N.Y. Real Property Law § 314: Recording of conveyances acknowledged or proved without the state, when parties and certifying officer are dead

§ 314. Recording of conveyances acknowledged or proved without the

state, when parties and certifying officer are dead. When the execution

of a conveyance of real property within this state is acknowledged or

proved according to the laws of any other state of the United States,

and a certificate of the acknowledgment or proof signed by the officer

taking it is annexed to or indorsed upon the instrument, if such officer

and the grantor or mortgagor be dead and the death of all of them be

proved by affidavit, sworn to in such state before an officer authorized

by its laws to administer an oath therein, the conveyance, with the

affidavit or affidavits annexed thereto, on being authenticated as

required by this section, may be read in evidence and recorded in the

same manner, and with like effect, as if the conveyance was acknowledged

or proved and certified as required by the laws of this state. To

entitle such conveyance and affidavits to be read in evidence, or

recorded, a certificate of the clerk, recorder, register or prothonotary

of the county in which the deceased officer resided, authenticating his

signature, and also certifying that the conveyance is acknowledged or

proved in all respects, as required by the laws of such state, must be

annexed to the original certificate; and a like certificate of such

clerk, recorder, register or prothonotary, authenticating the signature

of the officer, before whom the affidavits proving the deaths were

taken, must be annexed to such affidavits. The affidavits on being

recorded, are presumptive evidence of the matters of fact, required to

be stated therein.