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and shall endorse such order on said paper, which endorsement
and new record of such paper shall be prima facie evidence of
the verity of the record so made, and available for all purposes
for which the original record, if it had not been destroyed by
fire, would have been available in evidence.

19. In all cases where any record or paper shall be wholly
destroyed by fire, and the original or certified copy thereof can-
not be procured, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, if the
said record be found indexed, to hear and receive such other
evidence, if any there be within the record office, either to be
derived from the remains of the burnt record or otherwise, and
such extrinsic evidence as the parties interested may supply,
and shall determine and adjudge in the premises whether the
said record or paper be fully established, and if satisfied by such
evidence, it shall be his duty, if the party or parties grantor
shall supply a new instrument correspondent to the one de-
stroyed by fire, and confirmatory of the same, to accept such
instrument, and to order and direct the same to be recorded,
with an endorsement therein of said order, which record and
endorsement shall secure to the party or parties concerned all
the rights, title and interest which was designed and intended to
be vested by the original paper or instrument of writing as fully
as if the record thereof had not been destroyed by fire, but if,
for any reason, the grantor or grantors should not supply a new
or confirmatory deed or other instrument of writing, as the case
may be, correspondent to the cue destroyed by fire, then the
said commissioner shall execute and deliver, in his capacity of
commissioner, a new and confirmatory deed or instrument of
writing, under his hand and seal, to take the place of the record
destroyed by fire, and shall order and direct the same to be so
endorsed and recorded, aud such endorsement and record shall
secure to the party or parties interested the same rights, title
aud interest which was designed and intended to be vested by
the original paper or instrument of writing and record thereof,
as fully and effectually as if the record had not been destroyed
by fire.

20. In all cases where the records have keen only partially
destroyed or injured by fire, so tbat they may be restored by