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Certificate of registrars of births, &c. sufficient evidence.
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14. The production of the certificate under the hand of any superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths, to be attested by two or more credible witnesses, certifying that such certificate is a true copy of the register book, or of the certificate of the registrar general under the seal of the register office, shall be sufficient evidence of the birth, death, or marriage of any nominee in each case, any thing in the said Acts or in any other Act for enabling the said commissioners to grant life annuities to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that every such certificate shall be accompanied with a declaration of the identity of every such nominee, to be made, taken, and declared by and before such and the like authorities as are mentioned in any of the said Acts; and whenever any such certificate of birth, death or marriage shall be produced of any superintendent registrar or registrar of births and deaths (other than that of the registrar general), a declaration shall be annexed thereunto of the witnesses who attested the execution thereof, or one of them, or their, his, or her solemn affirmation in case they or either of them shall be of the people called Quakers or Moravians or Separatists, to be made before any justice of the peace or magistrate of the county, city, riding, town, or place wherein the place of the birth, death, or marriage of any such nominee shall be situate, setting forth that such witness or witnesses did examine and compare the said copy of the register of birth, death, or marriage with the register thereof, and that it is a true and literal copy thereof, and did see such registrar or superintendent registrar (as the case may be) sign the said certificate, and that the names of such witnesses are of their own proper handwriting.
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