The state registrar shall use the seal of the department of public health for the purpose of authenticating copies of birth, marriage and death records, and copies of such records when certified by him and authenticated by said seal, shall be evidence like the originals.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 46, § 19C
Authentication of copies of birth, marriage and death records; use as evidence
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