Section 5. Letters patent, form and contents; to be recorded in the office of the secretary of state  


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  • All letters patent shall be in such form  as
      the  commissioner  of  general  services  directs.  All  letters  patent
      granting unappropriated state lands, as defined by this  chapter,  shall
      contain  an  exception and reservation of all gold and silver mines. All
      letters patent shall be recorded in a book or books to be kept for  that
      purpose in the office of the department of state, and the record thereof
      in  any  such book or a copy of any letters patent duly certified by the
      secretary of state  to  be  a  copy  of  such  record  thereof,  whether
      heretofore  or  hereafter recorded, shall be received in evidence in any
      court in this state with the same force and effect as  the  original  of
      such letters patent.