2004 Minnesota Statutes

     600.12 Affidavit of officer of historical society as to 
  publication. 

    When a legal notice appears in any newspaper, purporting to 
 have been published in this state prior to 1900 and filed with 
 the state historical society, the affidavit of any officer of 
 such society, setting forth a copy of such notice, and stating 
 that it is a true copy of the same as contained in such 
 newspaper, and naming the place where it purports to have been 
 published and the dates of the different issues thereof so on 
 file containing such notice, may be recorded in the office of 
 the county recorder of any county in which there is real estate 
 which may be affected by such notice; and such affidavit or 
 record shall be prima facie evidence that the newspaper 
 containing the notice was regularly published at the time and 
 place so stated. 

    HIST: (9861) RL s 4707; 1909 c 19 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2