The chief engineer and surveyor shall preserve on file, arranged alphabetically and according to date, all reports made to him of descriptions of houses and lands, and for twenty-five cents, shall give his certificate, at the foot of a duplicate of the description or descriptions, that report has been made into his office of the description of the designated property or properties, when a duplicate of descriptions shall be produced to him, with the certificate written out for his signature; and his certificate shall be evidence for the receiver of it, and any clerk, prothonotary and register, and all others, that this law has been complied with.
53 P.S. § 16956