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47. The public or private statutes of the United States, or of
any State or Territory of the United States, may be read in
evidence from any printed volume purporting to contain the
statutes of the said United States, State or Territory, and the I
said printed volume shall in all cases be received as evidence of
said statutes without any further authentication or proof thereof.

48. The ordinances and resolutions of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore may be read in evidence from the printed
volumes thereof published by the authority of said corporation,
and a copy of the plot of the city of Baltimore from the record
thereof in the mayor's office, or from the record thereof in the
office of the clerk of the Superior Court for said city, duly certi-
fied under seal by the keeper of such records respectively, shall
be evidence.

49. Copies and extracts from the manuscript or printed vol-
umes of the proceedings of the several Conventions and General
Assembly in this State remaining in the office of the clerk of the.
Court of Appeals when officially attested by said clerk, shall be
evidence.

50. A certified copy under seal of the extract of a deed trans-
mitted by any of the clerks of the Circuit Courts or the clerk of
the Superior Court of Baltimore city to the clerk of the Court of
Appeals, shall be evidence if the original deed and record thereof
be lost or destroyed.

51. A copy certified under the seal of the commissioner of the
Land Office of any patent, certificate, or of any entry or record
contained in any book deposited in the Land Office, or of any
proceedings or papers filed therein, shall be evidence.

52. A copy of any original certificate in the Land Office, to-
gether with the notes or illustrations annexed thereto at the time
the same was returned into the Land Office, referring to the lines
of other tracts of lands, certified by the commissioner of the
Land Office under his hand and the seal of his office, shall be
evidence in any court of law or equity in this State, in the
same manner and have the same effect as if it were the original
paper and proved to be in the handwriting of the surveyor by
whom the original survey was made, and that the said surveyor
was dead.