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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 646 -JUNE 25,1948 books or records of any such office, authenticated by the consul or vice consul, shall be admissible equally with the originals. § 1741. Foreign documents, generally; copies A copy of any foreign document of record or on file in a public office of a foreign country or political subdivision thereof, certified by the lawful custodian thereof, shall be admissable in evidence when au- thenticated by a certificate of a consular officer of the United States resident in such foreign country, under the seal of his office, that the copy has been certified by the lawful custodian. § 1742. Land titles; foreign records A keeper or person having custody of laws, judgments, orders, decrees, journals, correspondence, or other public documents of any foreign government or its agents, relating to the title to lands claimed by or under the United States, on the application of the head of a department or agency of the United States, may authenticate and certify copies thereof under his hand and seal. When such copies are certified by an American minister or consul, under his hand and seal of office, to be true copies of the originals, they shall be sealed up by him and returned to the General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, who shall file them in his office, and cause them to be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose. A certified copy of any such law, judgment, order, decree, journal, correspondence, or other public document, so filed, or recorded may be read in evidence, equally with the original, in any court, where the title to land claimed by or under the United States may come into question. § 1743. Demand on postmaster The certificate of the Postmaster General or the General Accounting Office of the mailing to a postmaster of a statement of his account and that payment of the balance stated has not been received shall be sufficient evidence of a demand notwithstanding any allowances or credits subsequently made. A copy of such statement shall be attached to the certificate. § 1744. Copies of Patent Office documents, generally Copies of letters patent or of any records, books, papers, or drawings belonging to the Patent Office and relating to registered trademarks, labels, or prints, authenticated under the seal of the Patent Office and certified by the Commissioner of Patents, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the originals. Any person making application and paying the required fee may obtain such certified copies. § 1745. Printed copies of patent specifications and drawings Copies of specifications and drawings which the Commissioner of Patents prints for gratuitous distribution and deposits in the capitols of the States and Territories and in the offices of clerks of the district courts, when certified by him and authenticated by the seal of his office, shall be received in all courts as evidence of all matters therein contained. § 1746. Copies of foreign patent specifications and drawings Copies of the specifications and drawings of foreign letters patent, Sra. certified in the manner provided in section 1744 of this title, shall be prima facie evidence of the fact of the granting of such letters patent and of the date and contents thereof. [62 STAT.

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