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Volume 49

Public Law 74–843

Increasing the penalty for making false oaths for the purpose of bathing at the Government free bathhouse at Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Approved June 26, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

Increasing the penalty for making false oaths for the purpose of bathing at the Government free bathhouse at Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act

Hot Springs, Ark.

Vol. 36, p. 1015.

U. S. C., p. 629.

entitled “An Act limiting the privileges of the Government free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, to persons who are without and unable to obtainthe means to pay for baths”, approved March 2, 1911 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 16, sec. 371), is hereby amended to read as follows:

“That only persons who are without and unable to obtain

Use of Government free bathhouse restricted.

the means to pay for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the water of the Hot Springs Reservation will afford relief or effect a cure shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any

Oath of inability to pay.

person shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths, and any

Punishment for false oath.

Serson desiring to bathe at the free bathhouse on the Hot Springs leservation making a false oath as to his financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300 and be imprisoned for not more than sixty days.”

Approved, June 26, 1936.

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