Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in all cases wherein probate justices of the peace, or such other person as may be authorized by law to grant probate of wills and testaments, may and shall have become a witness to any will or testament which is required by law to be proved before him as such probate justice of the peace, or person authorized to grant probate as aforesaid, and the testimony of such witness is necessary to the proof of the same, then, and in such case, it shall be his duty to go before the circuit court of the county in which such will is to be admitted to record, and make proof of the execution of the same in the same manner that probate of wills is required to be made in other cases. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court aforesaid forthwith to certify such will, proven as aforesaid, to the probate court of the county; and said will shall thereupon have the same force and effect that it would have had if it had been proven by one credible witness before the court of probate; and if there are other witnesses to said will, the court of probate shall take their evidence in support of said will, as in other cases.

Approved, March 2, 1839.