§ 83. — Transcripts of 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: 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original text were omitted as superseded by acts Oct. 28, 1921, and Mar.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.
