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[CITE: 28USC2250]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
                       CHAPTER 153--HABEAS CORPUS
 
Sec. 2250. Indigent petitioner entitled to documents without 
        cost
        
    If on any application for a writ of habeas corpus an order has been 
made permitting the petitioner to prosecute the application in forma 
pauperis, the clerk of any court of the United States shall furnish to 
the petitioner without cost certified copies of such documents or parts 
of the record on file in his office as may be required by order of the 
judge before whom the application is pending.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 966.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Derived from H.R. 4232, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session. It 
conforms to the prevailing practice.
