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28 U.S.C. § 1733 — Government records and papers; copies
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**(a)** Books or records of account or minutes of proceedings of any department or agency of the United States shall be admissible to prove the act, transaction or occurrence as a memorandum of which the same were made or kept.
**(b)** Properly authenticated copies or transcripts of any books, records, papers or documents of any department or agency of the United States shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals thereof.
**(c)** This section does not apply to cases, actions, and proceedings to which the Federal Rules of Evidence apply.
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**(a)** Books or records of account or minutes of proceedings of any department or agency of the United States shall be admissible to prove the act, transaction or occurrence as a memorandum of which the same were made or kept.
**(b)** Properly authenticated copies or transcripts of any books, records, papers or documents of any department or agency of the United States shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals thereof.
**(c)** This section does not apply to cases, actions, and proceedings to which the Federal Rules of Evidence apply.
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Except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress, the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions, suits or proceedings commenced by the United States, or by any agency or officer thereof expressly authorized to sue by Act of Congress.
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**(a)** To the extent applicable, all laws generally related to administering an agency apply to the Comptroller General.
**(b)** A copy of a record and a transcript from a record or proceeding of the Comptroller General, that the Comptroller General or Deputy Comptroller General certifies under seal, shall be admitted as evidence with the same effect as a copy or transcript referred to in [section 1733 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1733&num=0&edition=prelim).
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### Statutory Notes
Section 19, R.S. § 2469, related to certified copies of records of the General Land Office.
Section 20, R.S. § 2470, related to exemplification of the records of the General Land Office as evidence.
Section 21, R.S. § 461; acts Apr. 2, 1888, ch. 54, 25 Stat. 76; Oct. 12, 1888, ch. 1098, 25 Stat. 557; May 29, 1908, ch. 220, § 15, 35 Stat. 469; June 5, 1920, ch. 235, § 1, 41 Stat. 908, related to fees for exemplifications.
For Department of the Interior record provisions and Government records and papers, see section 1460 et seq. of this title, and [section 1733 of Title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1733&num=0&edition=prelim), Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to designate such bonded fiscal agents or officers of the Reclamation Service as he may deem advisable on each reclamation project, to whom shall be paid all sums due on reclamation entries or water rights, and the officials so designated shall keep a record for the information of the public of the sums paid and the amount due at any time on account of any entry made or water right purchased under the reclamation Act; and the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for furnishing copies of duly authenticated records of entries upon payment of reasonable fees which copies shall be admissible in evidence, as are copies authenticated under section eight hundred and eighty-eight 11 See References in Text note below. of the Revised Statutes.
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 1735
Aug. 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 413; Pub. L. 93–595, § 2(b),
Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 695 (June 20, 1936,
ch. 640, § 1, 49 Stat. 1561).
Changes in phraseology were made.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1975—Pub. L. 93–595 struck out subsec. (a) which had
made admissible as evidence writings or records made
as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, oc-
currence, or event if made in the regular course of busi-
ness, and struck out designation ‘‘(b)’’ preceding re-
mainder of section. See Federal Rules of Evidence set
out in Appendix to this title.
1961—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87–183 struck out ‘‘unless
held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or’’ after ‘‘may
be destroyed in the regular course of business’’.
1951—Act Aug. 29, 1951, § 3, inserted reference to pho-
tographic copies in section catchline.
Subsecs. (a), (b). Act Aug. 28, 1951, § 1, designated ex-
isting provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
§ 1733. Government records and papers; copies
(a) Books or records of account or minutes of
proceedings of any department or agency of the
United States shall be admissible to prove the
act, transaction or occurrence as a memo-
randum of which the same were made or kept.
(b) Properly authenticated copies or tran-
scripts of any books, records, papers or docu-
ments of any department or agency of the
United States shall be admitted in evidence
equally with the originals thereof.
(c) This section does not apply to cases, ac-
tions, and proceedings to which the Federal
Rules of Evidence apply.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 946; Pub. L. 93–595,
§ 2(c), Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
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