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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1739. State and Territorial nonjudicial records; full faith and credit
All nonjudicial records or books kept in any public office of any
State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or copies
thereof, shall be proved or admitted in any court or office in any
other State, Territory, or Possession by the attestation of the
custodian of such records or books, and the seal of his office
annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of a judge
of a court of record of the county, parish, or district in which
such office may be kept, or of the Governor, or secretary of state,
the chancellor or keeper of the great seal, of the State,
Territory, or Possession that the said attestation is in due form
and by the proper officers.
If the certificate is given by a judge, it shall be further
authenticated by the clerk or prothonotary of the court, who shall
certify, under his hand and the seal of his office, that such judge
is duly commissioned and qualified; or, if given by such Governor,
secretary, chancellor, or keeper of the great seal, it shall be
under the great seal of the State, Territory, or Possession in
which it is made.
Such records or books, or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall
have the same full faith and credit in every court and office
within the United States and its Territories and Possessions as
they have by law or usage in the courts or offices of the State,
Territory, or Possession from which they are taken.
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