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title: "7 U.S.C. § 2259"
description: "Market-inspection certificates as prima facie evidence"
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title_number: 7
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# 7 U.S.C. § 2259 - Market-inspection certificates as prima facie evidence
## Text
Market-inspection certificates issued by authorized agents of the Department of Agriculture shall be received in all courts of the United States as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained.
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title IV, § 401(c), 58 Stat. 738.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944. Section was formerly classified to section 575 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.