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A PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR AND JUDGES OF THE TERRITORY OF
MICHIGAN. 7
remedy in all cases whatever for the loss of original papers, either by time or accident. When it is shown or known how they are lost, copies ordinarily supplant them, and if no copies have been taken, it is permitted to produce verbal testimony of their existence and their contents, which is uniformly received as conclusive and decisive upon the subject which they are proved to contain. Assuredly the petitioners will not be placed in a worse situation before a tribunal of equity and fairness,
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