GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831

from any other person authorised to execute the same to

CHAP. 305,

any guardian, executor or administrator, which shall have

been acknowledged in this state, before the mayor of a cor-

poration, notary public, register of wills, judge or justice

of an orphans court, or judge of a county court, or any

justice of the peace in this state, shall be good and suffi-

cient 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;

Provided, That if such receipt, acquittance, release or final

Proviso.

discharge, 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 before a mayor of a corporation, there shall

be his certificate of the fact, under the seal of such corpor-

ation, or if it be acknowledged before a notary public, there

shall be his certificate of the feet, under his notarial seal,

or if it be acknowledged before a register of wills, that

there shall be a certificate from the presiding judge, or

Certificate, &c.

justice of the orphans court, of the county in which he is

required in such
cases.

register of wills, certifying to the fact, that the person be-

fore whom such acknowledgement was made, was register

of wills in and for that county, at the time such acknow-

ledgement was made, or if it be acknowledged before a

judge or justice 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 acknowledgement was made

was at the time of such acknowledgement, a judge or jus-

tice of the orphans court for such county, and if it be ac-

knowledged before a judge of a county court or justice of

the peace, that there shall also be a certificate 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 re-

sides, under the seal of the said couit, certifying to the fact

that the party before whom such acknowledgement was

made, was a judge of the county court of such county, or

a justice of the peace in and for such county, as the case

may be, at the time such acknowledgement was made.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That any receipt, acquittance

Such instruments

release or final discharge from any person or persons, who

when executed out
of this state, certi-

may have authority to execute the same to any executor, ad-

ficates, &c requir-

ministrator or guardian, or person who has been such, am

ed.

which may be acknowledged 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