Upon receipt of an application of any person, and payment by the applicant of the fees provided for in this part, the department shall make and deliver to the applicant a true copy of any field notes, maps, records, or papers possessed by the department appertaining to land titles or to the original surveys of any of the lands in this state. Such a true copy, when certified to by the department under its seal, or the record thereof when recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, may be admitted in evidence in all courts and places in which the title or boundary of any land is in question, and shall have the same force and effect, as evidence, as though chapter XXXVI, 5 Stat. 384, had named the department as the officer to whom the surveyor general should deliver all the field notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to land titles.

     The following schedule of prices and charges shall be observed by the department:

    (a) For field and meander notes, per survey township, $8.00.

    (b) For each official certificate with seal, $1.00.

    (c) For township plats showing vacant state lands only, each, 25 cents.

    (d) For township plats showing vacant state lands with streams, each, 50 cents.

    (e) For copies of all records and papers that the department may be required to furnish by law, for each 100 words, 15 cents.

    (f) For tax statements on each description of land, per year, 6 cents.

     The fees received for all services under this part shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the general fund.