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[CITE: 43USC57]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                           CHAPTER 3--SURVEYS
 
Sec. 57. Authenticated copies or extracts from records as 
        evidence
        
    Any copy of or extract from the plats, field notes, records, or 
other papers of the offices of the former surveyors general for the 
districts of Oregon and California, when authenticated by the seal and 
signature of the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may 
designate, shall be evidence in all cases in which the original would be 
evidence.

(R.S. Sec. 2224; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan 
No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Codification

    This section is from a part of R.S. Sec. 2224, as affected by act 
Mar. 3, 1925. The original text provided for the continuation of the use 
of the official seals authorized for the offices of the surveyors 
general of Oregon, California, and Louisiana. This provision was 
superseded by act Mar. 3, 1925 (classified to section 51 of this title), 
abolishing the office of surveyor-general. The rest of the section 
became inapplicable to Louisiana upon the discontinuance of the office 
of surveyor general of Louisiana pursuant to R.S. Sec. 2218. The text of 
this section was changed to provide for authentication by the supervisor 
of surveys, instead of a surveyor-general, in view of act Mar. 3, 1925 
(classified to section 51 of this title) abolishing the office of 
surveyor general and transferring its activities to the Field Surveying 
Service, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supervisor of Surveys. See, 
also, Transfer of Functions note below.
    R.S. Sec. 2224 derived from act Mar. 3, 1853, ch. 145, Secs. 2, 11, 
10 Stat. 245, 248.

                          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.
    ``Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate'' 
substituted for ``Supervisor of Surveys'' 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.
    Effect of rule 44 on this section, see note by Advisory Committee 
set out under that rule.
