Section 5

Section 5. That all accounts of county treasurers, or duly certified copies thereof, heretofore or hereafter settled or stated by the auditor general, shall be received in evidence in all suits brought, or that may be brought by authority of any law, against any such treasurers or their sureties, and the same shall be considered as good and valid, as if the same had been duly settled by the county auditors.