§ 703. Attendance of witnesses

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.

1. 1944

   Pub. L. 78–326 § 3 · 58 Stat. 643

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 703

   June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 3, 58 Stat. 644

   Source evidence

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   June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 3, 58 Stat. 644

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. attendance of witnesses (a) Any district court of the United States, or the United States courts of any Territory or possession, or any court of first instance of the Philippine Commonwealth, or the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which proceedings are had before any service court of a friendly foreign force, or within the jurisdiction of which any person is found, shall have jurisdiction, upon application made by a service court of a friendly foreign force, to issue to such person an order requiring him to appear Before the service court or an officer designated to take a deposition for use before such service court and Failure to obey court order. there to produce evidence or give testimony if so ordered. Any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said Witness fees and mileage. court as a contempt thereof: Provided, That the fees of such witnesses and the mileage at the rate allowed to witnesses attending the courts of the United States should be duly paid or tendered in advance to such witnesses, with funds to be supplied by the friendly foreign force. Except as expressly permitted by the court, in its discretion, no such order shall run into any other district. (b) Attendance of witnesses in the armed services of the United States shall be obtained by request addressed to the discretion of the commanding officer of the person whose testimony is required. (c) Persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, who are not members of a friendly foreign force, who shall give false testimony or shall commit any act in the presence of a service court of a friendly foreign force which, if committed before a court of the United States, would be in contempt thereof, shall upon conviction by a court of the United States be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

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