shall have
     power and authority to take the proof of all deeds, conveyances,
     mortgages, or other instruments of writing, touching or
     concerning any lands, tenements or hereditaments, situate,
     lying, and being in any part of the Commonwealth, and may take
     and receive the same fees as by law they are now severally
     entitled to receive for taking the acknowledgments of the same,
     which probates shall have the like force and effects as if the
     same were proved before a Judge of the Supreme Court, or any
     Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within this Commonwealth.
     1817, Jan. 9, P.L. 16, 6 sm.l. 395, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That the recorder of the city of Philadelphia shall
     have power to issue writs of habeas corpus, and to give relief
     thereon in the manner and as fully as the president or any
     associate judge of a court of common pleas in this commonwealth
     at present may or can do by virtue of act of assembly entitled
     "An act for the better securing personal liberty and preventing
     unlawful imprisonment," and under the like restrictions and
     penalties.
        Section 3.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the recorder, or
     any alderman of the city of Philadelphia, to administer the oath
     or affirmation prescribed by law to the mayor elect, previous to
     his entering upon the duties of the said office.