The certificate of a public officer that such officer has made diligent and ineffectual search for a paper in that officer's office is of the same efficacy in all cases as if such officer had personally appeared and sworn to such facts.Code 1858, § 3793; Shan., § 5578; Code 1932, § 9752; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 24-624.
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