The surveyor general¹ shall be and he is hereby authorized to issue certificates of any entry or entries in the books of accounts heretofore kept by the surveyor general, containing entries of the time of bringing into his office any survey or surveys made by his deputies,² or any of them, and the charges therein made against them or either of them, as acceptance fees, for the same, under the seal of his office, and to receive the usual fees for any such certificate, for which he shall account to the Commonwealth; and the certificate so issued shall be deemed and admitted as legal evidence in any court within this Commonwealth, any law or custom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.