Volume 10
Public Law 33–CLIX
supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments in certain cases.”
Approved July 29, 1854
Statutory text
An Act
supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments in certain cases.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all the powers and authority conferred in and by the above recited act, approved September sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon notaries public in the States and Territories be and the same are hereby vested in notaries public within the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That notaries public be and they
Depositions taken before notaries to have same force in courts as those taken before certain commissioners.
are hereby authorized to take depositions and do such other acts in relation to evidence to be used in the courts of the United States, in the same manner and with the same effect, as commissioners to take acknowledgments of bail and affidavits may now lawfully take or do.
Approved, .