Chapter XX. *Act supplementary to on Act entitled “An Act to prescribe an Oath of Office, and for other Purposes,” approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* Jan. 24, 1865. 1862, ch. 128
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Chap. XX.— An Act *Act supplementary to on Act entitled “An Act to prescribe an Oath of Office, and for other Purposes,” approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* Jan. 24, 1865. 1862, ch. 128. Vol. xii. p. 502. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That no perso, after the date Attorneys and counsellors in national courts to take oath.of this act, shall be admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States, or at any time after the fourth of March next, shall be admitted to the bar of any circuit or district court of the United States, or of the court of claims, as an attorney or counsellor of such court, or shall be allowed to appear and be heard in any such court, by virtue of any previous admission, or any special power of attorney, unless he shall have first taken and subscribed the oath prescribed in “An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes,” approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, according to the forms and in the manner in Oath to be filed.
Falsely taking, to be perjury.the said act provided; which said oath so taken and subscribed shall be preserved among the files of such court, and any person who shall falsely take the said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and, on conviction, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of perjury, and the additional pains and penalties in the said act provided. Approved, January 24, 1865.