Volume 15
Public Law 40–XV
to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prescribe the Mode of obtaining Evidence in Cases of contested Elections,” approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
Approved January 23, 1869
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an Act entitled “An Act to prescribe the Mode of obtaining Evidence in Cases of contested Elections,” approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any register in bankruptcy
Registers in bankruptcy or notaries public, residents, &c. may take evidence, &c. in cases of contested elections.
or notary public, resident in a congressional district the right to represent which is contested, is hereby authorized to take the testimony and to per form any of the other acts which a judge of any court of the United States is authorized to do by the third section of an act entitled “An act to prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in cases of contested elections,” approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
Approved, .