2006 New York Code - Letters Patent, Form And Contents; To Be Recorded In The Office Of The Secretary Of State.

 
    § 5. Letters  patent,  form and contents; to be recorded in the office
  of the secretary of state.  All letters patent shall be in such form  as
  the  commissioner  of  general  services  directs.  All  letters  patent
  granting unappropriated state lands, as defined by this  chapter,  shall
  contain  an  exception and reservation of all gold and silver mines. All
  letters patent shall be recorded in a book or books to be kept for  that
  purpose in the office of the department of state, and the record thereof
  in  any  such book or a copy of any letters patent duly certified by the
  secretary of state  to  be  a  copy  of  such  record  thereof,  whether
  heretofore  or  hereafter recorded, shall be received in evidence in any
  court in this state with the same force and effect as  the  original  of
  such letters patent.