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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 2 — Officers of Indian Affairs

§ 36. Special agents and other officers to administer oaths

Statutory text

Each special agent, supervisor of schools, or other official charged with the investigation of Indian agencies and schools, in the pursuit of his official duties shall have power to administer oaths and to examine on oath all officers and persons employed in the Indian Service, and all such other persons as may be deemed necessary and proper.

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. Pub. L. 55–324 § 1 · 30 Stat. 924

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 36

    (Mar. 1, 1899, ch. 324, § 1, 30 Stat. 927.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 1, 1899, ch. 324, § 1, 30 Stat. 927.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Indian Agents

The services of Indian agents have been dispensed with. See note set out under section 64 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

(Mar. 1, 1899, ch. 324, § 1, 30 Stat. 927.)

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