Section  5  of  the  Act  of  April  6,  1791,  3  Sm.  L.  20,  4  Purd.  4079,  makes
it  the  duty  of  the  register  to  give  notice  of  legacies  to  public  corporate
bodies.  Section  66  of  the  Act  of  February  24,  1834,  i  Purd.  iioo,  imposed
that  duty  upon  the  executors,  and  seems  to  have  superseded  the  above
section  of  the  Act  of  1791,  which  is  therefore  recommended  for  repeal.
See  the  note  to  Section  18  of  the  Fiduciaries  Act,  (see  459-464  supra)
which  is  founded  on  Section  66  of  the  Act  of  1834.
See  Cook's  Est.,  47  Pa.  C.  C.  84,  27  Dist.  1006.
263.  BEFORE  WHAT  REGISTER  WILL  SHOULD  BE

PROBATED.
Section  4.  Wills  shall  be  probated  only  before  the  register  of
wills  of  the  county  within  which  was  the  family  or  principal  resi-
dence of  the  decedent,  at  the  time  of  his  decease,  and,  if  the  de-
cedent has  no  such  residence  in  this  commonwealth,  then  only
before  the  register  of  the  county  where  the  principal  part  of  the
goods  and  estate  of  such  decedent  within  this  commonwealth
shall  be.
Note. — This  is  a  new  section,  modeled  upon  Section  2  (o)  (see  355
infra)  of  the  Fiduciaries  Act,  which  relates  to  the  granting  of  letters
testamentary  and  of  administration.
