Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1884 (Bonner v. Phillips)

STONE, O. J.

The certificate signed by Scott, register of the land-office, was not legal evidence. It was not a certificate made by him, constituting alike an official act done by him, and the evidence of it. Nor was it a certified copy from official records in his custody. It merely stated that the records in his *429office showed “ that, on August 11, 1855, Sarah Presnall entered at St.