Schedule 6 Proclamation of the Governor of the sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen

WHEREAS by the law of England every wife is entitled as of Common right to Dower of all Lands and Tenements of which her husband was at any time during the marriage seized: And whereas writs out of the King’s Court in England do not run into this Territory or its Dependencies whereby Fines and Recoveries cannot be here levied and offered in Bar of such Dower: Be it therefore and it is hereby ordered, declared, and directed by the Authority aforesaid that if any married woman be minded to alien her Jointure Dower or other Estate of Freehold or Inheritance in this Territory and its Dependencies, whether it be Joint or in Severalty, she must convey the same by writing under her hand and seal and acknowledge it before the Judge Advocate of this Territory or the Deputy Judge Advocate of Van Dieman’s Land, who is to acquaint her what she is to convey by that Writing and for what estate; and he shall demand of her in private whether she is willing to do the same and doth it freely and voluntarily and not for fear or by reason or any Threats or Menaces; and if she then confess that she doth it freely and uncompelled by fear or otherwise, then her Acknowledgment of the said writing shall be received, and the Day of such Acknowledgment with the Judge Advocate’s or Deputy Judge Advocate’s name, before whom such Acknowledgment was taken, shall be endorsed and subscribed; and thenceforth such writing shall become valid and firm against her, and all that claim the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments therein mentioned to be granted for or under her or in Right or her: Provided, always, that if the wife shall reside in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or any other of His Majesty’s Dominions the said Conveyance may be acknowledged before, and the aforesaid Examination made, indorsed, and subscribed by a Judge of any Court of Law or Equity where the said wife resides.