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Explanation. - Any Officer who, by the ordinary course of official duty, is authorised to deliver such copies, shall be deemed to have the custody of such documents within the meaning of this section."

28.Greenleaf defines 'public documents', as the 'acts to public functionaries in the executive, legislative and judicial departments, of 'Government', including under this head, the transactions which official persons are required to enter into 'Books' or 'Registers' in the course, of their public dues and which occur within the circles of their own personal knowledge and observation (Greenleaf Evidence S 470).