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[CITE: 43USC83]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                    CHAPTER 4--DISTRICT LAND OFFICES
 
Sec. 83. Transcripts of records as evidence

    Transcripts of the records in the district land offices, when made 
and duly certified to by the Secretary of the Interior or such officers 
as he may designate for individuals, shall be admitted as evidence in 
all courts of the United States and the Territories thereof, and before 
all officials authorized to receive evidence, with the same force and 
effect as the original records.

(Mar. 22, 1904, ch. 748, 33 Stat. 144; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, Sec. 1, 
42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 
3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Codification

    The words ``and receivers'' which followed ``registers'' in the 
original text were omitted as superseded by acts Oct. 28, 1921, and Mar. 
3, 1925, providing for consolidation of the two offices. See, also, 
Transfer of Functions note below.

                          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.
    Words ``district land offices'' substituted for ``offices of 
registers'' and ``the Secretary of the Interior or such officers as he 
may designate'' substituted for ``them'' on authority of section 403 of 
1946 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.


                            Cross References

    Government records and papers; copies, see section 1733 of Title 28, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
