21 GCA § 31103: Letters Patent. Same.

Letters patent from the United States or certificate of title or deeds from the government, executed and authenticated pursuant to existing law, may be recorded without acknowledgment or further proof, and where letters patent or certificate of title or deeds have been lost, or are beyond the control of any party deriving title therefrom, or for any reason they remain unrecorded, any person claiming title thereunder may cause a transcript of the copy of such letters patent kept by the government issuing the same, duly certified by the officer or individual having lawful custody of such copy, to be recorded in lieu of the original; and such recorded copy shall have, prima facie, the same force and effect as the original, for title or for evidence, until said original letters patent be recorded.