Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 16956. Preservation of reports

The chief engineer and surveyor shall preserve on file, arranged alphabetically and according to date, all reports made to him of descriptions of houses and lands, and for twenty-five cents, shall give his certificate, at the foot of a duplicate of the description or descriptions, that report has been made into his office of the description of the designated property or properties, when a duplicate of descriptions shall be produced to him, with the certificate written out for his signature;  and his certificate shall be evidence for the receiver of it, and any clerk, prothonotary and register, and all others, that this law has been complied with.