CHAPTER 369

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 8-266 of the Code of 1950 relat-
ing to when copies of certain records may be admitted in

evidence.
[ H 371 ]
Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 8-266 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 8-266. Copies of records or papers in court clerk’s of-
fice, or in the public offices —A copy of any record or paper (1)
in the clerk’s office of any court, or in the office of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, Commission of Fisheries, State Treas-
urer, Comptroller, Auditor of Public Accounts, Division of
Motor Vehicles, or the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immi-
gration, attested by the officer in whose office the same is; (2) in
the office of the State Corporation Commission, the State Board
of Education, or the board of supervisors or other governing
body of any county, attested by the secretary or clerk of such
Commission or board; (3) in the office of surveyor of lands of
any county, attested by the surveyor in whose office the same is,
may be admitted as evidence in lieu of the original. But for good
cause shown, the original records in the office of the surveyor
of lands of any county may be required to be produced.

Any such copy purporting to be sealed, or sealed and signed,
or signed alone, by any such officer, secretary or clerk, may be
admitted as evidence, without any proof of the seal or signa-
ture; or of the official character of the person whose name is
signed to it.