If any written instrument, required or authorized by law to be recorded, has been recorded, and the book containing it has been lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced, and an attested copy thereof is impounded in any court of this state, or any Circuit Cou rt of the United States, or the Supreme Court thereof, any person may procure a copy of such copy, attested by the officer having the custody thereof, and produce it to the clerk in whose office the originals were recorded. The clerk shall rerecord the ins trument and certify that it was recorded from a copy of a copy, and such record shall be prima facie evidence. The clerk shall also retain and file the copy from which the record was made.
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