The files, records, votes and proceedings of any court, community, corporation, society or public board, having a clerk, may, when he is absent or unable to perform the duties of his office, be proved in any court by copies examined and sworn to by credible witnesses.

Cited. 4 D. 436; 2 Conn. 377; 5 Conn. 538. Such witnesses must testify in court. 26 C. 425. Parol evidence of the proceedings of the common council of a city, held inadmissible. 40 C. 104. Refers only to domestic entries, files or records. 73 Conn. 602. Cited. 211 Conn. 555.