Kan. Stat. § 19-1418
That it shall be the duty of the county surveyor of each county, when instructed to do so by the commissioners of their county, to procure official copies of the plats and field notes of the original surveys of the United States of the lands of his county not already procured, and shall have the same substantially bound in book form. The county commissioners shall pay for such plats and field notes and binding out of the county funds. The county surveyor of each county shall deposit the copy of such plats and field notes now in his office, or hereafter received, in the office of register of deeds of his county, and the same shall be there kept for the convenience of the public, and the same, or copies thereof, duly certified by such register of deeds, shall be admitted and received in evidence in like form and manner, and under like circumstances, and to the same effect, as are other records of the said register of deeds' office, or copies thereof.
K.S.A. 19-1418