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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831

be good and sufficient evidence in any court in this state, to
prove the due execution of any such receipt, acquittance, release
or final discharge, and may be recorded in the office aforesaid ;

Proviso.

Provided, that if such receipt, acquittance, release or final dis-
charge, be acknowledged in any other county than that in which
the administration was granted, or the guardian was appointed
or gave bond, then, and in that case, if it be acknowledged be-
fore a mayor of a corporation, there shall be his certificate of the
fact, under the seal of such corporation, or if it be acknow-
ledged before a notary public, there shall be his certificate of
the fact, under his notarial seal, or if it be acknowledged before

Certificates
&c. re-
quired in
such cases,

a register of wills, that there shall be a certificate from the pre-
siding judge, or justice of the orphans court, of the county in
which he is register of wills, certifying to the fact, that the per-
son before whom such acknowledgment was made, was register
of wills in and for that county, at the time such acknowledg-
ment was made, or if it be acknowledged before a judge or jus-
tice of an orphans court, that there shall also be a certificate
under the seal of office from the register of wills of the county
in which such person may be a judge or justice of the orphans
court, certifying to the fact that the person before whom such
acknowledgment was made, was at the time of such acknow-
ledgment, a judge or justice of the orphans court for such
county, and if it be acknowledged before a judge of a county
court, or justice of the peace, that there shall also be a certifi-
cate from the clerk of the county court of the county in which
such judge shall hold a court, or in which said justice of the
peace resides, under the seal of the said court, certifying to the
fuel, that the party before whom such acknowledgment was
made, was a judge of the county court of such county, or a
justice of the peace in and for such couuty, as the case may be,
at the time such acknowledgment was made.

Such in-
struments
when exe-
cuted out of
this state,
certificates,
&c. re-
quired.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That auy receipt, acquittance, re-
lease or final discharge from any person or persons, who may have
authority to execute the same, to any executor, administrator or
guardian, or person who has been such, and which may be ac-
knowledged any where out of this state, before the mayor of a
corporation, notary public, judge of any court of record, justice
of the peace, or alderman, or before a consul-general, consul or
vice-consul of the United States, residing in a foreign country,
shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court of this state
to prove the due execution or acknowledgment of any such
receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge, and the same
may be recorded in the office aforesaid; Provided however, that
if such receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge be ac-
knowledged, before a mayor of a corporation, there shall be his
certificate of the fact under the seal of such corporation, or if it