690 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

324. A copy of the record of any will which the laws of the
State or country where the same may be executed, require to be
recorded or registered, and which hath been recorded or re-
gistered agreeably to such laws, under the hand of the keeper
of suc.h record or register, and the seal of the court or office in
which such record or register hath been made, or a copy of any
will lodged for safe keeping in any office or court, agreeably to
the laws of the State or country as aforesaid, and certified as
aforesaid, shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court in
this State to prove such will. Where any will hath been or
shall be executed in any other of the United States, or in any
foreign country, and to give validity to which, recording or re-
gistering is not or shall not be made necessary, proof to the
execution thereof by the oath of the subscribing witnesses to
the same, or any of them, taken before any court, judge or jus-
tice, or other officer of the State or county where such will
hath been or may be executed, having by law authority to
administer an oath, and a certificate under seal from the
Governor, chief magistrate, or a notary public of such State or
country, that the court or officer before whom such oath shall be
taken, hath authority to administer the same, and that such oath
hath been duly made before sxich court, judge, justice or officer,
shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court in this State to
prove such will.

325. An attested copy under the seal of office of any will,
testament, or codicil, recorded in any office authorized to record
the same, shall be admitted as evidence in any court of law or
equity; Provided, that the execution of the original will or
codicil be subject to be contested until a probate hath been had,
according to the laws of this State.

326. If all the witnesses to any will have died or shall die
before the execution thereof shall be proved as aforesaid, then
proof by a credible witness to the handwriting of the testator,
or the handwriting of the subscribing witnesses to the same, or
any of them, taken and certified as aforesaid, shall be good
evidence for the purpose aforesaid; but nothing herein contained
shall be construed to alter the laws of this State in relation to
the execution of wills of real estate.
327. Any person who may be interested in any devise or
bequest of any property within the limits of this State, or that
may be brought into this State after the bequest contained in