1424 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

country, and file the same in the office of the register of wills of
any county in this State or the city of Baltimore; and thereupon,
it shall be the duty of said register to record the same as other
wills admitted to probate in his office; and a copy of any record
which has heretofore been made or shall hereafter be made as
hereinbefore provided, certified under the hand of said register
and the seal of his office, shall be evidence in all suits and actions
to be tried in any court in this State, or before any justice of the
peace, wherein the title to any property, real or personal,
thereby devised or given, shall be in question, with the same
force and effect as if the original will had been admitted to pro-
bate in this State, according to the laws thereof.
Beatty v. Mason, 30 Md. 409 Wright v. Gilbert, 51 Md. 146.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 328. 1831, ch 315, sec. 16.

339. Every will, when proven, shall be retained and preserved
in the office of the register of wills of the county, and shall not
be delivered out of such office to any person or persons whomso-
ever ; and every issue of devisavit vel non sent from a court of
equity, shall be tried in the county of the office aforesaid, at
which trial said will may be adduced in evidence under the care
of said register, or of any peison in that behalf by him deputed,
under a subpoena duces tecum, issued on the special order of the
court holding such trial; and in like mannner, such will may be
produced in evidence on the trial in any court of this State of
any issue involving the said will, and requiring its production, in
the opinion of the said court; but the said will shall not at any
time be taken or kept out of the care and custody of the said
register, or of the person deputed as aforesaid.

1864, ch. 157.

340. Every register of wills in this State shall receive for safe
keeping the will of any living person who resides in the city or
county for which such register is appointed, every such will being
first sealed up and endorsed with the name of the testator, its
date, and the date of its delivery to the register, and the name of
the executor or other person to whom it may be delivered at the
death of the testator; and such register shall receive for each will
so deposited fifty cents, and shall immediately index it in an index