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[CITE: 43USC18]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                  CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 18. Copies of papers filed

    Whenever any person claiming to be interested in or entitled to 
land, under any grant or patent from the United States, applies to the 
Department of the Interior for copies of papers filed and remaining 
therein, in anywise affecting the title to such land, it shall be the 
duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause such copies to be made 
out and authenticated, under his hand and the seal of the Bureau of Land 
Management, for the person so applying.

(R.S. Sec. 460; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 
F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 460 derived from acts Jan. 23, 1823, ch. 6, 3 Stat. 721; 
July 4, 1836, ch. 352, Sec. 7, 5 Stat. 111.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out 
under section 1451 of this title.
    ``Bureau of Land Management'' substituted for ``General Land 
Office'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See 
note set out under section 1 of this title.


                    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    Proof of official records, see rule 44, Title 28, Appendix, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.


                            Cross References

    Authenticated copies of official papers to be furnished, on request 
and on payment of a fee, by Secretary of the Interior or other 
department head, see sections 1460, 1461, and 1462 of this title and 
section 1733 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
    Government records and papers; copies, see section 1733 of Title 28.
