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.The Court s~all presu~e ever:v. document, Pl'cst,ml'l1on purportIng to be a certIficate, certIfied COp~T,or other astoge~lnine document, which is by law declaredto be admissibleas ~'fi"Sdof J:er evidence of any particular fact, and whieh purports 1 e cople:;, to be dul~r certified by any officer in British India, or by any officer in any Native State in alliance with lIer Majesty, who is duly authorized thereto by tho Governor General in Council, to be genuine:. Pro- vided that such document is substantially in the form , and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf. . . The Court shall also presume that anJ" officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified held, when he signed it, the official character which he c]aims in such paper. .