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"Wills", to follow immediately after Section 365, to be
known as Section 365 A, providing for the use of a pho-
tostat copy of a will in place of the original will, when
the witnesses thereto are out of the jurisdiction of the
Orphans' Court, to read as follows:

365 A. In addition to the manner of proving a will or
codicil as prescribed in the preceding Section (365), the
register of wills of any county or the city of Baltimore
where any will shall have been filed for probate, when
directed so to do by an order of the Orphans' Court, may
cause to be made a photostat copy of said will or codicil,
which photostat copy shall be forwarded by registered
mail to any officer, designated in said order, authorized by
the laws of this State to take acknowledgments of deeds
who may examine and take the deposition of the witness
or witnesses to said will or codicil and make return to the
Register of Wills; and the probate of any will so taken shall
have the same effect and be as valid as if all of the wit-
nesses thereto had appeared before and been examined by
the Orphans' Court or the Register of Wills of the county
or city where the same had been filed for probate and
record.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1941.

Approved April 15, 1941.

CHAPTER 141.
(Senate Bill 129)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
102, 103 and 107 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Conveyancing", sub-
title "Defective Conveyances", to make valid deeds, mort-
gages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale, and all other
conveyances of real and personal property, or of any
interest therein or of agreements relating thereto, defec-
tive in acknowledgement or in the certificate thereof, or
when the official character of the officer taking the ac-
knowledgment has not been stated in the body of the
certificate or certified to, as required by law, or when
the conveyance or agreement has not been witnessed or
sealed, or when any deed heretofore made to or from a
corporation prior to the payment of bonus tax which was