Section 2 Writs registered as probative writs not to be given back. Extracts of indentures of apprenticeship may be received in evidence.C1

And whereas the giving back of the principal writs impairs the utility of the registers of probative writs as registers for conservation, and has been found to be of evil consequence, affording facility for fraud and for obstructing the course of justice: Be it therefore enacted, that no probative writ given in to be registered in any register under authority of the said last-recited Act shall be given back to the party, but all such writs shall remain in the custody of the keepers of the registers in like manner and subject to the like control as any writ given in to be registered in virtue of a clause of registration therein contained, anything in the said last-recited Act or any other Act or any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. And where it is by any Act, or by the rules of any corporation or trade, provided that an indenture of apprenticeship, with a certificate of service endorsed thereon, may be received as evidence of such apprenticeship having been duly served, an extract of such indenture duly recorded in the register of probative writs, with a certificate of service endorsed on such extract, may be received as evidence of such apprenticeship having been duly served.