---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 16"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "16"
heading: "Engrossing and recording patents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/16"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Bureau of Land Management"
---

# §16. Engrossing and recording patents


The engrossing and recording of patents for public lands may be done by means of typewriters or other machines, under regulations to be made by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior and approved by the President.


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 3, 28 Stat. 807.)