Chapter XI. *amending the Provisions of the second Section of the Act of January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, enforcing the Attendance of Witnesses before Committees of either House of Congress.* January 24, 1862.1867, ch. 19, § 2
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Chap. XI.— An Act *amending the Provisions of the second Section of the Act of January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, enforcing the Attendance of Witnesses before Committees of either House of Congress.* January 24, 1862.1867, ch. 19, § 2.Vol. xi. p. 156. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the provisions of the secondTestimony of witness before committees, &c., not to be used against him, &c. section of the net entitled “An act more effectually to enforce the attendance of witnesses on the summons of either House of Congress, and to compel them to discover testimony,” approved January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, be amended, altered, and repealed, So as to read as follows:
That the testimony of a witness examined and testifying before either House of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress, shall not he used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against such witness in any court of justice: *Provided, however*,Proviso.Official paper or record.Witness not privileged, &c. That no official paper or record, produced by such witness on such examination, shall be held or taken to be included within one privilege of said evidence so to protect such witness from any criminal proceeding as aforesaid; and no witness shall hereafter be allowed to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper touching which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or any committee of either House, for the reason that his testimony touching such fact, or the production of such paper, may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous: *Provided*,Proviso.Witness may be punished for perjury.
That nothing in this act shall be construed to exempt any witness from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed by him in testifying as aforesaid. Approved, January 24, 1862.