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[CITE: 43USC56]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                           CHAPTER 3--SURVEYS
 
Sec. 56. Conditions of delivery to States

    The field notes, maps, records, and other papers mentioned in 
section 53 of this title, shall in no case be turned over to the 
authorities of any State, until such State has provided by law for the 
reception and safe-keeping of the same as public records, and for the 
allowance of free access to the same by the authorities of the United 
States.

(R.S. Sec. 2221.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2221 derived from acts Jan. 22, 1853, ch. 24, Sec. 3, 10 
Stat. 152; June 6, 1874, ch. 223, Sec. 3, 18 Stat. 62.
