Mo. Rev. Stat. § 446.300

Copies of all petitions, grants, orders and returns of survey, and other evidences of title, contained in any land book, commonly called Livre Terrein, and copies of all such other records of the French or Spanish government, and of such evidences of title mentioned in the preceding section, as are by law required to be deposited in the office of the recorder of land titles, duly certified by him, shall be received in evidence, with like effect as the original.