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[CITE: 28USC6]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
                        CHAPTER 1--SUPREME COURT
 
Sec. 6. Records of former court of appeals

    The records and proceedings of the court of appeals, appointed 
previous to the adoption of the Constitution, shall be kept until 
deposited with the National Archives of the United States in the office 
of the clerk of the Supreme Court, who shall furnish copies thereof to 
any person requiring and paying for them, in the manner provided by law 
for giving copies of the records and proceedings of the Supreme Court. 
Such copies shall have the same faith and credit as proceedings of the 
Supreme Court.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 870; Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, 
Sec. 4(7), 65 Stat. 640.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 329 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 222, 36 Stat. 1153).
    In a letter dated August 8, 1944, the clerk of the Supreme Court 
advised that many of the early records mentioned in this section were 
destroyed by fire. Others are on file in the Clerk's office.
    Minor changes in phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1951--Act Oct. 25, 1951, inserted ``until deposited with the 
National Archives of the United States'' in first sentence.
