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43 U.S.C. § 18 — Copies of papers filed

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Anyone who claims an interest in U.S.-granted land can ask for copies of papers about its title. They apply to the Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior must prepare and certify those copies with the Bureau of Land Management's seal.

This section covers people who claim an interest in land, or claim they're entitled to land, based on a grant or patent from the United States. If such a person applies to the Department of the Interior for copies of papers on file that affect the title to that land, the Secretary of the Interior must have those copies made and certified. The Secretary authenticates the copies with his signature and the seal of the Bureau of Land Management, and provides them to the person who applied.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whenever any person claiming to be interested in or entitled to land, under any grant or patent from the United States, applies to the Department of the Interior for copies of papers filed and remaining therein, in anywise affecting the title to such land, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause such copies to be made out and authenticated, under his hand and the seal of the Bureau of Land Management, for the person so applying.

Source credit: (R.S. § 460; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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