Volume 52
Public Law 75–24
To authorize certain officers and employees of Federal penal and correctional institutions to administer oaths.
Approved February 11, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize certain officers and employees of Federal penal and correctional institutions to administer oaths.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the warden and associate warden of each Federal penal or correctional institution are hereby authorized and empowered to administer oaths to and take acknowledgments of officers and employees, as well as inmates, of such institutions.
Sec. 2.
None of said officers or employees shall demand or accept any fee or compensation whatsoever for administering or taking any oath, affirmation, acknowledgment, or affidavit under the authority conferred by this Act.
Approved, February 11, 1938.