§ 57. — Authenticated copies or extracts from records as evidence.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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superseded by act Mar. 3, 1925 (classified to section 51 of this title),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.
