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and it shall be the duty of the said judge to examine such re-
newed docket or dockets, as the case may be, and if found to be
correct, to adopt the same as the docket of the court, and the
said judge shall signify such adoption, by a certificate, in
writing, upon each of such dockets, and such renewed dockets
shall be as valid and effectual in law as the original dockets
would have been had they not been destroyed, or in any way
injured by fire.

23. When any cause of action or trial paper, in any case,
whether pending or settled, at law or in equity, may have been
wholly or partially destroyed by fire, the said commissioner is
hereby authorized to cause the same to be restored or re-estab-
lished by consent of the parties, if so proposed, or by such
evidence as may be supplied from the remains of burnt papers
or dockets, or other papers in the office, and if such evidence
shall be sufficient, in their judgment, he shall certify such re-
stored or re-established cause of action or trial paper, to the
clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, who shall re-file
such paper or papers and cause the proper docket entry or
entries to be made thereof, and such re-filed paper and docket
entry shall have the same validity and effect, as if the original
paper had not been destroyed or injured by fire; and in case
any cause of action or trial paper cannot be sufficiently estab-
lished in the manner herein above prescribed, it shall be the
duty of the said commissioner to hear extrinsic evidence touch-
ing the re-establishment of such, paper, and shall, if satisfied
upon such evidence that such paper is fully re-established,
certify such restored or renewed cause of action or trial paper to
the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, who shall re-file
such paper, and make the corresponding docket entries thereto,
in conformity to the order passed in the premises, and such re-
filed paper and docket entries thereof, shall have the same
validity and force in law or equity, as if the originals thereof
had not been destroyed or injured by fire; provided, however,
that in all proceedings for the restoration of causes of action or
trial papers, which cannot be established to the satisfaction of
the commissioner from the intrinsic evidence within the office
of the said clerk, or from certified copies or by consent of