§ 7. Fees for furnishing certified copies of records

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1892

   Pub. L. 52–256 § 4 · 27 Stat. 272

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 7

   July 26, 1892, ch. 256, § 4, 27 Stat. 273

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   July 26, 1892, ch. 256, § 4, 27 Stat. 273

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall have the custody Furnishing certified copies of records. of said seal, and shall furnish certified copies of any such records, books, maps, or papers belonging to or on the tiles of said office, to any person applying therefor who shall comply with the requirements of said office, upon the payment by such parties at the rate of ten cents Feed. per hundred words, and one dollar for copies of maps or plats, and the additional sum of twenty-five cents for the Commissioner’s certificate of verification, with the seal of said office; and one of the employes Receiving clerk. of said office shall be designated by the Commissioner as the receiving clerk, who shall give bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, and the amounts so received shall, under the direction of the Commissioner, be paid into the Treasury of the United States; but fees shall not be demanded No fees for copies for official use., etc. for such authenticated copies as may be required by the officers of any branch of the Government or by any Indian who shall satisfy the Commissioner by satisfactory legal evidence that he or she is not able, by reason of poverty, to pay such fees, nor for such unverified copies as the Commissioner in his discretion may deem proper to furnish.

2. 1972

   Pub. L. 92–310 title II § 229(b) · 86 Stat. 201

   Struck · 25 U.S.C. § 7

   Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions which required the receiving clerk to give a bond in the sum of $1,000

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions which required the receiving clerk to give a bond in the sum of $1,000.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to legalize the deed and other records of the Office of Indian Affairs, and to provide and authorize the use of a seal by said office”, approved July 26, 1892 (27 Star. 273; 25 U.S.C. 7), is amended by striking out “who shall give l«md in the sum of one thousand dollars.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision