Volume 69
Public Law 84–136
To amend section 4004, title 18, United States Code, relating to administering oaths and taking acknowledgments by officials of Federal penal and correctional institutions.
Approved July 7, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 4004, title 18, United States Code, relating to administering oaths and taking acknowledgments by officials of Federal penal and correctional institutions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4004,
title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
Ҥ4004. Oaths and acknowledgments
“The wardens and superintendents, associate wardens and superintendents, chief clerks, record clerks, and parole officers, of Federal penal or correctional institutions, may administer oaths to and take acknowledgments of officers, employees, and inmates of such institutions, but shall not demand or accept any fee or compensation therefor.”
Approved July 7, 1955.