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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

rnentary Law," be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as

follows, viz :

SECTION 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 any will

admitted to probate and recorded in any other State

or territory of the United States, or in any foreign

Procure copy
of will.

country, may procure a copy of said will, with a

copy or certificate of the probate thereof, authenti-

cated in the mode and by the officer duly authorized

therefor by the laws of such State, territory or

foreign 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

Register to
record.

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 be-

fore 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

probate in this State, according to the laws thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.