Chapter 1398. To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transmit original papers to be used as evidence
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CHAP. 1398.— An Act To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transmit original papers to be used as evidence. April 19, 1904. [[H. R. 10007](/us/bill/58/hr/10007).] [[Public, No. 122](/us/pl/58/122).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands. Original patent papers to be furnished in legal processes. That whenever the register 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 General Land Office of the United States on which a patent to land has been issued Register to notify Commissioner of General Land Office. or which furnish the basis for such patent, it shall be the duty of such register to at once notify the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the service of such process, specifying the particular papers he is Transmission of papers. required to produce, and upon receipt of such notice from any register of a United States land office the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall at once transmit to such register the original papers specified in such notice, and which such register 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 Authenticated papers to be received as evidence. 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 *Proviso*.
Return of documents. 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 General Land Office, after use in evidence, without cost to the United States. Approved, April 19, 1904.