And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall be seised of a Freehold under the Value of Twenty Pounds in any County of a City or County of a Town, and who shall be desirous to register the same, shall in open Court, at some Sessions to be held aforesaid, or Adjournment thereof, before the Mayor or other Chief Magistrate, or his Deputy, or before Two Justices of the Peace, or before the Recorder or Deputy Recorder presiding thereat, produce the Deed, Lease, or Instrument under which his Freehold shall arise, and shall take and subscribe the following Oath, [or if a Quaker, the following Affirmation :]

And if the Freehold, in right of which any Person shall desire to qualify himself to vote, shall not arise by virtue of a Deed, Lease, or Instrument, the Person desiring to register it shall describe the same in the Oath or Affirmation so to be taken by him, according to the true State and Nature of his Tenure, in which Case the Words in the foregoing Oath, importing that the same arises by virtue of a Deed, Lease, or Instrument, shall be omitted, and such Description inserted in the Place thereof.