Admissibility of certificate or copies
Sec. 1. (a) The following documents are admissible in evidence
in all courts in Indiana in all cases in which, by law, duly made and
completed deeds and records are legal evidence:
(1) Certificates issued before March 7, 1903, by the general
land office and the United States Department of the Interior
setting forth the list of lands in Indiana without the strip of five
(5) miles on each side of the Wabash and Erie Canal, from
Terre Haute to Evansville, in the Vincennes land district,
selected by the state of Indiana, under the Act of Congress of
March 3, 1845, 5 Stat. 731, to aid the state of Indiana in
extending and completing the canal, on file on March 7, 1903,
in the office of the auditor of state.
(2) All copies of the certificates described in subdivision (1),
duly certified to by the auditor of state, (or by the commissioner
of the department of administration after June 30, 1987).
(3) All records of certified copies recorded in the recorder's
office of any county in which the lands described in the
documents are situated.
(4) All certified copies made by the county recorder of the
record in the recorder's office.
(b) The documents described in subsection (a) are conclusive
evidence of all matters recited in those documents.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.
Last modified: May 24, 2006