1104 EVIDENCE. [ART. 35

any court of this State to prove such deed or instrument of
writing.

Bruce v. Smith, 3 H. &. J. 499. Preston v. Evans, 56 Md. 478. DeRies-
thal v. Walton, 66 Md. 473.

1898, ch. 478, sec. 38 A.

43. The copy of the record or register of any corporation,
which the laws of any foreign country where the same may be
incorporated require to be recorded or registered and which
has been recorded agreeably to such laws and which is certi-
fied under the hand of the keeper of such record or register
and the seal of the court or office in which said record or reg-
ister is kept, and which is also certified to be in due form and
by the proper officer making reference to the act under which
corporations are formed under the laws of such foreign coun-
try, shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court of this
State to prove such incorporation.

1888, art. 35, sec. 39. 1860, art. 37, sec. 38. 1785, ch 46, sec. 3.
1888, ch. 545.

44t 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 record-
ing or registering is not made necessary, proof of the execu-
tion 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 acknowledgment of deeds, or before any court, judge or
justice or other officer of the State or country where such deed,
bond, bill or instrument hath been executed, having authority
by law 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
was taken had authority to administer an oath, and that such
oath hath been duly made before such court, judge, justice or
other officer, or if proved before the commissioner or notary
public aforesaid, the same to be certified under his official seal,
shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court of this State
to prove such deed, bond, bill, note or other instrument

Ibid. sec. 40. 1860, art. 37, sec. 39. 1785, ch. 46, sec. 3. 1882, ch. 77.
46. If there be no subscribing witnesses to any such deed,
bond, bill, note or other instrument of writing, or if all the wit-
nesses thereto shall die before the execution thereof be proved as
aforesaid, proof by a credible witness to the handwriting of the