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Such certified copies may be produced in qocumc~tsby proof of the contents of the public documents or productIOn of f th bl. d f h. h h (Jertified I)arts 0 . , e pu lC ocuments 0 W lC t eypurport .' copies. to be copies. ' P"oofofother 78. The following public documents may be oHicialdOCUDproved as follows :- mcnts. (1.). Acts, orders or notifications of the Executive Government of British India in any of its departa ments, or of any Local Government or anydeparta ment of any Local Government, by the r~Qordsof the departments, certified. by the heads of t~~se departments respectively, . , or by any document purporting to be printed by order of any such GoverD;ment: " . (2.), T~e proceedings of the Legislatures, by thejournals of those bodies respectively, or by . published 'Acts or abstracts, or by copies purporting to be printed by order of Government: (3.) Proclamations, orders or regulations issued by Her Majesty or by the Privy Council, or by any department of Her Majesty's Government, by copi~s or extracts contained in the L,ondo'n Gazelle, .or purporting to be printedby the Queen's Printer: . , (4.) 'l'be acts of the Executive or the proceeding~' of the legislature of a foreign count.ry~ . h~ 'J 4.1 1872~J Evidence. ., by journalspublisbed by their authority, or comd n10nly received in that country as such, Ol~by a copy certified under the seal' of the country or sovereign, or by a recognition thereof in some public Act of the Governor General of India in Council : (5.) The proceedings of a municipal body in . . British India, . . - ~ bya copy of such proceedings, certified by the legal keeper thereof, or by a printed book: purporting to be published by the authority of such body : (6.) Public documents of any other "class in t]J foreign country, " by the original, or by a copy certified by.the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a Notary Public, or of a British Consul ,or diplo- matic agent, that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original, and upon proof of the character of the document accord. ing to the law of the foreign country. PRESUMPTIONS AS TO DOCUMENTS,