Chapter XXIV. to amend An Act entitled “An Act for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor-General in the several districts, so soon as the surveys therein can be completed; for abolishing Land Offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.” Jan. 22, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House
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Chap. XXIV.— An Act to amend An Act entitled “An Act for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor-General in the several districts, so soon as the surveys therein can be completed; for abolishing Land Offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.” Jan. 22, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Field notes, &c. maybe turned over to State authorities hi certain cases. That in all cases where, as provided in the first section of the Act entitled “An Act for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor-General in the several districts, so soon as the surveys therein can be completed, for abolishing land offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes,” approved the 1810, ch. 80.twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and forty, the field notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to land titles in any State, shall have been, or shall be, turned over to the authorities of such State, and the same authority, powers, and duties in relation to the survey, re-survey,Remaining authority vested in the Commissioner of the Land Office. or subdivision of the lands therein, and all matters and things connected therewith, as previously exercised by the Surveyor-General, whose district included such State, shall be, and they are hereby, vested in, and devolved upon, the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That under the authority and direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, any Deputy Free access to such notes, &c. provided for.Surveyor, or other agent of the United States, shall have free access to any such field notes, maps, records, and other papers, for the purpose of taking extracts therefrom or making copies thereof without charge of any kind. Sec. 3. Provision to be first made for receiving such notes, &c. and for free access to them.*And be it further enacted*, That the field notes, maps, records, and other papers mentioned in the first section of the act to which this is an amendment, shall in no case hereafter be turned over to the authorities of any State, until such State shall have provided by law for the reception and safe keeping of the same as public records, and for the allowance of free access to the same by the authorities of the United States, as herein provided.
Approved, January 22, 1853.