If the contract, be executed in a foreign country it may be executed in accordance with the laws of such country and the execution thereof may be acknowledged before any notary public therein or before any minister resident, charge d'affairs, commission or consul of the Uinted States, and the instrument will nevertheless be valid whether executed in accordance with the laws of such country or the laws of this state.26

25. "If any such deed shall be executed in any other state, territory or district of the United States, such deed may be executed according to the laws of such state, territory or district, and the execution thereof may be acknowledged before any judge of a court of record, notary public, justice of the peace, master in chancery, or other officer authorized by the laws of such state, territory or district, to take the acknowledgment of deeds therein, or before any commissioner appointed by the governor of this state for such purpose." Sec. 11695 C. L. 1915. Sec. 9 Chapter 160, 1871.

26. If any such contract be executed in any foreign country it may be executed and acknowledged according to the provisions contained in section eleven of chapter one hundred and fifty, Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, providing for the execution of deeds in any foreign country. Sec. 11772 C. L. 1915. "If such deed be executed in any foreign country it may be executed according to the laws of such country, and the execution thereof may be acknowledged before any notary public therein or before any minister plenipotentiary, minister extraordinary, minister resident, charge d'affairs, commissioner, or consul of the United States, appointed to reside therein; which acknowledgment shall be certified thereon by the officer taking the same under his hand, and if taken before a notary public his seal of office shall be affixed to such certificate provided that all deeds of land situated within this state, heretofore or hereafter made in any foreign country, and executed in the presence of two witnesses, who shall have subscribed their names to the same as such, and the execution thereof shall have been acknowl-