Chapter CCXXIV. prescribing the Terms on which Exemplifications shall be furnished by the General Land-Office
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Chap. CCXXIV.— An Act prescribing the Terms on which Exemplifications shall be furnished by the General Land-Office.July 2, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That,Fees for exemplifications of patents, &c., in the general land-office. from and after the first day of July next, all exemplifications of patents, or papers on file, or of record in the general land-office, which may be required by parties interested, shall be furnished by the commissioner of said office upon the payment by such parties at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words, and two dollars for copies of township plates or diagrams, with an additional sum of one dollar for the commissioner’s certificate of verification with the general land-office seal; and one of the employees of said office shall be designated by the said commissioner as the receiving clerk, and the amounts so received shall, under the direction of the said commissioner, be paid into the treasury of the United States; effect to be given to this act according to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior not inconsistent with the laws of the United States: *Provided,*Proviso.
That the fees stipulated in the foregoing provisions shall not apply to such authenticated copies as may be required by the officers of any branch of the government, nor to such unverified copies as the commissioner in bis discretion may deem proper to furnish. Approved, July 2, 1864.