550 RELEASES AND RECEIPTS. [ART. 79,

ARTICLE LXXIX.
Releases and Receipts.

SEC. 1. Any release or receipt executed to any executor, admi-
nistrator, or guardian, by any person authorized to execute the
same, (and any female over eighteen years of age is hereby au-
thorized to execute the same,) which shall be acknowledged and
certified as hereinafter directed, may be recorded in the office of
the Register of Wills of the county where letters testamentary
or of administration were granted, or where the guardian
was appointed or gave bond; and a copy of the record, under
seal of such release or receipt, shall be evidence of such release
or receipt.

2. The releases and receipts mentioned in the preceding sec-
tion, may be acknowledged in this State before a justice of the
peace; and if acknowledged before a justice of the peace of any
other county or city than that in which it is to be recorded, there
shall be a certificate of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the
county, or the Superior Court of Baltimore city, under the seal
of the court, that the person before whom the acknowledgment
was taken, was at the time of the acknowledgment a justice
of the peace; or before the Mayor of a corporation; and if so,
the fact of his being Mayor shall be certified under the seal of
the corporation; or before a notary; and if so, the fact of his
being a notary shall be certified under his notarial seal; or
before a judge of the Orphans' Court; and if before a judge of
the Orphans' Court of any other county than that in which it
is to be recorded, there shall be a certificate of the Register
of Wills of his county, under the seal of his office, that at the
time of the acknowledgment he was a judge of the Orphans'
Court; or before a judge of the Circuit Court; and if before a
judge of any other judicial circuit than that in which the county
in which it is to be recorded is situated, there shall be a cer-
tificate from the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in
which it is acknowledged, that he was a judge of the Circuit
Court for that county at the time of the acknowledgment; or
before a Register of Wills; and if before a Register of Wills
of any other county than that in which it is to be recorded,
there shall be a certificate of the Chief Judge of the Orphans'