Volume 47 · 577
Public Law 72–422
To authorize certain officials of the Canal Zone to administer oaths and to summon witnesses to testify in matters within the jurisdiction of such officials
Approved July 5, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize certain officials of the Canal Zone to administer oaths and to summon witnesses to testify in matters within the jurisdiction of such officials
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That members of the board of local inspectors, customs officers, quarantine officers, and admeasurers, appointed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, are hereby authorized to administer oaths for the purpose of certifying the correctness of official papers.
Sec. 2.
That members of the board of local inspectors, customs
Summon witnesses.
officers, quarantine officers, and admeasurers are hereby authorized to summon witnesses to testify in matters within the jurisdiction of said officials, and to require the production of books and papers necessary thereto. The district court of the Canal Zone is hereby
Issue of process to compel attendance.
authorized to issue processes, at the request of the designated canal officials, to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, and to punish for contempt of court any who refuse to obey such processes, or who refuse to be sworn or to answer any material or property11 So in original. question after being duly sworn.
Approved, July 5, 1932.