Volume 15
Public Law 40–VII
authorizing the Admission in Evidence of Copies of certain Papers, Documents, and Entries.
Approved January 8, 1869
Statutory text
An Act
authorizing the Admission in Evidence of Copies of certain Papers, Documents, and Entries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta t es of America in Congress assembled,
That copies of all official papers
Copies of papers in office of consuls, &c. of the United States, when certified, &c. to be evidence in courts of the United States.
and documents belonging to and filed or remaining in the office of any consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent of the United States, and of all official entries in the books or records of any such office, shall, when certified under the hand and official seal of the proper consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent, be admissible in evidence in all the courts of the United States.
Approved, .