Chapter CLIX. supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments in certain cases.” July 29, 1854.1850, ch. 62. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Provision
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Chap. CLIX.— An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Notaries Public to take and certify Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments in certain cases.” July 29, 1854.1850, ch. 62. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Provisions of act of 1850, ch. 63, extended to notaries public in District of Columbia. That all the powers and authority conferred in and by the above recited act, approved September sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon notaries public in the States and Territories be and the same are hereby vested in notaries public within the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That notaries public be and theyDepositions taken before notaries to have same force in courts as those taken before certain commissioners. are hereby authorized to take depositions and do such other acts in relation to evidence to be used in the courts of the United States, in the same manner and with the same effect, as commissioners to take acknowledgments of bail and affidavits may now lawfully take or do. Approved, July 29, 1854.