Chapter 54. to amend section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 54.— An Act to amend section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, regulating fees for exemplifications of land patents, and for other purposes.April 2, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fees. General Land Office. That section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 461. All exemplifications of patents or papers on file or [R.
S., sec. 461. p. 78, amended](/us/rs/t/s461/p78). record in the General Land Office which may be required by parties interested shall be furnished by the Commissioner upon the payment by such parties at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred word’s, Fees for copies of records, etc.and thirty cents each for photolithographed copies of township plats or diagrams, unverified, not to exceed ten copies to any one person, and twenty-five cents each for all copies in excess of ten. 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 the office shall be designated by the Commissioner as the receiving clerk, and the amount so received shall, under the direction of the Commissioner, be paid into the Treasury: hut fees shall not be demanded for such authenticated copies as may be required by the officers of any branch of the Government, nor for such unverified copies as the Commissioner, in his discretion, may deem proper to furnish.
” " Approved, April 2, 1888.