United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 95
Chap. XCV.—An Act in relation to the exemplifications of the records of land patents and other evidences of title, and amendatory of the act entitled “An act to reorganize the General Land Office.”
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 352.
Literal examplifications of records to be as valid as if the signatures had been written in full.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That literal exemplifications of any such records which have been or may be granted in virtue of the provisions of the seventh section of the act, approved on the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to reorganize the General Land Office,” shall be deemed and held to be of the same validity in all proceedings whatever at law, or in equity, wherein such exemplifications are adduced in evidence, as if the names of the officers signing and countersigning the same, had been fully inserted in such record.
Exemplifications of warrants &c. to be of equal validity with the originals.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That exemplifications granted in pursuance of the aforesaid section of the act aforesaid, of any warrant survey, assignment, and other evidences comprising the entire muniments of title, whereon any patent has been based for lands granted by the United States, in the aforesaid Virginia military land district or elsewhere, shall be, and are hereby, declared and held as of equal validity with the original patent, warrant survey, assignment, or other evidence of title, on file in said office.
Approved, March 3, 1843.