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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 13. Original papers on file as evidence
Whenever the officer, as the Secretary of the Interior may
designate, of any United States land office shall be served with a
subpoena duces tecum or other valid legal process requiring him to
produce, in any United States court or in any court of record of
any State, the original application for entry of public lands or
the final proof of residence and cultivation or any other original
papers on file in the Bureau of Land Management of the United
States on which a patent to land has been issued or which furnish
the basis for such patent, it shall be the duty of such officer to
at once notify the Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he
may designate, of the service of such process, specifying the
particular papers he is required to produce, and upon receipt of
such notice from any such officer of a United States land office
the Secretary or such officer designated by him shall at once
transmit to the officer of such land office the original papers
specified in such notice, and which such officer is required to
produce, and to attach to such papers a certificate, under seal of
his office, properly authenticating them as the original papers
upon which patent was issued; and such papers so authenticated
shall be received in evidence in all courts of the United States
and in the several State courts of the States of the Union:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall make rules and
regulations to secure the return of such documents to the Bureau of
Land Management, after use in evidence, without cost to the United
States.
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