Section 1. Transfer of books from recorder's office; copies from surveyor general's office
The books now in the office of the recorder of deeds for the County of Philadelphia, containing surveyors' returns and descriptions of lots and tracts of land in the City and County of Philadelphia, shall be transferred to the office of the department of surveys of said city; and it shall be lawful for the chief engineer and surveyor of the City of Philadelphia to designate and cause to be copied, by an officer of his department, in a book or books, such original warrants, return the City and County of Philadelphia, which may be in the surveyor-general's office at Harrisburg, as may, in his opinion, be necessary and useful for the correct transaction of the business of the department of surveys of the said city; and when the latter shall have been certified by the surveyor-general to be correct, such copies shall be of the same authority, as evidence, as other records of said department of surveys. 1862, March 8, P.L. 97, Sec. 1.