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210 wholly or partially in lieu of rent or other consideration, and such covenants and stipulations, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, may approve: Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall apply to any mine of gold or silver.

5. A copy of an extract from the record of any lease, conveyance, deed, or document registered for behoof of the Crown in terms of the Act of the third and fourth years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-nine, in the office of Chancery of Scotland, shall be equivalent to the principal of such lease, conveyance, deed, or document, if such copy or extract is attested as a true copy or extract by the officer for the time being having the custody of the record of the principal of such lease, conveyance, deed, or document ; and the keeper of the register of deeds, probative writs, and protests for Scotland shall record any such attested copy or extract in the books of council and session in the same manner as if the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document duly authenticated had been presented to him for registration. And when any such copy or extract has been so recorded as afore said in the books of council and session, such record shall be deemed to be for all intents and purposes a record of the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document, or of so much thereof as shall be so recorded; and the keeper of the said register shall issue a copy or extract of any such record as aforesaid containing, when required, a warrant in the same terms and which shall have the same effect as if the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document had been recorded in the books of council and session.

6. Any document purporting to be a print or copy in print of any report purporting to be made by the Commissioners or any Surveyor General for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, or by any Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown, or by the late Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, to Her Majesty or any of her royal predecessors or successors, or the Houses of Parliament, or either of them, shall at all times hereafter be admissible in evidence in any Court of Justice, or before any person for the time being having by the law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, or examine evidence to the same extent as the original report would have been admissible if produced from the proper custody and duly proved in evi-