Public Law 54–25

That an Act entitled “An Act to punish false swearing before trial boards of the Metropolitan police force and fire department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

“That

Attendance of witnesses.

hereafter any trial board of the Metropolitan police force and of the tire department of the District of Columbia shall have power to issue subpoenas, attested in the name of the president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to compel before it the attendance of witnesses upon any trial or proceedings authorized by the rules and regulations of the police force or of the fire department.

“Sec. 2.

That

Punishment for false swearing.

any willful and corrupt false swearing on the part of any witness or person giving evidence before any trial board mentioned in the preceding section as to any material fact in any proceedings under the rules and regulations governing said police force and fire department shall be deemed perjury, and shall be punished in the manner prescribed by law for such offense.

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Sec. 3.

That

Process to secure attendance.

if any witness, having been first personally summoned, shall neglect or refuse to appear before any trial board mentioned in the first section of this Act, then, on the fact being reported by the major and superintendent of police, or chief of the fire department, to one of the justices of the police court, it shall be the duty of that court to compel the attendance of such witness before such trial board in the same manner as witnesses are now compellable to appear before said court:

Proviso.

Fees.

Provided, That witnesses subpoenaed to appear before said trial boards, other than those employed by the District of Columbia, shall be entitled to the same fees as are now paid witnesses for attendance before the supreme court of the District of Columbia.”

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