Transcripts of Acts of Congress or of the statutes of any other state or territory of the United States, certified by the Secretary of State of this state as being deposited in his office or as being deposited in the Supreme Court library, and public or private statutes or the proceedings of any legislative body, purporting on the face of the book to be printed by authority of the government, state or territory, are evidence without further proof.
Ala. Code § 12-21-94 (1975)