Pennsylvania Act 1833-23 — EVIDENCE OF TITLE TO DONATION AND OTHER LANDS

Act text

EVIDENCE OF TITLE TO DONATION AND OTHER LANDS
                  Act of Feb. 16, 1833, P.L. 46, No. 23               Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To preserve the evidence of title to the donation and other
        lands in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

        Section 1.  Copies of general drafts of donation lands to be
     evidence
        The Surveyor General be and he is hereby authorized and
     required to make fair and accurate copies from general drafts of
     the several districts of donation lands now in his office, and
     that official copies taken from the said copies of the general
     drafts, as aforesaid, shall be evidence and have the same force
     and effect as copies taken from the original official drafts,
     agreeably to the provisions of an act passed March 24, 1818,
     entitled "a supplement to an act for directing the mode of
     distributing the donation lands promised the troops of this
     Commonwealth."  1833, Feb. 16, P.L. 46, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  Records of patents to be received in evidence
        In all cases where patents for donation lands have been or
     may hereafter be recorded in the several counties wherein such
     lands lie, the record of said patents shall be received in
     evidence in the several courts of this Commonwealth.  1833, Feb.
     16, P.L. 46, Sec. 2.
        Section 3.  Old and defaced papers to be copied; copies to be
     evidence
        When the Surveyor General shall find any old returns of
     surveys or other ancient official papers important to be
     preserved in his office, becoming too much worn and defaced, he
     shall or may cause accurate copies of all such, from time to
     time, to be made out for the files of his office, as far as can
     be done when discovered, and official certified copies taken
     from such copies as aforesaid shall be equally valid in evidence
     and have the same force and effect as those of the originals.
     1833, Feb. 16, P.L. 46, Sec. 3.