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Certificates required by this act shall be first entered in registry of the diocese.
Exemplification thereof evidence where original cannot be had.
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VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and singular the certificate and certificates, by this act required to be made in the several cases before mentioned, shall be entered at large in the publick registry of such diocess, to which the same relate, before any benefit or advantage be made thereof; and that the exemplification of such certificate or certificates, so registered and entered as aforesaid, under the hand and seal of the archbishop or bishop of the said diocess, shall be as good and effectual in the law to all the intents and purposes of this act, to be produced at any tryal at law or otherwise, as the original would have been, in case the said original shall at any time happen to be lost, or mislaid, or so detained, that the party concerned cannot have the same to produce and make use of as aforesaid.
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