Volume 29
Public Law 54–73
To regulate the issue and recording of the commissions of officers in several of the Departments.
Approved March 28, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To regulate the issue and recording of the commissions of officers in several of the Departments.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That hereafter the commissions of all officers under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall be made out and recorded in the respective Departments under which they are to serve, and the Department seal affixed thereto, any laws to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the said seal shall not be affixed to any such commission before the same shall have been signed by the President of the United States.
Approved, .