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attendance of witnesses before justices of the peace, to be paid
by the party summoning them.

PROOF or FOREIGN DEBTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS.

35. An exemplification of the record, under the hand of the
keeper of the same and the seal of the court or office where
such record may be made, shall be good and sufficient evidence
in any court of this State to prove any debt of record made
or entered in any other of the United States, or in any foreign
country.

36. No sentence, judgment or decree, final or interlocutory, of
any judge, court, board, council or tribunal, having or exercising
municipal, admiralty or prize jurisdiction without the limits of
the United States and its territories, shall be conclusive evidence
in any case or controversy in the courts of this State, of any
fact, matter or thing therein contained, stated or expressed,
except of the acts or doings of such foreign judge, court, board,
council or tribunal; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall
impair or destroy the legal effects of any such foreign sentence,
judgment or decree on the property affected or intended to be
affected thereby.

37. The copy of the record or register of any deed or other
instrument of writing which the laws of the State or country
where the same may be executed, require to be recorded or
registered, and which has been recorded agreeably to such laws,
under the hand of the keeper of such record or register and the
seal of the court or office in which such record or register has
been made, or a copy of any deed or other instrument of writing
lodged for safe keeping in any office or court agreeably to the
laws of the State or country as aforesaid, and certified as afore-
said, shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court of this
State to prove such deed or instrument of writing.

38. Where any deed, bond, bill, note or other instrument of
writing hath been executed in any other of the United States or
in. any foreign country, and to give validity to which recording
or registering is not made necessary, proof of the execution of
such deed, bond, bill, note or other instrument of writing by the
oath of the subscribing witnesses to the same, or any of them,
taken before a commissioner of this State to take acknowledg-
ment of deeds, or before any court, judge or justice, or other