Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 2 — Organization of Congress
§ 24. Secretary of Senate or assistant secretary may administer oaths
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Senate, and the assistant secretary thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders of the Senate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and to any witness produced before it.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 44–66 § 2 · 19 Stat. 34
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 24
Apr. 18, 1876, ch. 66, § 2, 19 Stat. 34
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 18, 1876, ch. 66, § 2, 19 Stat. 34Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Senate, and the chief clerk thereof, shall, respectively, have power to administer any oath or affirmation required by law, or by the rules or orders of the Senate, to be taken by any officer of the Senate, and to any witness produced before it.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Assistant secretary of the Senate deemed successor in references to chief clerk of the Senate in all laws, rules, resolutions, and orders, effective , under provisions of Pub. L. 92–51, , 85 Stat. 125.
Credits
1876–1971 · 2 acts
- 1876Apr. 18, 1876, ch. 66, § 2, 19 Stat. 34
- 1971Pub. L. 92–51, , 85 Stat. 125.
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(Apr. 18, 1876, ch. 66, § 2, 19 Stat. 34; Pub. L. 92–51, , 85 Stat. 125.)